LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Anil Agarwal
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Anil Agarwal is in a piquant position. The refinery’s construction has already begun. While Sterlite Industries declines to disclose precisely how much money has been spent separately on the bauxite and refinery projects, Agarwal has spent at least 45 per cent of the project’s cost, according to the environmentalists ? and confronts the prospect of the Supreme Court nixing the project. Secondly, the project’s alumina, an intermediate product used to make aluminium, will feed Balco’s expansion (half the alumina will go to the group’s captive aluminium plants and about half would be sold to third parties, Agarwal recently told Vedanta shareholders).
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Anil Agarwal is the founder director of UK-based Indian company Vedanta Resources corporation, that owns mining and metal resources in India. He is the 11th richest Indian in the world with a personal fortune of $4.5 billion. Agarwal has donated $1 billion to establish Vedanta University in Orissa, India.
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Anil Agarwal has written or edited numerous books and articles on the challenges of sustainable development. He received several national and international awards for his work. He educated a whole nation, from many of its top political leaders to its numerous rural activists, about the importance of sustainable development. He created the Centre for Science and Environment to carry out studies on environment and devlopment and to influence public policy. The journal New Scientist said of CSE, “… for passion combined with forensic rigour nothing touches the work of the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, inspired by its founder and director Anil Agarwal”.
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It begins in 1974 when a young journalist of 27, Anil Agarwal discovered Chipko movement. He noticed necessary correlation between environment & economic development which prompted him to study multiple facets of environment. He went on to document India's environment & wrote dozens of books. Soon he received title of Environment Guru by former President K R Narayanan & was invited by various international forums to make presentations.
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Anil Agarwal & Anr contented that their mark “Diet Whole Food” was different from the mark ‘Whole Food’ as adopted by Mrs. Ishi Khosla. It was further contented that in order to prove passing off, the plaintiff had to establish prior use, distinctiveness and reputation of the mark. They further, contented that the mark ‘Whole Food’ was an ordinary English word and ... was descriptive of the character and quality of the goods. The expression Whole Foods is common to the trade and used by various other businesses concerns. It was further contented that the mark “Diet Whole Foods” was not identical or deceptively similar and hence no action could be brought against them.
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Anil Agarwal was firmly convinced that poor countries must shun the pathways to economic development founded in the West, as this is an extremely toxic and costly model. He advocated the idea of leapfrog models for poor countries to move into the forefront of environmental management. He went on to demonstrate this through his campaign for clean air in the city of New Delhi, where he put on course the switch from a highly polluting diesel-run public transport system to one based on clean natural gas that brought about a visible improvement in New Delhi’s air quality.
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