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) …
Aligarh/Lucknow: Three persons, including a PAC jawan, were killed and nine injured in a village near Aligarh when farmers, demanding higher compensation for land acquired for a township, fought pitched battles with the police who opened fire to restore calm.The violence broke out on Saturday night in Jikarpur village when …
Sushil Kumar Lodhi, 32, walks about Dashehari village with newspaper clippings, which carried news of his grandfather’s death. His grandfather suffered a heart attack on his way back from Lucknow. He went there to convince officials not to build a solid waste management facility in their village because it would …
NEW DELHI: Seeking a better deal for victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday asked the government to become a party to a petition filed in a United States court to obtain compensation from the American firm Dow Chemicals.Initiating a debate on the tragedy …
Sukhdeep Kaur As many parts of the country see protests over land acquisition for projects, Punjab is sticking to its theory that what counts is the size of the compensation. Setting new benchmarks in land prices, the state government has been offering a much higher compensation than even the prevailing …
NEW DELHI: The government and the Bharatiya Janata Party seem to have conceded some ground to each other on the proposed nuclear civil liability bill in the process of trying to arrive at an agreed text.The BJP's earlier stance was that the government was paving the way to bring in …
TREAT DISPLACED FARMERS AS STAKEHOLDERS IN INDUSTRIAL PROJECTSB L PANDITTHE THEORY OF ASSET PRICING suggests that the equilibrium price of an asset ought to be equal to the sum of discounted net cash returns over the productive life of the asset. Let us examine the feasibility of applying this criterion …
Nistula HebbarNew Delhi: In a bid to address the concerns of countries like the US and Russia, the government has virtually removed supplier liability clause in the nuclear Bill. The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 will be tweaked so that the liability arising out of accidents will need …
LUCKNOW: Putting an end to the controversy relating to land acquired for construction of Yamuna Expressway, additional cabinet secretary Netram, after talks with farmers of Aligarh district, has reached an understanding that farmers will be compensated at the rate of Rs 425 per sqm and ex-gratia at the rate of …
Taking a dig at the slow pace of judicial proceedings, the Supreme Court on Friday said it would perhaps take another 25 years to decide the Bhopal gas leak disaster case and by that time the victims would be dead.
Out of the 390 MT of stored toxic wastes lying at UCIL plant, 40 MT of lime sludge has been disposed off in the Treatment, Storage, disposal Facility (TSDF) at Pithampur in June, 2008. Attempts to dispose off the remaining 350 MT of toxic wastes at Ankleshwar, Gujarat could not …
The 2010 Seeds Bill that has been introduced in Parliament does address some of the major concerns in the aborted 2004 version, but strangely a number of important correctives
Swaraj Thapa The nuclear liability Bill is set to undergo significant changes. These will include increase in the timeframe for filing claims from 10 to 20 years, extending the definition of
THE government has proposed to further strengthen regulations concerning people affected by mining projects in the new draft Mining Bill being finalised by the mines ministry for approval of Parliament. Mining companies would now be asked to not only share a portion of their profit and offer free shares to …
Calcutta, July 25: The railway ministry has started the process of giving jobs to people who have lost land because of railway projects. The Railway Board has issued a formal directive to zonal railways to consider job applications from landlosers.
Alok Deshpande / DNA Mumbai: People affected by the proposed 9,000MW nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri have decided to continue their protests against the project. They have refused to accept compensation offered for their land, even if it was at the prevailing market rate. State
