Entry of heavy-duty goods trucks and functioning of the wholesale markets in Delhi: a status report
This report is in response to the Hon
This report is in response to the Hon
This report is in continuation of Report No. 20, May 2006. The report contains an assessment of the lambda data generated in the ongoing pilot programme to propose the lambda cut point for enforcement under PUC. The report has examined the lambda specifications provided by the vehicle manufacturers.
<font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Musicians from the Shaman forest community in Brazil are on a musical tour of Britain. The tour intends taking vignettes of this Amazonian community's culture to the hosts.<br><br> <font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Kenya had to rescind its recently announced ban of smoking in public after an order from the country's Supreme Court. The court was responding to a petition from tobbaco firms, which pleaded they had little time to respond to the ban.
Ad hoc body to organise afforestation funds
The history of the Sardar Sarovar dam on the river Narmada is the history of successive governments finding surreptitious ways to drown reasonable debate in the face of incontrovertible facts. Today, evidence in the audit reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) points to the economic insolvency that plagues the project.
The Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre has done little for the long term treatment of gas victims
Construction at Polavaram stopped
The Supreme Court on May 8, 2006, declined to stay the ongoing construction work of the Sardar Sarovar dam and asked the prime minister to take a decision on the basis of a forthcoming report of the
1984: Bhopal disaster 1991: The Supreme Court directs Union Carbide Corporation, USA, to finance a 500-bed hospital for the long term medical care of survivors 1992: Union Carbide's Indian
How the numbers don t add up
In the past two months, India has revisited its most contested dam, the Sardar Sarovar Project. While people affected by it in Madhya Pradesh remain stranded, Gujarat has more water than its canals can distribute. An analysis by <font class='UCASE'>padma
1947: The Central Waterways Irrigation and Navigation Commission, acting on the request of the Central Provinces, Berar (now part of the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra) and the Government of Bombay, begins a study of the Navagram project (renamed Sardar Sarovar Project in 1978) for developing the Narmada river system.
This report contains the progress made on the implementation of the HCBS since Hon
A new generation is now suffering the aftermath of the Bhopal gas
1805: Nilambur Kovilgam, a ruler of a Kerala province, annexes 40,500 ha of Gudalur 1845: Kovilagam's successors (jenmies) start leasing out land to plantation companies. They also employ
South Korea's Supreme Court has resolved a long-standing dispute on the construction of the Saemangeum sea wall. The court ruled in favour of continuing the wall construction, which environmental
A meet on evaluating the value of forests
The question for consideration at this stage is whether the mining activity carried out in Villages Khori Jamalpur and Sirohi in District Faridabad in Haryana are in violation of the orders passed by this Court on 6th May, 2002.
dam height to be raised: A Supreme Court division bench has directed the Kerala government to increase the water level in the Mullaperiyar dam to 142 feet from its existing 136 feet. A petition by