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 …
Neha Sinha The Mayapuri radiation leak seems to have galvanised both the Centre and the Delhi governments into policy action on waste management. The governments of Delhi and Haryana will soon hold a meeting next month to discuss how the new hazardous waste treatment storage and disposal plant (TSDT) being …
Utkarsh Anand The closure of polluting units in Nangloi village in the wake of a Delhi High Court order in March has brought to light that a large number of industries, totally prohibited within the Capital, were also operational in the area for years. The second status report, set to …
Debabrata mohanty Despite people from six villages opposing the land survey work by government officials for the 12 million tonne Posco steel plant at Jagatsinghpur district, on Tuesday the local administration started the survey work in a village in the area. After a clash between the agitating villagers and the …
Anupam Chakravartty The Gujarat government is using the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) funds to pay its own workers employed for many years, rather than generate fresh employment. Last month, the state government even passed an official resolution to this effect at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister …
priyadarshi siddhanta The mines ministry is all set to be re-christened as the Ministry of Mineral Development. After having deliberated at length, the ministry has decided to re-name itself and will soon seek the approval of cabinet secretary K M Chandrasekhar. Arguing that the word
Hem Lata Verma Nearly a century after it brought in an unprecedented boom in apple cultivation in Himachal Pradesh, Kotgarh in Shimla district is set to usher in yet another era of sweeping horticulture reforms. A first-of-its-kind
Swaraj Thapa After its earlier run-ins with the Surface Transport and Science and Technology ministries, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), headed by Jairam Ramesh, has come under fresh criticism from the Ministry of Water Resources, headed by Pawan Kumar Bansal. Last week, the ministry wrote to the Prime …
Environmentalists in Orissa have alleged that the state government is drawing up the climate change policy under the instruction of the World Bank, while totally neglecting the stakeholders.
The cyclonic storm Laila reached Andhra Pradesh coastline on Thursday and showed definite signs of weakening but weather scientists said its behaviour over the next two days would be extremely crucial, especially from the point of view of its impact on the monsoon. The cyclone is most likely to move …
The Union Cabinet Committee on Wednesday approved the ambitious Rs 1,357-crore Yamuna cleaning Interceptor Sewer project of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). In what is termed as the largest fund approval for Delhi under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the project was cleared after extensive examination by …
Jolted by a steady increase in particulate matter in the air, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee has written to all civic agencies involved in construction activities to keep the dust levels down. Dust raked up by construction for the Commonwealth Games has taken the level of suspended matter to more …
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had his way on Wednesday with the Cabinet approving a bold move to align administered price of natural gas charged from power and fertiliser producers which was opposed by their ministries
The Orang National Park in northern Assam, believed to have about two dozen tigers, is under threat from encroachers. The encroachers have been particularly targeting the south-eastern portion of the park with the authorities resorting to lathicharge and lobbing of teargas shells to drive them away.
