Some projects under the Smart Cities Mission would not be able to meet the June 30 deadline and the respective state governments would be responsible for completing them thereafter, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs. In its report on the …
The Government has rejected calls, made by the Environmental Audit Committee, to require new products to be recyclable and to ban food waste going to landfill to help stimulate the circular economy. In its report entitled 'Ending the Throwaway Society: Growing a Circular Economy', published in July, the cross-party Environmental …
ISLAMABAD: With a parliamentary committee approving an amendment to the Seed Act 1976, fear of foreign ‘genetically modified’ (GM) seeds has returned to haunt the agriculturists of the country after 10 years. “We are writing to the Ministry for Food Security and Research to discuss the changes before placing the …
Merely months into the Narendra Modi regime, a cherished Sangh Parivar project is being reactivated-the quest for the long-lost Saraswati river, venerated in Vedic texts. While the BJP government under Atal Bihari Vajpayee and tourism and culture minister Jagmohan Malhotra had directed scientific and archaeological resources into tracing Saraswati, the …
Narendra Singh Tomar, Union minister for mines, said on Thursday that amendments to the Mines and Mineral Development and Regulation (MMDR) Act, 1957 would be carried in the coming session of Parliament. Amending the MMDR Act is expected to strengthen the sector, hit by illegalities. “We are working on changes …
HELSINKI, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Finland's economy minister has rejected an application from power utility Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) to extend the permit for a new nuclear reactor in the west of the country, throwing the project into doubt. Minister Jan Vapaavuori instead conditionally backed another nuclear project, Finnish-Russian company Fennovoima's …
Singapore's air pollution rose to unhealthy levels on Monday, the National Environment Agency said, as winds changed direction and brought in light smoke from forest fires in neighboring Indonesia. Singapore is in the middle of its "haze" season, when smoke from forest clearing in Indonesia traditionally chokes the air, but …
NEW DELHI: Efforts are on to increase India's forest cover to one-third of the land area, environment and forests minister Prakash Javadekar informed Rajya Sabha on Thursday. "Green cover is increasing and government's intention is to take it to 33 per cent (of the total land area)," he said during …
