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 …
Rising commodity prices and interest rates could slow growth in the country's car sales by half in 2010-11, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM). Releasing its first ever such demand forecast for the Indian automobile industry here on Thursday, SIAM pegged total domestic car sales for 2010-11 …
The Economist If you are the sort to worry at night about man-induced climate change, then book a stay at any of the new high-rise hotels going up on the edge of China
Vidya Krishnan Every year, India adds the population of Australia to its already staggering ranks of 116.1 crore people. Every 10 years, we add the population of Brazil
Asking Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh to sensitise his officials on the need for adopting a more pragmatic and flexible position on
Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has relented a bit on the issue of mining of coal in forest areas. After persistent requests from the Coal Ministry, the Environment Ministry has decided to increase the area where coal mining can be done
With the flood situation in Patiala villages worsening following the breach in the SYL Canal on Tuesday night, Punjab has requisitioned the services of the National Disaster Response Force. One Ram Singh, 17, of village Sarala Kalan in Ghanaur died and three others are still fighting for their life after …
As part of its plan to infuse about Rs 13,400 crore towards development in 35 districts worst hit by the Naxalite problem in nine states, the government plans to earmark about Rs 500 crore to create facilities to ensure deployment of personnel, like teachers and health workers among others, required …
After Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel criticised Union Minister Jairam Ramesh for delaying environmental clearance for the Navi Mumbai airport, it was Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan
Priyadarshi Siddhanta Expressing serious concern over reports about the continuation of illegal mining in the forests of Sandur near the iron ore-rich Bellary district, union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh has given a week
A demand to reintroduce a universal Public Distribution System (PDS) in the country appears every now and then. Its proponents argue that universal access is necessary for ensuring food security, for better control on prices and for eliminating (at least partially) the evils of exclusion errors in the targeted PDS. …
The extraordinary spectacle of a tigress sitting in a pond with a crowd of curious onlookers standing perilously close to her, outside the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), which this newspaper carried on July 3, made the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) sit up and take notice. NTCA Member-Secretary Rajesh Gopal …
Sparring between India and Pakistan over the 330 MW Kishanganga hydro-electric project in Jammu and Kashmir continues with Pakistan playing hardball over the constitution of a seven-member bench of International Court of Arbitration. In an indication of it, Pakistan has sidelined India
A month after a trial court convicted him in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, the then non-executive chairman of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) Keshub Mahindra has said he is not guilty.
Even as Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan travelled to Delhi on Tuesday to lobby for the clearance of the Navi Mumbai airport project, an unrelenting Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said there were serious ecological problems with the project that could not be overlooked. Chavan had a detailed meeting with Ramesh …
Though the situation is far better than last year, inadequate and erratic rainfall in the month of June has meant that water level in most of the reservoirs in the country is slightly below the average level expected around this time of the year. Of the 81 important reservoirs monitored …
Less than a week before the Supreme Court fixes a date for conducting regular hearing on the Presidential reference on the legality of the controversial Punjab Termination of Agreement Act, 2004, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to hold a crucial meeting with Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal …
A slender bangle with dangling silver balls, a piece of jewellery with dolphins on it, a tiny turquoise ring: all pretty, and tainted with lead. Pink may be pretty, and rings may be cool, but a new study by NGO Toxics Link has found high levels of lead present in …
While two cases of dengue have been confirmed in the Capital, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has admitted it does not have any biolarvicide to combat the threat of dengue and malaria, with the Delhi High court passing a restraining order over the procurement of the same earlier last …
