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MUMBAI: The state cabinet on Wednesday approved a Rs 826 crore project for coastal protection and management.

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Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Is the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance SEZ more important to the Maharashtra government than mangrove conservation? Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has suggested that if the State government and the Union Civil Aviation Ministry want Mumbai's second airport to come up at the proposed site in Navi Mumbai, they should use some of the land allotted to the Specia

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Siliguri, Sept. 8: The Siliguri Municipal Corporation has planned to introduce Green Police to help clear encroachments from the pavements in town, guide the residents on parking rules and enforce plastic ban. “We are planning to introduce Green Police, a group of volunteers from NGOs, to help the residents get hassle-free footpaths and parking.

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The Environment Ministry has assured the Prime Minister it will help find an early resolution to the deadlock over the Navi Mumbai airport project but has also requested the Maharashtra government and the Civil Aviation Ministry to be more flexible. The assurance has come in response to a communication from the Prime Minister\'s Office asking the Environment Ministry to expedite a decision on

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The Environment Ministry has assured the Prime Minister that it will help in finding an early resolution to the deadlock over the Navi Mumbai airport project but has also requested the Maharashtra government and the Civil Aviation Ministry to show some flexibility on the issue. The assurance has come in response to a communication from the PMO asking the Environment Ministry to expedite its dec

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BP attempted to place much of the blame for the rig blast that led to the United States’ worst-ever oil spill on its contractors, Transocean and Halliburton. In a report released on Wednesday, BP also defended some of its own decisions, which have been characterised by US politicians as cost-saving measures that contributed to the Gulf of Mexico disaster. These include BP’s much-criticised s

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RAI UMRAOPATI RAY THE ASIAN AGE CARS ARE TAKING OVER ROADS LEADING TO LONG TRAFFIC JAMS, INCREASING AIR POLLUTION AND STRESS LEVELS There should be better public transport as well as non-motorised transport measures to provide viable alternatives to the car Car, car everywhere and not an inch to move", these words spoken satirically by popular comedian Jaspal Bhatti in one of his many TV appea

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Kohima, Sept 8: The Nagaland Government, in association with World Bamboo Organization (WBO), will be organizing “World Bamboo Day” on September 18 at the Heritage Village Complex at Kisama near here.

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the decks for the Yamuna Expressway project to link Greater Noida with Agra by upholding the Uttar Pradesh government's decision to acquire 1,604 hectares of private land. A Bench of Justices V.S. Sirpurkar and Cyriac Joseph dismissed the petitions filed by landowners who termed the acquisition a “colourable exercise of power” to benefit J.P.

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Rajat Guha New Delhi: In a move that could help unlock large chunks of rural land usable for industrial projects, the Centre has decided to rope in states for a mammoth project to create a national database of 2 lakh sq km of land which is currently without clear titles.

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In a major boost to the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court today cleared the decks for the ambitious multi-crore six-lane Yamuna Expressway Project linking Greater Noida to Agra by upholding its decision to acquire 1,604 hectares of private land. A bench of Justices V S Sirpurkar and Cyriac Joseph dismissed petitions filed by aggrieved land owners who challenged the acquist

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THE Navi Mumbai airport project is back on track. With the Maharashtra government and the civil aviation ministry agreeing to address ecological concerns, environment minister Jairam Ramesh has conveyed to the prime minister that things were moving forward on the project. “I am not unmindful of Mumbai’s need for a second airport.

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THE Supreme Court has upheld the Mayawati government’s decision to acquire 1,604 hectares of private land, clearing the way for the six-lane Yamuna Expressway Project linking Greater Noida to Agra. A bench of Justices V S Sirpurkar and Cyriac Joseph dismissed a bunch of petitions filed by aggrieved land owners who challenged the acquisition as a “colourable exercise of power” to benefit a p

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The state government is under pressure from the Centre to stay the release of 2,177 hectares of saltpan land in Mumbai for redevelopment, fearing it would lead to trouble in the flood-prone city. The state government had planned to give this land to private developers for slum rehabilitation projects in lieu of incentives. Sources in the ministry of urban development told DNA, “There is a sh

