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 …
Suneeti Ahuja Kohli Payments made to NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers in the LWE-affected areas have become a bone of contention between banks and the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD). The banks argue that they are incurring huge costs for disbursing payments to NREGA workers in the LWE …
Priyadarshi Siddhanta Slamming the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) for unilaterally categorizing coal-bearing areas as A and B by fixing the criteria of Weighted Forest Cover (WFC) and Gross Forest Cover, the Central Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDI) has warned that since the exercise was based on satellite …
Priyadarshi Siddhanta Differences have surfaced within the Planning Commission on the proposed Rs 13,742 crore Integrated Action Plan (IAP) for 35 Naxalite-affected districts, with its key officials differing on its contours. So much so that Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has ordered a complete re-drafting of the IAP document, …
Krishnadas Rajagopal A curative petition against the 1996 Supreme Court judgment in the Bhopal gas tragedy case is seen as a rare, one-shot, hit or miss solution, while filing a
Close to 100 antelopes have perished in the region comprising Jodhpur and Barmer districts of Rajasthan in the past week with a senior forest official citing dehydration as the possible reason for the deaths.
The draft of the Maharashtra Special Economic Zones and Designated Areas Act, 2010, proposes that SEZs be made independent entities outside the scope of local bodies like the municipal corporation or council, or the gram panchayat. Once the legislation goes through, SEZ developers will enjoy all the powers of local …
Teena Thacker The first ever intranasal vaccine against novel H1N1 virus will hit the market Monday. Serum Institute of India (SII), which developed the vaccine, said it had got final clearance from Drug Controller General of India Dr Surinder Singh to launch Nasovac on Monday.
It was the state worst hit by H1N1 last year and is witnessing a second round of infections this monsoon, but doctors and paramedical staff in Maharashtra are refusing to take the swine flu vaccine. Their reasons range from doubts over the effectiveness of the vaccine, the mode of administering …
Armed with integrated action plans for 35 Naxalite-affected districts in nine states, the Planning Commission is all set to approach the Union Cabinet for a proposed outlay of Rs 13,742 crore to wean away the tribals from sympathising with the Maoists through comprehensive infrastructure and economic development as well as …
The large number of deaths due to gas leakage from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in December 1984 was a tragedy of great magnitude. The initial tragedy was that the Union Carbide plant was allowed at all. The Union industry ministry found the technology obsolete, and it was a …
Teena Thacker Following a recent study by the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), stating that anti-diabetic drug Rosiglitazone may be associated with an increased risk of life-threatening diseases, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) on Friday put on hold the clinical trails of the drug going on at …
Shubhajit Roy India and Japan will follow the first round of talks on nuclear cooperation, held earlier this week, with the first-ever 'Sub-cabinet/Senior officials 2+2 dialogue' in New Delhi on July 6, The Indian Express has learnt. Sources said Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar will represent …
Sabyasachi Bandopadhyay After Land and Land Reforms Minister Abdur Rezzaq Mollah and Housing and Public Health Engineering Minister Gautam Dev, it was West Bengal Assembly Speaker Hasim Abdul Halim who put Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhjattacharjee on the dock, saying it was some of the wrong policies of the state government …
Anju Agnihotri Chaba Since the advent of the Green Revolution popularised use of excessive irrigation and fertilisers in India in the 1960s, biodynamic farming, an advanced form of organic farming, had largely faded into oblivion. Biodynamic farming, a return to natural farming free from the use of pesticides and chemicals, …
Shaju Philip Rejecting opposition from the Industries Ministry, Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday decided to form a tribunal to assess and realise compensation from Coca Cola for the damage caused by its bottling plant at Plachimada in Palakkad. A committee appointed by the government earlier had recommended formation of the tribunal, …
For the first time, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has admitted the existence of an illegal iron ore export racket in the state, including the transport of 35 lakh metric tonnes of iron ore to a local port without any licences or permits in recent months.
