Bellary, Dec 2, 2012, DHNS : Many mining companies in the district, which faced the wrath of the Supreme Court for indulging in illegal mining, have started implementing reclamation and rehabilitat

With the issue of land reforms and the controversial Land Acquisition Bill dominating the fourth day of the five-day 'Jan Sansad', activists, academicians and hundreds of farmers expressed their re

The eagerly anticipated ‘white paper’ on irrigation in Maharashtra, expected to expose alleged irregularities and fix responsibility, turned out to be a damp squib as it claimed that projects in th

Activists question change of policy for rehabilitation; want cut-off date of March 2007 adhered to strictly

New Delhi: Thanks to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s intervention, the land Bill will see two important changes before it is cleared by the Cabinet and introduced in Parliament.

The 21st International Conference on Bear Research and Management (IBA 2012) will open in New Delhi on Monday.

JAIPUR: All encroachments in BSF Amanishah Nullah, a dry river bed zigzagging through the city, will have to go by May 2013. The Rajasthan high court set the six-month deadline on Wednesday, though the state government requested nine months for the 'unpopular task' that it will now have to complete in an election year.

In another significant move, the court issued notices to 10 colonisers/societies allegedly responsible for the encroachments in the nullah and asked them to explain why they should not be made to pay the compensation. At the same time, the government has been told to probe the roles of its officers who connived with these colonisers/societies in settling people there.

Hopes for restart of Goa's iron ore mines in any near future receded on Wednesday, with the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) indicating after a hearing of over three hours here that it won't recommend lifting of the ban slapped by the court on October 5.

Former environment and forests secretary P V Jayakrishanan, who chaired the hearing along with three CEC members, also indicated that the committee's recommendations will be on the Karnataka model approved by the Apex Court, for "pari pasu" implementation of rehabilitation and other measures by the Goa miners.