Order of the Bombay High Court in the matter of Adani Cementation Limited Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/03/2025. Adani Cementation Limited approached the Bombay High Court seeking issuance of an order directing the respondents/ authorities to permit the petitioner to carry out the work of construction of …
The fishermen from Mahul gaon, a quiet fishing village near Chembur, are a distressed lot. Oil leakage from refineries located in the area over the past two months has not just threatened their traditional fishing business, but has also adversely affected the health of the families residing there. “Nobody dares …
High court's nod is seen as a major boost for the long-delayed project. The Navi Mumbai international airport received a push on Tuesday with the Bombay High Court allowing the City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) to clear mangroves at the site for the airport. A division bench of chief …
Mumbai: In a major boost for the proposed Navi Mumbai airport, the Bombay high court on Tuesday gave its goahead to Cidco’s request to be able to clear mangroves for the greenfield project. Hearing an application filed by Cidco, a division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice M …
The National Committee on Thursday rejected prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s claim that the Rampal coal-based thermal power plant would not harm the environment. The prime minister on Wednesday told parliament that Rampal thermal power plant would not damage the environment as Barapukuria coal-based thermal power plant set up many years …
If you are planning a weekend trip to the Sunderbans, you can now look beyond the Sajnekhali wildlife sanctuary. With the state notifying the West Sunderbans Wildlife Sanctuary last month, the UNESCO World Heritage Site got its largest sanctuary. Comprising the forests of Chulkathi and Dhulibashani, this will be the …
Camera trapped census of the Bengal Tiger population and monitoring in the Sundarbans kicked off here today. More than a thousand field workers are using 89 cameras for trapping to count the total tiger population in the Bangladesh part of the world's largest mangrove forest, which also covers part of …
Preparing a health card for an ecosystem may sound a strange concept. However, an exercise to make one for Gujarat’s famous Marine National Park and Gulf of Kutch is currently underway. The idea behind the initiative undertaken by Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC) in collaboration with University of Maryland and National …
The Bombay high court order directing the state government to ban construction on wetlands can lend a lease of life to acres around the city’s coast where either construction or dumping of debris has destroyed mangroves, say activists. On Monday, the HC directed the state government to issue a circular …
Prominent environmental activists from Kochi surveyed the mangroves on Mulavakad island here on Tuesday, only to find that much of the mangrove wealth of the region had been destroyed in the name of development activities. A group of eight environmentalists set out to survey the state of mangroves in the …
The Bombay high court on Monday directed the state government to issue a circular to all civic bodies to ensure that no construction or reclamation is permitted on wetlands in Maharashtra. Adivision bench of Justice V M Kanade and Justice S C Gupte also directed the government to state if …
Ending a period of some speculation, India's Ministry of Environment & Forests ( MoEF) has placed its show-cause notice to the Adani Group online. The matter can be traced back to September 2012 when environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan set up a committee headed by environmentalist Sunita Narain to investigate persistent …
NEARLY one in four people on earth live in the countries that border the Bay of Bengal. The region is strategically vital to Asia's rising powers. Its low-lying littoral - including coastal regions of eastern India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra - is home to over half …
Nearly one in four people on earth live in the countries that border the Bay of Bengal. The region is strategically vital to Asia's rising powers. Its low-lying littoral - including coastal regions of eastern India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra - is home to over half …
Orissa on the East Coast along with West Bengal and Andhrapradesh has the locational disadvantage of being in the path of depression of severe cyclonic storms that occur before the onset of south-west monsoon or after it recedes .The super Cyclone and severe Cyclone of October 1999 devastated 14 prosperous …
The oil spill on the Uran coast close to Mumbai is larger than what was estimated, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has said. The admission came two days after the leak of crude oil from an ONGC pipeline. It took 12 hours to cap. Initially the MPCB estimated that …
Vincent Island has over 15 hectares of mangroves The estuarine Vincent Island on Ashtamudi Lake at Shakthikulangara in Kollam is a private property covered by over 15 hectares of rich mangrove forests. The island is the only place in India where the rare yellow mangrove ( Ceriops tagal ) is …
A new initiative launched today will raise money for community projects in Kenya by protecting and restoring the country's dwindling mangrove forests. The plan is to sell carbon credits earned by preserving the mangrove swamps to companies and individuals aiming to offset their carbon emissions and improve their green credentials. …
The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) strongly criticised Thursday the government move for setting up the Rampal power plant project near the Sundarban mangrove forest and urged the authorities concerned to shift it to another suitable place. "The implementation of the coal-based project is giving a 'wrong signal' to the international …
Extreme weather, sea-level rise and degraded coastal ecosystems are placing people and property at greater risk of damage from coastal hazards. The likelihood and magnitude of losses may be reduced by intact reefs and coastal vegetation1, especially when those habitats fringe vulnerable communities and infrastructure. Using five sea-level-rise scenarios, we …
A public interest litigation writ petition was filed before the High Court on Sunday seeking stay on the proposed coal-fired power plant at Rampal near Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, until assessment of the environmental impact of the project,. The petitioners, four lawyers of the Supreme Court, also sought …
