The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
A Central Empowered Committee team, which came to take stock of rampant illegal mining in the Aravallis on the basis of a Supreme Court directive, was prevented from visiting the places by mining mafia who put large boulders on the road. The team reached Alwar to check illegal mining in …
Villagers protesting against illegal mining in Aravalli ranges in Neem Ka Thana area of Sikar district bore the brunt of police repression when they were driven away from the site of a month-long dharna allegedly by use of force. At least two
Faridabad: Several court orders, including a Supreme Court ban on mining, seem to have failed to save the Aravalis from miners. Stones from Rajasthan come in trucks, local stones in both trucks and tractors. Tractor tracks lead right up to the remnants of the Aravali
Degraded land in Gurgaon was nurtured back to health over a decade. But instead of serving as a green lung, it has been sold to a private developer, reports BRIJESH PANDEY Green charade A forest nurtured by the state government in Gurgaon is now private property BENDING RULES to allot …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) on environment has sent a letter to the Haryana government asking it to investigate the alleged
Rajendra Sharma | TNN Alwar: Having received flak on several occasions for its failure in containing illegal mining in Aravalli ranges, the Rajasthan government seems to have woken up at last. On Thursday, in a joint operation with mines department, the Alwar district administration seized 27 trucks and arrested 17 …
Raj Faces Trouble In Getting Environment Clearances For 14 Power Projects Jaipur: In what could be termed as yet another addition to the ongoing war of words among the Congress leaders, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday blamed union minister Jairam Ramesh for hindering environmental clearances that were holding …
Ajay Parmar | TNN Jodhpur: In a major setback to the state government, the Rajasthan High Court on Monday stayed the allotment process of 1,117 sandstone mining leases at Sihanda in Balesar tehsil of Jodhpur district. The leases were being granted without taking the environmental clearance from the Ministry of …
Rachna Singh | TNN Jaipur: Unregulated legal mining and rampant illegal mining in Rajasthan is systematically destroying forests, devastating the Aravallis, playing havoc with the environment and water resources of the state. But instead of checking it, the state departments of mines and geology and forests have chosen to interpret …
New Delhi/Gurgaon: In a move that could invite massive opposition from green activists, the Haryana government may soon allow stone crushers to operate close to the Aravali plantation area. The government is likely to shrink the prohibited zone from the present one kilometre around the forest to 50 metres. The …
Gurgaon/New Delhi: The wounded and battered Aravalis seem to be finally getting the much-needed care with the Haryana government revising the restoration and reclamation plan for the already mined areas. It proposes to increase the period during which mining won
Jaipur: Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday wrote to Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot asking him to take immediate steps to cancel all mining leases issued recently in the Aravalli ranges, mainly near Sariska wildlife sanctaury. The minister referred to a TOI report highlighting that the Rajasthan …
Jaipur: Rajasthan government claims it is sticking to Supreme Court instructions but the ground reality is different. TOI has documents that show that mining in Aravalis has not completely stopped, as claimed by the state mines and geology department affiadvit filed in Supreme Court. A survey by ministry of environment …
Jaipur: The Rajasthan government has refused to cancel new mining leases in the Sariska range despite Union forests minister Jairam Ramesh asking CM Ashok Gehlot to end mining in the Aravalis and cancel new leases. Earlier, the Supreme Court had ruled:
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan government's decision to issue 40 new mining leases adjacent to the Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary violates an eight-month-old Supreme Court order. In a brazen move that favours the mining lobby, the state government had on Tuesday granted 40 new mining leases in the eco-sensitive zone near the sanctuary. …
Jaipur: The beauty of the Aravali-flanked Sariska Reserve may soon be a thing of the past, with the Rajasthan government granting 40 new mining leases in the eco-sensitive zone, something that
Alwar/Jaipur: The death of four labourers in an illegal mine in the Aravalli ranges in Alwar has exposed the inability of the state government to act against wanton excavations despite Supreme Court
Populations and diversity of major species of concern in the park has provided somewhat robust. Several species, especially antelope, chinkara and sambhar are at critical risk. Maintenance of biodiversity at the Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary is made difficult by a range of forces, including forest degradation, grazing, road accidents, forest fire …
