Energy

These houses wake up to solar energy advantage

INDORE: Realizing benefits of power generation from solar energy, three houses in Indore have gone for solar plant.

Publication Date: 
21/05/2013
Arpita Sarkar
Times Of India (Indore)
Tags:
Madhya Pradesh, Solar Energy, Indore (T), Electricity
Transport

Popularity of 'ibus' on the rise in Indore

INDORE: Following lukewarm response in the first week, trial run of 'ibus' of Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) has started witnessing hordes of commuters of late.

Publication Date: 
21/05/2013
Times Of India (Indore)
Tags:
Madhya Pradesh, Indore (T), Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), Public Transport
Energy

For 120 defaulters, discom snaps power to MP village of 7,000

Bhopal: At dawn every day, elders of Goodar village in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district task one of the village youths with his most important assignment of the day — collecting mobile phones fro

Publication Date: 
21/05/2013
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Madhya Pradesh, Shivpuri (D), Rural Electrification, Power Transmission
Hazardous Waste

Maharashtra generates highest amount of hazardous waste

India generates 7.9 million tonnes of hazardous waste every year with the highest amount generated by Maharashtra, the environment ministry said Friday.

Publication Date: 
18/05/2013
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Maharashtra, Hazardous Waste, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Toxic Wastes, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh
Water Pollution

Stop discharge of effluent to Upper Lake: Green Tribunal

BHOPAL: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the state government to take measures to ensure that there no discharge of effluent, domestic discharge, sewage or any solid waste disposal in

Publication Date: 
18/05/2013
Times Of India (Bhopal)
Tags:
Madhya Pradesh, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Lakes, Lake Pollution, Bhopal, Solid Waste, Waste Disposal
Agriculture

Farmers’ suicide rates soar above the rest

Suicide rates among Indian farmers were a chilling 47 per cent higher than they were for the rest of the population in 2011.

Publication Date: 
18/05/2013
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Farmers, Census 2011, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh
Environment

Controversy looming large over Chutka nuclear project

Upcoming project in MP to displace local tribal population; proposed site in highly seismic zone near Kanha National Park

Locals of Mandla district will once again raise their voices against 1400 MW NPCIL (Nuclear Power Corporation India Limited) Chutka project which is coming up in highly seismic zone, near Kanha national park and adjacent to one of the least polluted river Narmada. State government officials have already issued land acquisition notices to local people, almost all of them are tribal, and have slapped a NEERI (National Environmental Engineering Research Institute) report which is Greek to them.

Publication Date: 
15/05/2013
Shashikant Trivedi
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Madhya Pradesh, Mandla (D), Kanha NP, Nuclear Power Plants, Nuclear Power Corporation Of India (NPCIL), Narmada, River Pollution, Land Acquisition, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Public Hearing, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Nuclear Safety, Earthquakes, Displacement, Environment
Wildlife

State claws its way back in lion war

Files Review Petition In SC; Says MP Misled Court

Ahmedabad: The battle over the translocation of lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh is back in the Supreme Court. The Gujarat government on Tuesday moved a petition challenging the April 15 order which directed the state to translocate lions to Palpur-Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh.

Publication Date: 
15/05/2013
Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
Tags:
Gujarat, Lion, Relocation, Madhya Pradesh, Palpur-Kuno SA, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Wildlife Act 1972, Wildlife
Hazardous Waste

Order of the National Green Tribunal, Central Zonal Bench Bhopal on M.A. No.05/2013 Greater Gwalior Plastic Traders Association Vs Union of India & Ors

Order of the National Green Tribunal, Central Zonal Bench Bhopal M.A. No.05/2013 Greater Gwalior Plastic Traders Association Vs Union of India & Ors on prevention of plastic carry bags in Bhopal.

Judgement Date: 
15/05/2013
Tags:
Plastics, Hazardous Waste, Bhopal (T), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Madhya Pradesh, Municipal Corporation
Wildlife

Gujarat government to file review plea against lion shifting today

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat government will file a review petition on Tuesday to stop Gir lions from being translocated to Madhya Pradesh.

Officials are set to file a review petition against the Supreme Court's April 15 order which said some Lions should be sent to the neighbouring state's Palpur Kuno Sanctuary.

Publication Date: 
14/05/2013
Ajay Umat, Himanshu Kaushik
Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
Tags:
Gujarat, Gir NP, Lion, Relocation, Madhya Pradesh, Supreme Court, Palpur-Kuno SA, Endangered Species, Wildlife

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