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 …
Britons of South Asian origin suffer the highest rates of heart disease in the UK, according to researchers at the Oxford University. South Asians have a greater prevalence of coronary risk factors than the rest of the world, and coronary artery disease often manifests at an early age. Alongside heart …
Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday launched the Jan Ahaar Yojana to ensure full nutritious meal twice a day to hundreds of persons at Rs 15 per meal across the city from seven Jan Ahaar Centres. Ms Dikshit inaugurated a Jan Ahaar Centre at the Asaf Ali Road. Delhi social …
The National Advisory Council (NAC), headed by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, will consider ways to boost Indian agriculture as part of its drive to review the draft food security bill on July 1.
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), has submitted an affidavit to the Bombay high court stating that it does not support the setting up of private helipads in Mumbai. The Maharashtra government had plans to give green signal to kick-start the construction of the 12 private helipads.
The Orissa government is still studying the renewal of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with the South Korean steel major Posco five years ago. The MoU, which was signed on June 22, 2005, expired last week. As per the stipulated norms, Posco should sign an agreement with the Orissa …
To prevent recurrence of any Mayapuri-type radiation leak, the Delhi Government will soon procure sophisticated equipment to scan vulnerable areas where such exposure may take place. Delhi
The Delhi high court has directed the Centre to constitute a taskforce to ensure compliance of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) norms for manufacturing and selling packed drinking water in the city. The court passed the direction after the complainant, Bottled Water Processors Association, moved the high court alleging …
Tropical Storm Alex headed toward the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, but while it was not expected to hit the oil spill area, experts warned strong waves and winds could hamper clean-up efforts there. With oil continually gushing into the fragile waters for the past 68 days, President Barack Obama
Communist Party of India-Marxist CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat on Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the alleged corrupt practices indulged in by Dow Chemical to bribe Indian officials for selling in India a pesticide, Dursban, which is produced by them. In a letter written to the union agriculture minister Sharad …
Communist Party of India-Marxist CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat on Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the alleged corrupt practices indulged in by Dow Chemical to bribe Indian officials for selling in India a pesticide, Dursban, which is produced by them. In a letter written to the union agriculture minister Sharad …
Recent agreement by BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd (BRPL) to buy half the power generated by the 16 mw municipal solid waste-based power plant being set up by the Timarpur-Okhla Waste Management Company Private Limited (TOWMCL) in Delhi has triggered off a fresh debate on how to dispose off the city
The Union Cabinet on Thursday accepted all 22 recommendations by the Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy. These include enhanced compensation of Rs 1,265.56 crores, extradition of former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson and filling a curative petition in the Supreme Court. Announcing the decisions taken at the …
With the present Wild Life (Protection ) Act 1972 failing to deter poaching, the New Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill 2010 law will have those found guilty of offences against animals sentenced to a jail term of five to seven years with a minimum fine of Rs 5 lakh as …
Tiger conservation took a major hit when senior forest officials found the president of the local Eco (logical) Samiti carrying four tiger paws to the house of a local tantric in order to conduct a special puja in the Chindwara district of Madhya Pradesh. The tiger paws had been hacked …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI Rising food prices and growing unemployment across South Asia has created a crisis situation where India is unlikely to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for poverty alleviation. The United Nations annual MDG report, aimed to act as a wake-up call for nations, raises a …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Focusing on pro viding skills to the unemployed rural youth, the government is all set to bury the unproductive Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), replacing it with the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM). The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) is likely to approve the revamped NRLM on …
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo RTI awareness workshops were organised in Tata Steel's peripheral areas, like Sukinda, Bamanipal and Joda OVER FIVE thousand people, most of them tribals liv ng in the remote parts of Jajpur and Keonjhar districts of Orissa, are no longer gnorant about their rights and entitlements. Nor are …
.N. RAGHU JOHANNESBURG Muti magic, a black art which has a strong following in the country, requires body parts of birds and ani- mals for which gamblers are target- ting vultures because they believe that smoking the brain of the bird will give them powers of prescience. Bird watchers and …
JYOTI VERMA THE ASIAN AGE Composting gets a new life with carbon credits, more eyeballs, smarter ways of decomposing waste and an eco-friendlier attitude Those who thought composting was sim ply dumping waste into a pit to see it break down, need to think again! Yes, this ancient practice is …
Jun 22nd, 2010 -- LALIT SHASTRI | The NGOs working for the cause of the gas victims have expressed serious reservations about the recommendations of the Group of Ministers on various issues linked with Bhopal gas tragedy that include enhanced compensation to the gas victims and the families of those …
