Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Abhishek Panwar Vs Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board & Others dated 20/05/2025. The miscellaneous application was registered on the basis of the report of the joint committee dated July 20, 2024 filed by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) …
NEW DELHI: With Delhi having received just 141.8 mm of rainfall till August 10 this year as against the normal average of 394.7 mm, which marks a deficiency of 64 per cent, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Naresh Kumar has met Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and demanded that the …
The public of Deuduar Madanpur and Piyalikhata under Kamalpur revenue circle who had sacrificed their land for the construction of the four-lane highway have expressed strong concern over non-payment of land value till date by the government. The aggrieved public here said that though the government had given Jirat-value to …
Two days after traffic on the stretch was closed due to an underground fire, a 80-sq ft section of the NH 33 caved in near Kujju in Ramgarh district. Though no one was injured in the incident, the administration has cordoned off a three-sq km area and declared it a
Madhya Pradesh has no land to rehabilitate the dam oustees. Instead, the convoluted rules of the relief package create victims for conmen RANCHOR BHAI, dam oustee framed in a land scam IT WAS ONLY after spending a month in jail that Ranchor Bhai discovered why he was there.
While the agricultural scientists are urging for speedy completion of seedling transplantation to save the agricultural sector in this drought-like situation, the Agriculture Department expects that by the end of August, transplantation activities would be able to cover about 95 per cent of the winter paddy crop area if the …
Dharamsala: As the state has been declared drought hit, the government has decided to give a surcharge tax waiver on agriculture as compensation to farmers. However, according to the data collected by the Revenue Department, the loss due to drought in Kangra district had been Rs 199 crore, including loss …
NIMBLE thought can jump both sea and land, mused the Poet obviously unconcerned about the need to acquire plots for plants, factories and whole industries. That was then, in less complicated times sans a host of rigidities amidst flux and change. Fastforward to the here and now, and the report …
There have been allegations by No 52 National Highway Land Preservation Demand Committee that the government has shown an apathetic attitude towards them in distribution of compensation to the owners of the acquired land along NH 52 for widening of a 31-km stretch of the highway from Dirak to Rupai. …
Pranab Bardhan The proposed pieces of legislation on land acquisition represent an improvement over existing ones, but are still unsatisfactory. The opportunistic and partisan stalling of the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bills in the Cabinet recently by Mamata Banerjee has provided an opportunity to rethink some of the …
The Mapithel Dam Affected Ching-Tam Organization (MDACTO) chairman, Rantha Shaiza, addressing a press conference in Imphal today, said that they were not against the construction of Mapithel dam, their only demand was that the Government of Manipur give appropriate compensation without any discrimination to the people affected by the dam. …
The government yesterday donated houses to 495 families who were displaced by the construction of the Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project, inaugurated by President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the President
The inevitable displacement of indigenous people due to transformation of their habitats for use in industrial projects is one of the consequences of the Indian economic growth story. Many issues abound
For the past more than 15 days, the two hours of wait for the half an hour electricity supply for 75-year old Ramesh Lal, a resident of Pangdor village of Samba district, seems to be a never ending affair as everyday he has to walk several kilometres from the village …
Meghalaya demands compensation from the Centre as a reward for preserving and giving a thrust to environment and ecology------- When Jacquelin Lyndoh of St. Mary's College, Shillong, was planting a sapling little did she know that her sapling would be one of those thousands that have gone on to increase …
Shell Oil has agreed to pay reparations in the case in a New York court that implicated it in the 1995 execution of the Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. It is only by a mix of radical social pressure
Sea levels rising between 3mm and 5mm a year; tidal surges will intensify say scientists a steady stream of people can be seen making their way to the main jetty in Chotomollakhali island in the Sunderbans these days. On an average, about 200 of them leave for the mainland each …
