Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
MUMBAI: The next time you dig into that bowl of palak paneer, think of where the spinach comes from. The fact that many of the vegetables consumed by citizens are grown in 'gutter farms' near railway tracks-with sewage water being used for irrigation-may render your favourite dishes rather unpalatable. Despite …
DIBRUGARH, The Bogibeel Bridge, which was one of the demands in the Assam Accord, will connect the two banks of the Brahmaputra. When completed, it will cover a length of 4.94 kilometres, making it the longest rail-cum-road bridge in the country. The project took off after a false start. It …
What are your observations about Indian cities? I come from a school of thought that likes cities, and I find an Indian street fascinating. There are so many different users: bullock carts, food vendors, beggars, cyclists and cars. I can see how cars are a necessary part of city life …
By 2016, commuters from Panipat can reach Kashmere Gate in the heart of the Capital in just 60 minutes, courtesy a high-speed rail link being planned to connect the National Capital Region. The current travel time between the two cities
AHMEDABAD: The way is now being paved for the much awaited Rs 12,000 crore Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro project. The Gujarat Urban Development Corporation (GUDC) has directed the civic and urban development bodies of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar not to clear any new projects in the 150 meter radius along the Metro route …
The Western and Central railways have decided to go green in order to reduce its carbon footprint. They have been planting saplings of jatropha, a major source of bio-diesel, on pilot basis. ''Running trains on bio-fuel will help cut down the cost of operations and also cause less pollution. We …
Assam which is amongst the states with highest elephant mortality due to train hits has succeeded to a certain extent in preventing train-elephant collisions since 2008 by implementing the Train Hits Mitigation Project. This project is being jointly implemented by the Assam Forest Department, Northeast Frontier Railways and Wildlife Trust …
After undertaking work on the first Metro railway project in Navi Mumbai, the state is now planning to lay the foundation stone for two more lines of the project in a year. One of the arms of the project, which will go from Vashi-Nerul-Seawoods-Panvel, will run parallel to the existing …
New Delhi: In a bid to get rid of manual scavenging on railway tracks, bio-toilets have been installed in 50 coaches of various trains, the Railways informed the Delhi High Court on Wednesday. "Fifty coaches of different trains have been fitted with bio-toilets which, unlike traditional toilets in trains, retain …
Global transportation and fossil fuels are inextricably linked. More than 60% of the 87 million barrels of oil consumed every day powers the world’s transportation system and liquid fossil fuels account for more than 96% of the current energy supply to the transport sector. Even in optimistic scenarios, fossil fuels …
This paper questions the accuracy and validity of the criticisms made by Ananya Roy regarding the approach to community development of a Mumbai-based NGO, SPARC, and its partner grassroots federations in Mumbai. This includes the suggestion that the focus on sanitation rather than on land tenure is an appeal to …
While several cities across the world have revived their tramways, Kolkata naively ignored its tramways and witnesses the last days of this non-polluting and once-efficient mode of transport. Read this special report in Down To Earth. Kolkata witnesses the last days of a non-polluting and once-efficient mode of transport, while …
It was quarter to nine on a cold December evening at the Kalighat tram depot in south Kolkata. A row of tramcars stood like ghosts under an iron shed. At the corner of one coach an elderly man clad in khakis read the newspaper in the dim light of a …
Tokyo Electric Power Co, Toshiba Corp, East Japan Railway Co and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co are among companies that may be most hurt by the strongest earthquake on record to hit Japan, analysts and investors said. Tokyo Electric, battling to avoid a meltdown at its Fukushima nuclear plant, faces
The laying of the fifth and sixth railway lines between Thane and Diva is caught in green hurdles and tedious clearances. The state forest department has raised objections over the railways not obtaining the necessary permission before starting work on the stretch. The project, under Phase II of the Mumbai …
BHUBANESWAR: CPM activists on Sunday staged a rail roko at Bhubaneswar Railway Station here protesting what they called an anti-Orissa Railway Budget and an anti-people General Budget by the UPA Government. As the agitators sat on tracks disrupting the movement of a goods train, Government Railway Police arrested the agitators …
MUMBAI: The Metro rail programme received a shot in the arm on Monday, when the Union Budget, presented by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, assured financial assistance to the proposed 20-km third route between Bandra and Colaba. For the route, the Union government will pay at least Rs 2,500 crore as …
Amid all the speculations about the Metro rail project running behind schedule, Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Thursday again said that the Phase I of the 42.3-km Namma Metro project would be completed by June 2013.
