Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
A new technology to convert waste to energy might help India deal with its mounting garbage woes You may not have heard of plastic pyrolysis, a technology by which plastic is broken down into smaller molecules of pyrolysis oil and gas to generate energy. That is not surprising given that …
DEHRADUN: Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organisation (HESCO) has joined hands with the police department to promote environment in the state. The fear of Khaki would be used to achieve this purpose. Anil Joshi, founder president of HESCO told TOI, "HESCO held a meeting with Director general of Police, at …
The report, published by GreenBiz Group in partnership with Trucost, provides a global view on sustainable business, from basic emissions to leadership attributes, such as how many stock exchanges around the world require listed companies to disclose environmental data, or the amount of money being divested from fossil fuel company …
The ambitious project aims to provide employment to 30,000 women.The ambitious project aims to provide employment to 30,000 women. UDAIPUR: Dungarpur is going to have the first locally-owned Solar Module Manufacturing Plant. The unit would come into operation soon which would be fully owned and operated by tribal women. The …
Moving to a low-carbon economy only way to tackle impact of global warming The term climate change often brings to mind natural disasters such as heat wave, floods and cyclones. While such events may or may not be attributed to climate change, the real effects of this crisis are seemingly …
SRIKAKULAM: Close on the heels of the State government giving the go ahead for the Kovvada nuclear power plant in Srikakulam district, the residents of the village put forth a list of 22 demands at a grama sabha jointly organised by the district administration and Nuclear Power Corporation of India …
The Standing Committee on Finance present this Thirty-Seventh Report on the Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2016. The Companies (Amendment) Bill 2016, introduced in Lok Sabha on 16 March 2016 was referred to the Committee on 12 April 2016 for examination and report thereon, by the Speaker, Lok Sabha under Rule 331E …
JAIPUR: Naveen Jain, chief of state's unit of the National Health Mission (NHM), said at a meeting of stakeholders on the problem of malnutrition in Rajasthan that the programme of community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) can play a vital role in making Rajasthan free of malnutrition. "This national policy …
In a bid to provide quality healthcare services and attract investment in the sector in the priority districts, the State Government has formulated a new investment promotion policy. The Odisha Healthcare Investment Promotion Policy-2016 envisages promotion of private sector investment in the healthcare sector through strategic partnerships besides policy interventions.The …
This Report of the Committee deals with the action taken by the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Eighth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) of the Committee on Public Undertakings (2015-16) on “Corporate Social Responsibility in select Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs)". The Report was presented to the Parliament on …
This Report of the Committee deals with the action taken by the Government on the observations/recommendations contained in the Eighth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) of the Committee on Public Undertakings (2015-16) on “Corporate Social Responsibility in select Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs)". The Report was presented to the Parliament on …
All banking institutions in India may soon chip in to increase India's forest cover in a coordinated manner. If the environment ministry has its way, all banks will be asked to join the central and the state governments in their ongoing efforts of afforestation. The move will be part of …
Government is looking to reduce the time by half to 50-60 days for granting forest and environment clearances to industrial projects, Union Environment and Forest Minister Anil Madhav Dave said today. "Earlier, it used to take 300 days to pass a file related with these clearances and people used to …
NEW DELHI: If the environment ministry has its way, all banks will be asked to join the state and the central governments in their ongoing efforts to increase forest cover in the country. The move will be part of one of the 10 ways, identified by the Centre, to reach …
This report, co-produced with the Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment, looks to the near and medium terms, exploring what will happen to the local employment and procurement components of the shared-value paradigm—and, by extension, to the mining companies’ social licence to operate—if technological change radically alters the amount of money …
Consumer goods company Unilever tops the list of the world's most purposeful companies in Radley Yeldar's (RY) 2016 Fit for Purpose 2016 Index for the second consecutive year, with the likes of Philips and Nestle making up the top 10. The Fit for Purpose research uses publicly available information from …
Adani UPCL has declared a record Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) grant of Rs 536 crore towards the development in six villages near to the thermal power plant in Udupi district. Of this, a sum of Rs 261 crore will be spent in the next 25 years for the first phase …
Unilever, LG and Sodexo have retained positions as industry leaders of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), while the likes of Nestlé and Philips have climbed to the top of the rankings. The 2016 edition of the DJSI – dubbed the “gold standard for corporate sustainability” - analysed 1,986 companies …
KOLKATA: New Town will get an e-health centre, the first in the city, on Wednesday. A CSR project of Narayana Health (NH), it's being jointly set up by NH and CISCO. Officers from CISCO and NH recently met Hidco chairman-cum-managing director Debashis Sen. Dr Devi Prasad Shetty of NH and …
The Rajasthan government's Mukhya Mantri Jal Swavalamban Abhiyan (MJSA), launched in 3,500 villages in January to deal with the problems of drought and groundwater depletion by conserving rain water, has achieved satisfactory results and its second phase is underway, say officials. "Three out of every five years are drought years …
