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 …
Peak hour train services on Central Railway's main line were disrupted on Friday morning due to a "rail roko" protest by Shiv Sena workers at Mulund against the fuel price hike by the UPA government. Over 50 Sena activists led by a local corporator went on the tracks at the …
Decentralisation of power and the institution of the panchayati raj system in West Bengal have been expected to aid the disappearance of subalternity (or a state of powerlessness) by way of caste, class and gender. On the contrary, an ethnographic investigation in a village panchayat reveals that divisions between the …
GLOBAL OIL SHOCK HITS HOME: Petrol up Rs 5, diesel Rs 3, LPG 50; unpopular but we had no choice, says PM, calls for official austerity Aware that it would very well be the last price hike that his government could afford before the election frenzy sets in, Prime Minister …
The United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre, which is left with less than a year in office before seeking a fresh mandate of the people, ought to draw three main conclusions from the Bhartiya Janata Party's first-ever victory in a state in the southern peninsula, which has jolted the …
Following a prod by CPI(M) state secretary and Left Front chairman Biman Bose, West Bengal Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta on Wednesday announced sales tax cut on petrol and diesel to "provide some relief' to the common people even as the state Government urged the Centre to reconsider the fuel price …
Says Fuel Price Rise Unjustified, Wants PM To Resign Gauging that it could only add to the its ammunition against the government in a year leading up to the Lok Sabha polls, BJP on Wednesday reacted strongly to the government's decision to hike fuel prices, saying a "directionless' UPA has …
In what is perhaps a first, Uttar Pradesh officials have received a book to make sure that the Chief Minister's announcements are implemented properly, and in time. "Uttar Pradesh ki Mukhya Mantri Mayawatiji ki ghoshnaon ka vivran' is meant for government officers. "The aim is to ensure that these announcements …
Upset that most of its proposals have been ignored by the government, Left reacted to the price hike of petroleum products calling it unjustified and gearing for a "powerful protest movement'. While senior Left sources indicated some
Subodh Ghildiyal | TNN The political repercussions of a fuel hike were visible within hours of the announcement, with BJP-led NDA and the CPM coming together to boycott the consultative committee meeting chaired by petroleum minister Murli Deora. The boycott of Deora, which included a protesting band of MPs from …
The Trinamul Congress and the LF junior partners today lambasted the CPI-M for "trying to be wise after the event by letting the state urban development minister' announce the state government's decision today that land would be acquired for any industrialisation project only after setting up land procurement committees that …
The newly elected BJP Government in Karnataka will face its first major crisis in resolving the sensitive Hogenakkal issue with the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi announcing the revival of the controversial drinking water project in the Cauvery basin. The two neighbouring states went on the offensive after the …
With the inflation curve's relentless ascent touching a new high of 8.1% on Friday, the Manmohan Singh government virtually threw in the towel, admitting that inflationary pressures were beyond control and that it could only hope food prices would moderate. Finance minister P Chidambaram handed out a grim forecast in …
at the fag end of the monsoon session of Parliament last year, 28 parliamentarians and politicians, including veterans like Motilal Vohra and Natwar Singh, sent a letter urging human resources development (hrd) minister Arjun Singh to serve biscuits
Regulation on lobbying a dream According to Jayoti Lahiri, secretary general, Public Relations Consultants Association of India, "There is very little literature on the functioning of public relations agencies in India, hence we along with the Personal Relations Council of India are trying to approach independent agencies to form some …
Lobbyists crawl around legislators An Action Aid report on lobbying, released on January 25, 2006, highlights privileges enjoyed by corporate lobbyists in framing global trade rules under the WTO regime. The report exposes the underbelly of corporate lobbying that has led to unfair trade laws and undermined the fight against …
the common wisdom of electoral democracy might call for politicians, specialising in arithmetic, who can identify the biggest number. But the post-modern understanding of electoral politics may demand integrating a small number of voters whose limit to power is tending towards infinity! Let us look at how a few road …
IN what could further dampen the spirits of the nuclear deal enthusiasts, the government has put off the meeting of the Left-UPA panel on the Indo-US nuclear agreement to June 18. This is the second shocker for the pro-deal quarters in the past two days. Their hopes about the government …
THE Congress leadership on Thursday directed the finance and petroleum ministers to place its proposals for fuel price hike before a ministerial group on Friday. The informal group comprising Mr Pranab Mukherjee, Mr AK Antony, Mr P Chidambaram and Mr Murli Deora will work out a politically tenable package for …
