The Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station (CSTPS) and Chandrapur Ferro-alloy Plant (CFP), the erstwhile Maharashtra Elektrosmelt Ltd, here are under the scanner of forest department for failing to

Vested with the Herculean task of fast-tracking decisions on scores of large projects, environment minister M Veerappa Moily has embarked on a drive to reassign jobs to the key officials in his ministry, reports Kirtika Suneja in

New Delhi. Moily has also reconstituted the various expert appraisal committees (EAC) of the ministry, besides shuffling the work allocated among officers.

A day after the Supreme Court set a March 31 deadline for establishing an environment regulator, the government said it was examining the order to work out how to proceed.

The environment ministry was unwilling to disclose its plan of action. However, officials indicated that the government would be able to provide just the broad contours of the proposed regulator within the two-month timeframe given by the Supreme Court.

New Delhi : With a new minister in charge of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), the government has swung into action to fast-track green clearances for key infrastructure projects.

For independent, transparent appraisal & approval of projects

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the government to appoint a Regulator with offices in States under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 for appraising projects, enforcing environmental conditions for approvals and imposing penalties on polluters.

In a major blow to the Centre's election year decision to speed up environmental clearance to long pending projects, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the government to appoint a national regulat

About an hour's drive from the industrial city of Hisar, a village with rich fertile land spread across hundreds of acres is awaiting a rebirth. Ask anyone in Gorakhpur about their future, most will reply with a hint of what is predestined: "parmanu yug (nuclear age) has come."

Yet there are doubters with concerns as serious as the future of the crops and the water the village drinks when the 4X700 MW nuclear plant comes up. The plant has already got the conditional environmental go-ahead from the Centre.