Operation of brick kilns in UP: NGT pulls up chief secretary
The tribunal, in an earlier order, said brick kilns in the National Capital Region cannot operate until an assimilative carrying capacity …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 27, 2020)
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Expenditure funds of Telangana, Seemandhra approved
Bifurcation process moves forward
Odisha braces for cyclone Phailin
People in vulnerable villages in coastal districts are being evacuated to safe areas, cyclone shelters
Kumbh karma
It took a trip to Harvard for the Uttar Pradesh top brass to realize that back home their house was not in order
Check Jharkhand’s degrading environment
Unscientific mining has caused rampant environmental degradation in the state in the absence of proper monitoring
Contempt notice to Karnataka chief secretary in lakes protection case
Top state bureaucrat failed to set up lake protection committees to check encroachment, pollution and destruction of lakes in the state
“It is not religion but the state that is insensitive to the environment”
“Both Hinduism and modern science are sensitive to the environment”
Maha Kumbh to be a dry run?
Religious organisations say there is not enough water in the Ganga to take the holy dip
Floods kill 26 persons in Bihar
Bagmati, Mahananda and Kosi rivers in spate; large-scale displacement in four districts
Kosi floods inquiry report submitted, finally
Inquiry commission was set up in September 2008 after Opposition party demanded thorough probe to fix responsibility for embankment breach
350,000 Andhra government staff to go on strike against Telangana decision
Call for roll back of decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh; government yet to respond to strike notice
RBI rejects Andhra's request for farm loan reschedule
Apex bank finds no reason to waive farm loans or loan restructuring after independent verification of the state's official data on farm yields
Maharashtra’s new Sugarcane Price Control Board to meet this week
Farmers expect conflict over sugarcane prices to abate with the new board in place
Odisha plans regulated Olive Ridley tourism
State's coast is nesting ground for the half the world's population of the endangered turtle; tour operators sceptical of the plan
Village to move court against Bengaluru civic body for illegal garbage dumping
Police enforce Section 144 to prevent protests
Phailin intensifies into 'super' cyclone
Storm winds moving at speed of over 200 km/hr head to districts that bore the brunt of 1999 super cyclone
People in distress get little relief
Centre to give Rs 6,687 crore to Uttarakhand for building and reconstruction projects. How much of it will reach people?
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 10, 2020)
More Uttarakhand disasters in the offing
Soon-to-be-finalized state action plan on climate change full of extreme events warnings
Floods in north and east India kill 120 people
Release of flood waters from Nepal affect large parts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar