Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Balwinder Kaur Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 19/03/2024. Balwinder Kaur, the applicant raised the grievance of risk of thousands of trees felling due to likelihood of land sliding. It was said that illegal mining is being carried out …
A cyclone slammed into parts of Bangladesh and eastern India on Monday, triggering tidal surges and flooding that forced some half a million people from their homes and killed almost three dozen people. Storm officials in coastal Bangladesh moved about 500,000 people to temporary shelters after they left their homes …
Heavy flooding and landslides have killed 94 people and left thousands of families homeless in northern Afghanistan since May 20, the United Nations said on Monday. Some 8,000 houses in 207 villages have been totally or partially destroyed after heavy rain across five provinces, affecting 13,689 families, the UN Office …
Mumbai: The widening of National Highway Number 7 (NH-7) - connecting New Delhi to Kanyakumari - has ground to a halt outside the Pench Tiger Reserve amid fears that any widening here will destroy the ecologically rich but fragile forest ecosystem. At a meeting in New Delhi on May 21 …
The Pench Tiger Reserve, which stretches across Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, is contiguous with the Nagzira Sanctuary, the Navegaon National Park, and the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra, which, combined, create a large green corridor running from southern Madhya Pradesh to eastern Maharashtra. The NH-7 cuts through this green corridor …
Komal Amit Gera / Chandigarh May 22, 2009, 1:39 IST In order to give impetus to investment in infrastructure projects in the wake of economic slowdown, the Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and National Highways is exploring the possibility of increasing the allocation of funds three-fold through the state public …
A logging operation planned by Asia's biggest pulp producer in Indonesia's Sumatra island threatens the habitat of rare orangutans, tigers and elephants, a joint report by five conservation groups said on Tuesday. A license has been given to a joint venture between Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and the Sinar …
Pune Mass transportation for the city and environment top the agenda of Mahesh Zagade, who took over as the new commissioner of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday. Zagade said his priority would be to focus on developing Pune
Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who was crying foul against the Centre for its partial attitude during the election campaign, revealed that the Centre has sanctioned Rs 854 crores under the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana (PMGSY).
An employment project involving repair of rural roads has benefited 24,444 poor women in six districts of the country. The project run by the Local Government Division of the Local Government and Rural Development and Coopera-tives Ministry is financed mainly by the European Commission. UNDP and the government are also …
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is planning to utilise Rs 1,352 crore capital received as upfront payment from private players while bidding for projects on lucrative stretches of national highways for other road development work. "NHAI has received Rs 1,352 crore as negative grant (upfront payments by bidders) …
Surajeet Das Gupta / New Delhi May 4, 2009, 0:24 IST The government has decided to raise the viability gap funding (VGF) for certain projects under the fifth phase of the National Highway Development Project (NHDP V), owing to poor response to the first few projects put up for bids …
Speakers at a meeting on Monday said that rural infrastructure project is an important initiative toward alleviating poverty of rural women. They said the project will assist and improve the condition of vulnerable households by providing security of livelihood after five years, when women those involved in the project will …
The government is going to expand its next Annual Development Programme (ADP) to near about Tk 29000 crore, ignoring experts' suggestion to limit the development budget within it's capacity to implement. "To create employment opportunities and maintain growth prospects we need a bigger development plan," Planning Minister AK Khandaker said …
MoEF to clear the 33 km passing through reserve forest THE Karnataka High Court, on March 19, vacated its stay on a road-widening project that environmentalists are opposing. Nearly two-thirds of the 51-km road, connecting Peerunwadi in Belgaum district with Chorla near Goa border, passes through a reserve forest in …
BEHRAMPORE: A major share of the MPLAD funds allotted for Murshidabad MP, Mr Abdul Mannan Hossain, was used to construct metal and concrete roads both in rural and urban areas of his constituency. Mr Hossain claimed that never in the history of Murshidabad, could any parliamentarian from his constituency could …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in addition to its earlier commitments, is considering more funds for the construction of the Padma Bridge. The assurance came during a meeting between Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain and an eight-member ADB delegation led by Director of South Asian Transport and Communications (SATC) Kazuhio …
In more than 100 villages, the Chandigarh-Phagwara express highway, which will pass through Mohali, Chamkaur Sahib, Machhiwara, Nawanshahr and Phagwara areas, has become an election issue. Most of the farmers, who have been issued notices for the acquisition of their land for the project, are opposed to the highway project. …
Mumbai Of 260 tenants, around 100 have signed the MoU; the rest demand more time to vacate buildings After the nodal agency for the construction of the Santacruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) pulled up its socks to quicken the rehab process in the project, the project affected persons (PAPs) are now …
