New Delhi: In a virtually unprecedented move, the government has decided to withdraw permission to Adani Group’s 1,840 hectare special economic zone (SEZ) in Gujarat for alleged violation of the la

“If a dam on Kosi did not stop floods, this too will be a waste”

Airing scepticism over the inter-linking of rivers serving the desired purpose, social activist Medha Patkar on Sunday charged Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with embarking on the project in the State without consulting people. “I am apprehensive about inter-linking of rivers serving the desired purpose and if it is so then chronic flood caused by Kosi river should have stopped after construction of dams,” she said at the ninth biennial national conference of the public movements on environmental issues.

National highways will now be constructed on the concepts of spot improvement and corridor redevelopment to take the financial burden off the government and make it more public-friendly.

Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways C. P. Joshi has approved two pilot projects in this regard. At the Hero Honda Chowk on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway the spot improvement concept would be experimented and the corridor redevelopment concept would be executed on the Delhi-Dasna section of NH-24.

The Indian marine and coastal biodiversity is under serious threat from developmental projects, according to experts at the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Though India has a 7500-km coastline, which supports almost 30 per cent of its population in biological and economic wastelands, the coastal and marine stretch in India is coming under unprecedented threats from various development projects including ports, power plants, ship yards and aquaculture.

GoM on Bill may meet again today to resolve issues including retrospective acquisition

Palghar in this tribal-dominated district is fast emerging as a hub of highly-polluted industries categorised as "red" by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, according to a report.

Painting a bleak picture, a recent report of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) mentions that out of 7418 classified industries in the district, 2384 or 32 per cent fall in the Red zone, while Palghar accounts for 754 such industrial units.

Efforts of Jairam and Jyotiraditya to talk them out of it fail

Thousands from all over India set to march to Delhi to demand their own land

On Tuesday, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and Union Minister of State for Commerce Jyotiraditya Scindia flew into Gwalior in a last-ditch effort to convince the padayatra organisers — a land reform people’s movement called Ekta Parishad — to call off the march and accept the Government’s promises that a draft National Land Reform Policy will be prepared within six months.

Draft Says Nod Of 66% Of Owners Against Earlier 88% Enough For Go-Ahead

GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC) has stressed upon the need for a public debate on the issue of an appropriate act on land acquisition and resettlement.