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MoEF nod to Navi Mumbai airport

MoEF nod to Navi Mumbai airport

A panel of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has given the 'green signal' for the Navi Mumbai international airport project. With this, Mumbai may finally get its new airport now.

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NIB must distinguish infra projects

NIB must distinguish infra projects

Political expediency has gained such a powerful grip on cabinet decisions that even valuable ones often tend to be victims of political spin in our mainstream media: News channels and newspapers excitedly report “differences” within the government based on constructively critical notes exchanged between ministries. In the case of the one on the recently proposed National Investment Board (NIB), however, the diff­erences between the Minister for Environment and Forests, the Finance Minister and t

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New MoEF, new approach

New MoEF, new approach

If Jairam Ramesh was flexible on the Kyoto Protocol and tough on industries in an endeavour to build overall responsibility towards the environment, his successor Jayanthi Natarajan seems to have a clear brief to tighten the nation’s stand on that issue as she talked tough at her first meeting on climate change issues with 150 environment ministers in South Africa.