Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Faced with a barrage of criticism from the Opposition that it has failed to stop Andhra Pradesh from going ahead with the construction of "unauthorised" irrigation projects in the Krishna and Godavari river basins, the Karnataka government is yet to decide which of the two options it must pursue: approach …
Andhra Pradesh is in a hurry to complete 16 irrigation projects on the Krishna in an attempt to turn a clause in the Tribunal Award in its favour. Andhra Pradesh is gearing up to complete 16 irrigation projects, including five ongoing ones, on the Krishna river within the next three …
In a rare judgement, an industry official has been sentenced to two years imprisonment in a pollution case by the court of chief judicial magistrate, Thane, Maharashtra. The court held B V Ajhar, administrative manager of Badlapur-based M/S Matushree Textile Limited, guilty for the pollution caused in the Ulhas river …
a long-drawn battle between local villagers and forest officials of the Melghat Tiger Reserve (mtr) in Maharashtra's Amaravati district has once again been brought to light by a fire that scorched the mtr's Dhargad range on April 3, 2005. About 480 hectares (ha) of the forest was engulfed in the …
in a significant move away from fossil fuels, Mumbai-based Tata Motors, in collaboration with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (ioc), recently rolled out 43 buses in Pimpri near Pune to run on 10 per cent biodiesel-blended fuel. The vehicles will ferry Tata Motor's staff. This is the first time in India …
function graph() { var popurl="image/20050415/36-graphbig.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=380,height=350,scrollbars=yes") } In February this year, a high level meeting of the Maharashtra government
over 644 farmers of Maharashtra, chiefly in Vidharbha, Marathwada and Khandesh regions, committed suicide between March 2001 and December 2004, according to a report submitted on March 16, 2005 to the Bombay High Court (hc) by Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences (tiss). The hc had appointed tiss a consultant …
in a crackdown aimed at cleaning Maharashtra's two famous hill stations, Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (mpcb) has issued orders against polluting hotels and institutions of the two places. The respective municipal councils have also been hauled for setting up waste management facilities. Both the places together …
the Rs 2,000 crore gutka (chewing tobacco) industry in Maharashtra received a big blow on February 1, 2005. The state Food and Drug Administration (fda) banned the product, which contains Magnesium Carbonate (mgco 3), and revoked the sales, manufacture and distribution licenses of its manufacturers. The significance of the move …
The Employment Guarantee Act is a diluted version of the original proposal. Will it be effective? Amartya Sen calls it cause for jubilation. Giving some of the poorest people in the country a reliable source of income through 100 days of guaranteed employment can be an enormously important instrument for …
about 4,000 villagers, including 2,000 women, attacked an oxalic acid plant of Star Oxochem Private Limited (sopl) at Chipri village in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district on January 1, 2005. They destroyed 18 four wheelers, torched four imported cars and smashed several computers and pieces of furniture: a loss of nearly Rs …
Wildlife research can be categorised as those that are purely academic and others which have implications for management. A good example of the latter is the survey, conducted nearly a decade ago, by wildlife scientists to find an alternative home for the Asiatic lion. The site chosen was Palpur Kuno …
researchers in Maharashtra have found powdered leaves of common trees such as neem, pipal and khair can remove fluoride from drinking water. Ingested daily, even as little as 6 milligramme of fluoride can cause fluorosis, which is endemic in 17 states in the country. Scientists from Yavatmal-based Jawaharlal Darda Institute …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Research Foundation for Science Technology and Natural Resources Policy Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/01/2005 regarding dumping of hazardous waste, India. The matter relates to 133 hazardous waste oil containers lying at Nhava Sheva Port, Mumbai, Maharashtra. …
The study conducted in Jalgaon and Kolhapur districts of Maharashtra showed two differing scenarios insofar as the impact of milk cooperatives on production and marketed surplus is concerned. While milk cooperatives had positive and significant impact on both production and marketed surplus of milk in Kolhapur district, such impact could …
function relience() { var popurl="html/reliance.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=550,height=450,scrollbars=yes") } In a decade-long battle by local activists to have a flue gas desulphurisation (fgd) unit installed at the 500-megawatt coal-driven Dahanu thermal power station (dtps) that remains unresolved
"This is the first time such a job [the FGD unit] is being undertaken for coal fired station in India. Selection of proper technology, competent vendors, has to be based on detailed studies
Clouds of uncertainty hang over the jobs of sub-regional officers (sro) of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (mpcb). The threat is from mpcb's recently launched assessment programme, which is supposed to be a motivating exercise. The sros are responsible for supervising and guiding field officers in matters of surveillance, monitoring …
