Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
Vishwa Gujarati Samaj, a voluntary organisation, has decided to set up a permanent trust to monitor and guide research in water management . An expert committee will study problems relating to water scarcity to find a permanent dolution to the problem in Saurashtra and north Gujarat, Samaj president Krishnakant Vakharia …
Sale of drinking water in pouches has been banned in the district headquarters town of Berhampur in Orissa. The move follows reports that the recent outbreak of diarrhoea in the town was caused by contaminated water sold by traders as mineral water.
Lakes help in recharge of groundwater: Individual water harvesting structures may not have a significant impact on groundwater recharging, but such efforts on a large scale at various levels will definitely improve the water table, according to renowned consulting engineer Himanshu Harshadray Parikh.
Various committees engaged in the minor forest produce business had admitted that due to less purchase of the forest produce by the State Government, it could not be properly utilised. This situation would worsen their problems as, at present, they are solely dependent on State Government for selling certain forest …
Green elements supporting New Zealand's ruling leftwing Labour Alliance government have forced Jim Anderton, the deputy prime minister, and Michael Cullen, the finance minister, into an embarrassing retreat over logging of native forests, an issue that has bedevilled politics since the November elections. The cabinet agreed that no further native …
Forest fires and smoke plumes on Indonesia's island of Sumatra sparked Singapore government warnings on Monday the city-state could soon be shrouded in haze.But there would be no repeat of the health-threatening smog that choked parts of Southeast Asia in late 1997 and early 1998, the ministry of the Environment …
Faced with the problem of lack of funds, the cash-starved Uttar Pradesh forest department, which can neither purchase vehicles or elephants for the purpose of patrolling forests not elephants, has come out with an alternative solution - to catch female wild elephants at the Corbet Park and Rajaji National Park …
An army of 1,000 firefighters on the ground and in the sky struggled on Saturday to contain a wind-driven forest fire that forced thousands of people from their homes, causd $1 billion in damages and charred vast areas at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the top US nuclear research facility.
A "uniform " law to conserve and develop forests may, finally, find place among statutes after 11 years of tortuous exercise. In a culmination of an effort begun in 1989, the Union enviornment ministry is finalising a note for the Cabinet on amending the 73-year-old Indian Forests Act, shifting the …
The Centre has decided to empower itself with greater powers to direct the state governments to create reserved forests, protect and improve the quality of forests through amendments in the Indian Forest Act of 1927.
people living in the Sagar taluk of Shimoga district in Karnataka have severely opposed a government move to construct a dam to irrigate nearly 405 hectares of khariff paddy land in the region. According to the non-government organisation ( ngo ) Vriksha Laksha Andolan ( vla ), the project will …
At first sight, it may look like an ice-cream cart with the roof slightly askew, but the eco-friendly solar cycle rickshaw may very well prove to be the 'green car' of the future. The three-wheeled experimental vehicle seen puttering about silently at the Aligarh Muslim University campus, has been developed …
The Jammu and Kashmir Government would seek central financial assistance to save the forests in the state from the forests mafia, at a national-level meeting of forest ministers of all states which will be held on May 16 and 17 in New Delhi.
As fire-fighters on Friday battled the raging Los Alamos wildfire that has forced 20,000 people from their homes and threatened a US nuclear weapons lab, federal officials temporarily suspended the kind of controlled burn that sparked the blaze.
The German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ) launched a Small Hydropower Promotion Project. At a reception held recently, GTZ's Director Peter Rhode introduced the new activity in Nepal.
The Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Laboratory and its lethal contensts are safe from a wildfire raging in the area, senior U.S. officials have said as they launched a probe into the massive blaze.
Water Resources minister Dr C P Thakur on Friday informed the Lok Sabha that a national plan to recharge the ground water by utilising surplus monsoon run-off has been prepared. It would form the part of government's endeavour to increase ground water level, he added.
The waters of the Narmada are likely to prove a mirage for Rajasthan even as the authorities here have based their calculations on the river project for future water supply to Jaisalmer, Barmer and Jalore districts.WEhile the Chief Minister, Mr. Asok Gehlot, believes that Narmada waters would soon become a …
Forest fires are common in the state this time of the year . Official sources said this year, over 1000 fires have broken out affecting nearly 200,000 hectares of land.
The Bihar minister for forests and environment, Manoj Yadav, admitted at Ranchi today that the state's forest cover has shrunk to 16 per cent of the total area compared to the national average of 33 per cent.
