
Durban: As pressure increases on India to accept legally binding carbon emissions cuts, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Monday stressed on "equity" as a central tenet of the climate change talks. "Without a response based on equity we cannot solve the problem," Natarajan said at a side-event at the UN climate talks in Durban. "The architecture we create and promote should be based on recognition of these fundamental principles," she...

02:10 AM, Dec 06, 2011

Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate in a special interview with the new Environment Minister. How does she see her job and how will she face up to the challenges she has to contend with? This is the key issue I shall explore today with Jayanthi Natrajan. Mrs Natrajan, congratulations on becoming the Environment Minister. It took the media by surprise, was it a surprise for you as...

04:47 PM, Jul 17, 2011

Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate in a special interview with the new Environment Minister. How does she see her job and how will she face up to the challenges she has to contend with? This is the key issue I shall explore today with Jayanthi Natrajan. Mrs Natrajan, congratulations on becoming the Environment Minister. It took the media by surprise, was it a surprise for you as...

04:47 PM, Jul 17, 2011

New Delhi: Jayanthi Natarajan, the new Environment Minister has assured that she strive to end the uncertainty surrounding environment clearances for major projects like POSCO and Vedanta. She said that she will ensure that her ministry takes speedy decisions when it comes to green clearances. Natrajan in conversation with Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate. Karan Thapar: Often environment ministry is blamed unnecessarily but equally important, it is blamed rightly, when...

08:48 AM, Jul 17, 2011

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...

11:02 PM, Jul 12, 2011

Credits Sonia Gandhi and the PM for empowerment of women. ...

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Natarajan spoke on whether Cong could have handled things better. ...

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