The Government will not engage in any development projects without the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report, Agrarian and Wildlife Minister S. M.
Wildlife Conservation Department Director General Dr Chandrawansa Pathiraja stressed that no elephants in the South will be relocated either for the construction of the Mattala airport or for the proposed Games City in Hambantota hosting Commonwealth Games in 2018.
He said that the media reports that the Government was planning to relocate 200 elephants were baseless and not true.
Sri Lankan authorities plan to relocate 200 wild elephants from their habitat in Hambanthota to build an international airport and a game city in anticipation of a successful bid to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Quoting a government minister, Xinhua news agency reported that if selected to host the games in Hambanthota a massive games city will be constructed at the selected location which
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games provided a unique case study to investigate the effect of source control measures on the reduction in air pollution, and associated inhalation cancer risk, in a Chinese megacity. The authors measured 17 carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and estimated the lifetime excess inhalation cancer risk during different periods of the Beijing Olympic Games, to assess the effectiveness of source control measures in reducing PAH-induced inhalation cancer risks.
Manufacturers fail to match their expectation of 9-10% growth in FY11, end with less than 5%
The Indian cement industry has hit its lowest growth in over a decade.
New Delhi: Just before the Commonwealth Games the government had decided that the city needed new, modern steel bus queue shelters (BQS). In this too, the Shunglu committee has unearthed a rigged bidding process, irregular payments to contractors running into lakhs and a huge loss to the exchequer.
Sponsorship Agreement Provided For Mineral Water Supply At All Venues
New Delhi: In yet another instance of Commonwealth Games contractors jacking up prices to astronomical levels in collusion with Organizing Committee officials, CAG has found that 20-litre mineral water dispensers were provided at rates between Rs 1,700 and Rs 33,000.
A Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) audit, looking i
The day chief minister Sheila Dikshit completed 12 years of uninterrupted governance of Delhi, she also had to contend with a piece of news that was not really music to her ears. On Monday, a report on eviction of slum-dwellers and those residing on project sites during the Games revealed a tragic tale of how human rights were grossly violated.
India hosted the XIX Common Wealth Games (CWG) 2010, in New Delhi, for the first time. It is only the second time that these games have been organized in Asia. A distinctive feature of the CWG 2010 was the emphasis of the organizers on environment; they wanted these games to be remembered not only as a sporting spectacle but also as the first-ever.
Amid reports that the ambient air quality at the Commonwealth Games village and other venues was not up to the mark, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has maintained that the situation was under control and polluting units were being sealed to reduce air pollution.
As per ongoing study by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (Pune), which has set up air quality monitoring sys
