In order to use tenanted land for setting up of projects for community or public purpose, the Goa government has introduced the Goa Land Use (Regulation) Bill, 2024 seeking amendment to Section 3 of Goa Land Use (Regulation) Act, 1991 so as to specify in the Right to Fair Compensation …
Delhi eyes water from Himachal dam but without checking distribution losses in the city Fifty-year-old Jagir Singh Tomar is among the 700 families in Sirmaur district in Himachal Pradesh who would be affected by the proposed Renuka dam on Giri, a tributary of the Yamuna river. The project, via Haryana, …
? A massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 hit Indonesia off the west coast of Sumatra on the morning of December 26,2004, at 6:58 a.m. Another earthquake of magnitude 7.3 occurred 81km west of Pulo Kunji (Great Nicobar, India) at 9:51 a.m. on the same day. The earthquakes set off giant …
New Delhi: With only a few days to go for the Budget session of the Lok Sabha to begin, parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal is scheduled to meet top officials of government departments and ministries on Thursday to draw up a list of bills to be introduced in the …
Dharamsala: The office of Deputy Commissioner, Relief and Rehabilitation, formed especially by the state government for the welfare of Pong Dam oustees, has failed to even maintain proper data about oustees. As per information gathered by The Tribune, the office has been giving ambiguous data regarding eligibility certificates issued to …
US lawmakers have asked Dow Chemical to clean up the soil and underground water contaminated by the deadly gas leak at Union Carbide plant at Bhopal but the US firm disowned the liabilities saying that it never owned or operated the disgraced plant site. As many as 27 lawmakers have …
Plans to bulldoze an Indian mountain sacred to local people were controversial enough... before shareholder data revealed that a raft of UK household names, ranging from Jaguar cars to the Church of England, own shares in the company behind the mine, Vedanta Resources plc.
The government has began an agriculture rehabilitation programme for more than four lakh small, poor and marginal farmers at a cost of nearly Taka 32 crore with the aim of getting over the losses caused by the devastating cyclone Aila last month. The agriculture ministry sources said the government would …
The Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) wants the Centre to put the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill on fast track. Giving an outline of what ICC expected of the forthcoming Union Budget, its President, Mr Sanjay Budhia, said, "Among other things we want the Centre to act fast on the Land …
This is the letter by the Congress of United States, Washington to Chairman & CEO of Dow Chemical Company, Michigan, requesting that Dow ensures that a representative appear in the ongoing legal cases in India regarding Bhopal, that Dow meets the demands of the survivors for medical and economic rehabilitation, …
India, with its vast infrastructure in agricultural research and education, is best placed to usher in an era of hope in the lives of the Tamil farm and fisher families. The war has ended, but the struggle for economic survival is just beginning for the Tamil population of the Northern …
At the recent World Water Forum in Istanbul, Payal Parekh and her colleague Ann-Kathrin Schneider were deported. She spoke with Bharat Lal Seth What was your point at the World Water Forum We simply wanted to convey the destructiveness of dams. The World Water Forum was billed as a democratic …
The government has for the first time called for international help to rehabilitate the victims of cyclone Aila. Food Minister Abdur Razzak on Thursday urged development partners and NGOs at a meeting on post-Aila rehabilitation activities at his office to come out with assistance. He said the Government had earlier …
Mumbai The Bombay High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) at Mahul, challenging an SRA project near the refinery citing security reasons. The state government and the BMC had, however, informed the court that there is no security threat. According to the state,
B. Muralidhar Reddy To help Sri Lanka rehabilitate war-displaced COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday urged M.S. Swaminathan, father of the Indian Green Revolution, to help the nation finalise a road map for early rehabilitation and resettlement of the war displaced in the agriculture and fisheries sectors. In …
Sabyasachi Roy SUNDERBANS, 7 JUNE: The shores of the Gumdi river flowing through this riverine delta appears to be a study in contrast, two weeks after cyclone Aila. On one side, the mangrove forest frequented by deer and ruled by the Royal Bengal tiger remain unaffected, while on the other …
