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 …
The union ministry on Friday had issued the final notification on reducing the Karanala Bird Sanctuary's Eco-Sensitive Zone. This move was to pave way for 22-km sea bridge to become a reality, free from any jurisdiction related to the environment and forest. The Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link (MTHL) project received a …
Residents of Chadiyara village have lodged a complaint against the illegal cutting of a hill. Two houses were damaged following a landslide on Tuesday. The hill had caved in due to illegal extraction of earth. In their complaint to the National Green Tribunal, the villagers alleged that the contractor had …
Remembering the 1857 uprising in Meerut, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the Rs 7,566-crore Delhi-Meerut Expressway will show a way to freedom from pollution. "Meerut is specially remembered for 1857 freedom movement. In 1857, it showed the way to freedom from slavery and today Delhi-Meerut Expressway is showing the …
According to the Census 2011, the urban population in the state was 17.0 million with a total of 297 towns including 184 municipal towns. Since then three more municipal towns have been added making the number 187. The real-estate sector too has taken quantum leap due to proactive involvement of …
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has assigned the responsibility to the Wildlife Institute of India to prepare a technical document ‘Eco-friendly measures to mitigate impacts of linear infrastructure on wildlife’ for rail, road and power transmission line planners and managers; forest and wildlife managers and wildlife …
The MoEF had published a draft notification amending the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification, 2011, in June to permit reclamation for a coastal road. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on Wednesday issued a final notification to allow reclamation for a coastal road, formally paving the way for …
Bihar will seek financial assistance of Rs 55,970 crore from the Centre for the construction, development and renovation of various national highways (NHs) and mega bridges when deputy CM Tejashwi Prasad Yadav will call on Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi on December 30. …
BHUBANESWAR: Dusts were seen lying scattered over several roads in the city. When a vehicle passes through the roads, suddenly a cloud of dusts appear and leave the passerby gasp for fresh breath. Mostly street roads and arterial roads are dustier than the major roads like Janpath, Governor?s house to …
Ahmedabad: City-based road safety expert Amit Khatri won India Road Safety Mission 2015, instituted by Maruti Suzuki last year, in individual category. His was the only nomination from Gujarat across the categories such as government, corporate, educational institutes, NGOs and individual efforts for the year 2014-15. Khatri received the award …
The Government of Gujarat recognises that road accidents have now become a major public health issue, and the victims are mainly the poor and vulnerable road users. The Government of Gujarat further recognises that as road accidents involve roads, motor vehicles and the human beings, road safety needs to be …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Rohit Choudhury Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 26/11/2015 regarding commercial/ construction activity which are coming up within 10 KM of the boundary of the Kaziranga National Park.
Mumbai: Members of the civic improvements committee visited the site of a proposed road that would cut right through a portion of the iconic Kamala Nehru Park at Malabar Hill on Tuesday, after several citizens and corporators raised objection over the same. There are 72 trees that will be affected …
Anguished over the way in which its order to transplant trees to widen a South Delhi road was being implemented, the National Green Tribunal today held officials of the Public Works Department and other agencies responsible and warned of deducting their salaries. "Even if a single tree (out of transplanted …
The first aptly-titled SolaRoad made its debut last November in the Netherlands, not far from Amsterdam. The road itself is a unique foray in pollution-free solar energy. Nearly one year later, the SolaRoad’s designers say the high-tech bike path is performing better than they expected. In the first six months …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday, announced three mega road projects that will benefit Delhi by reducing traffic congestion and pollution levels. Forming a ring around the National Capital Region (NCR), the Eastern (connecting Kundli, Ghaziabad and Palwal) and the Western (Kundli, Manesar and Palwal) Peripheral Expressways were conceived almost …
Nigeria plans to set up a $25 billion infrastructure fund to invest in the transport and energy sectors in Africa's most populous nation, a spokesman for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said on Thursday. Laolu Akande said money for the planned fund would come from local and international sources including Nigeria's …
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill to keep federal funds flowing to road and bridge construction projects into late November, while also extending a key rail safety deadline to the end of 2018.
In an effort to ensure lesser vehicle congestion and more space for pedestrians, the Public Works Department (PWD) has decided to redesign 10 stretches in the capital. Sources said if the project is successful, the government would revamp the 1,260-km stretch of roads under the PWD at approximately Rs 6,000 …
The Global status report on road safety 2015, reflecting information from 180 countries, indicates that worldwide the total number of road traffic deaths has plateaued at 1.25 million per year, with the highest road traffic fatality rates in low-income countries. In the last three years, 17 countries have aligned at …
Agartala: Tripura government will construct 8000 houses to rehabilitate shifting cultivators, who are mainly living in the tree-top houses (Tong ghar) in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomus District Council Areas constituting two-thirds of the state territory. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar announced that state government would provide houses to hardcore Jhumia …
