Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Naresh Vashisth Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/04/2025. Issue raised in the application is encroachment of land of village Amer which comes under reserved forest and "Vankhand Amer-54 of Nahargarh Wildlife Sanctuary." The Assistant …
The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) held a protest meet against the recent spate of rhino killings, by the side of the Dighalipukhuri lake in the city’s Panbazar locality. The protest meet, which was attended by around 500 people, saw slogans being raised against the state government by the outfit’s …
The Adivasi women of Moticher village in Surat district have knocked on every door with their complaints. They want easy access to water, jobs for the youth and schools for their children. With none willing to lend a ear, they have decided to boycott the Lok Sabha elections. About 25 …
“Only reason for this neglect could be because children don’t form a vote bank”. With the children’s issues being relegated to back-burner and problems of childhood malnutrition not finding a mention in the manifestos of most prominent parties contesting the Lok Sabha elections, child rights advocacy group Child Rights and …
Pollution being caused by the Visakhapatnam Port Trust tops the list of problems of contestants from the Visakha South Assembly constituency. At a face-to-face programme organised by the Vizag Journalists’ Forum here on Thursday, sitting MLA Dronamraju Satyanarayana of the Congress, Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar of the Telugu Desam and two-time …
Political parties, which look at slum populations as their prime vote bank, continue to make false promises of regularising lake lands that has been encroached. Musi River is one such area. “There are over 10,000 houses along the stretch of Musi, touches over six Assembly constituencies in old city. The …
Children’s issues get a meagre 11 per cent weightage in manifestos of top 10 parties: CRY study. Every second child in the country is malnourished, according to the National Family Health Survey -III. Yet, the issue, described by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh once as a “national shame”, hardly finds any …
Africans express growing attachment to democracy according to citizen attitude surveys conducted by the Afrobarometer in 34 countries . Seven out of ten Africans prefer democracy to other political regimes, and the proportion of deeply committed democrats (that is, those who also reject authoritarian alternatives) has risen steadily over the …
Guwahati, April 21: Even when around one million cancer cases are detected in India every year (majority of which are related to tobacco abuse), none of the political parties deemed it important to include the issue of tobacco control in their election manifestos. Despite being approached by the Voice of …
SUPAUL: Destruction caused by breach in Kosi embankment at Kusaha on August 18, 2008, is still an issue in 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Supaul, which was the worst hit. Candidates are promising speedy implementation of the World Bank-aided reconstruction scheme including houses to the families displaced in the floods …
That toxic industrial waste flows unabated in Buddha Nullah in Ludhiana and Kala Sanghian drain in Jalandhar is known, what baffles environmentalists in Punjab is that no political party is bothered about the issue. The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) claims that the steps are being taken to ensure that …
Both mainstream and fringe political outfits who contested in the recently held general and Assembly elections showed any seriousness in implementation of historic acts such as Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA), Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 and protection of Land Rights in tribal areas, said Campaign for …
Interlinking of rivers, a pet idea of political leaders in the State, has come to the fore again, thanks to Lok Sabha elections. Almost every major party supports the concept and has included it in its election manifesto. However, a look at the status of projects reveals that the idea …
Environmental issues have largely been ignored in the Lok Sabha election campaign in Punjab at a time when the adverse impact of water pollution on people’s health manifests in the significant increase in cancer deaths and incidences of water-borne diseases. None of the mainstream political parties have so far touched …
Lakhs of villagers living alongside Ghaggar accuse politicians of failing to curtail floods, pollution Each time any election approaches, lakhs of villagers living alongside the Ghaggar in Patiala are promised an end to their woes arising out of the river. Apart from almost-yearly floods, the river has of late been …
Fed up with the callousness of government and their elected representatives in dealing with their problems, many villages across India have decided not to vote this time.
In January 2012, PM Manmohan Singh declared half of India’s children were malnourished and that was a national shame. Yet since then, not a single comprehensive national survey was conducted to determine the acuteness of the problem or measure progress, if any, of steps initiated to address malnutrition. Worse, the …
Health has been a neglected issue in past Indian general elections. But this year, it has received more recognition by those vying to lead the world’s largest democracy.
For the Millennium city, which is located between two rivers Kathajodi and Mahanadi, rising pollution level in both rivers has been a major cause of concern. But this issue has failed to attract politicians. Elections come and go but the deteriorating condition of both rivers, which are considered the lifelines …
While the rest of Kerala went to polling booths on Thursday to become part of world’s largest democratic process, over 340 electorates from the particularly vulnerable tribal group of Kadar in Vazhachal hamlet inside Athirappilly forests have boycotted the election, mainly seeking clarity on the move to revive a controversial …
75,000 residents in the eastern part of Chittur been demanding water from the Parambikulam Aliyar Project. On the premises of a few polling stations in the district, booths supporting an unusual ‘candidate’ sprouted on Thursday. They were rooting for NOTA (none of the above). The Water Users Association, a forum …
