Right To Information (RTI)

Judgment of the National Green Tribunal regarding plywood factories operating in Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, 27/05/2025

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 …

MP govt may recommend CBI probe into tiger deaths in Panna

The Madya Pradesh government is likely to recommend a CBI probe into the alleged disappearance and poaching of wild cats from Panna Tiger Reserve based on a report submitted by sanctuary authorities. Sources said the report was submitted to the Madhya Pradesh government last month after a year-long follow up …

Anna threatens 'big protest' for strong Lokpal Bill

Threatening to launch a “big protest” for a strong Lokpal Bill, Anna Hazare on Friday said the government will have to go if it does not bring a strong anti-corruption law. He said he will campaign for a strong Lokpal Bill till the next Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and …

FII warns CIL of legal action on coal pricing

Mumbai: The government’s move to change the pricing strategy of PSU major Coal India (CIL) may soon face legal hurdles. The Children’s Investment Fund (TCI), a UKbased FII that is the largest non-government shareholder in CIL with a 1% holding, has threatened to take the Kolkata-based company’s board members to …

Big dam impacts on downstream areas worry speakers

GUWAHATI: The two-day ‘State Convention against Big Dam’ concluded here on Monday. The Monday session of the convention witnessed several speakers delving deep into the implications of the big dams including the controversial Lower Subansiri project on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. Addressing the gathering at the convention, Ramaswamy R Iyer, …

Endosulfan: PCSS demands withdrawl of study

KASARGOD: The Plantation Corporation Samrakshana Samithi has demanded withdrawal of the study report of the community medicine of the Kozhikode Medical College on the ‘Epidemiological Studies Related to Health in Endosulfan-affected Areas of Kasargod district’. In a letter to the principal of the Kozhikode Medical College, the PCK Samrakshana Samithi …

Presentation by Vimal Bhai, Matu Jan Sangathan at the Anil Agarwal Dialogues on green clearances organised by CSE, New Delhi

This video presents the talk by Vimal Bhai, Matu Jan Sangathan on green clearances at the Anil Agarwal Dialogues, organised by CSE at New Delhi, during February 24-25, 2012.

Presentation Raghuvir Pradhan, Ekta Parishad, Chhattisgarh at the Anil Agarwal Dialogues on green clearances organised by CSE, New Delhi

This video presents the talk by Raghuvir Pradhan, Ekta Parishad, Chhattisgarh on green clearances at the Anil Agarwal Dialogues, organised by CSE at New Delhi, during February 24-25, 2012

NGO questions government’s clean chit to cement giants

SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Government’s clean chit to cement plants which are breaching the forest conservation act has been out rightly questioned by the Maitshaphrang Movement, an NGO which used the RTI findings to reveal the alleged exploitation of forest by these cement giants in the Khliehriat sub-division of Jaintia Hills …

Lanong gives clean chit to cement companies

SHILLONG: Endorsing the State government official team’s clean chit to four giant cement factories operating in Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Bindo Lanong attributed unscientific coal mining as a major cause of pollution of streams and rivers in Khleihriat sub division. It is an irrefutable fact that unscientific …

Tamil Nadu agreed to new dam proposal in 1979: Premachandran

N.K. Premachandran, former Water Resources Minister, said here on Monday that Tamil Nadu had agreed in principle to the proposal for a new dam at Mullaperiyar way back as 1979. At the suggestion of the Central Water Commission, both Tamil Nadu and Kerala had agreed for a new dam and …

Going green, with a large side order of mercury

Steady release of mercury into the air, soil and water poses a significant health risk. But, it appears, not for policymakers in India. Annually, a large amount of this toxic, complex metal is simply dumped into municipal landfills or released into the air from a “green” source — the millions …

Anti-big dam leader accuses minister

Guwahati: Anti-big dam leader Akhil Gogoi on Friday alleged that Assam Power Minister Pradyut Bordoloi was selling the interests of the state and its people in his greed for the chief minister’s chair. Gogoi’s charge came a day after the Assam government’s Group of Ministers (GoM), led by Mr Bordoloi, …

NHPC’s bizarre goof branded an ‘insult’ to Assam

NHPC officials claimed that today’s discussion was an informal one. How can they say that a burning issue like the Lower Subansiri project can be informally discussed? The outcomes of talks on this issue should always be made public. The NHPC must change its attitude. Otherwise, we’ll intensify our current …

CBI probe for Panna tiger debacle stuck at the lowest level

Three years after the entire tiger population of the Panna Tiger Reserve was decimated, the Madhya Pradesh government has neither been able to fix responsibility for the disaster, nor has it handed over the enquiry to the Central Bureau of Investigation inspite of requests from the Ministry of Environment and …

JIC constituted to verify destruction of forest land by cement factories

SHILLONG: A joint investigation committee (JIC) comprising State Chief Conservator of Forest and Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forest from the Union Ministry of Forest and Environment, Regional Office has been constituted to relook into the alleged random exploitation of forest land by the cement industries in Jaintia Hills district. …

Lanco Infra front cos corner 9 solar projects: CSE

New Delhi Smelling a scam in the bidding process for the National Solar Mission, Sunita Narain-led Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Wednesday said that front companies floated by Lanco Infratech had grabbed not less than nine projects of 235 mw under the mission. This is about 40 % …

RTI finds gross violation by cement cos

SHILLONG: The RTI findings on the cement plants in Jaintia Hills has exposed the connivance of the various Government departments including the Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council (JHADC) and the traditional bodies which allowed the cements plants to carry out mining inside the forest areas in gross violation of the …

Bid to scuttle tobacco warning

NGOs have claimed that recent reports suggesting that one of the pictorial warnings for tobacco products resembles footballer John Terry could be an attempt by the manufacturers to scuttle the pictorial warnings once again. In a recent RTI filed by the Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), the issue was …

Public hearing on cement cos

SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Right to Information Movement (MRTIM) would be holding a public hearing on the RTI findings relating to the activities of the cement plants based in Jaintia Hills district at Don Bosco Youth Centre on Thursday at 11 am. The public hearing comes at the time when the …

Green cover goes as grade separator work begins

CHENNAI: As work on the grade separator project at the Anna Arch junction on E V R Salai (Poonamalee High Road) kicks off, close to 10 trees opposite the Aringnar Anna Government hospital of Indian Medicine were pulled down in the last few days. Six fully grown trees were chopped …

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