Days after getting the Election Commission’s nod, the Centre on Tuesday brought out the draft notification on the Western Ghats, reducing the originally earmarked Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA)

With the tenure of the State Environment Impact Assessment (SEIA) committee and State-level Expert Appraisal Committee (SLEAC) coming to an end on March 20, several new industrial projects will hav

Better Ludhiana: water pollution

Being an industrial hub, Ludhiana is flooded with various kinds of industries, which have provided bread and butter to lakhs of people not only from Punjab but also from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. At the same time, certain industries have proven to be the bane of Ludhiana as they have polluted the city to an alarming proportion.

THE empowered group of ministers (EGoM) for hydel power projects in Arunachal Pradesh will find it tough to get the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on board for the proposed all-at-a-time clearance mechanism for supporting infrastructure projects.

According to sources, at the upcoming EGoM meeting the power ministry will pitch for a simultaneous process for environmental and forest clearances as well as the approvals for land acquisition and preparation of detailed project reports (DPRs) for supporting infrastructure projects like roads and bridges.

The minutes of an NCR Planning Board committee meeting to consider changes in the regional plan reveal how hard Haryana pushed for opening up the state’s fragile conservation zones, such as the Aravalis, for tourism.

Out of the nine references made in the meeting by the Haryana town and country planning secretary T C Gupta, seven were filed by real estate developers — all presenting arguments for opening up the zones of tourist activities and giving a free hand to the state governments in these areas.

The Ministry of Forest and Environment's (MoEF) decision granting green clearance to the upcoming nuclear power project at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad has been challenged in the National Green Tribunal

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today asked the special investigating team to file an interim report on illegal mining in Punjab.

Madhav Gadgil and K Kasturirangan are both scientists of great repute.

A study sponsored by the Planning Commission shows that Haryana, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh are the top three industry-friendly states in the country. Orissa is at the fourth position, and Andhra Pradesh the fifth.

Of the states in the top five positions, two were ruled by the Congress — Haryana and Andhra Pradesh — and two by the BJP, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. Orissa has a BJD government.