Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Abhishek Panwar Vs Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board & Others dated 20/05/2025. The miscellaneous application was registered on the basis of the report of the joint committee dated July 20, 2024 filed by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) …
Volunteer organisation Zahreeli Gas Kand Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal, fighting for the rights of the gas victims for the last 26 years, is planning to send around 30,000 to 35,000 memorandums to the Prime Minister, in which the demand would be made that the compensation amount must be hiked after assuming …
BHUBANESWAR: Farmers' organisations of the State have demanded rice at ` 2 a kg to every rural family as food security has been threatened because of the large-scale crop loss in the untimely rains in the first week of December. The farmers
Livestock depredation by carnivores has become an important hurdle in conservation of predators at the top of the food chain. To develop feasible recommendations to minimize this conflict, it is important to learn the circumstances of the predation events and attitudes of people. We assessed the circumstances for livestock depredation …
Recent experience shows protests by stronger communities to acquisitions succeed, whereas those by vulnerable communities who are more badly placed do not. Acquisition of land is often not made for bona fide purposes but initiated at the instance of industrialists, businessmen and builders who persuade governments to acquire land for …
This study provides an overview of the national-level controversy surrounding SEZs, before turning to a detailed account of the acquisition process and impacts of one SEZ in Polepally, Andhra Pradesh. Based on an extensive field survey, this case study reveals how evictions were not based on informed consent, but forced; …
The petroleum ministry on Thursday said the government is committed to adequately compensating state-owned oil marketing companies for the losses they incur on selling diesel and cooking fuel below cost.
With the BRT Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka going to get a tiger reserve status, the Soligas living there face imminent eviction. NEVER before have the tigers of the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Wildlife Sanctuary burned so bright, either in popular imagination or in administrative priority. With the Union Ministry of …
THE Mizoram and Tripura administrations have served notices to families occupying land along the India-Bangladesh border. The land has to be vacated for fencing the border. Nearly 3,900 families along nine border sub-divisions in Tripura have been left homeless as state government failed to rehabilitate and compensate them. The remaining …
The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya
In a possible way around the practical hurdles posed by the supplier liability clause in the civil nuclear liability law, the government is all set to make it clear in the rules and regulations of the law that a supplier will be liable only for a fixed time period and …
Environmental Results To Replace Three Of The Existing Criteria Determining State Performance STATES will no longer be able to pay lip service to environment issues. From the next financial year, environment performance will be taken into account while determining the amount of central assistance to states. The inclusion of an …
Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi and sought Central assistance to deal with the unseasonal rains which have damaged paddy crop in the state. The prime minister said that a Central team would shortly visit the state to assess the damage, …
Following the assessment report submitted by the expert panels, Maharashtra fisheries department has decided to claim the compensation of Rs8 crore towards the loss suffered by the fishermen due to the oil spill in the Arabian sea in the first week of August. The compensation will be sought from the …
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday asked the district collectors to ensure that compensation announced by the State Government in the special package reached the farmers who have suffered crop damage in the unseasonal rains in the first week of this month. Naveen today discussed the implementation of the …
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 …
In the wake of controversy over the development of the Lavasa hill city and rehabilitation of the affected people, the Maharashtra government plans to amend its existing policy on project development and rehabilitation. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan announced in the state legislature that the development of any project would be …
Bhopal: The fresh compensation of `740 crores sanctioned by the Centre will be disbursed among the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy-hit persons here from December 19, a senior Madhya Pradesh government official said on Friday.
Ahmedabad: Ten years after the earthquake, the Gujarat high court on Thursday increased the amount of compensation to be paid by the management of Swaminarayan Vidyamandir and its builders to parents of kids who died when the school collapsed on January 26, 2001. A division bench increased the amount of …
