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 …
JAIPUR: Taking a strong stand against encroachments in and around the Ramgarh Dam catchment area, the high court on Thursday directed the state government to cancel all land allotments that are hampering the natural flow of water to the reservoir. A bench of Justice M N Bhandari has instructed the …
Commodities group Glencore released its first sustainability report on Wednesday showing it paid $780,000 in major environmental fines last year and had 18 fatalities. Glencore, one of the world's largest commodities trader, promised to launch sustainability reporting during the run-up to its listing earlier this year after spending decades as …
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court in Hyderabad on Monday arrested former Karnataka infrastructure minister Gali Janardhan Reddy and his cousin, Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) managing director Srinivas Reddy, opening a new chapter in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh’s mining politics. The duo were arrested by CBI officials in …
The Kanyakumari District Farmer's Association here has urged the Government to desilt all water bodies in different parts of the district for the benefit of farming community in and around Villukuri areas. A resolution to this effect was unanimously passed at the executive committee meeting held at Villukuri on Sunday. …
JAIPUR: To ensure that the land use is not changed by the owners who have been allotted the plots on concessional rate and to keep a check on encroachments, the urban development and housing department will appoint an independent agency or conduct a third party inspection regularly. "The groups will …
The project to prevent flooding of the Mithi river has received a boost with the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) recently according CRZ clearance for a 13-km retaining wall along the much-abused river. The clearance was needed to build the wall taking into consideration the tide lines of the …
Karnataka has imposed Rs 140 crore in penalties on 13 iron ore mining companies in Tumkur for encroaching on government land and dumping mineral waste, thereby causing damage to the environment. "We have conducted a suo motu joint survey with the departments of mines and geology, forest and revenue in …
Chandigarh: The tussle between Punjab and Haryana over the Hansi-Butana canal is set to take another turn after PCC chief Capt Amarinder Singh accused the Central Water Commission (CWC) of changing its stance to Haryana’s advantage. The CWC today claimed that encroachments in the Ghaggar riverbed falling in Punjab’s territory …
V. Balasubramanian, Chairman of the Task Force for Recovery of Public Land and its Protection, at a press conference in Bangalore on July 4. IT was clear to V. Balasubramanian, the Chairman of the Task Force for Recovery of Public Land and its Protection, when he submitted his report on …
The present Report contains the findings of the examination by audit of the Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society. The Report emanates from the scrutiny of files and documents pertaining to the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Defence Estates and Local Military Authorities of Mumbai and Departments and Agencies of Government of …
After Bellary, Tumkur district has emerged as a hotbed of rampant illegal mining activities in the State. Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde, in his final report on illegal mining in Karnataka, illustrates how Tumkur had been plundered of its iron and manganese ore reserves by illegal miners in the last few …
26,468 acres covering 937 lakes encroached on, says?Task Force report City lakes have fallen prey in large numbers to the brazen encroachment by the City land mafia. Unbridled encroachment has led to virtual extinction of lakes in Bangalore. As much as 26,468 acres of land covering 937 lakes in Bangalore …
Rejecting draft amendments of the forest act and wildlife conservation act, a rights organisation, Greater Sylhet Indigenous People's Forum (GSIPF), yesterday called upon the government not to enact the laws without taking opinion from mass people. GSIPF also urged the similar organisations to raise greater movement against the section 2(8) …
New Delhi In what could ease availability of land for industrial projects, a high-level government panel has recommended that all land held by the Centre should be inventoried with location mapping so that unused land could be easily identified and put up for sale to corporates under a public-private-partnership (PPP) …
Encroachers to face FIR: Shimla: The Forest Department has decided to register FIRs in all cases of encroachment on the forest land involving an area of more than 10 bighas, protected wildlife area, tempering with boundary pillars and raising of permanent structure. It has also decided to set up a …
The land encroachment at Munnar hill station has come under the scanner of the Congress-led UDF government, but it has no plan to send bulldozers to pull down the illegally-constructed resorts. The eviction drive of the last government had emerged as a major point of discord between the then CM …
