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 elections to the 15th Lok Sabha are being held at a time when the country faces serious threat to its economic and political independence due to right-ward shift in economic policies under the garb of economic neo-liberalism and pro-imperialist tilt in the foreign policy. This is under the dubious …
To facilitate linkages between the voices of the masses and the future decision makers, South Asian Peoples' Initiatives (SAPI) and Indian Social Institute, New Delhi jointly organized a national workshop in Delhi, on People's Manifesto 2009 (PM 2009). Many from grassroots organizations, representatives of people's movements, NGOs, civil and democratic …
This health manifesto targeted at the political parties ahead of elections demands for effective measures to achieve the achieve the right to health, which includes the right not only to timely appropriate quality health care but also to the underlying socio economic and environmental determinants of health.
Drawing upon a micro-study of two villages in two non-Left gram panchayats in West Bengal, this paper puts one issue in the foreground, namely, the idea and practice of local politics. Using two counter examples to prove a general point about contemporary West Bengal
In the last week of December, many newspapers in Nepal kept their editorial space blank to protest against attacks on the offices of Himal Media. On December 21 the offices of Nepal
PNS | New Delhi Access to safe drinking water would be made a citizen's fundamental right if the BJP was voted to power. NDA's prime ministerial candidate LK Advani, who held consultations with leading environmentalists, public health engineers, doctors and senior technocrats here on Monday, also proposed the establishment of …
Elections to the Lok Sabha are a significant event in the political life of the country. For the fifteenth time, the people of India are being called upon to elect a new government. In the sixty years of independence, the people of India have suffused life into the democratic system …
BY MANISH ANAND NEW DELHI The Delhi chief min ister Sheila Dikshit, set to take charge of the capital for a historic third time in a row, made her priorities clear, ranging from the 2010 Commonwealth Games, cleaning of Yamuna to housing for the marginalised people. And for the illegal …
NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan on Thursday demanded that the Lieutenant-Governor cancel the order banning withdrawal of groundwater and said ideally the decision on this issue should have been taken after the formation of the new Government in Delhi. Stating that this order would lead to both mental …
Aizawl, Dec 1: Unlike in most other Indian States, environment and global warming rank very high as issues in the Assembly elections in green Mizoram. With almost 80 per cent of its total area of 21,000 square kilometres carpeted by forests, most of Mizoram
Kiran Choudhry CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Minister of State for Tourism, Kiran Choudhry, was divested of the Environment portfolio on Tuesday. According to an official spokesman, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda will look after Environment now. Ms. Choudhry, daughter-in-law of the late Haryana Chief Minister Bansi Lal and widow of the …
NEW DELHI: New Delhi MP and Union Minister of State for Urban Development Ajay Maken on Thursday defended the controversial Bus Rapid Transit corridor project in the Capital stating that the concept was not bad and it was teething trouble on the first section that had caused inconvenience to citizens. …
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in New Delhi has promised to review and modify the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) corridor project, which it alleges has worsened traffic congestion in parts of the national capital and raised protests from citizens and town planners. In its manifesto for the Assembly election …
PANJIM, NOV 5 In a bid to lure Pale electorates, the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday announced that they would demand a bailout package for the residents, affected by the slowdown in mining business. Officially announcing and introducing their candidate for the Pale by-polls, scheduled for November 26, former …
Tata Motors will return the land leased out for the Nano project, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee told his allies at a Left Front meeting today. Bhattacharjee clarified that the Tatas had never insisted on retaining the land after shifting the small-car plant out of Singur.
The state BJP government, during its five- year tenure, has not taken any initiative to increase power generation, alleged the state Congress party here on Wednesday. During these years the government did not conduct survey for power generation projects and nor have taken any approval for any new power project, …
