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 was passed by voice vote, with the opposition Congress walking out of the House due to insufficient discussion. The bill was introduced …
They fear developmental activity will come to a halt Notwithstanding the Prime Minister’s assurance, activists of the all-party Uttarkashi Bachao Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti on Tuesday staged a dharna at Uttarkashi and said they would launch a Statewide agitation if the Centre did not immediately cancel a gazette notification on an …
GUWAHATI: In a bid to fasten the Environment Clearance for certain projects in Assam, Government of India has constituted two autonomous bodies through a notification. One is named as State Level Environment Impact Assesment Authority, Assam (SEIAA) and the other is named as State Level Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC). Professor …
PANJIM: Even as he expressed confidence that the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre would finish its full term, Congress MP Francisco Sardinha today said that he wanted officials from both the Centre and State to be punished for allowing illegal mining to take place in the State, but not …
The Government of Nepal, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and partner institutions from Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal have agreed to cooperate across borders for the management of landscapes to help preserve the Hindu Kush Himalayan region’s unique biological diversity, valuable ecosystem goods and services. The cooperation …
Gurgaon got the lion's share of Rs 605.48 crore in the total budget estimate of Rs 890.77 crore approved for development works in the urban estate developed by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) across the state. Stormwater drainage system, construction of a flyover, special repairs of roads connecting Surajkund …
Awardees include profit and not-for-profit firms in M.P., Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand The World Bank Institute awarded $2 million (Rs. 10.74 crores) to 20 organisations working in the sectors of financial inclusion, trafficking, health, education and livelihood. The grant of $ 100,000 (Rs. 53.7 lakhs) per project is to help these …
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Peruvian counterpart, Rafael Roncagliolo, agreed Tuesday that Tokyo will provide grant assistance worth ¥1.4 billion to Lima for environmental measures and tourism development, Japanese officials said. The two ministers also confirmed plans to cooperate in the negotiations for the multinational trade liberalization pact called …
Chairman of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) Madhav Gadgil has mooted a participatory movement using Web technologies to create an online database on the state of the environment in India. In a message delivered in absentia at the inaugural session of the Kerala Vikasana Sangamam held here on …
The architect of Western Ghats Expert Ecology Panel (WGEEP) report, Madhav Gadgil, on Tuesday said Kerala needs to take a lead in developing publicly accessible information on India's environment. He urged the Kerala Shastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP) to involve school and college students to collect data and prepare a comprehensive …
This paper examines the current state of alignment between climate knowledge brokers (CKB) platforms with the information-seeking and knowledge-sharing behaviour of users of online climate change information. It begins by reviewing the case made for Knowledge brokering (KB) and how this is put into practice online for climate change and …
The Standing Committee on Energy tabled this report on "Development of National Grid" in the Parliament recently. Says that the government should formulate a policy to effectively address existing regional imbalances in terms of power availability. Standing Committee on Energy present this Thirty Seventh Report on Development of National Grid …
Development in Bangladesh is happening, and despite being one of the most densely populated countries in the world, prosperity is now a possible reality. As one of the top 20 achievers of the Millennium Development Goals, the past few decades have been vital for development in Bangladesh and future related …
Senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta has closely followed the issues around coal mining in the past, along with various aspects of the Indian political economy. On 16 April, he screened his documentary 'Coal Curse' in New Delhi. The documentary highlights the micro-level consequences of coal mining in the Singrauli district …
To meet grievances, the new Bill provides for compensation at double the market price in urban areas and four times the price in rural areas Many fear that the proposed land acquisition Bill will greatly harm economic progress through skyrocketing land prices, rewarding speculators while eroding India's global competitiveness. Fortunately, …
Eight mine owners of Odisha have joined hands to invest about Rs 100 crore for local area development of two mineral rich Keonjhar and Sundargarh districts. The mine owners made this commitment before the Justice MB Shah Commission, which is probing the illegal mining issues in the state and have …
When displaced by development projects, many migrate to cities as servants, some are lured into prostitution A study conducted by Centre for Development Studies (CDS) on impact of development on tribal people has found that tribal women are the worst sufferers in this process of change. The study, titled ‘Withering …
Indiscriminate felling of trees, poaching and unplanned development were creating problems for Nagaland, which was the face of climate change in the State, Environment and Wildlife Minister Y Patton said today. “Nagaland is vulnerable to climate change as per scientific reports, our forest area is dwindling, there will be shifting …
For the first time since Independence, India today adopted a policy document at the highest level to recognise every child’s right to survival, development, protection and participation and define a child as a person below 18 years of age. The Policy approved by the Cabinet will inform all existing laws …
Apreliminary analysis of the Kasturirangan-chaired report of the high level working group (HLWG) shows that the recommendations, if implemented, would release thousands of acres of eco-fragile land along the Western Ghats for ‘development’ which was previously demarcated as eco sensitive zones (ESZ) by the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP). …
An analysis of usage of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) programme in 156 of the assembly constituencies in Karnataka, which is headed for elections next month, has revealed a continuous decline over the last three years on several parameters, such as average expenditure per …
