New Delhi: New Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan is "passionately concerned" about green issues, Jairam Ramesh said about his successor on Tuesday.
"I have known Natarajan for many years. She is also passionately concerned (about environment)," Ramesh, who is hailed for upgrading profile of the Environment Ministry, told reporters.
In the cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday, Ramesh was promoted as Cabinet Minister and moved to the Rural Development Ministry while Jayanthi Natarajan was made Minister of State (Independent) for the Ministry of Environment and Forests.
Natarajan had spoken to him "many times" about environmental and forest issues, Ramesh said. "I know that she is very very interested. I am sure...
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New Delhi: The Environment Ministry's recent report on sources of pollution levels in cities across India is a victim of bad science and politics. That's the allegation by the Centre for Science and Environment. The Ministry report blames LPG combustion and road dust as the biggest contributor to air pollution when in fact it is vehicles which are the biggest source. Associate Director of CSE Anumita Roychowdhary said, "Half of... 
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