Atmospheric aerosols are of significant environmental importance, due to their effects on air quality, as well as their ability to alter the planet’s radiative balance. Recent studies characterizing the
Chandigarh: The area under premium quality paddy, particularly Pusa 1121 variety, will increase in the state from 3.5 lakh hectares last year to 7 lakh hectares this year.
Chandigarh: Over 170.25 acres of declared forestland around Chandigarh is under unlawful construction by bigwigs, says a report submitted to the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The Sindh Water Committee reiterated its opposition to the Greater Thal canal and alleged that the project had been undertaken to facilitate high-ranking defence officers who had been doled out land
A Government of India pilot project is being implemented by the Forest department in Mirzapur and Mahoba in Uttar Pradesh. About 250 hectares of community land has been identified for
There is good news for poor farmers having small unirrigated land holdings in the hills of Uttaranchal. Pilot efforts by the Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organisation (HESCO), the
THE Congress high command is caught in a delicate situation on Jammu and Kashmir, where chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has launched an all-out operation to mobilise numbers to survive the July 7 trust-vote after the PDP pull-out. Apprehensive about Mr Azad poaching on a section of its MLAs, the PDP leadership has registered a strong protest, cautioning the party high command that any misadventure by the chief minister months ahead of the assembly poll could trigger a crisis in the sensitive border state.
There would be no more diversion of forest land for mining according to Goa mineral policy 2013. It also envisages promotion of tourism in the mining belt of the state to create employment opportunities for the people.
The tussle between Coal India (CIL) and NTPC over the relocation of the latter’s proposed thermal power plant in Jharkhand seems headed towards a resolution. The power ministry has “agreed to compromises”
The agricultural land In tsunami affected Tamil Nadu , Pondicherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands is likely to remain infertile and uncultivable for the next five to six years due to saline water which
A congested NH34 in Malda. The highway passes right through the town. Picture by Surajit Roy Malda, July 1: The expansion of NH34 from Barasat to Dalkhola will be completed by 2011, National Highways Authority officials said today. The stretch between Barasat in North 24 Parganas and Dalkhola in North Dinajpur will be widenend to four lanes. "Provisions are being kept to turn it into a six-lane road in future. The land acquisition is being made with an eye to achieving the goal,' said Srikumar Bhattacharya, the project director of the NHAI here.
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Palam Dharam Deo Solanki has in a letter to Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar demanded that the rural areas of Delhi be declared
People across the globe will be celebrating the 35th Earth Day on April 22, focussing on concerns about what is happening to our land, rivers, lakes and air. According to conservationists in the
Bhata land is an important lateritic and well known category of wastelands, which covers extensive area in Chhattisgarh. Sporadic patches of plantations have been raised in this land on experimental basis, for selecting suitable species for taking up large-scale plantations. Present study was carried out in 20-years old plantations at Mohan bhata in Bilspur district.
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pandit Hari Shankar Samadhiya Vs. Union of India & Others dated 27/09/2013 on pollution in the area of the Morar River bed in the city of Gwalior.
Akhil Bhartiya Vidarthi Parishad activists wave the national flag during a protest in Jammu. JAMMU: Protesters blocked traffic and fought pitched battles with police here as the BJP-Shiv Sena sponsored shutdown demanding removal of Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra over the Amarnath Shrine land row entered the second day on Tuesday. Three BJP activists were injured in skirmishes with police as demonstrators burnt tyres and torched effigies of the Governor, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, police said.
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir cabinet is likely to revoke the order to transfer land to the Amarnath shrine board besides allocating key portfolios that fell vacant after resignations by PDP ministers. A meeting of the cabinet under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is scheduled for Tuesday during which a discussion will be held on the order to hand over 39.88 hectares of land to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) and a decision taken on it, official sources said here.
Human activities, such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use, influenced specific extreme weather and climate events in 2014, including tropical cyclones in the central Pacific, heavy rainfall in Europe,
Questioning the very utility of the Coal Ministry
Although over 50 affluent canals once used to flow through the capital and added to its lifeline, most of the water channels have been fully or partially choked, while the rest are under serious threat thanks to unabated encroachment.
