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 …
BP moves to a new containment plan called the Lower Marine Riser Package Cap to siphon off the leaking oil to the surface, carried by remotely operated robots on the ocean floor : The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is probably "the biggest environmental disaster" that the United …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI Rural development ministry will create a database of biometric cards and share it with the UIDAI : Realising an urgent May 30: Realising an urgent need of transparency in the implementation of its flagship MGNREGA, the government will soon introduce biometric cards for the workers to …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO : At least 35 sponge iron plants and 46 induction furnace (IF) units in the state are closed, pushing the fate of over fifty thousand work force into uncertainty. And almost all the remaining 70 sponge iron and another 110 induction furnace units are running at less …
New Delhi, May 28: March and April were the hottest months in the past 100 years and May has also been warmer than normal with severe heat conditions prevailing in many parts of North India, the Indian meteorological department (IMD) said on Friday. In its weekly forecast report, the IMD …
AMIT AGNIHOTR NEW DELHI Rural development May 28: Rural development minister C.P. Joshi has ordered a probe into the reported misuse of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) funds by the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government.
RASHME SEHGAL India has made a special pitch to stop deforestation from logging, crop growing and cattle grazing at the Oslo Conference on climate and forests since this is calculated to account for upto 20 per cent of carbon dioxide presently being released into the atmosphere. Environment secretary Vijai Sharma …
RASHME SEHGAL with agency inputs NEW DELHI : The UN Secretary General has appointed the Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres to replace the outgoing head of the UN Framework Convention on Climte change (UNFCC) Yvo de Boer. The appointment was made after consultations with the Conference of Parties through its …
Saint-Etienne (France) French nuclear safety authorities says six people have been contaminated by a leak of radioactive cobalt in a foundry. The Institute for Radioactivity Protection and Nuclear Safety says the six were brought to a hospital unit at a nuclear plant near the foundry in Feurs in France. The …
SARJU KAUL LONDON BENGALURU IS the best city in India offering the highest quality of living. The capital city of Karnataka with rank of 140 is, however, way below European cities of Vienna, Zurich and Geneva the top three cities in the worldwide rankings of cities for the quality of …
Every few decades a new pandemic strain emerges -- a year ago the new H1N1 swine flu strain started a pandemic and it has been added to the seasonal flu vaccine A
Two more tigers are being relocated to Sariska from the Ranthambore tiger reserve in the third week of June. Rajesh Gopal, member secretary of National Tiger Conservation Authority, pointed out that the next round of relocation, which will have a male tiger, should come as a boost to revive the …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI Three forest offi cers have been suspended for allegedly attempting to cover up the killing of a 30month-old tigress which died in the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh on May 19. The tigress was crossing a road in the reserve along with her three cubs …
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is all set to double the area taken up for afforestation in the next ten years up to 20 million hectare at a cost of Rs 44,000 crores. This is one of the eight missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change …
The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has finally been given a slush fund for the nondescript amount of Rs 10 lakhs for gathering inputs on smugglers and poachers who have played havoc with Indian wildlife during the last decade. The sanction of this longawaited fund has brought the WCCB on …
EMMA GRAHAM-HARRISON and LANGI CHIANG BEIJING A senior Chinese climate official said that negotiators aim to seal a binding global pact on warming by the end of 2011, a blow to any lingering hopes the world could reach a deal at talks this year in Mexico A senior Chinese climate …
Union minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh's decision to set up a new authority, "National Environmental Protection Authority (NEPA"), to regulate all environmental norm, has been sharply criticised by the green lobby. Speaking at a national workshop to discuss the setting up of this autonomous body, a majority of …
