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 …
Shillong, Sept. 28: The high-level committee constituted to reappraise the status of land under the utilisation of cement factories in Meghalaya’s Jaintia Hills district has been asked to submit its report within November. On March 2, the state government instituted the committee first headed by the state principal chief conservator …
SHILLONG: The State Government-constituted high-level committee, which has been assigned the task to ascertain whether the cement plants in Jaintia Hills are mining limestone from forest areas, is likely to submit its report within November. “The Committee is going to submit its report in November. The State Government has purposely …
SHILLONG: Expressing concern over the manner in which some cement plants in Jaintia Hills district are flouting the rules and procedures laid down by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, the Nationalist Youth Congress (NYC), Meghalaya State Unit has called up the Centre to take stringent action against those …
The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has recommended an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into alleged illegal activities in Bellary district of Karnatka where Associated Mining Company (AMC) and NMDC Ltd hold mining leases. The CEC gave its latest report to the Supreme Court on Thursday. According to …
2010 Saw Most Clearances Since Forest Act Came Into Force New Delhi: Has environment become an impediment to growth? Government data brought out by the Centre for Science and Environment on Thursday paints a contrast picture. The data is staggering. Till date, environmental clearances have been given for 210,000MW of …
Ending months of uncertainty over the fate of around 150 stranded coal projects, a Group of Ministers on Tuesday finally recommended against the ‘go, no-go’ system — devised by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) for mining in coal bearing areas. Instead, the GoM has asked for fresh demarcation …
SHILLONG: The State Forest Department recently held a workshop on the theme “Definition of Forests and Conflict Resolution in the context of Meghalaya.” This year is also the International Year of Forests. For decades, forest land in Meghalaya has been diverted for non-forest purposes, mainly for mining particularly in Jaintia …
Owners of private iron ore miners in mineral-rich states of Jharkhand and Orissa are closely watching events in Karnataka following the arrest of mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy. Though not on the scale of Karnataka, both states have seen their share of illegal mining, prompting a crackdown by authorities. The …
The all-powerful iron ore mining mafia of Karnataka has hurled red dust into the eyes of democratic India with impunity, and for long. Convinced of their invincibility, the Reddy brothers, along with their mentors and cohorts, have ravaged the state’s rich mines. Between April 2006 and July 2010 the state …
Karnataka’s Lokayukta Santosh Hegde’s report is a sordid story on the rise of India’s mining poster boy, Bellary. The protagonists of the script, the Reddy brothers, used muscle and money to grease their way through government departments. Initially, it was all gold. But Hegde’s report exposed the dingy substrate of …
Union environment minister, Jayanthi Natarajan, at a recent meeting told the Group of Ministers (GoM) that the system of ‘go’ and ‘no-go’ has not been mandated by the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 (FCA) and does not have any legal standing. This is a significant departure from the stand advocated by …
Construction of a dam over the Kalu river in Murbad is crucial to address the water woes of Mumbai, the state government informed the Bombay High Court on Tuesday in response to a petition challenging the dam project. Assistant Government Pleader Vijay Patil told the court that the city’s population …
Mining projects will not get environmental clearance without the mandatory forest clearance, the environment ministry has decided. Despite pressure from the Planning Commission and other quarters within the government, the ministry has stuck to its guns and will not amend its rules to permit mining and other projects to use …
Forest Bench issues guidelines for future clearances The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the French cement company Lafarge to mine limestone in the forests of the East Khasi hills in Meghalaya. The Forest Bench, comprising Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices Aftab Alam and K.S. Radhakrishnan, accepted the contentions of …
What prevents the NE states from enforcing SC directive? SILCHAR: Hailakandi DFO Salman Uddin Chowdhury has once again brought to the fore how forests and its wealth are being looted by
Bhubaneswar: The case relating to violation of forest laws by Jindal Steel & Power for its six million tonne steel plant at Angul has taken a new turn with the state forest and environment department asking the ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) to take necessary action under Environment Protection …
Can you love tigers but hate forests? This is the question that troubled me as I visited the middle of India last fortnight. I was in Nagpur, where local politicians, conservationists and officials were discussing what needed to be done in this chronically poor and backward region endowed with forests …
In response to requests received from various state governments, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Planning Commission, the MoE&F has decided to permit state governments to clear projects of upto 50 hectares of forest land for critical public utility infrastructure projects in 60 left-wing extremist affected districts without reference …
Making further concessions for creating public infrastructure in Naxalite areas, the government on Thursday ordered that projects like building of roads, schools or hospitals on forest land would not require clearance under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 as long as the total forest land to be diverted is not more …
