Sate-run Coal India Limited (CIL) is planning to invest around Rs 35,000 crore in the next five years to operationalise 142 new projects. While, the company did not elaborate on how it would mobilise the fund, a top CIL official told The Indian Express that the money would be generated entirely from internal accruals.
Standing crops on 19,174.25 hectares of land have been destroyed due to the recent flash floods in Morigaon district of Assam. More than two lakh people of 171 villages here have been severely
Maldives prefers India, Sri Lanka, Australia for relocation FOR the new president of Maldives, acquiring land in foreign countries for his people is a priority. The country, said to have over a thousand
<p>The outward expansion of larger metros, gradual changes in land use and occupations have transformed the rural hinterland into semi-urban or ‘peri-urban’ areas.
New Delhi: Unhappy with failure of state authorities to preserve and protect the fast diminishing water bodies in the capital, the Delhi high court has issued contempt notice to the environment secretary
The entire North-East India and Bengal will face more problems in near future as the geographical variations on the coastal lines of Bangladesh is posing the threat of its total extinction in the future. When the crores of Bangladeshis enter the NE India and Bengal adjacent to its borders, what would happen to the demographic position of this land?
The only water palace in Eastern India may crumble any day, as the lake on which it stands is slowly shrinking-------- The only water palace in Eastern India may crumble any day, as the lake on which it stands is slowly shrinking
Nearly 150 poor farmers, with the help of members of the Bhavansi Dalam of the CPI ( Maoist) occupied the 400 acre of forest land in Sivapuram villageof Kothanpalli mandal on Tuesday. The farmers,
New Delhi: Delhi and Chandigarh may hardly have any land left for agriculture but when it comes to availing cheap farm loans, they beat top agricultural states of the country.
Despite the Supreme Court ban on mining in the Aravallis, the mining mafia operating here is plundering the 250 km long Aravalli mountain ranges, causing irreversible loss to the ecology of the land.
New Delhi five-stars will now be doing more than welcoming guests who land in the hotel foyers. They will now be put on the job to clean up the city - literally. The MCD wants them to evolve a policy
The Reserve Bank of India has asked banks to work with the State Governments and invest in the development of wasteland and fallow land for irrigation, as per the recommendations made by the advisory
Landlessness & Illiteracy Come With Social Identity, Finds Survey Subodh Ghildiyal | TNN New Delhi: Scheduled Castes and Tribes constitute half of the total
With an aim to root out corruption, Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi has banned allocation of public land to individuals. Environmental groups have welcomed the ban but expressed scepticism about its
The Orissa Government, which has of late adopted a benevolent posture towards tribals and their problems, has said it had engaged eminent jurist Soli Sorabjee to take up tribal land related cases in
They may thrive on land and in water, but amphibians everywhere are in serious trouble, and up to one-third of species are threatened with extinction, a troubling new study said. Scientists say this
Worried over the snail's pace forest land settlement cases involving tribals, the Orissa Government has decided to rope in former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee to give such cases a push in
Grazing livestock is linked to climate change. They can boost the sequestration of carbon in some locally specific circumstances. At the global level, they are responsible for greenhouse gas emissions,
A committee of Jammu and Kashmir legislators on environment has directed the Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA) to enquire in to the issue of land allegedly acquired by a private
SHILLONG: Marking the world Environment Day with a heavy heart, renowned columnist Rev HH Mohrmen observed that if the government falls back on introducing and implementing strict laws to check unregulated mining, the state will witness many dead rivers as is the case of Jaintia Hills. Terming Jaintia Hills as the ‘Land of dead rivers’, Mohrmen said that the environment in Jaintia Hills is degrading to a large extend and this is evident from the dead and acidic rivers and streams ultimately leading to the dead of aquatic species caused due to unabated and uncheck mining activities.
