Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
experts and activists are apprehensive that the Sri Lankan authorities' recent bid to privatise water services will impinge on the people's right to clean drinking water. While non-governmental organisation Alliance for the Protection of National Resources and Human Rights (apnrhr) voiced its concern over the matter, the Lawyers for Human …
Denmark's Supreme Court began deliberations on its biggest civil case to date on Monday, November 3, 2003. 187 Inuit families, thrown out of their traditional hunting and fishing grounds to make way for a us military base in 1953, have demanded these grounds be returned to them, along with damages …
When Faridabad resident Rajendra Dhankar's eight-month-old Santro began to belch white smoke like a run-down truck, he rushed to the vehicle's manufacturer, Hyundai. What had caused the engine to so wheeze was heavily adulterated fuel. The company replaced the piston and the ring. Dhankar's car was as good as new …
A wide variety of low priced fuels and solvents in the market are an immediate enticement to greed. High taxes on petrol make it vulnerable to adulteration with cheap solvents and naphtha. Diesel is easily mixed with subsidised kerosene and cheaper LDO. Says Rita Pandey, Fellow, National Institute of Public …
Towards the end of 2001, as part of an ongoing public interest litigation on air pollution in Delhi, the apex court took notice of the ugly business of adulteration. It has repeatedly pointed out the merit of the CNG programme in culling this menace. But the Union of India, in …
though touted as a statutory body with teeth, the National Wildlife Board (nwb) was tamed by Union minister for environment and forests T R Baalu at its very first meeting in New Delhi on October 15. Baalu allegedly thrust upon the board a decision to drastically reduce the compensation money …
Ten Indian states have been pulled up by the Supreme Court (SC) for neglecting its orders on the inclusion of environment as a subject in school curricula. Those reprimanded are Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa and Jharkhand. A bench comprising Justice …
When I think of the government's newly cleared Auto Fuel Policy, the image of Nero fiddling while Rome burnt comes to mind. The document apparently sets the roadmap to meet clean air targets in Indian cities - in other words, show how to secure mobility and public health. Instead, all …
in a development that threatens to plunge the Rs 6600-crore Indian seafood exports industry into crisis, the us has decided to introduce strict curbs on antibiotic content in imported marine products. The new protocol, being formulated by the us Food and Drug Administration, is meant to regulate antibiotic residues in …
Former Uttar Pradesh (UP) chief minister (CM) Mayawati, the state's ex-environment minister, Nasimuddin Siddiqui, and six senior officials have backed themselves into a tight corner in the Rs 175-crore Taj Heritage Corridor project. On September 18, the Supreme Court (SC) directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to register first …
wall stalled: A mid-level court in South Korea has stayed further work on the Saemangeum Sea Wall which, upon completion, would be the world's largest coastal drainage project. More than 3500 citizens and local environmental groups had earlier filed a case against the proposed structure. Conservationists contend that construction of …
function opensmog1(){ var popurl="html/20030831_smog1.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=500,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } The recent release from the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb), Parivesh, January 2003, presents deadly facts about air pollution levels in Indian cities. According to the report, Ahmedabad's air is the most noxious. Kanpur, Solapur and Lucknow follow closely, with small particulate levels (pm10) …
in one fell swoop the Union ministry of environment and forests (moef) is preparing to disband several key committees set up under section 3 (iii) of the Environment (Protection) Act (epa), 1986. The dissolved panels will be replaced with a national environment authority and six regional authorities. The new structure …
the community forest user groups (cfugs) of Nepal will now be required to cough up a steep 40 per cent fee on their total income from sale of forest products. The Nepal government brought in the levy through an ordinance promulgated on July 18. It goes against the grain of …
on august 1, 2003, Madhya Pradesh (mp) made a plea in the Supreme Court (sc) seeking a fund-generating mechanism for forest protection. Earlier, in June, Himachal Pradesh (hp) and Arunachal Pradesh (ap) asked the Union government to provide them annual reimbursement amounting to Rs 200 crore and Rs 250 crore, …
Animal parts strewn all over the place; dogs and vultures preying over these wretched remains; dirt festering all around; horrible stench that makes your innards wrench with revulsion. Check out the meat you eat. For such horrific features are common to most slaughterhouses in the country. Most abattoirs across the …
