Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Rajkot: The people’s movement to express resentment against the Supreme Court verdict on transfer of Gir’s lions to Madhya Pradesh (MP) continues to gather steam. A postcard campaign against the move has been launched in Amreli by members of Gir Nature Youth Club that was founded by slain RTI activist …
’’Instead of taking action against the erring cement companies indicted by the JIT, the State Government came out with an amendment on definition of forest which was nothing but to shield the cement lobbies. If this (act on forest definition) is not stopped, more and more forest cover of the …
BHUBANESWAR: A high-level committee set up by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to review the mega Posco steel project in the state has spelled fresh trouble for the much-hyped project. The committee headed by K Roy Paul was constituted as per the March 30, 2012 order of …
Visakhapatnam: The famous port town of Visakhapatnam happens to be one of the worst-affected towns in the state, as far as the environmental pollution goes, according to the official data recently retrieved by a city based voluntary organisation under the Right to Information Act. The shocking revelation flies in the …
A well-building project in Jharkhand has fallen flat on its face with more incompleteor collapsed wells and unpaid wages. More than three years after the Jharkhand government ordered that 50 wells be built in each of its 4423 panchayats, with an aim to build over a lakh irrigation wells in …
The Act grants legal recognition to the rights of traditional forest dwelling communities The Additional Collector’s headquarter here was abuzz even before its gates opened on Monday morning. Around 100 tribals from various villages in the Jawhar tehsil had already queued to begin what they had aptly named as first …
Mumbai: The Bombay HC on Monday asked the state’s lawyer to take instructions from the Urban Development Department (UDD), headed by CM Prithviraj Chavan and reply to a new PIL that raised issues about “lack of transparency” in the state’s public parking policy on May 2. The PIL moved on …
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is launching a new course — capacity for change — which will be conducted from April 15 to 20. This is a programme offered by the Anil Agarwal Green College, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi. It wishes to enhance the talent …
The food being served to Delhi’s children under the mid-day meal scheme is far from being healthy with 83 per cent of the samples lifted for testing failing in the current fiscal. In a response to Right to Information applications filed for ascertaining the results on the quality of food …
Civic Body To Take Steps For Construction Of Toilets: Mayor Pune: There are just 47 public urinal blocks in Pimpri Chinchwad for about 9 lakh women, reveals a Right to Information (RTI) application. Vikas Bhumbe, president of Aadhar Social Foundation, who sought the info under RTI, said, “Women face hardships …
Almost 15 years after the Karnataka Urban Development Department issued a circular to the municipal bodies in the State to frame rules for installing private telecom towers on residential and commercial buildings, the Karnataka Directorate of Municipal Corporations (KDMC) has now suddenly woken up to frame the rules, including on …
Kochi: The pollution in the industrial belt of Eloor-Edayar is impacting on its population with four major non-communicable diseases claiming as many as 110 deaths in Kadungallur grama panchayat in just 10 months up to October 2012. The Pathalam bund in Periyar is located in Kadungallur and 85 chemical industries …
As many as five of the 13 tigers lost in the state till Mid-December fell prey to this method of poaching in 2012 Madhya Pradesh is witnessing a rising trend of tigers being poached by electrocution with five cats falling prey to it in 2012-13, an RTI query has found. …
JAMMU In response to a second appeal filed by an RTI activist seeking details of the encroachment on forest land in Jammu, the State Chief Information Commissioner has directed the concerned Divisional Forest Officer to provide full information to the applicant by March 6 and also upload the information on …
Action council to intensify agitation Union Minister for Forests and Environment (MoEF) Jayanthi Natarajan has clarified that the Ministry has not given environmental clearance for the proposed airport project at Aranmula, said Kummanam Rajashekharan, chief patron of the Thiruvaranmula Paithruka Grama Karma Samiti (TPGKS). Addressing a press conference here on …
Five non-government organisations working among the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster on Thursday stated that high levels of Dioxins and Furans were released from the Ramky waste incinerator at Pithampur near Indore during four trial runs between July 2010 and June 2012 and charged the Madhya Pradesh government …
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday issued a notice to the Union health secretary on a complaint alleging that three big government hospitals in Delhi conducted illegal clinical drug trials on 3,479 children during the last five years. The commission’s notice cited illegal clinical trials allegedly conducted on …
Directorate Of Health Services Admits More Deaths In Reply To Paediatrician’s RTI The directorate of health services (DHS), which has been defending the administration of the pentavalent vaccine, has admitted that four infants had died within a week of administering the vaccine in the state till June 2012. The admission …
The environment ministry is hardly a “green roadblock ministry” as is being made out by the PMO. The MoEF’s Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) on River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects considered a total of 262 hydropower and irrigation projects in the last six years and green signalled every single one of …
Non-planting of saplings along national highways in the State after uprooting several old trees for taking up road widening projects has come to light through a petition filed under the Right to Information Act by tree lovers. Answering a set of questions from a Salem-based resident, officials of the National …
