Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajaram Vs State of Haryana dated 27/05/2025. By the execution application, the applicant was seeking compliance of the NGT order July 5, 2024 passed in OA No. 735/2024. In the OA, the applicant has raised the grievance in respect of …
MARRAKECH: As issue of inadequate financial support from rich nations continued to dominate discourse of heads of state\government and ministers during high-level segment of the UN climate change conference, India on Wednesday too flagged it and appealed the developed nations to fulfill their commitments of mobilizing USD 100 billion annually …
A passionate appeal to emulate Mahatma Gandhi’s life and thoughts in the global fight against climate change marked the beginning of the ministerial segment of the Kigali meeting of the Montreal Protocol where countries are negotiating an agreement to eliminate planet-warming hydrofluorocarbons in the next 30-40 years. Erik Solheim, the …
Prime Minister Modi’s decision to ratify the Paris climate deal on October 2 was a “well considered and pre-planned decision,” Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Anil Dave told The Hindu. “There was no element of surprise in the Environment Ministry,” he stressed. On September 5, India’s official …
Modern medicine has created a dichotomy: modern medicine on the one hand, and alternative systems on the other. This paper views this dichotomy and liminality in the context of Gandhi's vision of health. It delineates the elements and structural coordinates of this alternative healthcare system, and tries to understand how, …
Padmabhooshan Shri. Anil Agarwal, the founder of Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi and Editor of Down to Earth, who died on January 2, 2002, was a visionary leader who fought till his death for protecting India's environment. Science India offers tribute to Anilji, a tireless crusader for the …
The Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan is gathering momentum in the schools and elsewhere in the district. The special drive for the cleanliness started on Gandhi Jayanti, Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, is continuing on all school premises, offices, market places and other parts of the town and villages. Sacred Heart School, Indian Public …
The Chhattisgarh Government is going to organise a series of programmes for creating awareness among the people regarding the importance of cleanliness. The programmes would start with sanitation pledge to be taken in the entire State on October 2–the birth anniversary of Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi. Public Health Engineering …
Pledging to construct 1.21 crore toilets over the next five years covering all households in Bihar, the State Government on Wednesday vowed to end the practice of defecation in open places by 2019 as a token of tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary. “As many as 40 …
The President of India Pranab Mukherjee presented the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2013 to noted environmentalist leader of Chipko movement and Gandhian from Uttarakhand, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion, the President said, "We must always keep in mind that we …
Planting saplings grafted from twins detached from a Malgoa mango tree planted by Gandhiji at Payyannur nearly eight decades ago is a novel way of celebrating Gandhi Jayanthi. The Kannur-based Kerala Initiative to Save Agriculture and Nature (KISAN) has 100 grafts in its possession now to be distributed among various …
A village in Andhra Pradesh has become the epicentre of an eight-month-long fight against a power plant in neighbouring Kakarapalli. Following two deaths in police firing on February 28, people from 29 villages near the plant site thronged Vadditandra village in Srikakulam district to show support and mourn the deaths. …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Pursuing its social welfare agenda with a renewed vigour, UPA-II is all set to change the nomenclature of its flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). To be called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, an amendment in the law is likely to be introduced during …
Bidi is a leaf-rolled cigarette made of coarse, uncured tobacco, tied with a string at one end. Bidis (beedis or biris) dominate the smoking market of India
Gandhi's Hind Swaraj is more than a political text. It is an ontological drama staged by Gandhi, reflected in his treatises against "modern civilisation", and his critique of "modernity".
Gandhi has legions of admirers, but he has also been the target of severe, even virulent, criticism from numerous perspectives. Though Gandhi still commands veneration from many, he is also someone everyone loves to hate. Some critics fault him for particular positions, such as his support of the Khilafat movement, …
THE enormous changes taking place across the globe in the field of science are bound to unleash new forms of violating ordinary order of life. This is perhaps already very much obvious in all walks of life, especially in the spheres of information technology and biotechnology. Author Suhas Sahasrabudhey writes …
just whom would you vote for as the greatest Gandhian in the Indian sub-continent of the post-Independence era? Our vote will unhesitatingly go to the Pakistani social scientist Akhtar Hameed Khan, in whose memory social activists from all over Pakistan met on October 12, 2000, his first death anniversary in …
