The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
PREETI KARMYOGI, NEW DELHI The tourism ministry is working overtime to make cruise tourism a reality. The ministry has chalked out bottlenecks and strategy to deal with each of them on paper. The ministry is also planning to give exciting sops to private partners for development of infrastructure for cruise …
With the interested companies seeking certain modification in the conditions for the execution of proposed aerial ropeways in the state, these projects are not likely to take off before next year. These projects of the Tourism Department have already suffered delay due to the coming into force of the election …
The last hurdle in the way of a second airport for Mumbai, at Navi Mumbai, was cleared by the central government on Monday. The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) issued a notification granting exemption to the second airport from costal regulatory zone (CRZ) regulations, on the lines of …
Mumbai The Centre on Monday cleared environment and coastal regulation zone (CRZ) hurdles in the path of the proposed Greenfield Navi Mumbai international airport. The state government is now planning a time-bound implementation of the delayed project and expects the basic services to be launched in late 2013. Part of …
B Krishna Mohan / Hyderabad May 19, 2009, 0:38 IST With consumers switching to ever newer drugs, getting licences for changing product lines is an issue. The Bulk Drug Manufacturers Association (BDMA), which has over 500 members including 250 from Andhra Pradesh, has decided to request the Union government to …
Olive Ridley turtles missed their annual nesting trip to the Orissa coast last year. Conservation groups blamed the upcoming port at Dhamra. The turtles are back this year, and port proponents Tata and L&T; claim vindication. They overlook the violations that have allowed the port at Dhamra in the first …
The Supreme Court judgement ordering suspension of all mining activities in the 448 sq. km. area of the Aravalli Hill range falling in Haryana's districts of Faridabad and Gurgaon including Mewat. This present order, hereby suspend all mining operations in the Aravalli Hill Range falling in the state of Haryana …
The writ petitioner, Prafulla Samantra, appealed in his personal capacity as the President of a Social Organisation viz. Lok Shakti Abhiyan, Orissa Unit under Section 11(1) of the Act, challenging an order granting environmental clearance issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Central Government, for setting up of Alumina …
Regulating GM paddy: The Supreme Court has issued notices to the ministry of agriculture, department of biotechnology under ministry of science and technology and the environment ministry to clear their stand on the regulatory process for approval of genetically modified (GM) crops (see
MoEF to clear the 33 km passing through reserve forest THE Karnataka High Court, on March 19, vacated its stay on a road-widening project that environmentalists are opposing. Nearly two-thirds of the 51-km road, connecting Peerunwadi in Belgaum district with Chorla near Goa border, passes through a reserve forest in …
NEW DELHI: A committee of environmental experts set up by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has concluded that there were major shortfalls in complying with the prescribed environmental conditionalities and requirements with respect to the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). It has advised the Ministry not to permit further …
Ropar: No pong ash is being used from Ropar thermal plant for the construction of Kurali-Kiratpur Sahib stretch of the National Highway 21 despite strict guidelines of the government of India. Under notification issued by the Union government on September 14, 1999, use of fly ash, if available, is mandatory …
India is on the verge of clearing its first genetically modified food crop, Bt brinjal, with several others in the pipeline. Does India need GM crops? Are they safe? How much does the consumer know?
New Delhi: The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has ordered a high-level inquiry into the death of a tiger at the Kanha Tiger Reserve on Sunday evening, following allegations that it was hit by a vehicle carrying R P Singh, field director of the reserve.
Savvy Soumya Misra And Kirtiman Awasthi India is on the verge of clearing its first genetically modified food crop, Bt brinjal, with several others in the pipeline. Does India need GM crops? Are they safe? How much does the consumer know? On January 14, a meeting happened in room 23 …
Court to decide on airport in eco-sensitive zone THE Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has refused permission for the proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport. The ministry has asked the Maharashtra government to first get it cleared from the Bombay High Court. Eight hundred hectares (ha) of mangroves that …
New Delhi: The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, working with Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), on Sunday seized skins of a tiger and a leopard in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu. While one tiger was found dead in Pilibhit and another in Ranthambhore on April 4, a …
