The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025
<p>The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill
Land Use
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Provisions in land acquisition bill to affect projects: CII
Monsoon session, starting Wednesday likely to take up the land acquisition bill Expressing concerns over certain provisions in the land acquisition bill, industry body CII today said a few proposals in it may push up land prices and severely affect viability of projects. "Agglomerating land from numerous owners is not a task which the corporate sector can do effectively, especially in the absence of proper land records and with small, scattered land-holdings.
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Coalition woos farmers with shorter carbon storage plan
THE Coalition is planning to pay farmers to store carbon in their fields for just 25 years in its bid to use soil carbon to meet 60 per cent of Australia's efforts towards long term greenhouse gas reduction.
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PM okays relaxations in land transfer policy
Move will speed up concessions to infra projects, PPP ventures to benefit Clearing bottlenecks in transfer of Government land, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today approved relaxations in the land transfer policy, which would also remove any delays in awarding concessions for infrastructure projects. The decision to relax the ban imposed on all transfer of government owned land for certain categories would speed up the award of PPP projects from this month onwards significantly, a PMO statement said.
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Increase in observed net carbon dioxide uptake by land and oceans during the past 50 years
A comprehensive carbon dioxide mass balance analysis shows that net global carbon uptake has increased by about 0.05 billion tonnes per year over the past 50 years and that in that time the global carbon
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Assessing ecological land use and water demand of river systems: a case study in Luanhe River, North China
Economic and social development has greatly increased ecological water demand and modified land use of river systems worldwide, causing overall degradation of many of these systems. In this study, theoretical
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From cash crops to carbon sinks: a new identity to virtual land alienation in Odisha
Growing cash crops is not a new thing in Indian tradition, but considered in the context of efficient land use, food- & fodder security, environmental- & ecological security, and of course the socio-economic
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Executive summary of the EIA report of Shivani 1.25 MTPA opencast coal mining project of Wardha Valley Coalfield at Tahsil – Wani, Dist. – Yeotmal, Maharashtra
<div> <span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The proposed Shivani OC mine is Yekona – II Extension block. The Yekona-II Extension block assessed
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Chandy asked to rework land-use plan
Says government move will lead to misuse and diversion of the land Congress leader V.M. Sudheeran has written to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy criticising the government move to allow use of 5 per cent of plantation land for tourism purposes and to classify cashew cultivation areas as plantations. In his letter, released here on Sunday, Mr. Sudheeran said the decision would have serious consequences for the State, the people, and the environment.
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No future without public transport’
With increasing congestion and traffic woes in the city, the only way forward from here on will be to use public and non-motorised transport, said V Tamizh Arasan, Retired Prof of the department of Civil Engineering from IIT-Madras. He delivered the annual E R R Thillainayagam Endowment Lecture on sustainable transport, organised by the The Institution of Highway Transport. Highlighting the current and future scenario with respect to India’s demography, economy and energy consumption, Tamizh Arasan cited several government reports that said that transportation is the most rapidly growing consumer of the world’s energy.
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Joint experts’ group on Tipaimukh dam to sit in Aug 27-28
Experts, selected by the Bangladesh and Indian governments, will sit for the first time on August 27-28 to jointly study the possible impacts of the construction of the controversial Tipaimukh Dam on the