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) …
The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front government in West Bengal had handled the acquisition of land from the peasants for the Nano car project of Tata Motors at Singur in a hopelessly insensitive manner. The Trinamool Congress, the main opposition party, has ever since tried to gain all …
Subrata Nagchoudhury Kolkata, September 4: To keep the Nano factory from moving out of the state, the West Bengal Government is ready with what it calls an
Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 04, 2008, 1:46 IST Governor Gandhi to hold first meeting today. West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi has convened a preliminary agenda-setting meeting between combating sides on the Singur issue on September 4 and a formal meeting at 10 am on September 5 in a …
TRINAMOOL MEETS WEST BENGAL GOVERNOR Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 1, 2008, 0:27 IST The impasse at Singur caused by the indefinite protest in front of Tata Motors Nano-manufacturing plant by the Trinamool Congress and its allies under Mamata Banerjee seemed to have moved closer to a resolution today even …
Peasants across India are opposing development projects which displaced them from their land, habitat, livelihood and environment. They are questioning the paradign of development itself which is so heavily loaded against them. The law on land acquisition is central to the understanding of this hostility to development. Their resistance is …
This study is an analysis of the social impacts and community engagement process for an IFC-supported project in Chhattisgarh, India. It also provides an assessment of the application of IFC Performance Standard 7 (Indigenous Peoples) and related IFC standards and requirements
Calcutta, Aug. 28: Landlosers will be compensated with land for the first time in Bengal. The offer will be part of a package for building an airport in Andal, Burdwan
Mosquito repellents used by policemen on night patrol along the expressway. (Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya) New Delhi, Aug. 25: If the Bengal government wants to return some of the Singur land to the original owners, it can bypass the legal difficulties by enacting a law in the Assembly, legal experts say. One …
LANDING IN TROUBLE Saubhadra Chatterji / Semrota (uttar Pradesh) August 22, 2008, 1:01 IST Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Bhupinder Singh Hooda should take heart. They are not alone in facing political storms over their governments' land acquisition efforts. Congress' star general secretary, Rahul Gandhi, too, got the rough edge of his …
Greater Noida: The conflict between the residents of Ghori Bachhera village and Noida police and administration, seems to have blown over after a team of farmers met UP cabinet secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh in New Delhi on Tuesday evening. The Ghori Bachhera representatives reportedly agreed to a compensation of Rs …
Nalas (Rajpura): Following agitation by villagers in Nabha, now residents of over seven villages near Rajpura are up in arms against the government's plan to procure around 1,000 acres of fertile land for the 1,320 MV Rajpura Thermal Power Project (RTPP) near Nalas. The villagers demand is to be paid …
Kadapa, Aug. 9: The Telugu Desam (TD) president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, alleged that the government was taking land from the poor in the name of establishing Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and demanded the release of a white paper on SEZs. Speaking to newsmen at Potladurthy in Yerraguntla mandal in …
The Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted to oversee the matters related to the Bhopal Gas Leak, in its meeting held on 11th June, 2008, had taken certain important decisions. Based on these decisions, the following action has been/ is being taken by the Government.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has embarked on a grand project of four- and/or six-laning of the existing roads to a target of 14,000 km, especially the east-west and north-south corridors. This is a good thing because the country needs proper roads for its development and road construction …
The United Nation's ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (cop 9) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (cbd) was recently held in Bonn, Germany. Amidst contentions relating to bio-fuels and abs (Access and Benefit Sharing), Meena Gupta, secretary, ministry for environment and forests, finds time to give an …
