Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Aldona MLA Dayanand Narvekar Saturday claimed that his communications to Chief Secretary and Union Environment Ministry about Rs 10,000 crore illegal mining scam had not received any response. Narvekar yesterday presented documents before Shah Commission during public hearing at Porvorim, which gave details of the illegalities committed over last several …
Fuelled by the Delhi government’s move to allow a CAG audit of power discoms, protests by the city’s Residents’ Welfare Associations (RWAs) against the hike in power tariff have been growing. On Sunday, the Delhi RWA Forum organised two meetings, in Jama Masjid area and Paschim Vihar. A day earlier, …
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed the plea for shifting of proposed solid waste treatment plant at Jhuriwala in Panchkula. Resident Welfare Association of Sector 26 and Vijay Bansal, President of Shivalik Vikas Manch and INLD leader, requested relocating the proposed site for construction of solid waste management …
Tata Motors Ltd and the West Bengal government were today directed by the Calcutta High Court to file written notes of argument by 20 September as hearing on the challenge of the Singur Act by TML concluded today. Mr Justice IP Mukerji is expected to deliver the judgment in the …
MONTHS before its expected date of becoming operational, the Koodankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district has earned the ire of people living nearby. On August 15, three gram sabhas passed resolutions asking for its closure. About 60,000 people live within 10 km of the 2,000 MW plant, …
The Bombay high court on Tuesday quashed a Ratnagiri district magistrate order prohibiting the association, Indian People’s Tribunal, to hold an indoor private meeting to hear the grievances of people protesting against the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power project. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and justice Roshan Dalvi …
Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, who on Tuesday reached the state’s remotest area of Chhota Bengal in Kangar district — the area still lacks proper road links and other basic infrastructure facilitates — assured that forest rights of the locals will be fully protected after rationalisation of the boundary of …
No notice is required to be given to the lessee, Tata Motors Limited (TML), after The Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act is a “legislative command”, Mr Shaktinath Mukherjee appearing for the principal secretary of state land and land reforms department submitted before Mr Justice IP Mukerji of Calcutta High …
Those traveling on urban roads regularly and also those who live close to roads are at a serious health risk from vehicular air pollution. Experts have warned they estimated that about 55 per cent of Delhi’s population living within 500 metre from such roads is prone to a variety of …
Gruesome details of American-run venereal disease experiments on Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers and mental patients in the years after World War II were revealed this week during hearings before a White House bioethics panel investigating the study’s sordid history. A Times article on April 27, 1947, prompted Dr. John C. Cutler …
Bhubaneswar: Speaker Pradeep Kumar Amat’s efforts to end the stalemate over the controversial Sindol Hydro-Power Project issue has run into rough weather with the opposition Congress and the BJP refusing to be part of the House committee formed on a motion tabled by the Odisha government to conduct public hearing …
New Delhi The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to give details about the effluents from the Sterlite Industries’ 400,000-metric tonne copper smelter plant at Tuticorin. A bench headed by RV Raveendran also asked TNPCB to file an application specifying the polluting materials released …
On a hot morning, there was an unusual bustle around the temple at Velingirayanpettai village in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu. There were around 50 people gathered under a tree outside the temple. A kilometre or two down the road were vanloads of policemen clustered around a canopy. People from …
The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission has come out with a draft regulation for the Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) and Renewable Energy Certificate Framework Implementation 2011. The draft will be finalised after a public hearing with the stakeholders. The draft states the minimum quantum of power that discoms will have to …
The BRAI Bill is a blatant attempt to bulldoze through the public resistance and genuine concerns about Genetically Modified crops, and to deny state governments their Constitutional authority over Agriculture and Health, said the Coalition for a GM-Free India in its reaction to the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India 2011 …
IN A setback to Vedanta Alumina Ltd, the Orissa High Court on July 19 upheld the Centre’s decision to stall expansion of the company’s refinery in Lanjigarh. The court, however, said the company can apply for the environmental clearance for its expansion afresh. The Union environment ministry in October last …
Consumers agree so that discoms don't pass on burden to them The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission on Thursday organised a public hearing to decide whether power purchase-fuel cost adjustment mechanism should be allowed as has been sought by the discoms. In their annual revenue requirements, the discoms had sought a …
The Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board will hold a public hearing in regard to the 750 MW-Luhri hydro power project — coming up on the Satluj river — in Mandi district’s Parlog on August 9. Earlier, the Board did not hold a public hearing scheduled for May 5 due to …
Proposal unacceptable as it is against Forest Conservation Act: Minister at GoM meet The meeting of group of ministers on “go-no go areas”, or environmental issues relating to mining, saw Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan rejecting the dilution of forest clearance process suggested by the BK Chaturvedi panel. The Chaturvedi committee …
It’s been more than seven months. Farmer representatives from 12 villages in Nawalgarh are on a sit-in protest outside the sub-divisional magistrate’s office. Their demand: do not give our fertile land to industry. Three cement giants are eyeing this limestone-rich area in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan. Limestone is the prime …
