Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News item published in Newspaper ‘The Hindu’ dated 04.02.2023 titled “19 families shifted after houses in J & K village develop cracks” dated 20/09/2023. The issue relates to the damage caused to 21 structures in Doda district of Chenab Valley …
The Bombay High Court has given Lavasa Corporation Ltd six weeks' time to submit documents demanded by the Union ministry of environment and forests. Lavasa has time till March 10 to pacify the ministry, which had ordered the corporation to stop work on November 25 last year saying the township …
The Janasevana housing and settlement development program is being implemented with the intention of providing housing facilities to one million houseless families of the country within the next five years. This housing program is aimed at providing housing facilities to all communities in our society, nearly 60,000 families will benefit …
The Coast Conservation Department is conducting several projects based on erosion, disaster and habitats to develop coastal areas to support the Government's development process, said Coast Conservation Department Director General Anil Premarathne. There are 14 coastal districts in Sri Lanka. So the majority of the country's population live in coastal …
Revised guidelines for identification/notification of critical wildlife habitats as per the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.
In 10 years, quake-ravaged Bhuj rises from the dust thanks to government initiatives, corporate enthusiasm and resilience of enterprising individuals. The town is growing horizontally to avoid disasters that tall buildings pose. Shramana Ganguly Mehta & Parag Dave report BHUJ. It is a word that almost became a synonym for …
The district-level vigilance meeting resolved to urge the Union Government to increase the amount under Indira Awas Yojana to Rs 75,000. The decision was taken at a meeting held under the presidentship of former Prime Minister and MP H D Deve Gowda. Both the MPs H D Deve Gowda and …
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday sought clarifications from the state government and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on whether it was mandatory to regularise illegal constructions and also directed the BMC to survey the entire P-North ward to chalk out a list of illegal structures underconstruction or standing. Division Bench …
A special session of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on greening the City ended in a deadlock on Wednesday after a heated debate on how to green the City - by cosmetic landscaping with exotic grasses, gazebos and pergolas, or by growing trees in parks. The discussion that followed …
The Legislative Assembly on Thursday passed the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage system (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to make it mandatory for all new buildings in Bangalore to adopt rain water harvesting technique. Besides, all old buildings with above built-up area of more than 2,400 sq ft should adopt the …
A survey to assess seismic vulnerability of the built environment in Chennai has classified 29 per cent of the buildings in the city as highly vulnerable in an earthquake event. The survey undertaken by the Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management (CDMM) at Anna University aerially mapped 22,758 medium-to-tall buildings …
In a meeting held on Tuesday, fishermen and environmentalists strongly opposed the government proposal to relocate 1,356 slum tenements and evict more than 3,000 hutments in Srinivasapuram to create a 15-acre park near Adyar Creek. They also objected to the development of a 45-lakh square-feet commercial hub which includes theatres …
This report takes a new approach to assessing the climate vulnerability of the world and its regions, countries and communities. Its analysis is built around: four distinct climate impact areas; five levels of vulnerability to climate change; and two points in time, 2010 and 2030. The climate impact areas are: …
Polar bears are likely to lose out to grizzly bears in fierce competition for food as climate change drives the two species closer together into shared habitat, biologists concluded in a study released on Tuesday. The research was based on 3-D computer modeling that compared the skull and jaw strength …
Wild tigers could become extinct in 12 years if countries fail to take quick action to protect their habitats and step up the fight against poaching, global wildlife experts told a
Nepal needs at least US$ 42.7 million from the international community and conservation partners to carry out conservation programmes to meet the global tiger recovery goal and double the wild population of tigers, a meeting was told here on Friday. As part of celebrations for the International Tiger Year 2010, …
Chennai: Encouraged by the zeal witnessed at the recent world classical Tamil conference, the state government has decided to fund an undersea expedition to excavate remains of a 2,000-year-old town, Poompuhar or Kaveripoompattinam, submerged under the sea off the Nagapattinam coast in Tamil Nadu. Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography
