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 …
RIGHT to property is a Constitutional right. The Supreme Court said this on April 18 dismissing acquisition of land by the Uttar Pradesh government near Greater Noida. The judgement has stirred a long-standing debate over property—whether the State has the supreme rights or the individual owner. The judgement was in …
Chandauli: The discontent among farmers over land acquisition has travelled from western UP to the eastern side of the state. If farmers in Bhatta Parsaul in Gautam Buddh Nagar fought a pitched battle with UP police early this month, their counterparts in a Chandauli village have threatened self-immolation if their …
Chennai: More children in India are dying every year soon after being vaccinated, and the government has no clue why. Union health ministry statistics obtained under the Right to Information Act show that 128 children died in 2010 due to adverse effects after immunization (AEFI). That count has risen in …
Following an agitation by the farmers of Katesar village in Chandauli district against land acquisition by the Varanasi Development Authority to develop a cultural city along the Ganga, the government has decided to postpone the acquisition for the time being. The decision was taken on Sunday evening after a group …
The Planning Commission’s definition of poverty is inexplicableIn the urban sprawl that is Delhi, as in any other metro in the country, earning no more than Rs 25 per day with a family to support would prove nightmarish. Food and clothes have to be bought, there may be school-going children, …
Ghaziabad: Environmentalists are up in arms over a bridge being built over Hindon that has forced the river to change its course. They say blocking the river
New Delhi: At least 56 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar when severe dust storm, accompanied by rain and thundershowers, lashed some parts of the states on Wednesday evening, according to AIR. In Uttar Pradesh, at least 30 people were killed in cyclonic storm that hit several districts …
Heat wave sweeps North India; temperatures soar at several places Thunderstorms killed 16 people in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday even as heat and humidity continued to wear down people in North India where temperatures soared at several places while falling marginally in Delhi. In the national Capital, where the mercury …
Land is as emotive an issue as caste in India. For millions, their sense of livelihood and identity is inextricably linked to the ground on which they have lived for generations. So when they are forced to give it up for development projects without reasonable compensation or rehabilitation, there is …
Some 15 hours after he sneaked into Bhatta Parsaul, riding pillion on a motorcycle to join farmers agitating for higher compensation from the Mayawati government for their acquired land, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was arrested late tonight by the Uttar Pradesh police.
COIMBATORE: The Tamilaga Vivasayigal Sangam has convened a meeting of farmers, to be held on May 17, to decide on the future course of action regarding the move to acquire agricultural lands for highway projects. Farmers arrest The president of the association, M.R. Sivasamy, criticised the Mayawati Government in Uttar …
In response to requests received from various state governments, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Planning Commission, the MoE&F has decided to permit state governments to clear projects of upto 50 hectares of forest land for critical public utility infrastructure projects in 60 left-wing extremist affected districts without reference …
Massive grain procurement to meet the requirements under the proposed national food security law could drive out the private sector and have larger implications on the state of the domestic procurement market, a study on food and nutritional security has warned. Apart from impacting exports and cereal price in the …
JAIPUR: A farmers' agitation against forceful land acquisition by the state government appears to be simmering in Rajasthan on the lines similar to the one being witnessed at Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh. The flashpoint in Rajasthan seems to be the villages around Kolayat in Bikaner district where the state …
Worried that land acquisition for mining could head the way of ongoing farmers' unrest, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal today directed Coal India Limited (CIL) and its subsidiaries to review Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R;) policy, while acquiring land for coal mining. Coal firms generally acquire large chunks of land for projects. …
For the past several months, 179.033 hectares and 142.679 hectares of land in Bhatta and Parsaul, respectively have become a bone of contention between the government and farmers. The land which has been acquired by the Gautam Budh Nagar district administration was transferred to the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority …
When it comes to acquiring land from farmers, it is a race to the bottom as far as political parties and industries are concerned. The farmer is never the winner when his land is acquired, whether in a state ruled by the Congress or the BJP, both of which have …
Three days after violent clashes broke out between police personnel and farmers in Bhatta and Parsol villages in Greater Noida near Delhi, the residents of the villages were under virtual house arrest. The two adjoining villages in Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh was cordoned off by police personnel …
LUCKNOW: The ambitious groundwater recharge project to be undertaken in the state capital is all set to undergo a scrutiny of Hyderabad-based National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), countrys top scientific institution engaged in assessment of groundwater and its associated parameters in the country. To be undertaken by the state and …
