Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
It was no accident-those chic alligators bags with bamboo handles, or tony wedges with bamboo stacks that appeared on the runways of Paris and Milan recently. From haute designers to homestyle brands-just everybody around the world has discovered bamboo as the eco-friendly alternative to wood and leather. And not surprisingly, …
The adverse environmental impact of tourism and hydroelectric projects in Kulu-Manali in the north-western Himalayas has reached an alarming situation. More than 10,000 green trees have been cut during the past two years and about 30,000 are awaiting the axe of the so-called, development in this district. The Rs 2,000-crore …
Bamboo, the grass that can be used for anything and everything, is beset with a problem. It has been estimated that gregarious flowering will heavily affect the bamboo forests in south Assam, Mizoram and parts of Manipur by 2004-2007. Some 26 million tons of bamboo will die in this massive …
The Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC), while hiking the water tariff to Rs. 150 per month had reduced it to Rs. 30 per month for the poor. But so far only 805 poor have received the benefit of concessional rates. According to BMC records there are more than 31,500 people in …
North India's demand for Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) may be answered soon. With the Petronet-LNG terminal in Dahej, Gujarat, scheduled to become operational soon, the Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) has planned to get about four million standard cubic metre of gas per day from the Dahej terminal. The …
Gujjars, a pastoralist community, prefer wilderness for their habitats. In Rajasthan, one tract of Gujjars habitats is mainly scattered around Sariska, a world fame Tiger Reserve, nowadays very much in news because of the tigers vanishing from it. The Sariska is spread over 866 square km areas. The Gujjars are …
This is the mother of all excuses produced by the state government for not taking action against about 80 officials, including influential state politicians, all indicted by the CBI for allegedly buying land with trees at a pittance from tribals. And then making a killing by selling the trees at …
A scientist apart, there's a gardener in APJ Abdul Kalam. The Herbal Garden, spread across 10 acres at Rashtrapati Bhawan, is proof. "Although India is the land of Ayurveda, we aren't the largest exporter of herbal products; China leads this race. The President's focus is on increasing the yield of …
Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala's brother Pratap Singh has moved the SC seeking contempt action against the Centre and the Punjab government for disrespecting the apex court's orders to complete the construction of Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal in Punjab. The apex court recently rejected the Punjab government's petition seeking review …
The Congress-led UPA government told the Supreme Court that it would keep the previous NDA government's ambitious of Rs 5,00,000-crore river inter-linking project flowing. Solicitor-general G E Vahanvati said that the Centre had in principle decided not to go back on the project. However, the matter would be placed before …
Water and Power Consultancy Services (Wapcos), a premier international consultancy organisation under the ministry of water resources, has bagged four projects in Ethiopia. The contracts are for design of Kesem Dam and Allaideghe plain irrigation project, Tendaho Dam, study of Koga irrigation and watershed management project and extension of services …
In a bid to further clean up the air in Delhi, the state government has decided to stop fresh registrations of all three-wheeler goods carriers, including those running on CNG, from September this year. In addition, operators have been directed to convert all existing petrol and diesel three-wheeler goods autorickshaws …
A group of Rio Grande Valley irrigators and farmers is seeking $500 million from Mexico for crop loss and other damages the group says were caused by that country's failure to comply with a water-sharing treaty.Seventeen irrigation districts, a water supply company, and 29 individual farmers notified Mexican officials recently …
In the mountains of Southern California, it's the new sound of summer: the whine of a chain saw followed by the whoosh and thud of a falling tree. Logging crews are moving through neighborhoods and across densely forested hillsides, racing to cut as many dead and dying trees as they …
The TN State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) employees's colony at Manikandam, 12 Km from Tiruchy on the Madurai road, is set to become the district's first housing society to run a mineral water plant for its 500-odd residents. With 311 houses, the colony is a Rs 8.50 crore project that sets …
Miscreants have recently felled half-a-dozen full-grown sandalwood trees from a garden near Sirpur pond at Chandan Nagar right under the nose of Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) and the forest department officials.
Taking a serious note of the chopping down of about 300 trees, including some heritage trees in the Capital's protected Ridge area, the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, is understood to have written to the area commander protesting against the Army action. The State Forest and Environment Department has issued …
The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) will be planting 50,000 saplings as part of a compensatory forestation programme for the trees it had cut along the National Highway No 8 while building Expressway last year. According to NHAI records, as many as 4,650 trees were felld.
The pollution control appellate authority, a quasi-judicial body that can review orders passed by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board, has appointed a high-power "expert committee' to tackle a dispute that could define the future of land-use of the East Calcutta Wetlands. The case in question, doing the rounds of …
