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 …
New Delhi Vehicle owners in the Capital might soon have to shell out more depending on where they park their vehicles. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has finalised a revised parking policy that proposes to link parking rates to house or property tax of the area. The New Delhi …
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has not only attracted widespread attention and created a major political fallout in the US, but has posed some major issues that impact the future of global energy policy and the international response to the growing challenge of climate change. Some general …
Citing the Bhopal gas leak case, a prominent environmental organisation from Orissa on Wednesday demanded that compensation claims be filed against Tata Refractories for releasing poisonous chemicals outside their factory premises three years ago. The Wildlife Society of Orissa headed by environmentalist Biswajit Mohanty in a letter to Chief Minister …
A report prepared by the Hyderabad Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has ascertained the exact number of tigers in the Palamau Tiger Reserve, Jharkhand, to be six. The report was based on DNA analysis of scat samples collected from inside the reserve area of 1026 sq km, between …
Running late by almost ten days, the monsoon is likely to revive in the next 24 to 48 hours, bringing an increase in rainfall activity over most of peninsular India and on the western coast. Northern India, including Uttar Pradesh, parts of northern Bihar and Delhi, would however, have to …
After battling corruption in the government for nearly four years, Justice N Santhosh Hegde today resigned as Karnataka Lok Ayukta in frustration over the BJP government
Furious debates among policy makers about the proposed national food security law largely revolve around its financial repercussions. The Planning Commission is finally coming around to accepting the Tendulkar Committee
At its next meeting, the Empowered Group of Ministers plans to raise the price of petrol by Rs 3 a litre despite the position taken by UPA partners Trinamool Congress, DMK and NCP. But the panel will seek their consensus on raising the price of diesel by Re 1 a …
High humidity coupled with extreme temperatures has resulted power demand in the Capital rising to unprecedented figures. Monday recorded the highest ever peak power demand at 4,668 MW, surpassing the May 24 record of 4,581 MW. Till last year, the dreaded peak power demand mark for the department was a …
To supplement developmental activities in Naxal-hit areas, the Central government is all set to invoke the provision of the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act, 1996. This will enable it to directly intervene in tribal regions (Schedule V areas) directing states to grant complete rights to tribals over the …
The recommendations of the Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy have left activists campaigning on behalf of the survivors disappointed. While they welcomed the announcement related to enhanced compensation, they felt the GoM had been soft on Dow Chemicals by agreeing to allocate Rs 300 crore on its …
Swaraj Thapa , Maneesh Chhibber Finalising its conclusions on the Bhopal gas leak disaster after three days of back-to-back deliberations, the reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) today recommended a substantially enhanced compensation deal for victims that could cost around Rs 750 crore, filing of a curative petition in the Supreme …
Stay vacated by HC, new sewage plant can finally be linked to network Despite the crores of rupees spent on laying sewer lines and maintaining existing ones, the drainage system in Gurgaon still falls woefully short. Now, with the Punjab and Haryana High Court vacating the stay on the final …
The Delhi government finds itself in a piquant situation over the implementation of the Tribals and Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act. The Act came into force in January 2008, but much searching and a special committee for Delhi later, it has been decided that there are
Large Indian cities are doing reasonably well. Ahmedabad, where I stay, has been voted one of the ten most attractive towns in India and once the adjoining panchayats became a part of the municipal corporation, it
