<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Talab Bachao Abhiyan (TBA) Vs Govt of Bihar & Others dated 30/04/2024.</p> <p>The NGT through its previous order,
The Khulna City Corporation along with the district administration launches a drive on June 29 to pull down unauthorised structures along a river and 21 canals in and around the city. The corporation and the district administration issued notices on June 18 and 19 asking the encroachers to shift their structures by June 28, corporation sources said adding that many of the structures were built hindering the flows of the river and canals
Kolleru lake would be developed at a cost of nearly Rs 860 crore over five years as the international non-governmental agency, Wetland International South Asia, has prepared proposals to that effect at the behest of the state government. Of the total cost proposed for development, a whopping Rs 500 crore has been allocated for water management works.
Environmentalists and social activists led by G D Aggarwal are headed for Delhi to continue with their campaign against construction of power projects between Gangotri and Uttarkashi. After the Uttarakhand Government decided to halt work on the Pala Maneri and Bhiron Ghati projects, the campaigners are now targeting the 600-mw Lohari Nagpala project being executed by the National Thermal Power Corporation. Aggarwal's fast unto death entered its 10th day on Sunday when he left the Manikarnika ghats of Uttarkashi to shift base to Delhi.
Those opposing it are anti-Tamil, says Union Minister Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T.R. Baalu (second from left) releasing a book on Sethusamudram project, written by Congress leader A. Gopanna (left) in Chennai on Friday. Also in the picture are Union Minister G.K. Vasan, Congress leader S.R. Balasubramoniyan and D. Sudarssanam, Congress Legislature Party leader. CHENNAI: The Centre will cross all hurdles in implementing the Sethusamudram project, a 150-year-old dream of Tamil Nadu, Union Minister for Shipping and Road Transport T.R. Baalu said on Friday.
The High Court on Thursday asked the government to explain in four weeks why it would not be directed to review the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty and take steps to ensure due share of waters. The bench of Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana and Justice M Rezaul Haque gave the ruling after hearing a public interest litigation writ petition filed by Supreme Court lawyers MK Muraduzzaman and Faruk Hossain on June 8.
The High Court (HC) yesterday issued a rule upon the government to explain within four weeks as to why it should not be directed to take necessary steps to ensure the availability of actual share of the Ganges water at Farakka point as per the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty between Bangladesh and India.
The High Court will deliver today its order on a writ petition seeking necessary steps to ensure the availability of due share of Ganges water at Farakka point as per the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty between Bangladesh and India. An HC bench of Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana and Justice Rezaul Haque concluded the hearing yesterday and fixed the date for its order on the petition. Advocate Tajul Islam, counsel for the petitioners, yesterday submitted that Bangladesh has not been getting actual share of Ganges water as per the treaty.
The NWFP government, in its budget for fiscal 2008-09, has targeted the resolution of the problems of food and security in the province. "Handsome sanctions of funds have been made for the resolution of these two problems faced by the province," said NWFP Finance Minister Mohammad Hamayun Khan in a post-budget press conference here in the Cabinet Room of the Civil Secretariat.
The High Court (HC) yesterday began hearing on a writ petition seeking directions to the government to take necessary steps to ensure the availability of due share of Ganges water at Farakka point as per the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty between Bangladesh and India. A bench of Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana and Justice Rezaul Haque will further hear the matter today.
The re-opening of the Shubhadya canal in Keraniganj to navigation is a sign of how corrective measures can be taken in certain crucial areas. The canal, in a state of disuse for the last six years because of the depredations of a section of unscrupulous people, will now once again serve the people in the area. It is to be especially noted that the canal will once again benefit traders who operate in the four markets situated along the banks of the canal.
