Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Naresh Vashisth Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/04/2025. Issue raised in the application is encroachment of land of village Amer which comes under reserved forest and "Vankhand Amer-54 of Nahargarh Wildlife Sanctuary." The Assistant …
TIRUCHI: A large number of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) cadre, including women, participated in a day long fast in Thottiam town on Thursday to condemn the indiscriminate sand mining by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) members. The fast was also to condemn the frequent traffic jams and accidents …
A grassroots revolution of politics that delivers is sweeping the Uttar Pradesh countryside. The newly-elected pradhan of Sarraiya-Mahantpur panchayat in Fazilpur, 29-year-old Rakesh Srivastava, epitomises this trend. He has taken it upon himself to empower the poverty-stricken area. The sociology major from Gorakhpur University says, "I am not here to …
It has now become almost conventional wisdom that Bihar under the National Democratic Alliance government has moved onto a new and higher growth path. An examination of the Central Statistical Organisation data for the decade since 1999-2000, however, reveals a cyclical move towards a higher growth continuum rather than any …
Nellore, Dec. 22: The Bharatiya Janata Party senior leader Bandaru Dattatreya urged the Prime Minister to release Rs 1,000 crore as a special grant to the state to provide aid to farmers. He said that 95 farmers had died, either by committing suicide or because of heart attacks after government …
ITANAGAR, Dec 22: Reiterating its concern over the mushrooming of new hydropower projects and its future impact on the land, people and properties of the State, the State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today demanded the State government to
IT HAS been drafted several times in the past six years. The Union agriculture ministry is confident the seeds bill will make it through Parliament this winter session. But opposition parties, and some MPs from the ruling Congress Party, are getting ready to corner the ministry over legislation. The Seeds …
BHUBANESWAR: The Congress on Wednesday maintained that nothing less than implementation of the High Court judgment, terming the land acquisition for the proposed Vedanta university as illegal, would make way for participation of its members in the Assembly proceedings. Congress members, who have been stalling the House demanding resignation of …
NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India on Wednesday asked the Centre to take into account public demonstrations in Maharashtra against the setting up of nuclear power plants there and raised environmental issues connected with the Jaitapur project. It urged the government to make public the contract signed between French …
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today staged a massive protest meeting at Gerukamukh demanding a halt to construction of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project at Gerukamukh. The protest meeting which was attended by several State-level leaders of BJP, besides the former president of the party Rajnath Singh, was participated by …
The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti today raised the mega dam issue of Lower Subansiri Hydro-electric plant in Gerukamukh by saying that political parties supporting the construction of mega dams in Assam would be voted out in the ensuing state Assembly polls early next year. This was stated by Akhil Gogoi, …
KOCHI: Marking the next phase of election campaigning, the leading fronts in Kochi the LDF and the UDF have come up with manifestos for the polls to the Corporation. While the LDF manifesto declares that the Front will make Kochi a global green city, the UDF's focus is on effective …
WITH the fate of the Yeddyurappa government hanging in the balance, following withdrawal of support by 19 MLAs, the BJP leadership threatened to use the anti-defection law to quell the rebellion and survive the trust vote. State tourism minister G Janardhana Reddy was leading the efforts to persuade the dissident …
Identifying poverty, lack of development, adequate communication facilities, floods and illegal migration from Bangladesh, as bane of the North-east, BJP national president Nitin Gadkari said that the party is brining out its own Vision Document North-east 2025 . A five-member team has been tasked to draft the report, he said, …
BHUBANESWAR: The BJP today slammed the Centre for showering favours on Andhra Pradesh like Polavaram project and blamed the ruling BJD for failing to protect the State interests. Addressing activists of the BJP Yuva Morcha who staged a dharna near Raj Bhawan protesting Polavaram, senior leaders of the party blamed …
Srikakulam, Sept. 14: The Praja Rajyam (PR) founder president, Mr Chjiranjeevi, launched a three-day tour of the district-Praja Chaitanya Yatra to revamp the party which fared badly in the last elections and forced well known leaders to leave the party and return to Telugu Desam. Beginning his tour in Itchapuram, …
For West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee is a spanner in the implementation of the Rs 4,847.58-crore East-West Metro railway line that will run from Salt Lake to Howrah. And intends to take up the matter with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
The Naveen Patnaik government on Sunday came down heavily on the Congress-led government at the Centre saying it was behaving like a party instead of maintaining its character as a responsible constitutional authority. Seven ministers, two Lok Sabha members and 25 MLAs, who addressed a gathering of party workers at …
DEHRA DUN: The temporary suspension of work at the 330 MW Alaknanda hydropower project near Srinagar by the Uttarakhand Government this past week has evoked loud protests from the coalition partner Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) and the local people. Work at the project was suspended by Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal
BHUBANESWAR: Biju Janata Dal leaders on Sunday slammed the Centre for giving final clearance to the controversial Indira Sagar Polavaram project by ignoring protests from Orissa where 20,000 tribal families of 29 villages are going to be displaced by the dam. Addressing the 'Malkangiri banchao, Polavaram hatao' rally, the BJD …
