Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …
J. Venkatesan NEW DELHI: The Central Empowered Committee appointed by the Supreme Court has recommended that the Uttar Pradesh Government be told to stop all construction work for the upcoming Noida park project till environmental clearance is obtained from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. The Committee in its …
Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government has protested against the alleged move of the UnionGovernment and the Ministry of Environment and Forests to influence the Central Empowered Committee on the issue of development of a park in memory of Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram, in Sector 14 and …
The Centre itself had said (to the CEC) that prior environmental permission was not necessary for construction in the area A K GUPTA, Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary THE Uttar Pradesh Government has taken strong objection to the second letter sent by the Government of India to the Central Empowered Committee …
The Supreme Court, which is hearing the forest land case, on Monday directed all petitioners to submit a `category-wise list' of affected citizens/builders in Mumbai before September 30. Petitioner Prakash Padikkal said he would compile a list of 4.5 lakh residents of forest land in the eastern suburbs, whereas the …
G Babu Jayakumar | ENS A DEMAND to fell 11,088 trees in Kanjamalai forest in Salem district and another 2,22,397 trees in Kvuthimalai forest in Tiruvannamalai district for iron ore mining under a joint sector project by Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation Ltd (TIDCO), a state government-owned undertaking, has come …
NEHA SINHA SATELLITE data of the Forest Survey of India (FSI) between 2001 and 2007 has found there were 21 hectares of forest area in Noida -the very spot where trees were felled by the UP government to raise a statue complex. Noida authorities, meanwhile, have flatly denied this in …
The Great Indian Bustard was last spotted in Karera sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh in 1993. But 16 years hence, while the bird may be long dead here, it continues to control the destinies of more than 25,000 residents of 32 villages inside it. Notified in 1981, the sanctuary in Shivpuri …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court, after suspending all mining operations in the ecologically sensitive Aravali Hills, on Friday began hearing on the issue relating to permissibility of mining for minor minerals and the fate of the colonies constructed in the environmentally threatened area in Faridabad district. A bench comprising Chief …
Finally, residents of Sundernagar have decided to challenge the decision of the government regarding setting up of a cement plant near Sundernagar before the Supreme Court (SC). The Paryavaran Sarakshan Samiti and the Sundernagar Sangharsh Samiti have filed petition before the Central Empowered Committee (CEC), constituted by the SC. The …
NEW DELHI: The Centre will shortly release Rs.1,000 crore to the States from the Compensatory Afforestation Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) fund for sustainable forestry management, as directed by the Supreme Court. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said the …
A three-member team from the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on Friday visited the park in neighbouring Noida where statues of Mayawati and other Dalit leaders will be coming up The team would present its report to the ministry on the environmental impact the construction activity in the park …
New Delhi: The environment ministry may finally be able to unlock the Rs 9,760 crore fund lying unutilised for afforestation with the environment minister committing that the once-rejected Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill will be revamped and reintroduced in Parliament by the end of the budgetary session. In an interview to …
Mumbai: The widening of National Highway Number 7 (NH-7) - connecting New Delhi to Kanyakumari - has ground to a halt outside the Pench Tiger Reserve amid fears that any widening here will destroy the ecologically rich but fragile forest ecosystem. At a meeting in New Delhi on May 21 …
