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 …
Voluntary organisation Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) on Tuesday announced that it would take recourse to the path of agitation to frustrate the seismic survey being conducted by the Oil India Ltd (OIL) on the Brahmaputra, which is proposed to explore oil. The agitation to resist the OIL seismic survey …
Olive Ridley protection may finally get a place in the State Budget. The High Power Committee, headed by Chief Secretary Ajit Tripathy, on Saturday decided on creation of a budget head for streamlining conservation. Piecemeal assistance will be a thing of the past. Currently, protection measures of the endangered amphibians …
New studies, committees and a tag of national river. Will it help? the government has decided to declare the Ganga a national river, following campaigns from several quarters to preserve its cultural and religious significance. A High Powered Ganga River Basin Authority, to be chaired by the prime minister, will …
Set up environment courts for quick and effective justice Polluting MNCs be checked upon Reduce the number of Board members (not the technical staff) for quick decision making process One CPCB zonal office be established in each state Increase number of air monitoring stations from 332 to 1,000 Common effluent …
With the Union Ministry for Environment and Forests refusing clearance to the 750-MW Parbati-I project, the three-stage 2,051-MW project will have only two stages with total installed capacity limited to 1,320 MW. The National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC), which is executing the project, had sent the proposal to the ministry …
VIVEH DESHPANDE THE proposed coal mining project of Adani Power Limited, a subsidiary company of the Adani Group, close to Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), is set to face tough questions from the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), with Maharashtra's Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF, Wildlife) B Majumdai expressing …
ANGUL: The public consultation meeting of the Essar Power Limited, for its proposed 2,000 MW power plant in the area, evoked mixed responses from the people who would be affected by the project. The meeting was held here today near Paranga village. Already flanked by two sponge iron plants, some …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests today announced the takeover of Satkosia Wildlife Sanctuary under Project Tiger Programme. Along with seven other protected forest areas, Satkosia has been brought into the fold of Project Tiger as was decided earlier. As per the Ministry
The Central Ministry of Environment and Forest has proposed a Bill for the conservation and regulation of wetlands in India. Tentatively called the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2008, the draft, which is still in the suggestion- incorporation stage, says, "Many wetlands are seriously threatened by reclamation through drainage and …
Throughout Sweet Land of Mine, the destructive role of the MoEF is reprised. This ministry has aided and abetted the overturning of every single piece of legislation designed to protect ecological systems and the communities of Goa. It has done so consistently from the mid-1980s when the Portuguese mining
Whereas by notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Environment and Forests number S.O. 763(E), dated the 14th September, 1999 (hereinafter referred to as the said notification) issued under sub-section (1) and clause (v) of sub-section (2) of section 3 and section 5 of the Environment (Protection) …
Committee Will Decide Fate Of Games Village Ruling out staying ongoing construction of flats for Commonwealth Games in the Capital, Delhi High Court (HC) on Monday flagged its concern on possible ecological damage to Yamuna river and formed a high level committee to gauge the same. The four member committee …
NEW DELHI: Questioning the bona fides of the National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on their shifting stands over the construction of the Commonwealth Games Village along the Yamuna riverbed in East Delhi, the Delhi High Court …
BS Reporter / Bhubaneswar November 04, 2008, 0:12 IST South Korean steel major Posco has overcome the first hurdle in getting the forest diversion proposal (FDP) approved from the central government for its proposed 12-million tonne mega steel project near Paradeep in Orissa. The company has obtained the stage-I forest …
