Compliance report in Original Application No. 50/2018 (WZ) in the matter of Nav Yuva Sangathan & Others Vs The Secretary, Narmada Water Resources & Others). The matter related to pollution abatement and conservation activities of Tapi river project. The existing STP in Gavier was functional and operational, while the STP …
Five-nation line may pass through Afghanistan and Pakistan India has broached the idea of a hydrocarbon pipeline with Kazakhstan that would bring fuel through a five-nation route. India unveiled the concept of the pipeline, which in future could be extended to Russia, during a meeting between External Affairs Minister Salman …
New Delhi has requested Turkmenistan to give equity in the exploration and production blocks to Gail India wants a share in gas fields in Turkmenistan from where the proposed $9-billion transnational gas pipeline will cross terrorist-infested regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan to deliver gas across the Punjab border. “India is …
New guidelines for sand mining activity in river beds of the state are issued by the committee of additional secretary of forest and environment department of the state. Under the new guidelines, contractors won't be able to mine sand from the river beds after 6.00PM in the evening to 6.00AM …
Pilot Project To Be Taken Up In Cambay Surat: After wind and solar power, Gujarat is all set to tap another unconventional source of energy. The state government is planning to explore the feasibility of geothermal energy “We are meeting a delegation from Norwegian government to make a beginning of …
New Delhi: Even as the coalgate controversy rages, the UPA government could be staring at another damaging report from its official auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General, as it has started its second audit of four oil and gas blocks and may come up with the final report by the …
Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India to finalise agreement on transit fee next week. In an important decision, the Union Cabinet this evening gave its nod to sign a pricing agreement with Turkmenistan for the US-backed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) Gas Pipeline Project. The pipeline will terminate at Fazilka in Punjab. The Ministry of …
It's summer vacation time for Vaishali Koli. But, for this eight-year-old from Degaon village in Dhule's Shindkheda taluk, the months of April and May do not mean summer camps and hobby classes. They mean long hours of filling water at hand pumps in her village, one of many in Maharashtra …
The Indian Supreme Court yesterday ordered the government to implement an ambitious project to link the major rivers of the region in a “time-bound manner”. The court also appointed a high-powered committee to plan and put into action the Rs 5,00,000 crore scheme. The river-linking project was first devised in …
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to implement the ambitious interlinking of rivers project in a time-bound manner and appointed a high-powered committee for its planning and implementation. Observing that the project has already been delayed resulting in an increase in its cost, a three-judge bench headed by …
The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to implement the ambitious interlinking of rivers project in a time-bound manner and appointed a high-powered committee for its planning and implementation. Observing that the project has already been delayed resulting in an increase in its cost, a three-judge Bench headed by the …
Ahmedabad: Tribal districts, which were the torch-bearers for the girl child in Gujarat, boasting of a far healthier number of girls in 0-6 age group, too have shown a decline in the past decade. Sociologists see this trend as alarming as almost all non-tribal districts in Gujarat are already reeling …
Contrary to apprehensions in Indian official circles, Pakistan still wants India to join the ambitious Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project. ''If India desires, they are still welcome to join the project,'' Pakistan's Petroleum and Natural Resources Minister Asim Hussain told The Tribune during his visit to India recently to discuss …
India and Pakistan today agreed in-principle to have a uniform transit fee for ferrying natural gas through the proposed $7.6 billion pipeline from Turkmenistan. India will pay a transit fee to Pakistan and Afghanistan for getting its share of 38 million standard cubic metres per day of gas through the …
Sunita Narain Director General of CSE and editor of Down To Earth, an environmentalist pushing for changes in policies and practices and mindsets A monsoon warning As I write this my city Delhi is drowning. It started raining early this morning and within a few hours the city has come …
Each year, floods, to greater or lesser degree, affect about 7.5 million hectares in India, a little over two per cent of the country's surface area. What's more, over five times this area is considered prone to floods, caused when rivers breach their banks. But this year, and of late, …
There is no sign of floods abating in Odisha. In the space of a fortnight, the number of people affected by the deluge in the Mahanadi river, the state's largest riverine system, increased from one million to 2.2 million on September 13. Two-thirds of the state's 30 districts are affected. …
Even as 96 dams in Gujarat were put on high alert following heavy rainfall on the evening of September 11, many of them were full to their capacities, including the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Dam in Kevadia. At least 7,000 people were evacuated in August and September from different parts of …
Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Tapi district of Gujarat has come under the scanner of regulator Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) for a “minor incident” of radiation exposure to four workers in May this year. “Our medical staff had checked them and there was no problem with them as …
Surat: Five daily wage workers, hired for cleaning and colouring a tunnel at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS), about 75km from the city, have alleged that they were exposed to radiation there on May 30, 2011. In a memorandum to the Tapi district collector, they have sought employment and …
Ministerial discussions between the four countries to start tomorrow. India is likely to extend the deadline for signing a gas sales and purchase agreement for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline. Under the gas transportation agreement, signed by the four countries, the GSPA between India and Turkmenistan had to be signed by …
