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 …
Spelling out zero tolerance for disruption and delay in the implementation of the mid-day meal scheme, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has written to all state governments asking them to set up a grievance redressal mechanism to keep a tab on the programme. Catering to nearly 11 crore school …
Five years after the passage of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, now known as the MNREGA after Mahatma Gandhi, activists central to lobbying for it are seeing serious flaws in its implementation. Absence of a mechanism to deal with the flaws, they say, are defeating the purpose of the …
China has overtaken the United States as the world's largest energy consumer, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. China immediately questioned the report, claiming its calculations were
Sternly reminding corporate behemoth Reliance Industries of the importance of social responsibility and environmental concern, a division bench of the Madras High Court asked the company to first assess the impact of its natural gas project on the local population and environment. Disposing of a public interest writ petition moved …
Following an informal dialogue on the India-European Union free trade agreement (FTA) last week, both sides are confident that the pact will be finalised by the end of the year. Along with meeting the EU
The mines ministry has turned down a suggestion by environment minister Jairam Ramesh that only those companies be allowed to bid for mining leases in a state which would agree to set up the end-use industry there. The mines ministry has said forcing an entrepreneur to do so
The BJP government on Tuesday tabled in the Assembly a Bill that seeks to punish cow slaughter with a jail term of up to seven years, and makes transit permit compulsory if cows are transported through the state. While moving the Madhya Pradesh Prohibition of Cow Slaughter (Amendment) Bill, 2010, …
After the Haryana government's recent advice to all districts that the departments concerned should revise the existing Masterplans and extend the target year from 2021 to 2025, the first meeting to discuss the new Gurgaon-Manesar Masterplan was held on Tuesday under the chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner of Gurgaon, Rajender …
Rekha gets irritated easily, especially when told that she needs to gain weight. The 12-year-old is among 31 children in Majnu Ka Tila who have developed tuberculosis in the past few months. The Tibetan refugee colony has 127 patients enrolled at the DOTS centre and, according to conservative estimates, up …
Seeking to enforce compliance to environmental norms by the miners, union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) minister Jairam Ramesh has asked the Mines Ministry to introduce a
Allegations of illegal mining are once again rocking Andhra Pradesh. This time it is related to mining of barytes and iron ore in Khammam district. At the centre of the controversy is Brother Anil Kumar, evangelist son-in-law of late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. Opposition parties are saying that Hyderabad-based Rakshana …
WITH Opposition Congress on the defensive on the escape of Warren Anderson, the legislators of the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh on Monday forced adjournment of the Assembly on the Bhopal gas tragedy issue. Carrying posters and raising slogans they demanded that the former chief of the Union Carbide be …
THE Supreme Court on Monday accepted the resignation of former Chief Justice of India and chairpers son of Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust (BMHT) Justice A M Ahmadi and trans ferred the charge of the superspecialty hospital to the departments of Atomic Energy and Biotechnology. A decade after the Union Carbide, …
The state government on Monday widened the ongoing state Lokayukta illegal mining probe to include the BJP rule in the state. The Yeddyurappa government issued an order for the Lokayukta probe, first ordered in March 2007 by the H D Kumaraswamy-led JDS-BJP government, to look at illegal mining activities that …
