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) …
Compensation for Bhopal gas leak victims will be put to a close with the Centre seeking an additional Rs 71.28 crore as ex-gratia for left out cases of permanent and temporary disability and an uncovered category of
COME winters, farmers in 50 districts of the country will be covered by an experimental crop insurance scheme by the Centre. The new scheme is a modified version of the current programme with new features like providing indemnity and advance relief to farmers. The unit area for the new insurance …
BHUBANESWAR: Close to 20 per cent elephants in Orissa are outside the sanctuaries and are involved in the growing man-animal conflict in the State. Every year 55 elephants die of various reasons, including poaching, while another 16 are hit by accidents. Annually, 55 persons are killed by the elephants, damaging …
Recent heavy rains that battered parts of Karnataka have caused 20 per cent crop loss to the extent of Rs 500 crore, according to preliminary estimates, Minister for Agriculture Umesh Katti said today. The minister said he would be calling on Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar next week in Delhi …
Lucknow: Nearly two and a half months after scrapping the Tappal township project in Aligarh district in the face of violent agitation by local farmers against acquisition of land, the Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday revived the project. The state government also decided to reward the farmers with compensation as …
An NGO working for the survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy on Tuesday charged that many of them would not be benefited under the new economic package as the Madhya Pradesh government did not put forth their case. "After the verdict on the Bhopal tragedy in June, the state government had …
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) yesterday approved a Tk 191 crore project with a compensation package for rehabilitating the affected people of Barapukuria coal mine. Some 3,384 people will be given compensation under this package. The approval came from the Ecnec meeting held at the NEC …
As a welfare state, the Government of Haryana recognises that acquisition of land under the statute and the alienation of landowners from their source of livelihood could be a painful process, notwithstanding the payment of compensation for the same as per law. Therefore, it intends to minimise this pain of …
While demanding stringent measures to put an end to illegal sand quarrying in the State, AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa on Sunday urged the State government to grant Rs. 10 lakh compensation to the family members of a woman who was killed when a sand-laden lorry hit her two-wheeler in Karur …
KOLKATA, 29 OCT: The state government today finally issued the order for paying compensation of Rs 1 lakh each to the injured victims of the police firing at Nandigram of 14 March, 2007. However, in a transparent bid to make it appear that state government had taken the decision prior …
Indian Communist Party says that the decision taken for not putting Bhopal gas tragedy Case is wrong and betraying with gas affected people. Shailendra Shaily, district secretary of Indian Communist Party said that the statement given by Virappa Moily the central law minister for giving the clarification that Indian courts …
Following the advice of Attorney General (AG) of India, the Centre has decided against pursuing the case of Bhopal Gas Tragedy compensation in the US courts, observing that it would not be in the interest of the country or victims.
The buying and selling of the flats in buildings standing on notified private forest lands in Mumbai and Thane is going on uninterruptedly. The fate of nearly 5 lakh families in 15,000 buildings with several thousand apartments in Borivli, Mulund, Nahur and Thane is hanging in balance for the past …
Soon after the Bhopal gas disaster in December 1984, efforts were made to suppress research reports to dilute the magnitude of the incident, claims a doctor who was posted as a child specialist at a state-run hospital here when the tragedy occurred. In his latest book, '25 years of Gas …
Dhadgaon (Maharashtra): Calling for a review of resettlement sites for the people affected by the Sardar Sarovar dam and of the irrigation project itself, Medha Patkar, leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) said, there were as many as 40,000 families still in the submergence area, waiting to be resettled.
Villagers from Madban, Niveli, Mithgavhane, Karel and Ansure, the five villages which will come under the proposed 9,900 MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in Ratnagiri district, gathered in Mumbai on Wednesday, protesting against revenue minister Narayan Rane
Hundreds of women widowed by the Bhopal gas tragedy protested here on Thursday, demanding adequate pension and enhanced compensation. The members of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi Sangharsh Morcha led the rally of the widows and shouted slogans, demanding a raise in pension from the State Government. "It's …
