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 Assam government has roped in a group of German experts for finding a long-term solution to the decades-old problem of floods and erosion caused by the Brahmaputra and its tributaries, and a preliminary report has been prepared and submitted to the state government by the group. The state is …
The Group of Ministers (GOM), appointed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the Bhopal gas tragedy, has looked into the health-related problems that people suffered due to the sudden leakage of tonnes of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) from the storage tank at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal on the night …
The Centre seems to have forgotten the findings of a high-level technical committee it had formed immediately after the Bhopal gas tragedy, which had slammed the Union Carbide Corporation saying it was
Deliberating on remediation measures, the Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday considered a number of clean-up options, including building a memorial and burying part of the toxic waste at the disaster site in Bhopal where the Union Carbide factory is located. Chidambaram told reporters …
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has commissioned two state-of-the-art plants: the 1 MGD sewage treatment plant (STP) and 1 MGD water treatment plant (WTP) at the Commonwealth Games Village. The plants will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday. The construction of the 1 MGD WTP was awarded …
Members of the reconstituted Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas leak disaster today favoured enhanced compensation as one of the key ingredients of a healing touch package but agreed to take it up along with all other issues in back-to-back meetings over the weekend before finalising its report on …
In a bid to inspire confidence among the people to be affected by the 12 million tonne steel project of Posco in Jagatsinghpur district, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday said a
In the peak of June as tourists make a beeline for the interior villages of Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh, locals have no time to chat with them or pose for pictures.
The fate of the birthplace of famous Dashehari variety of mango, the Dashehari village, is hanging in a balance. Known for the oldest mango tree of the variety
In an encouraging sign in the fight against polio, the endemic states of UP and Bihar have not reported any poliovirus type-1 cases concurrently for more than six months. However, India has been again blamed for exporting the virus to
The Indo-Pak row over the 330 MW Kishanganga hydroelectric project is getting more serious than New Delhi had earlier anticipated. Buoyed by the success in the Baglihar project, where the Indian position was largely upheld, New Delhi did not quite think matters would go this far when Islamabad first threatened …
