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 …
MUMBAI: The high level of radiation emitted by three unauthorized mobile towers atop Victor Shelter building poses a health hazard for neighbouring Nilesh society residents at Kandarpada in Dahisar (W), says IIT-Bombay professor Dr Girish Kumar. The radiation level in the New Nilesh society flat was measured by Wilcom Technologies …
River navigation will not be part of the river restoration project of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). This was disclosed by the PMC’s environment officer, Mangesh Dighe, in a presentation at a meeting of select environmental activists, PMC officials and river experts, convened by industrialist Anu Aga in the city …
Ever since Anna Hazare’s call for a strong Lokpal bill reached fever-pitch in autumn, and the government bought time with ostensibly conciliatory moves, everyone had been waiting for ‘the due process’ to bear fruit. But the 30-member standing committee chaired by Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi, set up to frame …
Elephant population has increased by 2,000 in the past 15 years in the country taking their number to 28,000, as per the latest data provided by Ministry of Environment and Forests. The Ministry, however, said it does not maintain statistics on the death of elephants and their disappearance. According to …
The second meeting of the experts committees formed by the central and the Tamil Nadu governments to allay fears about the Koodamkulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu ended in a stalemate on Friday, said a leader of the anti-project protesters. "Members of the experts panel appointed by the …
Goa's mining industry is facing a “crisis of reputation” following a series of writ petitions, a leaked PAC report and an inquiry by a commission. Thousands of Goans who are dependent on mining staged a demonstration in Panaji on October 12. They raised slogans against illegal mining but wanted legal …
Anti-graft activists in Meghalaya on Monday demanded amendment to the Meghalaya Lokayukta and Up-Lokayukta Act, 2002 on the lines of the ombudsman in Uttarakhand. "We want the Meghalaya government to either amend or repeal the existing Meghalaya Lokayukta and Up-Lokayukta Act, 2002 since, in the present form, it is toothless …
The Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill, 2011 (Bill No. 54 of 2011, BRAI Bill, 2011) was proposed by Shri. Vilasrao Deshmukh, Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, in the Monsoon Session of the Lok Sabha on 27th July 2011. However, it was not taken up as the …
The forest officials of Panna Tiger Reserve worked in close nexus with poachers for over a decade, says an internal report prepared by the Intelligence Cell of the tiger reserve, which had lost all its tigers by 2008.
Just months after the 1984 gas leak at Union Carbide's plant here, the Centre had agreed to the "terms" set by the company on compensation to be paid to victims, a Right to Information (RTI) activist has claimed. Not only that, the government treated the world's worst industrial disaster as …
Bhopal : Just months after the 1984 gas leak at Union Carbide’s plant here, the Indian government agreed to the “terms” set by the company on compensation to be paid to victims, a Right to Information (RTI) activist has claimed. Not only that, the government treated the world’s worst industrial …
Govt takes ‘U-turn’ after NAC members criticise Prime Minister’s remark on RTI With political rivals and members of Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council subjecting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to criticism for his statement that RTI was coming in the deliberative processes in the government, Law Minister Salman Khurshid has clarified …
PM Manmohan Singh on Friday endorsed the concerns of his ministerial colleagues over Right To Information, saying the transparency enabler should not adversely affect deliberations in government and deter honest officials from expressing their views on file. While hailing RTI’s extensive use and underlining his government’s intent to strengthen the …
Asserting that there will be no dilution of the RTI Act, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said Government wishes to make Right to Information an “even more effective instrument” for ensuring transparency but wanted a “critical look” at it to address certain concerns. Dr. Singh said the transparency law …
PANJIM: State Mines and Geology department Tuesday began an inspection of various plots in the state which are being used to dump iron ore. The officials swung into action after it was revealed that only 15 plots are registered with them while several hundred plots are increasingly used to stack …
Goa Speaker had dismissed the committee report on illegal mining as ‘a draft' With the Public Accounts Committee report on mining having failed to make it to the Goa Assembly, the former PAC chief, Leader of the Opposition and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Manohar Parrikar, has vowed to come …
Government will spend Rs 30 crore in removing 346 metric tonnes of toxic waste from the Bhopal gas tragedy site, over 25 years after the deadly industrial disaster took place. The waste will be taken to Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) controlled incineration facility near Nagpur, Maharashtra. “The toxic …
Though the methodology for determining the poor would be based on the socio-economic caste census being undertaken by the Rural Development Ministry, the (Suresh) Tendulkar poverty line would remain a relevant reference point “to see how development is helping to take more and more individuals above a fixed line over …
Jaipur: After taking lead in helping the country draw up the Rigth to Information Act and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), Rajasthan has become the first state in the country to have drafted a policy underlining the importance and the need to preserve and secure common …
