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 …
Surprise was in store for Sushil Kaushik when in 1989 he first joined duty as a constable in Serkot in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district. He had no idea how corrupt police officials can be. He saw policemen taking bribes, and superiors deducting constables’ salaries without giving any explanation. Kaushik questioned …
Manas Dasgupta AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti, a voluntary organisation working for environmental protection, has come out with startling facts on how the badly treated industrial effluents are being dumped in the major rivers in the State and in the sea. The rivers include the Narmada, Mahisagar, Sabamarti and …
Pune Board president says the trees cut for a project were on defence land and procedures have been followed For 75-year-old Major General (Retd) A K Dewan, it came as a shock when over 80 full grown peepul, neem and banyan trees were chopped and neatly sawed by the Ahmednagar …
Two years behind schedule, the common service centre (CSC) project is floundering. There are few success stories and no one tells you where Rs 5,742 crore of public funds are going.
THE National Advisory Council (NAC), led by Sonia Gandhi, will get down to business this week itself with the Congress leadership finalising a list of 10 members. While four members of the previous NAC
The government of Maharashtra is offering subsidies for liquor production from foodgrains. This policy will turn jowar into a cash crop and divert huge quantities of foodgrains to alcohol production, creating scarcity and causing food inflation. Moreover, Right to Information documents have revealed the extent to which the claims made …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: Though the State Environment Department had launched a campaign to ensure that the Capital disposes of plastic in an environment-friendly manner, it seems clueless about the number of plastic mineral water bottles used and disposed of in the city every day. In a reply to …
Concerned over the failure of the state pollution control board to impose an effective check on polluting units in the industrial hub of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN), a local environment action group, Him Parivesh, has taken initiative to involve the affected people in monitoring of pollution levels. The group organised a three-day …
The Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) has admitted that the sewage of Chandigarh and Mohali was being discharged into the seasonal N-choe, which originates from Chandigarh and passes through various parts of the city before reaching Mohali. The sewage treatment plant (STP) has been lying defunct for over two …
Reversing wrongs could be a better idea than throwing rights at people whose strength is used up entirely in the daily struggle against exclusion. Running to courts to enforce their rights is not even on the periphery of their consciousnes
The Indian government is adopting a rights-based approach and converting the Directive Principles into Fundamental Rights, which are enforceable in the court of law. That is why we have seen a plethora of rights-based laws recently-right to education, right to employment, right to forest, right to information and now, right …
The residents of Golibar slum colony near Mumbai airport have sniffed a scam in the state housing agency’s rehabilitation plan for them. They found the land where they are being resettled is encroached land belonging to the Air Force. About 550 families have already been shifted there in six housing …
Citizens have long been frustrated by the secretive nature of the public-private partnerships (PPPs). A Madras High Court judgement on Tirupur water project SPV kindles hopes that PPPs will now be compelled to open up.
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: This 60-year-old farmer used RTI to expose how Rakhial village administration clandestinely passed fake resolutions to allow illegal sand mining. The issue was an eye-opener for the state geology and mining department which is the regulatory body for sandmining activities in the state. The department …
Bhopal gas tragedy victims on Thursday accused the Madhya Pradesh Government of concealing facts, and said it continued to deny publicly that 16,000 people had died in the aftermath of the tragedy and 5,000 women were widowed. Representatives of four organisations of Bhopal gas disaster survivors presented information obtained through …
Bhopal gas tragedy victims Thursday accused the Madhya Pradesh government of concealing facts, and said it continued to deny publicly that 16,000 people had died in the aftermath of the tragedy and 5,000 women were widowed. Representatives of four organisations of Bhopal gas disaster survivors presented information obtained through the …
SYED ASIM ALI The rural India has now started getting benefits from the RTI as residents of Keolari village in Katni district succeeded in protecting their fundamental human Right to Water using RTI as a tool. While the Supreme Court has on more than one occasion declared that the Right …
Days after several persons were hospitalised after exposure to radioactive waste at a West Delhi scrap market, it emerges that the only data available with the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) is almost three years old. And even that is alarming: 5,300 tonnes of hazardous waste was generated in the …
