Mumbai: The state government has handed the redevelopment of a 140-acre plot to a single developer, skipping the competitive bidding process, by invoking a little-known clause of the Slum Rehabilitation Act, 1971. This is the first project to be allotted using this clause.
Durgapur Expressway finally breathing easy on Monday. Picture by Pradip Sanyal Calcutta, Sept. 8: If the Nano plant in Singur is allowed to run at full capacity, it will rank among the largest car-making facilities in the world, information culled from a government document suggests. The document, released by the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC), outlines the terms of its agreement with Tata Motors for the lease of 997.11 acres and says the plant will make 250,000 cars a year working in two shifts.
The MCD has moved Supreme Court, asking for land in the Ridge area for new landfill sites. Environmentalists have said that the plan to create landfill sites at the Asola Bhatti wildlife sanctuary
On any other day, the swanky Durgapur Express Highway is a picture of calm efficiency, with trucks rumbling down this four-lane expressway which connects West Bengal with India's main arteries. It's rare, say the locals, to see a car on the 4.5-km-long stretch that outlines Tata Motors' Nano facility, nestled amidst lush, green fields at Singur, some 40-45 km off Calcutta.
Sept 12: A three-member committee appointed by the Andhra Pradesh High Court to assess the removal of encroachments in Kolleru lake informed the apex court that the encroachments are yet to be cleared and water is spread in the lake in 77,000 acres as against 2.5 lakh acres.
Mohali, September 07 Free land, Rs 2.5 crore for private school The Punjab government has formulated a new scheme to improve the poor state of education in the state. Under this scheme, the state government will provide free land and Rs 2.5 crore as capital investment to open a new school that would be run and managed by the private sector. Punjab Chief Secretary Ramesh Inder Singh said this while addressing an exposition on rural education revolution organised by the Kalgidhar Trust of Baru Sahib in Mohali late on Saturday evening.
Hurricane Dennis raced ashore on the US Gulf Coast on Sunday with ferocious 120-mph (195 kph) winds and pounding waves that lashed an area still scarred by last year's storms. Before it hit land,
Des-pite there is bright prospect of cultivation of herbal (medicinal) trees and plants in fallow lands, in tea-gardens of Bangladesh , there is indeed no progress in materialising to implement the
Water logging in over 500 acres of agricultural land near the Chilli pond, near here, has submerged standing vegetable and paddy crops. Farmers have suffered heavy losses due to the accumulation of
Marcus Dam Says they were held in a spirit of understanding and would be resumed today KOLKATA: The much-anticipated talks between representatives of the West Bengal government and the Trinamool Congress to break the deadlock over the Tata Motors project at Singur were held here on Friday, six hours later than originally planned. Though the three-hour discussions at the Raj Bhavan were inconclusive, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, who chaired the talks, described the exercise as
Since the time accreditation was introduced to organic farming in 2001, India has touched the one million hectare mark as compared to 42,000 hectares of land in 2003-04.
Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Ltd has said the Ministry of Environment and Forests has granted final approval for diversion of 149 hectares of forest land in Utkal-C Coal Block in Angul District, Odisha,
In a densely populated country like India, one cannot afford to let land remain idle. To make these lands cultivable, the productive approach is through watershed development. Understanding the
Panaji, Sept 9 Mining in Goa
Deo Raises Issues Concerning Tribal People Pune: Corporate interests in mining pose the biggest threat to tribal communities, which has triggered an upsurge in left-wing extremism in certain areas, Union minister for tribal affairs V Kishore Chandra Deo said here on Tuesday.
More than five years after the Forest Rights Act, 2006, was implemented in the country, Union minister for tribal affairs V Kishore Chandra Deo said its execution was slow. “The implementation of the act is the responsibility of the state governments which I found to be rather slow and tardy,” Deo said.
BATTLEGROUND FARMLAND Bs Reporter / New Delhi September 04, 2008, 1:03 IST The Anil Agarwal-owned Vedanta group has made substantial headway in land acquisition for its three projects in Orissa which entail a combined investment of over Rs 30,000 crore. The group needed 11,700 acres for its university at Puri, an alumina refinery at Lanjigarh, and its smelter and power project at Bharkhamunda near Jharsuguda. It has already acquired about 7,515 acres.
SHILLONG: The decision of the state government to go ahead with the construction of the four lane from the existing road at Umsning has called for both applause and criticism from the local residents of
<p>Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Kalkaji Mandir Vikreta Sangathan-II & Others Vs Piyush Joshi & Others dated 15/12/2015 regarding sanitation and cleanliness of the Kalkaji
<p>Munrothuruthu (‘Munroe Island’) is a place renowned for continuous settlement, in the Kollam district of Kerala. The Indian Ocean earthquake and Tsunami of 2004 triggered this major problem.
