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 …
AGRICULTURE, food and civil supplies minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday frustrated attempts by the Congress Left-combine to put the blame for the current bout of inflation on opposition-ruled states. Quoting figures compiled by the food ministry, Mr Pawar told the Lok Sabha during his reply to the discussion on price-rise …
The UPA-Left committee on the Indo-US civil nuclear deal is likely to meet on May 5. However, Left leaders refused to confirm the date. Sources also said CPM general secretary Prakash Karat has also written, on behalf of the Left parties, to foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee seeking clarifications about the …
The Chandigarh unit of the Communist Party of India (CPI) held a mass procession to protest against the rising prices of essential commodities. CPI members and union workers participated in the procession that started from the Nehru Park in Sector 22. The procession culminated at the office of the deputy …
Bhawani Saur, a Gond widow of Baissa village in Tikamgarh, was preparing for her daughter's wedding next week. So, when a request came from officials for her to make a meal for 20, she was totally unprepared. When the guests arrived at 9pm on Tuesday, the chief among them was …
The yawning gap between rhetoric and action was evident on Wednesday during the discussion on inflation. In both Houses, finance minister P Chidambaram had hardly any company on the treasury benches as he took notes and prepared for his reply to the debate.In Lok Sabha, even the few MPs who …
Congress has said controlling inflation is top priority. Opposition BJP wants to make inflation the main poll issue in Karnataka. The "Third Front' or UNPA has organized rallies on the issue while the Left has accused the UPA government of letting the "common man' down. But on Wednesday, when a …
The state election commission is yet to decide on the change of last date for withdrawal of candidates from 21 April to 22 April following the Bangla bandh jointly called by Trinamul Congress and Suci. Miss Mamata Banerjee, Trinamul Congress chief today took out a rally from Mominpore to Hyde …
White House Hopefuls Woo Gore, Focus On Climate US: April 10, 2008 WASHINGTON - Democratic White House hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama speak often about green jobs, emissions cuts and renewable energy. But they have more than global warming on their minds when they talk of environmental policy. The …
A DAYafter the Congress expressed its indignation over the Election Commission's decision to go ahead with the assembly polls in Karnataka, the BJP seized upon the opportunity provided by its principal political adversary's response, asserting that it was the manifestation of its desire to ''postpone'' defeat. Firing the first salvo …
THE CPM, which is finding it difficult to spread its sphere of influence, has admitted that it has failed in articulating the concerns of Dalits and women. "Except for some sporadic attempts, we have not been able to take up any issues of social reform in a sustained manner,' the …
THE CPM on Monday declared that it will begin efforts to forge an alternative to the Congress and the BJP. Mr Prakash Karat, who was re-elected as the CPM's general secretary at the party congress here, said a new front was required to combat the BJP and the Congress. "We …
The Indo-US Civil Nuclear Deal is once again becoming a subject of intense debate between the UPA government and the Left parties extending crucial outside support to the government. Things seem to be heading to the brink with the Left parties serving an ultimatum to the Government to choose between …
The NDA's prime ministerial candidate, L.K. Advani, has, in a television interview, expressed confidence that elections are likely to be held in 2009, and not this year. He also took the unusual step of visiting Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the occasion of Holi to …
25 Terming the Dr A K Walias Budget an election speech rather than a budget, Leader of the Opposition Jagdish Mukhi today slammed the government in this connection. Mukhi said that while the Congress decided to pitch the Budget as pro-people and pro-poor, the reality was that it "was an …
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has once again reiterated the commitment of the government towards generating energy for needs of the country. The govt is committed to further development of energy both as an environment friendly source of power and as a means of widening the energy basket available. There …
Desperate to regain lost ground in the wake of the Nandigram fiasco and widespread resistance by the rural population against the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-government's industrialisation overdrive, the CPI-M is gearing up for launching its panchayat poll campaign with the goodies Mr Asim Dasgupta's Budget proposals have offered for the rural population. …
The government's assurance to Left leaders that all apprehensions raised by the latter regarding the nuclear deal had been taken care of failed to move the Left to ratchet down its opposition to the civilian nuclear energy cooperation agreement with the US. In fact, the government too, despite the need …
It was perhaps a first for Palaniappan Chidambaram. He had a most unusual effect on Lok Sabha MPs last week. Minutes after he delivered his Budget speech, MPs across party lines were on the phone, cancelling weekend parties and making arrangements to head home. It was almost as if he …
THE BJP has demanded that the Centre demonstrate that it was serious about ameliorating the condition of farmers by preparing a ten-year action plan for the revival of the sector. The BJP has promised that it would reduce the interest rate for loans to the farm sector to 4%, given …
Madhya Pradesh's main opposition Congress today arraigned the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led Bharatiya Janata Party regime in the Assembly for its failure to create a sufficient irrigation network. Participating in a debate on budgetary demands of the Water Resources Department, senior Congress member Harvansh Singh questioned the propriety of placing ''corrupt'' …
