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 …
Anatomy of a continuing tragedy by Maj-Gen Pushpendra Singh (retd) Victims protesting against the Bhopal judgement SAHIB, kanoon ka kaam garibon ko phasana aur amiron ko khiskana. Some years back a taxi driver had voiced this sentiment. The recent judgement in the Bhopal case now reinforces this widely held belief. …
Entire Op Was Hush-Hush, Says Then Aviation Director Bhopal: A day after Moti Singh, the collector of Bhopal when the deadly gas leak took place, revealed that Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson was released on orders from then state chief secretary Brahmaswaroop, then aviation director of MP government R …
New Delhi: The uproar over the Bhopal gas-leak judgment has put the role of several UPA ministers and functionaries, including those in the newly reconstituted group of ministers (GoM), under scrutiny yet again. While the UPA might have decided to set up the GoM as a facesaver in the midst …
Diggy Unwittingly Drags In Rajiv New Delhi: The dramatic release of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson hours after his arrest has roiled Congress, sparking a factional war which threatens to claim former PM Rajiv Gandhi as its collateral victim. AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday stunned party circles …
CORNERED over its role in the fleeing of Warren Anderson, Congress on Thursday came under heavy shelling from the Opposition. BJP and the Left said the then Congress government at the Centre came under
RAJAHMUNDRY, June 1: The Telugu Desam (TD) district unit demanded action over the inquiry report on Vantada letarite mining. The issue caught the attention of both political parties and public at the state level. Leaders TD, Praja Rajyam and BJP visited the place and alleged large-scale irregularities in the mining …
Visakhapatnam, May 30: Campaigning against rising pollution levels in the city, for which both state as well as private industries are being held responsible, ranks top on the agenda of the CPI, along with the bauxite mining issue. Speaking to media persons here on Sunday, the district CPI secretary, Mr …
The Left in India seems to be in complete disarray. It does not look as if it can reinvent itself and make significant contributions to natio-nal politics. At the heart of the problem is its ‘success’ in West Bengal, where it has ‘ruled’ for over three decades. The most distinctive …
Dilip Bisoi Bhubaneswar: Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik may have initiated a political process to solve the Posco crisis, but party MLAs are playing spoilsport. While the state government has entrusted CPI, MP from Jagatsinghpur, Bibhu Prasad Tarai, to negotiate with anti-Posco groups to come to the talks table with …
Expressing solidarity with Carmona villagers in their battle against the Raheja project, village groups from across Goa warned the political class not to push mega housing projects against the will of the people without taking the infrastructural requirements into considerations. Representatives of village groups and local villagers assembled near the …
The Bharatiya Janata Party (bjp) is in the midst of a crisis. However much its leaders deny its existence, it is very real. The crisis is layered: from factionalism and leadership problems, it extends to fundamental ideological and programmatic drift. There was a time the bjp liked to say Gandhian …
BANGALORE: The former Prime Minister, H.D. Deve Gowda, on Saturday accused the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party of having scuttled a discussion on illegal mining and looting of mineral wealth during the just-concluded Parliament session.
Increasing water shortage in the City will be the issue in focus at the second session of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Council on Friday. BBMP Opposition leader M Nagaraj and MLA N L Narendra Babu protesting against irregular water supply. DH PhotoLeader of the Opposition, M Nagraj said …
Over the past six years or so, the Congress seems to be undergoing change both with regard to the balance of power within the organization and its ideological orientation. It is fashionable to take the Gandhi family to the cleaners because of its dynastic grip on power. But it must …
Visakhapatnam, April 11: Congress leaders of the Agency have decided to meet the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson and AICC president, Ms Sonia Gandhi, to ask her to prevail upon the state government to withdraw proposals to mine bauxite in the Agency. Addressing a press conference in Araku Valley on …
Gandhinagar: Congress leaders have charged the BJP government with favouring industrialists in sale of land. Leader of Opposition in Assembly Shaktisinh Gohil said that according to the Central government rules, a developer cannot sell land allocated to him for Special Economic Zones (SEZ). This rule was formed in 2005, but …
Paderu, March 19: Senior Congress MP from Araku, Mr Y. Kishorechandra Suryanarayana Deo said he would not allow bauxite mining in the Agency, the issue which was now embroiled into a controversy with Left and Telugu Desam strongly opposing it. Talking to reporters, during his visit, here on Friday, the …
