Pakistan has objected to India's move to fill the Nimoo-Bazgo dam in Jammu and Kashmir, claiming that it could cut off Islamabad's share of water from the Indus river.

The biggest US business lobby group said Monday it has petitioned a federal appeals court to invalidate environmental regulations it claims will lead to sweeping electricity blackouts by forcing co

PANJIM: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday said 40 mining leases granted illegally by the previous Congress regime will be cancelled. These 40 cases had been identified in the PAC report and a file proposing to take action has already been moved.

Parrikar once again made this statement pointing out that the leases were renewed illegally by condoning the delay in the renewal procedure when there was no legal provision to do so. He took a dig at former chief minister and mines minister Digambar Kamat saying the House should direct these queries to the latter who had been heading the ministry for almost 14 years.

Former Forest Minister Benoy Viswam alleged that the UDF government is facilitating the encroachment of forest land. “The UDF is trying to override the Ecologically Fragile Land Act 2011,” said Viswam at a press conference here on Saturday. The CPI leader opined that the government should hire legal experts to safeguard the law.

“If the government is not going to put up a good fight, then the state will lose the ownership of the land leased out to private parties. The encroachers have ensured the services of eminent lawyers from outside the state,” said Viswam.

A city court has ordered the Centre and the DMRC to raise by over `1.26 crore the compensation to a firm for acquiring its 541 square metre plot to build Barakhamba Road Metro Station.

Additional district judge Nivedita Anil Sharma asked the Union government to pay the compensation to Jetways Travels Pvt Ltd, at an enhanced rate of `81,429 per square metre, terming its earlier compensation at the rate of `57,960 as “inadequate” and “unreasonable”.

Adequate technology and experience are available with the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) for transporting spent fuel from one location to another by rail and road in a safe manner without any public hazard. This was stated in a note when a batch of petitions relating to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) came up before a Division Bench of Justices P. Jyothimani and M. Duraisamy for further hearing on Thursday.

The note, filed through NPCIL counsel Krishna Srinivasan, stated that at Kudankulam, spent fuel from the reactors would be stored in the spent fuel pool designed for the storage of spent fuel assembly.

RK Transport is considering appealing over a £100,000 fine it was ordered to pay in a prosecution case brought about by the Environment Agency.

Complaints that Mahyco is exploiting farmers, promoting black marketing and ignoring rules have led the Maharashtra government to call into question the agri biotechnology company’s licence to prod

Almost a year after it barred India from undertaking any permanent works above the riverbed level at the project site, the International Court of Arbitration at Hague will hold its final hearing ne