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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding desilting of the Defence Colony drain in Delhi before the monsoon, 16/04/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …

Manipur battles attacks from mysterious predators

Manipur has roped in scientists and experts from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) to identify mysterious predators that had been attacking humans and killing livestock for over a month. Reports of killing domesticated animals and fowls were first reported from a village in Churachandpur district about 75 km from …

'Centre to help protect endangered deer in Manipur'

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar has said the Centre will extend all help to protect the brow antlered deer whose numbers in the entire world is just 204, according to a 2013 census. Wildlife enthusiasts feel there is an encouraging ray of hope for the survival of the rare deer on …

Manipur experiencing warmest days in 5 years

Manipur has been experiencing the warmest days in the last five years, according to Meteorological (MET) office here. MET office at Tulihal airport complex near Imphal claimed to have recorded the highest temperature of 35.6 degree Celsius and lowest at 16.9 degree Celsius on Sunday followed by similar temperature of …

Poaching of wild animals on the rise

IMPHAL: Wildlife books, written a few decades ago say that many species of animals and birds were available in plenty in Manipur. Till recently, people caught and killed leopards, tigers, bears and other animals in villages. When tribals set bush fire in the mountains near Imphal, terrified animals rushed towards …

Oil exploration works opposed in Manipur

Imphal: United Committee on Protection of Natural Resources, Tipaimukh has demanded that the Manipur Government and Jubilant Oil and Gas Private Limited withdraw all efforts of exploration in the area. All the MoUs signed on the issue should be declared as null, invalid and void and the government should immediately …

Indo-Bangla meet on Tipaimukh - Scribes visit site for on-spot survey

Silchar, June 6: A sub-committee of the Indo-Bangladesh Joint River Commission will meet in New Delhi later this month to review the controversial Tipaimukh dam project, which is expected to generate 1,500MW of hydel power and tame floods in south Assam. According to a senior official of the Central Water …

Anti-dam drive gains pace

Imphal, Feb. 19: The campaign against Tipaimukh hydroelectric project is gaining momentum in Manipur with various local organisations joining the anti-dam cry and demanding scrapping of the project. Today, students and villagers from 10 villages of Imphal West took out a bicycle rally in the district. The campaign was kicked …

Efforts to preserve Loktak ecology

IMPHAL: As a part of preserving the ecological balance in the Loktak, the biggest natural lake in Eastern Indian, the officials of the Loktak Development Authority (LDA) have started forcing the fishermen to burn their thatched shacks constructed on the floating bio-mass. According to the Manipur Loktak Lake (Protection) Act, …

India gives Nipko go-ahead to build Tipaimukh

Tipaimukh Dam's construction is about to begin, said a top official of Nipko, affiliated company of the Indian Power Ministry which will implement the hydroelectric project in River Barak, an international river. He said Nipko Company obtained environmental clearance approval and received go-ahead from the central government to build the …

MANIREDA distributes solar lighting systems

Imphal, Nov 29: Villagers in the interior Thanlon subdivision of Churachandpur district got a relief when Manipur Renewable Energy Resource Development Agency (MANIREDA) provided solar home lighting systems to them. Villagers treated the distribution of solar lamps by MANIREDA under the Remote Village Electrification Programme of the Union Ministry of …

Manipur dam project takes 29 years to complete

 IMPHAL, Aug 10: Manipur has created yet another record apart from having remained cut off for 68 days. This one, however, is a positive one

Confluence Claims Unity

Anti-dam activists in Bangladesh and India have come together to protest against the Tipaimukh dam in Manipur. IN MANIPUR

Downstream of India

Bangladesh protests dam in Manipur sunamgonj in Bangladesh, a few kilometres from the border with India, looks stirred up. On June 21, the town citizenry gathered at the public library to listen to five speakers from India

Mysterious disease claims lives of 30 Manipuri children

Manipur Health Minister Pheiroijam Parijat today expressed concern over the deaths of 30 children due to a mysterious disease, and that he would send a medical team to examine the cause of the disease. The deaths occurred in Manipur's Churachandpur District. Health officials informed that most of the children who …

Public hearings on Tipaimukh project a farce

Act 1; Scene 1: Churachandpur, Manipur: "Don't divide our people; don't take away our land; save our biodiversity; dam destroys our land; we are strongly opposed to the Tipaimukh dam'. Act 1; Scene 2: Tamenglong, Manipur: "Don't make us refugees; no land, no identity; our land is our life; Where …

Tipaimukh Dam in Manipur driving a wedge?

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