Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Cyclone Laila is set to hit the Andhra Pradesh coast between Kakinada and Nellore early on Thursday morning. Fearing the possibility of massive destruction, the entire state machinery is on alert to face the cyclone, aptly named Laila, the Arabic feminine for night. Nine Andhra districts raced for impact as …
Paving way for what is being seen as a ong-term solution to the pollution in the Yamuna iver due to untreated sewage disposal, the Union Cabinet Committee on nfrastructure on Wednesday cleared the pro ect for laying interceptor sewer along the three main drains of the city Najafgarh, Supplementary (running …
The ministry of forests and environment (MoEF) finds itself in the throes of a fresh controversy. The only e-waste company Attero Recycling, to which MoEF has allotted a licence, has been caught reselling the waste rather than re-cycling it. This startling disclosure was made by undercover researchers from the Centre …
In a the government on Wednesday raised natural gas prices by more than double to $4.20 per mmBtu, a move that will result in a rise in power and fertiliser production cost and rise in CNG rates. The Cabinet hiked the price of gas sold to power, fertilizer and city …
In what could revolutionise commercial aviation, scientists claim to have designed a green plane which is estimated to use 70 per cent less fuel than the current aircraft and reduce noise and nitrogen oxide emission. A team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has come up with the design which it …
In a major break through on Tuesday the wildlife rangers arrested seven poachers, including two former forest guards and recovered a rhino horn near Kaziranga National Park a Unesco recognised world heritage centre of Assam. The poachers were arrested on Tuesday when they were in the process of selling a …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI : The growing agrar ian crisis is forcing women farmers into suicide. The number of women committing suicide in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra is going up. From the 400 farm suicides in western Vidarbha in Maharashtra, according to Kishore Tiwary, who runs the NGO Jan …
global land and ocean surface temperatures for the period between January and April were the warmest on record, and April was the warmest individual month ever, America
In what appears to be the first case of death due to heat in the city, a 45-year-old woman was found dead near a Delhi Metro station in central Delhi on Tuesday. Though the mercury continued to remain high on Tuesday, the heatwave condition is likely to abate over the …
PRIYAK MITRA PANAJI On Saturday, May 15, a man returning from a wedding through the jungles near the village of Kerim in South Goa got the shock of his life when a tigress and her cub calmly stepped on to the road around 50 metres in front of his motorbike …
SYED ASIM ALI NEW DELHI The construction of the Renuka Dam, which is expected to be a major source of drinking water in the city, is likely to take at least five more years. And even then, the city will receive 15 percent less water from its allocated quota as …
The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) dismissed the claims of an international agency which claimed that the Mayapuri scrap market has high levels of radiation. In a statement, the AERB admitted there was some contamination in local spots but it could not pose any health detriment. Also the scrap dealers …
Coal is turning out to be the oil of the new decade. Like the rush for oil a decade ago, companies are now scouting for coal resources globally. The past few months have seen a number of Indian firms acquire coal mines outside India to ensure cheap energy supplies for …
The heatwave sweeping across the northern plains on Monday tightened its grip as the mercury rose to a searing 46.6 degree Celsius in Churu in Rajasthan and 45.4 degrees in the national capital. Elsewhere in the desert state, Kota experienced a high of 46 degrees while the Pink City saw …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI Climate experts at the first South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SACOF) meet comprising South Asian countries who met in Pune last week believe the monsoon this year could be less than normal. Countries attending the meet included Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, all of whom …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI Non-Congress nruled states insist that they are being discriminated against on the key issue of food subsidy. Non-Congress states, including UP, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Orissa and Punjab, have been demanding the numbers of below poverty line (BPL) persons getting subsidised ration under the targeted …
As UN members meet in Bonn this month to discuss climate strategy, India has said it will not accept any pact that "erodes" the differentiation between rich and developing nations set forth in Bali Action Plan centred on historic responsibilities on greenhouse gas emissions. The move is aimed at thwarting …
SANGEETHA CHENGAPPA BENGALURU As the spectre of global warming threatens to shake up the ecological balance, the race to reverse it is picking up pace around the world. Closer home,
