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 …
C Shivakumar | LARGE-SCALE unauthorised development in and around the sterile zone of the Kalpakkam nuclear complex is being planned, violating national and international reactor guidelines and putting to risk the security of the nuclear establishment and the people. The national and international guidelines stipulate that the area within 1.6km …
The surroundings are horribly unnerving even for a species dismissively called 'lesser flamingo': a five-acre mudflat surrounded by a crumbling old port, a ship breaking yard, two oil refineries, a fertilizer plant, and a sprawling slum. But this is where the glorious birds take their six-month sojourn every year starting …
Ponds and other water bodies are being filled brushing aside environmental aspects in Sherpur town, which graduated to a district town from a thana town even after the liberation of the country. Filling the ponds and water bodies, the residents of the town are making houses and other infrastructures. During …
population." Experts studying images taken from space were initially baffled by reddish-brown splodges on the ice. "It turned out they were the feces, guano stains, of the emperors," Trathan said. "There's a really good contrast between the dark poo stains and the ice." Scientists widened the search for the tell-tale …
From January 1 this year, 79 elephants had been killed. More than half of them victims of the human-elephant conflict, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said. There were also 11 human deaths due to elephant attacks, Ranawaka told a press conference held at the Central Environment Authority …
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 …
One fifth of Europe's reptiles and nearly a quarter of its amphibians are in danger because of the threat humans pose to their natural habitat, according to a study carried out for the European Commission. The tortoise family, vipers, wall lizards such as the Tenerife speckled lizard, and pond turtles …
The list of birds threatened with extinction has grown fractionally; a new sign that governments are failing to meet a 2010 global conservation goal, an annual review of birds showed on Thursday. A 2009 "Red List" added birds including the newly discovered gorgeted puffleg -- a bright-coloured Colombian hummingbird -- …
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has upheld a Bush administration finding that the Endangered Species Act is not a suitable tool for restricting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threatening the polar bear and its habitat. We agree, with this codicil: There are steps Mr. Salazar can and must take under …
Major palm oil buyers face being graded for their green credentials after figures showing they have bought only a fraction of the sustainable palm oil available, environmental group WWF said on Tuesday. About 1.3 million tonnes of certified sustainable palm oil has been available since November last year, but only …
Wild elephants, that lived in the Buttala, Kataragama and Wellawaya areas in the Pahala Uva region of the Monaragala district have come to the forests off Ambarangala, Koslanda, Makaldeniya, Puunaagala and Seeriyabedda in the Haldummulla Divisional Secretariat of the Badulla district, say the Haldummulla public. These jumbos have become a …
CHANDIGARH: Bahujan Samaj Party candidate for the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat Harmohan Dhawan on Monday asked how without a proper transfer policy could Union Minister of State for Finance Pawan Kumar Bansal, the Congress candidate for the seat, promise the residents another storey whereas they
The Punjab government is considering to move a bill in the provincial assembly of Punjab to discourage setting up of housing schemes at cultivable land. This move is being made to ensure availability of maximum cultivable land for wheat and other produces, Senior Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab, Sardar Zulfiqar …
The country, at present, is facing a shortfall of 6 million housing units and in order to bridge this gap the government needs to provide adequate funding for House Building Finance Corporation (HBFC), Vice chairman, standing committee on housing and construction industry of FPCCI, Saleem Kassim Patel said.
