Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
To have a >50% chance of limiting warming below 2 °C, most recent scenarios from integrated assessment models (IAMs) require large-scale deployment of negative emissions technologies (NETs). These are technologies that result in the net removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. We quantify potential global impacts of the different …
Three years and more than 100 amendments later, the revised Master Plan for Delhi 2021 (MPD-2021) is nearly ready. While the Centre will soon notify provisions for transit-oriented development (TOD) and the environment, some amendments have already been implemented. But is MPD-2021 a feasible plan? How much of it has …
Conversion charges for plots, sheds in these estates approved The Haryana Cabinet today decided to allow mixed land use of industrial plots and sheds in industrial estates in existence in the state as on November 1, 1966, the day the state came into existence. Industrial estates to be additionally covered …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Oswal Agro Mills Ltd. Vs Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. and Others dated 10/12/2013 regarding conversion of land use. These appeals are directed against order dated 12.4.2012 by which the Division Bench of the Bombay High Court allowed the writ …
Jaipur: The Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) will start the procedure to change the land use of the Prithvi Raj Nagar (PRN) scheme in the Master Plan 2025. At present the scheme is marked as Special zone in the plan. In a meeting chaired by GS Sandhu, the urban development and …
Davorlim villagers on Sunday threatened to take to the streets if the government fails to scrap the land acquisition process to acquire land admeasuring 1.15 square meters for the multipurpose utility project. They demanded that the Davorlim panchayat again invite PWD Minister and local MLA Churchill Alemao for a meeting …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: It was a PIL that freed Gandhinagar from the clutches of the babus in September last year. The Gujarat government displayed a haste and declared Gandhinagar a municipal corporation on May 1
The ongoing acquisition of land measuring over 1,500 acres for various development projects in Greater Mohali area has met with a stiff opposition from landowners. Whether it is the land acquisition for the garbage dumping ground, connectivity to upcoming international airport, mixed land use or the Mullanpur Urban Estate, the …
The CSE news report on proposal of Noida Development Authority to construct multi storey buildings on a site that is part of the Yamuna flood plain and is defined as agricultural land. It is feared that, this will reduce groundwater recharge & also disturb biodiversity of the Okhla bird sanctuary. …
Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy has come to the rescue of NGOs in the capital, who were being sealed out by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. The minister asked the NGOs to suggest some norms and criteria that can provide the basis for regularisation of NGO activity in residential and …
