Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
Khartoum — After three days of hard closed-door talks, Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia on Friday reached an agreement in principles on sharing the Nile water and the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The foreign ministers of the three countries, who had been gathering here since Wednesday along with the ministers …
It seems that protection of environment and forests is no more the agenda of MOEFCC. The same path is being followed by the State government of U.P. which in spite of saving its natural resources, is deeply responsible for violation of Article 48 A of the Indian constitution which casts …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on small and medium irrigation projects in Maharashtra, 02/03/2015. According to the latest released publication on Land Use Statistics at a glance, Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, the gross unirrigated/rainfed area in the country is 103716 thousand hectares (provisional data for the …
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to Centre and the provinces while directing the submission of a written reply in the court during the hearing of petition filed for the construction of Kalabagh Dam. A three-member bench of the top court headed by Justice Saqib Nisar heard the …
The state cabinet has given a go ahead for distribution of over 7540 solar powered agricultural pumps in the state. It will be on a pilot basis under a Central scheme. State cabinet on Tuesday decided to allocate Rs 22.25 crore for the project estimated to cost Rs 445 crore. …
Construction of a massive dam in southwestern Cambodia will not start until at least 2018, prime minister Hun Sen said on Tuesday, in an apparent effort to stop heavy opposition to the project which has focused criticism on him. Hun Sen’s comments came a day after Spanish activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, …
Feb 24, Colombo: The government of Sri Lanka has appointed a committee to study the controversial Uma Oya multipurpose development project. The committee appointed by the government will be headed by Prof. Kaila Dassanayaka and includes nine other prominent members in the field of engineering. The project has been temporarily …
Condemning Karnataka’s proposal to construct three dams across River Cauvery, members of Cauvery Protection Movement attempted to picket the Central government office in Tiruchengode here on Wednesday. However, the police removed over 200 persons. Members began their rally from Anna Statue near Old Bus Stand and were on their way …
With Assam being located in the downstream of many rivers flowing down from Bhutan and with construction of dams and hydropower projects being proposed in the neighbouring country, experts are increasingly raising the need for making the water information sharing mechanism more effective. Environment NGOs Aaranyak, Legal Initiative for Forest …
Dams illustrate the brilliance and arrogance of human ingenuity. They generate one-sixth of the world's electricity and irrigate one-seventh of our food crops. They have flooded land areas the size of California, displaced a population the size of Germany's, and turned freshwater into the ecosystem most threatened by species extinction. …
The White Clay Creek dam was the first ever removed in the state of Delaware, but it was far from the only one removed in the United States last year. On Tuesday, the conservation group American Rivers announced that 72 dams were torn down or blown up in 2014, restoring …
Construction resumed at the site of the Yamba dam in Gunma Prefecture, five decades in the making. Work on the dam was halted in 2009 when the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) came to power. It was halted as part of dozens of public works projects to be reconsidered. Blasting …
Some NGOs which include Society on Activities and Forest Environment, Committee on People and Environment and Rural Education Development Institute have raised their voice against the reported decision of the Union Government to construct Tipaimukh Dam, also known as Barak Dam. It is to be noted that this ambitious project …
The global number of dam constructions has increased dramatically over the past six decades and is forecast to continue to rise, particularly in less industrialized regions. Identifying development pathways that can deliver the benefits of new infrastructure while also maintaining healthy and productive river systems is a great challenge that …
National Register of Large Dam (NRLD) is a compilation of the large dams in the country prepared as per information received from the State Government / Authority concerned. The lists of dams have been regrouped as per their location within the territory of a State. The sole purpose of the …
Seeking to save farmers from vagaries of Monsoon, the government will soon launch its ambitious rural irrigation scheme by linking villages through nearest possible sources of water. The scheme - Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sichai Yojana - will have water conservation and building of irrigation infrastructures at village-level as its key …
More than 200 villages in Nadaun subdivision here will have a year-round irrigation facility as work on the Rs 130-crore project has started. The scheme is being implemented on the banks of the Beas near Bilikaleshwar village. Water will be lifted from the Beas for Rail, Rangs, Plasi, Bhumpal and …
CHENNAI: In what could trigger a fresh controversy, the National Board for Wildlife under the ministry of environment and forests has cleared the Kerala government's proposal for an environment impact assessment study for a new Mullaperiyar dam. The board's standing committee, headed by environment and forest minister Prakash Javedekar, during …
Chandigarh, December 24: Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has directed the State Vigilance Bureau to probe the alleged irregularities in construction work of the Kaushalya Dam on the river of the same name in the vicinity of the Panchkula-Shimla road, near Pinjore. The inquiry has been marked on a recent …
