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 …
The rejection of forest clearance for mining Niyamgiri is indeed a historic decision. It has vindicated the historical injustice done, in this case to Dongaria and Kutia Kondh tribal communities, due to the non-recognition of their forest rights on ancestral lands and their habitat in the consolidation of state forests …
BHUBANESWAR: Sharply reacting to the objections raised by the N C Saxena Committee to the proposal to allow bauxite mining by the Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) in the Niyamgiri hills, the State Government on Tuesday asserted that all decisions have been taken as per the Supreme Court directive. The findings …
BHUBANESWAR: Sharply reacting to the objections raised by the N C Saxena Committee to the proposal to allow bauxite mining by the Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) in the Niyamgiri hills, the State Government on Tuesday asserted that all decisions have been taken as per the Supreme Court directive. The findings …
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday agreed to break and remove 48,300 sq m of concrete pavement at the Noida Park to make room for 61 per cent green cover at the half-complete memorial site for Dalit leaders.But a Green Bench led by Chief Justice of India S H …
Krishnadas Rajagopal New Delhi: Almost nine months after the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) said Mayawati's 33.43 hectare Noida Park memorial project is too
The Ad Hoc Committee (ADC) has recommended that the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) should conduct a fact finding study of the illegal mining activities, if any, and also investigate and study the modalities of the illegal mechanism. The ADC has also suggested that CEC should come out with remedial measures …
BHUBANESWAR: Chided by the Empowered Committee of the Supreme Court, the Government seems to have woken up to the large-scale loot and worked out some tough measures to check illegal mining in the State. Enforcement squads will now frequent mine areas while a coordination committee will keep a watch on …
To accept most of CEC's recommendations. The Orissa government will file its response to the interim report of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) of the Supreme Court in connection with a case relating to illegal mining operations in the state by the end of this month. It may be noted …
Some Running For More Than 20 Years Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: Is it possible to operate hundreds of illegal mines in India for years on end without being detected or prosecuted? And can their illegal operations be legitimized in one stroke and turned into
Bishnu Dash / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar May 20, 2010, 0:13 IST The Orissa government is likely to collect Rs 2400 crore from the deposits made towards the Net Present Value (NPV) of trees in the forest land diverted for mining and industrial use. A major chunk of this amount, approximately about …
Siri fort complex : Project gets green signal after PWD cuts number of trees to be felled from 54 to 15 Thirty-nine trees in South Delhi have been spared the axe after the Public Works Department (PWD) downsized its plans to widen the
On Friday, the Supreme Court in its first hearing of the forest law violations in the Orissa mining scam asked the state government to file compliance report on the recommendations of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) within six weeks. The CEC, which probed into the multi-crore scam, in its interim …
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: The report of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) on illegal mining is a virtual indictment of the State Government which has so far rejected consistent Opposition demand for a CBI probe into the multi-crore scam. The CEC, in response to petition in the apex court, has come out …
The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) of the Supreme Court of India has inferred that illegal mining was going on in Orissa for a long time in violation of the forest conservation act, air and water act and various norms of environmental clearance. The CEC, which was hearing a case pertaining …
Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government on Tuesday said it would respond to the interim report submitted by the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee on environment.
