New Delhi: More than 100 hydroelectric projects planned by the Uttarakhand government are in jeopardy. The Union environment and forests ministry's Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has decided not to give forest clearance to any of the proposed projects until the National Ganga River Basin Authority conducts a cumulative impact assessment study of all proposed dams.
RS 50L FINE FOR ENCROACHERS, STIFFER PENALTY FOR POACHERS, MORE POWERS TO THE FOREST DEPT. THESE ARE SOME OF THE CHANGES PROPOSED TO PROTECT THE COUNTRY
New Delhi: Is the Planning Commission too singularly focused on reducing food subsidy and intending to dissuade people from buying subsidized food rations even as the government spends thousands of crores to store excess grains in its stocks? Is it being penny wise but pound foolish? An internal note of the Plan panel suggests so.
New Delhi: India has demanded that the UN prevent any green protectionism by developed countries and include an explicit statement in the opening charter of any new deal to block carbon based taxes being imposed on exports from developing countries such as India.
Picking up from the outcome of the Copehagen talks last year, which left most countries bruised or confused, climate talks are set to kickstart this year again, with the first formal negotiations beginning on June 1 in Bonn, Germany.
NEW DELHI: Even as violence has broken out in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa, the only thing preventing the Orissa government from securing the 1,253.225 hectares of forest land for Posco's integrated steel plant, ironically, is the Forest Rights Act -- a legislation that many conservationists opposed initially and now find is the only point of defence left for the three villages in the eye of t
New Delhi: The long-pending National Green Tribunal (NGT) Bill was passed in Lok Sabha after environment minister Jairam Ramesh accepted some key amendments to the proposed legislation that parliamentarians cutting across party lines had suggested.
