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• 40 mining leases to be cancelled: CM

  PANJIM: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday said 40 mining leases granted illegally by the previous Congress regime will be cancelled. These 40 cases had been identified in the PAC report and a file proposing to take action has already been moved. Parrikar once again made this statement pointing out that the leases were renewed illegally by condoning the delay in the renewal procedure when there was no legal provision to do so. He took a dig at former chief minister and mines minister Digambar Kamat saying the House should direct these queries to the latter who had been heading the ministry for almost 14 years.

  • 07/08/2012

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Mineral-Based Industry
    • Environment
    • Court
    • Mining
    • Goa

• Watt is the problem

  Grid collapse points to enduring neglect of infrastructure in power sector. Last week, about half of India or roughly 10 per cent of the world’s population, suddenly found they had no electricity. A failure

  • 07/08/2012

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Energy
    • Electricity
    • Power Industry
    • Asia
    • South Korea
    • Hydroelectricity
    • Coal India
    • Coal

• NABARD sanctions Rs.4.27 crore for repairing shutters at Upper Anicut

  PWD had refurbished 15 shutters last year at a cost of Rs.2 cr. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned Rs.4.27 crore for repairing damaged shutters at the barrage across the Cauvery River at Upper Anicut (Mukkombu) near Tiruchi. Last year, the Public Works Department refurbished 15 of the 41 shutters on the barrage at a cost of Rs.2 crore, also sanctioned by the NABARD. The department had sought more funds for repairing the remaining shutters at an estimated cost of Rs.4.50 crore in the second phase.

  • 07/08/2012

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Tiruchirapalli (D)
    • Cauvery
    • National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD)
    • Infrastructure Development
    • Flood Control
    • Water Resources
    • Tamil Nadu

• Wary PMO denies info on Bhopal gas tragedy

  New Delhi: The Prime Minister’s Office has denied information on the Bhopal gas tragedy, Dow Chemicals and the London Olympic Games sponsorship issue under the RTI Act on the strange ground that a “third

  • 07/08/2012

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Bhopal (D)
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Games
    • Union Carbide
    • Chemical Industry

• Stop implementing ineffective water management practices’

  The Lower Bhavani Farmers Association claimed that the yagam conducted by Public Works Department at Bhavanisagar dam seeking divine intervention to bring rain was primarily a tactic to divert the attention of the people from the ineffective water management practices that took place in the dam this year. The authorities in the district had let out a large amount of water to the old ayacuts of Bhavani river violating the government orders and without considering the requirements of the farmers in LBP ayacut, association president S. Nallasamy told media persons on Monday.

  • 07/08/2012

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Erode (D)
    • Dams
    • Water Management
    • Bhavani Project
    • Farmers
    • Tiruppur
    • Karur (D)
    • Dams/ Irrigation
    • Tamil Nadu

• Chikungunya: door-to-door awareness campaign launched

  Pamphlets with details on anti-larval operations distributed To create awareness on chikungunya, health officials on Monday carried out door-to-door campaign, conducted fogging operations and distributed pamphlets at Achankuttapatti in Ayothiyapattinam block, near Salem. Of the total 350 families with 1,540 persons in Adi Dravidar Colony, over 300 were suffering from fever and joint pains for the past 10 -15 days. Health officials on Sunday collected samples and distributed medicines to all the villagers.

  • 07/08/2012

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Salem (D)
    • Chikungunya
    • Health Education
    • Preventive Medicine
    • Health Effects
    • Diseases
    • Health
    • Tamil Nadu

• Another gastro death in Dasuya: Health authorities blame leaking water pipes

  Hoshiarpur: Charan Kaur (85) of Chack Mehra village died of gastroenteritis at a private hospital in Dasuya last evening. Dr Avtar Singh, Civil Surgeon, Hoshiarpur, said at a medical camp at Chack Mehra

  • 07/08/2012

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • Waterborne diseases
    • Water Quality
    • Health
    • Health Care
    • Punjab
    • Primary Health Care
    • Tubewells
    • Hoshiarpur (D)

• Thrissur getting bogged down in mounds of garbage

  Road near Sakthan Nagar turns into a dumping yard Though the Thrissur Corporation managed to enter into a contract with a private agency for garbage disposal, the city’s sanitation condition has not improved a bit. The Salem-based company, which removed two loads of waste for one day has not turned up after that. The rotten waste collected from various parts of the city has been heaped on Pattalam Road, located in the heart of the city, for the past one week.

  • 07/08/2012

  • Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
  • • Thrissur (T)
    • Garbage
    • Waste Disposal
    • Sanitation
    • Waste Treatment
    • Solid Waste
    • Kerala

• Government seeks loan for power sector and urban development

  GUWAHATI: The first State review of the ongoing externally-aided projects in Assam took place today at the NEDFi House in Guwahati. The discussion was attended by Additional Chief Secretary PP Varma, Government

  • 07/08/2012

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)
  • • Silchar
    • Tezpur
    • Tinsukia (T)
    • Dhubri (T)
    • Guwahati
    • Dibrugarh (T)
    • Asian Development Bank (ADB)
    • World Bank
    • Tourism
    • Urban Development
    • North Eastern Ranges
    • Power Transmission
    • Roads
    • Development
    • Habitat And Urbanisation

• Confusion reigns on rural connectivity

  KOLKATA, 6 AUG: There was quite a bit of confusion within the administration after the Public Works Department (PWD) was asked to execute a project funded by the Asian Development Bank on rural connectivity,

  • 07/08/2012

  • Statesman (Kolkata)
  • • Rural Roads
    • Roads
    • Rural Development
    • West Bengal
    • Panchayats
    • Asian Development Bank (ADB)

