Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Lucknow Any talk on climate change ends up focusing on the energy sector and with India poised to grow exponentially in the coming decades, the need of the hour is not to abstain from using energy but to use it efficiently, so as to mitigate the effects of climate change. …
National Highways leading to Badrinath, Kedarnath and Gangotri hit by landslips Rains triggered landslips in Uttarakhand and claimed two lives in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday as most parts of the northern region remained under the influence of monsoon. The national highways leading to Badrinath, Kedarnath and Gangotri were hit by …
New Delhi The government has redefined public purpose in the new Land Acquisition Bill to allow companies developing townships and urban projects to be also included in the definition. However, it has added a rider that such urban projects should be meant for the purpose of production of goods for …
Many major rivers on the rise; landslides halt Char Dham Yatra Incessant rain continued its killing spree in North and Eastern India on Tuesday claiming 29 more lives even as the threat of floods looms large over the national Capital with the Yamuna on the rise. Twelve people died in …
In a bid to make land being acquired for residential purposes more cumbersome, the government is all set to incorporate application of rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) clause on acquisition of land of 50 acres and more in urban areas. Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday told a delegation of …
As Parliament debates this month it will, hopefully, move beyond issues of corruption in high places to important economic legislation. Two such pieces of legislation are the land acquisition bill and the bill for a new regulatory body for higher education. In this month’s column I will take up the …
Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana rank among the top 10 states in a report released by the RICS India and the Institute for Competitiveness. The report titled Sustainable Competitiveness Report 2011 for Indian states was released by Marcus Potter, executive director, developing markets, RICS. The report shows the ranking of …
The rates of maternal and infant mortality have improved only marginally, according to the latest Sample Registration System. THE country's largest demographic sample survey, covering 1.4 million households and a population of 7.01 million, during the period 2007-09, says that there was only a mild improvement in the infant mortality …
The rates of maternal and infant mortality have improved only marginally, according to the latest Sample Registration System. THE country's largest demographic sample survey, covering 1.4 million households and a population of 7.01 million, during the period 2007-09, says that there was only a mild improvement in the infant mortality …
Six districts have reduced infant mortality rate to 28, which is the UN target to be achieved by 2015 A few districts in the eight empowered action group (EAG) States have excelled by achieving the targets set by the United Nations under the millennium development goals (MDGs). The EAG States …
The country’s first-ever district-level health survey has placed smaller states, including Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, on the top for most of the health indicators surveyed and Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh at the bottom. It finds neonatal mortality as the biggest challenge as seven out of every 10 infant …
Women from Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Bihar protested in front of Parliament on Tuesday, demanding guaranteed and universal right to food security. The protest was organised by the All India Democratic Women's Association. Defying prohibitory orders, the women held a meeting and condemned …
Commerce and Industry Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has circulated an important “draft Cabinet note” for inter-Ministerial consultations on the development of the proposed Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project. Conceptualised in 2006, the ambitious $90-billion DMIC project, spanning Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, is being developed in collaboration …
Seeing the agitations by farmers in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh and Haryana bear fruit, the Delhi farmers have also started uniting to demand better compensation packages and seek some share of the developed land which is acquired from them for carrying out various development activities. A large number of farmers from …
Over 56 per cent of Indian farmers are not aware about the maximum retail prices (MRP) of fertilisers they buy, while 45 per cent fork out more than the MRP and 59 per cent face problems in getting their season's full requirement in time. These are the startling findings of …
The state government has proposed not to acquire wet and irrigation lands at any cost for industrial or infrastructure projects. The draft land policy, the brainchild of the Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, also proposed that no land should be sold outright for private projects and allotment should …
Forcible acquisition of land has turned the 117-year-old Land Acquisition Act into a “fraud”, the Supreme Court said on Thursday, calling the legislation a handiwork of “sick” minds with no concern for welfare of the poor. It went on to praise the Gujarat government, saying no cases of farmers or …
Rain claimed four lives in Uttar Pradesh and forced officials to issue an alert in Uttarakhand as the monsoon remained fairly active in North India on Wednesday. Delhiites had a much comfortable day with the maximum temperature settling at 34.7 degrees, nearly 4 notches lower than Tuesday's. The minimum was …
With 5,000 MW planned for commissioning in the 12th Five-Year Plan, Neyveli Lignite Corporation is looking for allocation of coal blocks to fuel its growth. The corporation plans to install two 1,980-MW coal-based plants at Ghatampur, Kanpur Nagar District in Uttar Pradesh, and Sirkazhi in Tamil Nadu, besides a 1,000-MW …
