Order of the High Court of Tripura in the matter of Court on its own motion Vs The Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & Others dated 09/01/2025. The HC was informed that National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has granted approval for establishing two new Facility-integrated ART Centres (Fi-ARTC) …
The Tamil Nadu fisheries department began construction of two fish landing centres (FLC) at the environmentally sensitive Pulicat Lake Sanctuary without getting proper clearances, violating the Wild Life Protection Act, a CAG report has found. Pulicat Lake is the second largest brackish water lagoon in India and is spread over …
At a time when Goa and some other states are locked in legal battles in the Supreme Court to reduce the buffer zone around reserved forests and eco-sensitive areas from 10 to one kilometres, Environment and Forest Minister M Veerappa Moily has shown the way, by reducing it to just …
Draft Notification declaring an area of 2 kms from north to south all along the western boundary of the Pulicat Bird Sanctuary in the State of Andhra Pradesh as an eco-sensitive zone.
THE Madras High Court has restrained the authorities concerned from preventing fishermen in Ennore and Pulicat areas from carrying on fishing activities during the on fishing activities during the launch of rockets. A division bench compris ing Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and K K Sashidharan granted the injunction while passing …
Nellore, Dec. 19: The number of migratory birds arriving in the Nelapattu bird sanctuary has come down in the recent past because of the decline of biodiversity in the Pulicat Lake. The birds are drawn to these sanctuaries mainly because the Pulicat Lake used to be an inexhaustible source of …
the health of hundreds of women who live off the Pulicat Lake, a bird sanctuary on Chennai's northern outskirts, have been severely affected due to pollution of the lake by industrial and domestic waste. These women earn a living by fishing in the lake and now they are suffering from …