• Public hearing

  GUWAHATI: In view of the increasing number of public complaints related to land grabbing and other land related issues, the district administration of Kamrup metro has decided to address the issues by

  • 07/08/2012

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)
  • • Guwahati
    • Public Hearing
    • Land Acquisition
    • Land
    • Assam

• Pobha Reserve Forest faces threat

  Jonai: Pobha Reserve Forest, situated on the outskirts of Jonai town is the lone reserve forest in the Jonai sub-division under Dhemaji Forest Division, which is on the verge of decline. This 10,000 square

  • 07/08/2012

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)
  • • Dhemaji (D)
    • Tropical Forests
    • Biodiversity
    • Forest Encroachments
    • Deforestation
    • Trees
    • Poaching
    • Forests
    • Assam

• CM seeks 500MW from Centre

  Jaipur: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday assured the Centre that the state would abide by the all the regulations with regard to drawing power from the Northern Grid. The assurance came during the chief ministers’ and state power ministers’ meeting on Grid Supply Management held in Delhi, and presided over by Union power minister Veerappa Moily. Gehlot also emphasized on the state’s increased requirement of power due to a poor monsoon and the wide gap between demand and availability. He requested for an additional 500 MW of power apart from the state’s defined quota for the forthcoming rabi season, besides an urgent need to address the irrigation requirement for the kharif crops.

  • 07/08/2012

  • Times Of India (Jaipur)
  • • Ministry of Power
    • Irrigation
    • Crops
    • Electricity
    • Coal
    • Natural Gas
    • Energy
    • Rajasthan

• India has declared three KG D6 discoveries commercial: oil min source

  RELIANCE-APPROVAL:India has declared three KG D6 discoveries commercial: oil min source A panel of Indian officials, including those from the upstream regulator, have declared three gas discoveries in Reliance Industries KG D6 block as commercial, subject to certain conditions, an oil ministry official told reporters. Reliance's budgeted expenditure on key gas fields from the D6 block for the three fiscal years 2010/11, 2011/12, and 2012/13 has also been approved, with some conditions, the official said.

  • 07/08/2012

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • India
    • Petrochemical Industry
    • Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
    • British Petroleum (BP)
    • Natural Gas
    • Energy

• TN: 50 peacocks found dead in Dindigul

  A large number of peacocks were found dead under suspicious circumstances in the Anaikkaradu forest area at Kaveriammanpatti village, Dindigul, on Monday. While villagers put the number of dead birds at “more than 50,” Forest Department officials claimed that only 15 were found dead. The dead birds were found near some mounds in the forest. Expressing shock over the development, villagers put the blame on farmers, who cultivated the land near these mounds, suggesting that they could have poisoned the birds to protect their crops.

  • 07/08/2012

  • New Indian Express (Chennai)
  • • Dindigul (D)
    • Peacock
    • Farmers
    • Crops
    • Forests
    • Panchayats
    • Birds
    • Wildlife
    • Tamil Nadu

• Farmers’ body opposes proposed Ground Water Bill

  The Vellore unit of the Tamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangam (TVS) has appealed to the government of India to roll back the Central Ground Water Regulation Bill. In a protest organised on Monday by the members of the TVS, led by its district secretary C K Dhanapal, the farmers said classification of ground water extraction regions should not be applied for farming activities. The sangam demanded waiving of all farm loans availed of by the farmers from any banking institutions without imposing any conditions.

  • 07/08/2012

  • New Indian Express (Chennai)
  • • Vellore (D)
    • Groundwater
    • Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)
    • Farmers
    • Kerala
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Karnataka
    • Groundwater Regulation
    • Water Resources
    • Tamil Nadu

• Demolish Adarsh as it lacks green nod, says MoEF official

  Reiterating its stand on the Adarsh housing society, a former Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) official told a judicial panel here today that the building has to be demolished as it does

  • 07/08/2012

  • Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
  • • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
    • Housing
    • Environment
    • Coastal Regulations
    • Mumbai
    • Maharashtra
    • High Court

• Captive power generation policy needs an overhaul

  The State government has a prohibitive policy on captive power generation, with 26 to 28 per cent of what is generated having to be sold to state discoms. While the policy was initiated to discourage captive generation earlier in the decade, there is a need to change it now as no respite from the power crisis is expected in the next year and a half. Currently, no input tax credit is given on generators and diesel. The industrial sector has to pay an electricity duty as well as maximum demand (MD) charges even when the sector is not getting full power supply.

  • 07/08/2012

  • Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
  • • Energy Policy
    • Electricity
    • Power Transmission
    • Industry
    • Energy
    • Andhra Pradesh

• Adarsh did not have CRZ clearance, former MoEF official tells probe panel

  The controversial Adarsh housing society building did not have a Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance from either the state or central government, a former environment ministry official told the Adarsh

  • 07/08/2012

  • Indian Express (Mumbai)
  • • Mumbai
    • Coastal Regulations
    • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
    • Housing
    • High Court
    • Buildings
    • Environment
    • Maharashtra

• OSPCB asked to prepare action plan for fly ash disposal in 3 months

  Bhubaneswar: Expressing concern over huge fly ash generation, utilisation and disposal, chairman of the Department related Standing Committee MLA Prafulla Mallick today directed the Odisha State Pollution

  • 07/08/2012

  • Pragtivadi (Bhubaneswar)
  • • State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
    • Fly Ash
    • Orissa (Odisha)
    • Waste Disposal
    • Supreme Court
    • Forest Resources
    • Forest Products
    • Environment
    • Building Materials