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 …
Shocked by the quality of drinking water supplied in several parts of Delhi, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Chief Secretary and the Delhi Jal Board chairman giving them a month to explain their stand. Underlining that the right to have clean drinking water is …
The cabinet committee on infrastructure (CCI) approved highway projects worth Rs 2,500 crore today. These highways will come up across Gujarat, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and will be built under the National Highways Development Programme (NHDP). The CCI also approved the four-laning of 123 km Jetpur-Somnath …
Differences between the law and mines ministries have widened on the issue of allowing mineral exports (of iron ore), with the law ministry demanding changes in the draft Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation) Bill 2010 to ensure conservation of minerals. So much so that Veerappa Moily
We recently had a visit from a couple of government schoolteachers. They were in a foul mood. This was their third visit to our house, and on earlier two occasions the house was locked.
The drab and dull climate meetings in Bonn finally saw some sparks of excitement on Thursday when the grouping of small island states sparred with oil producing nations led by Saudi Arabia over the need to have a scientific evaluation done on options for restricting the global rise in temperatures …
The Indian Air Force has strongly protested the decision of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to set up a landfill facility to dump waste at a site in Bawana-Narela, citing bird strikes and environmental threat to its adjacent station. As the site is located only 3.5 km away from …
Priyadarshi Siddhanta Stung by the reality that illegally mined minerals, particularly iron ore, were finding their way to ports and other places through its rakes, the Railway Ministry has chalked out a comprehensive action plan to stop the practice. The state-run monolith has decided to soon implement an entry-exit system …
Debabrata Mohanty A two-member expert committee of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has started its investigation into the biggest ever poaching of elephants inside Orissa's famous Simlipal Tiger Reserve after two wildlife activists of Mayurbhanj district took off the lid on the incident. Following petitions by wildlife activists to …
The verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy has caused considerable outrage. It seems to provide little recompense to the victims, and little assurance to the public at large that the legal system is up to protecting us from the risks that make us all vulnerable. Perhaps there will be learning …
With little progress being made in the climate talks underway in Bonn for the past one and half weeks, India and China Wednesday stressed on the need to go back to basics and re-start the process from the first principles enshrined in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). …
Anubhuti Vishnoi The Right to Education, in effect since April 1, is set to cost the Centre a staggering 2,31,000 crore over the next five years according to fresh estimates. Previous estimates drawn up by National University of Education Planning & Administration (NUEPA)
Manoj C G Even as the UPA government indicated its flexibility on the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill issue, the CPM and the BJP on Wednesday made it clear that they were not willing to tone down their objections to the legislation. While the BJP asked the government to withdraw the …
With growing criticism of the verdict on the Bhopal gas leak disaster, the government today reconstituted a Group of Ministers to go into a range of issues relating to the December 1984 incident. Home Minister P Chidambaram will head the reconstituted panel which was earlier headed by Arjun Singh
Mayors and local government leaders from more than 100 cities of India and seven countries of South Asia gathered in the Capital on Tuesday to attend the launch of a global campaign of
While there has been a general frustration at the lack of progress in the climate talks, it is evident that the ongoing meetings in Bonn are struggling to address more pressing issue at hand
A bouquet of pacts, including one on deep-sea power cables and another on a rehabilitation centre for Tamil widows, between India and Sri Lanka is likely to be announced when President Mahinda Rajapaksa meets Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Hyderabad House on Wednesday. Among the other important announcements likely are …
Nearly five lakh tonnes of iron ore seized in Karnataka as part of an investigation into illegal mining from the iron ore rich district of Bellary has gone missing. The iron ore worth nearly Rs 200 crore was seized at the Bellekeri Port near Karwar in Karnataka. Officials of the …
