Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Sternly reminding corporate behemoth Reliance Industries of the importance of social responsibility and environmental concern, a division bench of the Madras High Court asked the company to first assess the impact of its natural gas project on the local population and environment. Disposing of a public interest writ petition moved …
The Rashtrapati Bhavan, the official residence of the President of India, will get an ISO: 14001 certification as the international auditors from Bureau Veritas (BVQI) have wrapped up their auditing. They will be awarding the certificate by the end of this week. A film on the entire process of implementation …
Manas Dasgupta DANDI (GUJARAT): Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh launched the Green Action for National Dandi Heritage Initiative project in the historic coastal village in south Gujarat on Wednesday. It was at Dandi that Mahatma Gandhi launched his salt Satyagraha 80 years ago. Mr. Ramesh …
New Delhi: Public sector undertakings have put systems in place to ensure that Bhopal like disasters do not happen again, PSUs apex body SCOPE said on Tuesday.
K V SINGH & SHEPHALI MEHRA BIRDI Mr Singh is partner and Ms Birdi is senior associate with Kochhar & Co THE RECENT VERDICT IN THE BHOPAL GAS tragedy was a foregone conclusion, but merely fixing the blame for the carnage and the chain of events thereafter is not enough. …
Minister of Technology and Research Professor Tissa Vitharana said that his ministry would establish a task force to protect biodiversity and traditional knowledge and prevent bio piracy. "Sri Lanka is a country which is rich in biodiversity, but some countries have recently obtained the patents for some of our products," …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is supporting the Government of India (GOI) and State Governments through the Sustainable Coastal Protection and Management Investment Program. The Program is being implemented in the states of Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka. The environmental assessment and review procedures to be applied to Program subprojects are …
New ways of thinking about governance are challenging our basic understandings about how we organise ourselves in a world that is increasingly characterised by uncertainty, ambiguity and unpredictability, and about how we should organise ourselves (emphasis added). Through consideration of developments in East Africa under the auspices of a United …
In order to optimize the local and regional, socioeconomic and cultural benefits of rafting on Ganges in Uttarakhand without impacting the ecological and environmental assets of this Himalayan region, it is important to rationalize the annual and daily operating times and numbers of rafts and rafting camps. The appropriateness of …
Under the joint aegis of Chitransh Amulya Dutta PG Mahavidyalaya and MP Science and Technology Council a two-day seminar on `significance of environmental management programme in present scenario with respect to climatic change' started today. The seminar was inaugurated by Barkatullh University Vice Chancellor professor Nisha Dubey. Professor Nisha Dubey …
With an aim to prevent further pollution in the highly industrialized Sambalpur-Jharsuda belt, the Orissa government today allowed the Orissa State Pollution Control Board to implement the interim recommendations of the Nagpur-based National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI). As a result, twelve aluminium and power projects in this belt now …
Bangladesh and South Korea have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Environmental Protection on Monday. The MOU was signed when Environment Minister of Republic of Korea Lee Maa Nee met the Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her hotel suite in the afternoon, said Press Secretary to the Prime …
National seminar on " Significance of Environmental Management Programme in Present Scenario with Respect to climate Change" in being organized at Regional Science Centre, Shyamla hills Bhopal by Chitransh ADPG College in collaboration with Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology. This was informed by Sudha Saxena, principal of Chitransh …
Palampur: The Global Convention on Climate Security, to be held here from May 28 to 30, will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal. The World Environment Foundation (WEF), which has been holding annual conferences on environment management in Palampur, plans to hold the meeting on a bigger scale …
Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) retained National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) for conducting Environmental Post Evaluation of the Projects under the Schemes in the Taj Trapezium Zone. The objectives of the study was to see improvement in environmental quality on the environs of Taj Mahal and other historical …
What is the shape our climate-challenged world is in? Rich developed countries have made it clear they are not interested in any talk about their past emissions. They point to emissions emerging economies such as India and China will spew in the future. That, they say, is the real problem. …
