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 …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO BHUBANESWAR In 1998, all operations at Kalarangi mines were stopped by the state government on the ground that it was a wildlife habitat The Orissa govern ment has decided to take steps to clear procedural hurdles to operationalise Sukinda chromite mines. The decision follows discussions at a …
The concept of eminent citizens monitoring MGNREGA was introduced after the government realised that independent supervision was necessary to resolve the difficul In order to improve transparency in its flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the rural development ministry is all set to involve eminent citizens in …
ASIT JOLLY CHANDIGAR Having alread offended political veteran Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Prasad Yadav, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari has now drawn the ire most Punjabi politicians in suggesting the nationalisation of water resources through river-linking and the inclusion of irrigation in the concurrent list instead of the …
JINDAL POWER on Friday expressed hope of starting work on its Rs 7,500-crore solar power project in Rajasthan by 2012, to become the largest firm in the green energy segment.
May 14: Amidst reports of protests at the proposed Renuka dam, Delhi chief secretary Rakesh Mehta will be leaving for Himachal Pradesh to hold talks to resolve the issue. The Delhi government is funding the construction of the Renuka dam to ensure that the capital gets enough potable water to …
May 13: The Ballery Iron Ore Private Limited, one of the six mining companies in Obulapuram area, on Thursday raised certain issues related to the overlapping of its mining lease with Reddy brothers
Minister for food and civil supplies (MFCS) Sharad Pawar has raised serious questions about the efficacy of the much awaited Food Security Act which is being hotly debated in government. With names of 1.8 crore families having been removed from the BPL lists prepared by state governments, the Planning Commission …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI Low farm productivity in big states like UP, Bihar, Orissa, MP and West Bengal is proving to be a limiting factor to India's food security in the long run Low farm produc tivity in big states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal …
The city will uses geothermal resources for winter heating and summer cooling, as well as employing electric buses and taxis with zero pollutant for public transport a is Beijing, May 12: China is building its first model environment-friendly low carbon city in Turpan, a small town in the country
In a unique initia tive, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) and the Survey of India (SoI) will map the entire 1500 km coastline to draw up a hazard based mapping process in order to help protect the coastal population from cyclones, tides and tsunami.
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI The Rs 72,000 farm loan waiver announced by the UPA government in 2008 appears to have missed the targeted beneficiaries as suicides among small and marginal farmers are on the rise. According to Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Yudhvir Singh, 2.16 lakh farmers committed suicide during the …
The past few months have seen an unprecedented situation in India's natural gas market. Reliance Industries, which has started producing gas from the KG-basin is operating at less than capacity. Two thousand kilometers away, in Gujarat, there is a similar situation. Petronet LNG, which imports natural gas, has stopped buying …
INDIA BECAME independent soon after the Great Bengal Famine that claimed two million lives. An independent and free India reclaimed her food sovereignty and food security. The Harijan, a newspaper published by Mahatma Gandhi and banned from 1942 to 1946, was full of articles written by Gandhi during 1946-1947 on …
Under pressure from the PMO, the ministr of environment and forest (MoEF) has given the gree signal to partial construc tion of the Maheshwar dam The Central Water Com mission had warned th MoEF that some parts o the project, including th seven gates that are now under construction, need …
The ratings exer cise for cleanliness, curb on open defecation, provision of clean drinking water and waste disposal, carried out by the ministry of urban development, has revealed that none of the 423 Classcities in the country could qualify for the "green" category, which was the best cat egory, and …
ANAND K. SAHAY KABUL An official, referring to current geostrategic realities, asked how an Indian entity would take the ore out of Afghanistan Opportunity worth billions of dollars is expected to soon come the way of international business as Afghanistan gets ready to throw open the doors for exploitation of …
Akshaya Kumar Saho Orissa has more than 1,530 million tonnes of bauxite reserve, according a conservative esti- mate. Major alumi- na and aluminium producers, encour- aged by the 2010 upward swing in the world markets, have decided to increase their vol- ume of production. THE MAMMOTH bauxite reserve of Orissa …
PRASHANT PANDEY NEW DELHI The capital has scored poorly on the sanitation and waste management in the ratings of the union urban development. Though two of Its urban local bodies figured among the top five, the third and the biggest urban local body, the MCD, figured very poorly on the …
