Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Laxmi Narain Vs Municipal Corporation, Ghaziabad & Others dated 11/11/2024. The complaint of the applicant is that illegal secondary collection point has been setup near Apsara border of Ghaziabad adjoining Delhi on GT road at District Ghaziabad. The allegation in …
Times Now's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami debates the issue of US Deputy NSA writing an email to Montek Singh Ahluwalia and advising him to go slow on Dow Chemicals, demanding that the Dow 'noise' be handled and US corporate interest over India's biggest industrial tragedy.
There is no question that India desperately needs to generate more power. The energy indicators say it all. It has the lowest per capita consumption of electricity in the world. This when access to energy is correlated with development, indeed with economic growth. Let us not dismiss the need for …
PANJIM, AUG 13Noted environmentalist Sunita Naraine today said that encroaching into the living and life of traditional people on the coastline may lead us to the similar situation like naxalism, which was witnessed after exploitation of rights of forest dwellers.
If we allow the mistakes committed in the forests to be repeated on the coastline, than we are likely to breed menace like naxalism, noted environmentalist Sunita Narain said today."The big issue right now is that we should not repeat the mistake committed in respect to our forest areas which …
There is one being-Indian-thing, which spans the urban-rural and the rich-poor divide: our annual watch and wait for the monsoon. It begins every year, without fail as heat climbs and the monsoon advances. The farmers wait desperately because they need the rain at the right time to sow their crops. …
In a pine-scented Himalayan valley, Sushila Devi is a reluctant soldier in India's new war over water. Her village, Pipola, sits just southeast of the Tehri Dam, which bestrides one of the precursors of the Ganges River and is India's largest hydropower project. Since the dam was completed in 2006, …
India should strengthen its engagement with the monsoon, harvesting the rain, saving every drop of it There is one thing synonymous with being Indian that spans both urban and rural India, and transcends the rich-and-poor divide: The annual watch and wait for the monsoon. It begins every year without fail …
The Bhopal question has one more angle: why was there so much public and media outrage over this 25-year-old issue? Why did the national media focus on this story, which till now had been consigned to the backrooms where only noisy environmental activists live? Many things, I believe, have contributed …
Critical issues concerning environment and liability in the gas tragedy have evaded a solution Why was there so much public and media outrage over the Bhopal disaster
Rain Is A Much-Awaited Boon And A Runoff Tragedy Rain is the modern-day tragedy in our cities: we desperately wait for the monsoons and when it rains, we weep because roads are flooded, life is disrupted. Mumbai, just a few months ago, was so thirsty for the monsoons that it …
Hyderabad, June 30: The Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution (Prevention and Cure) Authority has threatened to recommend criminal action against commercial establishments that flout parking norms. It has also asked the government to gradually switch over to CNG for public transportation in the state capital. The EPCA chairman, Dr Bhure Lal, …
Days after President Barack Obama lashed out at British Petroleum (BP) saying he would not let them ‘nickel and dime’ his people in the oil spill case, a sessions court in Bhopal did precisely that with the victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster. After 25 long years the court …
Jun 22nd, 2010 -- Rashme Sehgal | A section of senior Madhya Pradesh bureaucrats along with several NGOs believe the solution to the outstanding issue of toxic waste from the Union Carbides factory in Bhopal is to send it back to the United States. They cite the precedent of the …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Activists and groups representing victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak are asking if the government is letting the Dow Chemical off the hook by deciding to pay for the clean-up of the contaminated site. While they welcome the recommendation of the Group of Ministers (GoM) …
Smita Gupta New Delhi: Environmentalists and activists who have been tracking the Bhopal gas tragedy case say the current ownership of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) plant should make no material difference to the case against Dow Chemicals. On Saturday, the Group of Ministers was concerned that the ambiguity …
This is the right time to ask the govt to rethink the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill Days after President Barack Obama lashed out at British Petroleum (BP) saying he would not let it
Should India import and reprocess the world’s growing mountains of junk and toxic garbage? Should this become our business opportunity, capitalizing on the fact that rich countries need cheaper and more efficient ways of dealing with their waste—everything from electronic to medical? The question is if we can manage the …
8/S/O Asian age June 5, 2010 INDIA IS facing the inevitable toss up between saving its forests and following a fast growing development paradigm. For the last few months, this issue has hogged the centerstage, with some cabinet ministers expressing unhappiness over the minister for forests & environment Jairam Ramesh's …
An equitable distribution of emissions, amongst rich and poor countries and the citizens of every country, and green initiatives by India and China will ensure the planet gets a new lease of life, says Sunita Narain CLIMATE change is definitely the biggest story of the 21st century. But its sheer …
