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) …
Ginning industry sources estimate that famers lost Rs2,700 crore in Haryana due to the whitefly attack even as the state government is yet to make public its special girdawari report. Cotton industry sources maintain more than half of the average 125 lakh quintal cotton crop has been lost to whitefly …
Govt. claiming less compensation than in 1985: Bhopal gas victims In 1985, it asked for $3.3 billion while it is $1.2 billion now, they say Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have claimed that the Union government is claiming less in compensation than what it did 30 years back. While …
BHOPAL: Last Monday, just two days before the 31st anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster, the Madhya Pradesh high court issued a notice to the Union government, the MP state government and medical research organizations to respond to a plea by Disaster survivors that they were guilty of contempt of …
JAIPUR: Nearly 40 lakh farmers are likely to be affected by the crop loss due to poor rains this kharif season. The observations were made in the preliminary girdawari report (record of land cultivation), which goes on to suggest 28 per cent crop loss. The report is based on reports …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of B.K. Roy (p) Ltd. Vs. Joydeep Mukherjee & Ors. dated 03/12/2015 regarding brick kilns operating without obtaining consent to operate from the State PCB.
By 5 pm Monday, government officials had registered as many as 997 deaths with the region reporting 20 to 25 or even 30 deaths every week, since the past 11 months. Farmer suicides in the drought-hit Marathwada region of Maharashtra has now almost reached the staggering 1000-figure mark. By 5 …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Lalaram & Others Vs Jaipur Development Authority & Others dated 01/12/2015 regarding compulsory acquisition of the appellants lands for the Indian Army for its “Field Firing Range” in the year 1981.
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has welcomed the move of the Union Ministry of Transport to bring forward implementation of Bharat Stage V and Bharat Stage VI emissions standards to 2019 and 2021 respectively. But it also warned of the dangers of delaying immediate nation-wide extension of Bharat …
The woes of the residents of the Capital persist as the air quality of the city continued to deteriorate oscillating between the categories of poor and very poor. According to Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) there will be a high development of fog, which on coming in contact with pollutants will …
Rabi season sees crop damage on 18 m hectares due to unseasonal rain, hail Farmers in India are facing the impact of extreme weather conditions with 2015 being the third consecutive year in which standing crops across 15 States were damaged on 18.23 million hectares during the rabi (winter) harvesting …
Farmers have lost more than 10 million tonnes of rabi crops, valued at above Rs 20,000 crore, due to unseasonal rainfall and hailstorm in February-April this year, CSE said in a report. India may have to import 10 lakh tonnes of wheat in 2015-16 as about 68.2 lakh tonnes were …
It advocates a good crop insurance product, one which is flexible, has fast payouts and follows a transparent and modern process of damage assessment A study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) here has advocated a more meaningful system to assess relief for farmers to cover both crop …
With back to back drought years putting farmers under tremendous stress, the Centre believes it's effort to bolster irrigation infrastructure and disburse relief to farmers after extreme weather events are falling short thanks to some states dragging their feet. Union agriculture ministry in its periodic review of these schemes found …
On the final day of the National Consultation on Crop Loss Estimation, Relief and Compensation,Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) called for global action to develop safety nets to shield farmers from the consequences of extreme weather events. “The negotiators at the climate talks, starting shortly in Paris,need to be …
People have been rendered jobless and are leading a miserable life, NGT told Heeding to the plea that the ban on commercial activities in the eco-sensitive Rohtang Pass area was affecting the livelihood of people, the National Green Tribunal has sought response from the Himachal Pradesh government on the issue. …
CSE’s report Lived Anomaly is about what is happening to farmers in India because of extreme weather events, largely as told by farmers themselves. Its basis is the winter–spring of 2015 and the aftermath. The report is also a peek into the future—what we should expect as our planet continues …
Nagpur: The state information commission (SIC), Nagpur Bench, rapped wildlife wing officials of the forest department for violating RTI Act by denying information to consumer rights activist Avinash Prabhune. Prabhune on May 3, 2014, had filed an application seeking details about 'estimation exercise to count tiger, co-predator prey in Maharashtra …
Siddaramaiah said that the government would increase the compensation from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh to the families of farmers who committed suicide in the State. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said as many as 800 farmers had committed suicide in Karnataka. “We have implemented many farmer-friendly programmes. …
KOCHI: The Kerala High Court has reserved verdict on a batch of petitions seeking a directive to pay compensation to the Endosulfan victims in Kasaragod, who have already been identified. The verdict was reserved by a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice K Vinod Chandran. It had …
The private company collecting toll tax from trucks entering Delhi from neighbouring states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan today told the Supreme Court that it was not in a position to comply with the court order for collection of pollution tax from these commercial vehicles. The company, SMYRLLP which …
