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 …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the Andhra Pradesh high court order permitting Bellary Iron Ores Ltd, a company owned by industrialist S.K. Modi, to export iron ore worth Rs 50 crores from disputed Obulapuram area. Admitting a special leave petition (SLP) of Andhra Pradesh government alleging that the 1.03 …
: The Delhi Metro will throw open the Qutub Minar-Gurgaon line on June 21. The long-awaited inaugural of the stretch will clear way for the Qutub Minar-Central Secretariat stretch of the Gurgaon metro line. The line will not be for mally inaugurated as the trial runs were launched with much …
Did the Indian government guarantee Dow Chemicals, the parent company of Union Carbide, that it will not be held liable for the Bhopal gas tragedy? An RTI response has raised fresh questions over the government
AMIT AGNIHOTR The National Advisory Council, headed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, will review the draft Food Security Bill at its first full-scale meeting on July 1.
Ethnic Uzbeks try to extinguish a fire in a burning residence torched by mob in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, on Sunday. PHOTO: AP US President Barack Obama will press BP executives this week to set up an escrow account to pay damage claims by individuals and businesses hurt by the Gulf of …
There is renewed hope for the gas victims as people across the country have become one with their cause and are expressing outrage over denial of justice and the manoeuvres of those in authority in Bhopal who had allowed the then Union Carbide Corporation chief Warren Anderson to escape to …
Tension prevailed at the Posco project site on Thursday as a team of armed police officials entered Gobindpur village under the Dhinkia gram panchayat to arrest Abhaya Sahoo, the president of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS). As the news of police entry reached the nearby villages, the residents of adjoining …
London, June 10: British automobile engineers have designed hydrogen fuelcell powered cars which they claim will be tested on UK roads by the public for the first time. The two-seater car, which weighs only 350 kg and can recapture its own motion energy when braking, providing 80 per cent of …
The Gurgaon Qutab Minar stretch of the Delhi Metro will be thrown open to the public soon. The Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety has completed inspection for the mandatory clearance. According to a Delhi Metro official, the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) R.K. Kardam inspected the 14.47 km line …
BHOPAL NGOs working for the cause of the gas victims here have reacted sharply to the former Chief Justice of India A.H. Ahmadi's widely reported statement that it was a "correct decision" of the Supreme Court bench headed by him in 1996 which converted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) …
LALIT SHASTR BHOPAL Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed shock and concern at the udgment pronounced by the Bhopal chief judicial magis rate in the criminal case inked with the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster. He ha raised the question whethe he sentence of two years i …
Planned large-scale mechanised mining of minerals contributes substantially to the state and national exchequers. This is well-evident in the case of Orissa. In recent years, excepting a brief period during the 2008-09 economic downturn, mining revenue has made substantial contribution to the economic development of Orissa, helping the state metamorphose …
: The Archaeological Survey of India has stopped work on a new bridge across the Yamuna here as it is very close to a Mughal-era monument. Superintending archaeologist A.R. Siddiqui said:
GAGAN KUMAR Tanpreet Singh Sehgal, a resident of Kanpur who is doing an engineering degree from BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, is the founder and CEO of two web portals, www.firstcarbon.org and www.greencitizens.net. Sehgal who has been trained by Al Gore, is associated with the Brightest Young Climate Leaders (BYCL) and Tata …
'We will ask the PM and Mr Moily to set up a commission to look into the case and set up a special cell for speedy trial' Anguished over the trial court
