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 …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today projected the effective management of the fallout of the global financial crisis and the restoration of the growth momentum as the major achievement of his government in the year gone by. The 68-page Report to the People, 2009-2010, unveiled by the PM in the presence …
Obese diabetics will soon have a better option to reduce their weight and consequently their blood sugar levels, with a new drug, Victoza (liraglutide), all set to be launched in India this month. Already launched in Europe and the US, the drug will hit the stores in India
Nearly two dozen people are missing while thousands of sheep, goat and other livestock have perished in unprecedented snowfall which caught lakhs of Gujjars and Bakerwals unawares on the north western Himalayas, which divide Jammu region from Kashmir valley. Quoting reports received from some people who returned midway following the …
Its only link to the outside world, the Anini-Roing road, having been hit by landslides at several places, Dibang Valley district in eastern Arunachal Pradesh has remained cut off from the rest of the world for more than six weeks now. The district shares 200 km of international border with …
Even as India and Pakistan are at loggerheads over the Kishanganga hydro power project in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indus Commissioners of both countries on Monday looked set to resolve the differences over two other hydro-power projects in J-K. The Indus Commissioners are learnt to have discussed 240MW Uri-II project …
A magnitude 6.4 quake struck east of Andaman Islands and triggered a local tsunami warning, the US Geological Survey and Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reported on Tuesday. The USGS said the quake struck at 1:21 a.m. on Tuesday (1951 GMT on Monday) 75 miles (120 km) east of Port Blair …
Granting cellular operators relief till September 15 from paying the increased licence fee for mobile towers, the Delhi High Court on Monday called for the constitution of an expert committee to study the impact of these towers and antennae on human health. As an interim directive, the court has asked …
The Delhi High Court on Monday ruled that no packaged drinking water can be sold in the Capital without the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification mark. In an order that is going to change the entire scenario of units selling packaged water, Justice S Muralidhar said the water quality …
THE Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has revealed that it has no information on the number of mineral water bottles being disposed of in the city every day. In an RTI reply, the DPCC also said it has no clue about Bisphenol A, a potentially hazardous chemical used to coat …
The latest Global Youth Tobacco Survey (2009) by the World Health Organisation (WHO), in consultation with the Government of India, suggests that more than 50 per cent of the people who bought cigarettes from stores were not refused despite the country
Utkarsh Anand As groundwater depletes in the Capital at an alarming rate, Delhi is all set to have its own regulatory body to combat the twin problem of paucity of water and illegal extraction of groundwater. The new policy will be notified next week. A Delhi government affidavit, submitted in …
priyadarshi siddhanta To ensure the widest possible coverage under the proposed Food Security Act, the government has formally begun the process of identifying the number of people living below the poverty line (BPL) in the urban areas also. The Planning Commission has set up a high-level committee to devise a …
Jyoti Parikh The Ministry of Environment and Forests is under siege from both sides. On one hand the other ministries and project developers are pressuring them to
D.C. WADHWA The proposed Land Titling Bill, 2010 will, for the first time, make the government guarantee conclusive title over land, without having to go through the courts (
Hamari Jamatia Commonly associated with reeking smell, leaking water pipes and a lack of maintenance, public toilets are usually given a wide berth. All that is expected to change, with the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) putting finishing touches on Monday to its first
Amitabh Sinha A global, comprehensive and legally-binding agreement on climate change that was expected to have been finalised in Copenhagen in December last year is unlikely to be delivered in the next climate change conference as well. The outgoing head of the UN climate body, Framework Convention on Climate Change …
