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 …
This refers to the editorial “When business rules our kitchens” (June 16-30, 2011). Do we want to sensationalise the issue of poor food safety regulations and use big companies as a whipping boy or work on the solutions? How are we going to deal with the fundamental issue of feeding …
DIFFERENT STATE governments are falling over each other in their haste to get into large-scale public private partnerships (PPPs, with some minor variations emerging in states like Odisha, as public pressure builds up) to promote hybrid maize in the name of food security. Hundreds of crores of public money go …
A brainstorming meeting on forthcoming Bills on land, food, seeds and pesticides was stunned into silence when two participating farmers hit out at the government for the manner in which they were being displaced from their fertile land to satisfy the needs of corporates. “The archaic Land Acquisition Bill is …
New Delhi Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has agreed to provide R17,500 crore for the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), in what could pave way for the Cabinet approval for the ambitious project that envisages creation of seven new cities along the corridor with a total investment of $90 billion. The …
New Delhi After series of discussion with the National Advisory Council (NAC) and the Planning Commission, the government on Friday unveiled the National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011, for wider public consultations. While ruling out acquisition of multi-cropped and irrigated land, the Bill, however, has allowed the …
Applying balm on a festering sore, the new draft Land Acquisition Bill proposes that the Government will not acquire land for private companies for private purposes or multi-cropped irrigated land. Companies will have to buy it themselves. The draft Bill says that the public purpose once stated cannot be changed. …
Lucknow Stung by farmers’ agitations and repeated adverse court rulings on land acquisition, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to restructure its development projects by replacing land with viability gap funding (VGF) as the new bidding parameter. That would mean the revenue model for these projects shifts from being land-based …
With the Allahabad High Court setting an August 12 deadline, Greater Noida Authority (GNIDA) and builders on Wednesday initiated frantic negotiations with farmers who have challenged acquisition of their land, offering them annuity, cash incentive and other sops. The Authority held talks with affected farmers and their leaders and briefed …
Monsoon active in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand At least seven persons died in rain-related incidents in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand as the monsoon remained active on Wednesday bringing moderate showers at many places in North India. Lightening, landslips Five persons, including two women, were killed and four injured after lightning struck …
New Delhi To take on the discontentment against land acquisition process, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has cleared a draft bill for public comments. The minister's land acquisition and rehabilitation bill will be up on the ministry website just a fortnight into his term at Krish Bhawan. The Bill proposes …
LIVING a legally non-existent life for more than six decades, the Taungya forest-dwellers in Gorakhpur and Maharajganj districts of Uttar Pradesh finally got their share of rights on forestland. On July 25, state forest minister Fateh Bahadur Singh distributed land titles to 651 Taungya families in six villages of the …
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday deferred its ruling on the land acquisition case of Bisrakh village in Greater Noida and similar cases. A three-judge bench of the court will now hear the petitioners on August 17, even as the farmers were given an option to reach an out-of-court settlement …
While the Centre on Monday said the area under Bt cotton is estimated to have expanded to 90 per cent of the total area sown under cotton in 2010-11, several non-government organisations alleged that the government had deliberately promoted the genetically-modified seed as part of a strategy. According to the …
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday fixed August 17 as the next date of hearing on petitions challenging acquisition of land in Noida and Greater Noida and referred the matter to a larger Bench. At the same time, the farmers and the State Government (development authorities) have been given the …
Allahabad:A division bench of Allahabad High Court on Tuesday referred all petitions challenging land acquisition by the Uttar Pradesh government in Noida and Greater Noida to the Chief Justice of the High Court with the request that a larger bench be constituted to decide the matter. It also gave farmers …
A study on the Public Distribution System by a team led by National Advisory Council member and economist Jean Dreze found only 18 per cent of respondents in a survey, of 1,227 below-poverty line households over 106 villages in nine states, wanted cash in place of food under the system. …
Amid the furore over misappropriation of funds meant for development, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has proposed bringing all rural development programmes worth about Rs 90,000 crore under the ambit of the government auditor. Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh welcomed the proposition after he met CAG today to discuss …
Chandigarh Haryana has witnessed a sharp decline of 17.74% in maternal mortality ratio (MMR) as a result of various healthcare facilities being provided free of cost to the pregnant women by the state government to promote institutional deliveries. As per data released by the Registrar General of India, the MMR …
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday set aside yet another land acquisition by the Greater Noida Industrial Authority. Using the urgency clause, the Authority had acquired 589 hectares of land in Patwari village, in Noida Extension, in the name of industrial development but had given it away to private builders …
In Uttar Pradesh, over Rs 3,700 crore of central health funds may have been systematically looted over the past six years. Many people, including Rahul Gandhi, had spoken of the NRHM bungle, but the size of the scam indicates that not only were officials at the level of CMO and …
