The Supreme Court (SC), May 1, 2025 made it clear that all applications would have to be made to the court seeking permission to fell trees irrespective of the number of trees to be felled as far as areas located within an aerial distance of 5 kilometers from the Taj …
Delhi Metro’s ‘Heritage Corridor’ has hit a roadblock once again. The Phase III project is stuck in a deadlock between the National Monument Authority (NMA) and the Delhi Metro with the former insisting on a “structural impact study” to be conducted by IIT in Delhi or Roorkee. However, Delhi Metro …
KOLKATA, 26 APRIL: The compliance report of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) was conspicuous by its absence among similar reports of different state government departments concerning Victoria Memorial which were placed before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court last …
The Centre came up with a blank today on whether to declare Ram Setu in the Palk Strait a national monument, leaving the Supreme Court with no option but to interpret the government’s silence as its unwillingness to take a position “this way or the other”. In its order, an …
Avoids Giving National Monument Status To Geographical Feature In Palk Strait. The Centre on Thursday shied away from taking a stand in the Supreme Court on whether it intended to confer national monument status on Ram Sethu, a geographical feature in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka resembling …
Filmmaker Subhash Ghai’s Whistling Woods International Limited (WWIL) is facing trouble in Andhra Pradesh as well with the Comptroller and Auditor General rapping the state government over allotment of 20.10 acres of prime land to the institute in total violation of the rules. Mr Ghai, who suffered a setback in …
Residents Flout Heritage Law, Illegal Structures Rise Within 100M Of Monument Khirki village in south Delhi has no time for heritage laws. From the roof of its Tughlaq-era Khirki Masjid, you can see workers with hammers at work inside houses and scaffoldings raised along the walls of buildings creeping up …
KOLKATA, 29 FEB: The curator of Victoria Memorial was directed by the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today to make an inventory of the exhibits in this marble mausoleum and give an affidavit to the court within four weeks. …
The high court on Wednesday directed the Victoria Memorial Hall curator to prepare an inventory of the exhibits in the museum within four weeks and table it before the bench hearing the case. The division bench of Justice P.C. Ghose and Justice M.K. Chakrabarti passed the order after green activist …
The Centre does not have unlimited powers to allow construction and mining in prohibited and regulated areas, the Supreme Court has ruled. The public interest must be the core factor for consideration of grant of permission for the construction activities within such areas, the court has said. “Public interest must …
New Delhi: At 100.8 metres from Delhi Gate, the station there on Delhi Metro’s extension of the Central Secretariat-Kashmere Gate line is an interesting example of technology taking care of heritage. It was originally just 15.8m from the protected monument. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) claims it has accepted the …
Proximity Of Line To Heritage Structures Had Upset Conservationists New Delhi: Even before work started on phase III of the Delhi Metro, the project could be heading for delay. The controversial heritage corridor, which will go from Janpath to Mandi House, ITO, Delhi Gate, Jama Masjid, Red Fort and on …
The Changunarayan Temple, which is enlisted in the World Heritage Sites List, is at high risk after landslides occurred on the east and west sides of the temple on Wednesday following incessant rains, RSS reports. According to the priest at the Temple, Chakradharanand Rajopadhyaya, the landslide has reached near Chandra …
It took the keen eye of a stamp collector to spot the mistake. A United States Postal Service stamp bearing a picture of New York’s iconic Statue of Liberty was in fact a photo of a replica statue at a Las Vegas casino. The stamp, which shows a low-angled close-up …
New Delhi: Delhi Metro is going hi-tech. For the first time, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is using the Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), a technology that will help it identify the subsurface of the area or locality on which work for phase III is happening. That
Lucknow: When Shah Jahan decided to build the Taj Mahal on a wooden base on the banks of the Yamuna, he got everything right from design to science. Except for one thing: he never factored in the Yamuna going dry. In the Mughal era, wood was used to lay solid …
- Road rules trampled by feet and wheels as green zone takes a pounding Forget the high court ruling, the cadres would not even listen to their leaders. Lakhs of supporters who had descended on Brigade Parade Ground for the Left Front rally on Sunday blatantly violated every rule in …
KOLKATA, 9 FEB: Indian Railways will do everything needful to save the main temple at Belur Math from getting damaged due to pollution, said railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee today. She was speaking at the foundation stone laying programme of the 1-km long new railway line between Belur and Belur …
Jorhat, Feb. 8: Seven satradhikars of Majuli, accompanied by hundreds of their disciples, today visited the erosion-affected areas on the island. This is the first time that the satradhikars, the head of the Vaishnavite monasteries, made such a tour for an on-the-spot-assessment of the damage caused by erosion to the …
A high level Archeological Survey of India (ASI) delegation is in Jaisalmer to explore the possibility of developing a modern sewerage system near Sonar Kella to provide stability to the historical monument. ASI additional director Pravin Srivastava is heading the delegation which held a meeting with officials from various departments. …