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Holding that a government entity can take possession of private real estate with or without the permission of the landowner for a “public purpose”, the Supreme Court today endorsed the Mayawati government’s acquisition of 25 million square metres of land along the six-lane Yamuna Expressway Project connecting New Delhi to Agra and Mathura. The Supreme Court bench of Justices VS Sirpurkar and Cy

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Amitabh Sinha The Environment Ministry — which had been at the centre of a major controversy earlier this year following its decision to put the introduction of a genetically-modified variety of brinjal on indefinite hold — may still be able to exercise a lot of control in the proposed new regulatory framework for approval and use of biotechnology products in the country. The Biotechnology

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IMPHAL, Sept 8 – Manipur will import 300 metric tonnes of rice from Myanmar from this month to meet the scarcity of rice in the State, official sources said today. The State Government has received the nod of the Centre to import the rice from the neighbouring country. Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Y Erabot yesterday inspected godowns of Food and Civil Supply depart

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Gangtok, Sept 8: A presentation and interactive session on organic farming was organized by Food Security and Agriculture Development Department at Chintan Bhawan on Monday. The Government of Sikkim has set a target to convert the State into totally organic State by 2015. The Food Security and Agriculture Development Department had invited FIBL, Switzerland to deliver a talk on organic farming.

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P Jonathan Ambrose ENS IF New Delhi Metallo-betalactamase (NDM-1)is the latest superbug that is threatening humans, crops too have their share of superbugs. One of them is Papaya Millibug, a pest which has reportedly destroyed most of the crops in Puducherry and southern Tamil NaduCoimbatore, Erode and Tirupattur. N Ganesh of CEAD, an NGO that works with the farmers of the Thavaluppam are

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In order to encourage the techniques of agriculture conservation, a two-day conference is being organized here on 14 and 15 September at Hotel Ashoka Lake View.

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NAMRUP, Sept 8 – The demand for setting up a new fertilizer plant by the name of Namrup IV, considering the viability of the BVFCL’s three plants viz., Namrup I, Namrup-II and Namrup III is a long-standing one.

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Tata Steel, Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL), GVK Power, Essar Power, MMTC Ltd and NTPC Ltd face the threat of cancellation of their captive coal block allocations.

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Bhubaneswar: After the Centre's refusal of permission for Vedanta's mining project, the Odisha government on Wednesday asked the UK-based group to have patience in order to get alternative sources of bauxite for its refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district. Allocating mines to any company requires a lot of time as the state government has to go through different phases. Therefore, Vedanta

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The Karnataka High Court today directed the government and owners of iron ore mines to arrive at a consensus on the contentious issue of extending validity of transport permits as both stuck to their original stands. While mine owners have been pressing for extending the existing seven-day period validity to 12, the state is firm on not accepting it. The suggestion by a division bench, heade

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VEDANTA ALUMINA chief operating officer, Dr Mukesh Kumar, on Wednesday met Orissa steel and mines minister, Mr Raghunath Mohanty, and urged him to provide alternative bauxite mines for the company’s one-million-tonne refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district.

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Jamuria (Burdwan), Sept. 8: If you can’t stop them from pilfering coal, levy a pilfering “tax”. Unemployed villagers in Asansol’s Jamuria are extorting money from coal thieves after their attempts to stop them from smuggling failed.

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Arsikere (Hassan), Sept 8, DHNS: Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Tuesday said that Congress and other Opposition parties don’t have moral right to talk about illegal mining as all the successive government had been involved in illegal mining. Assertion: Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa talking to media persons at helipad in Arsikere on Tuesday.

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HINDUSTAN COPPER is in talks with the Karnataka-based Hutti Gold Mines to form a JV for reviving copper mining activities, which were were abandoned by the state PSU almost a decade ago. “With rising copper prices, HCL has given a proposal to Hutti Gold Mines to revive copper mining activities in a JV.

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Bhubaneswar: London-based mining major Vedanta Resources on Wednesday requested the Orissa government for allotment of an alternative bauxite mines in view of the Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) denying it access to the Niyamgiri reserves in Kalahandi district. The chief operating officer of Vedanta Alumina (VAL) Mukesh Kumar, met the Orissa steel & mines minister, Rathunath Moh

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BHUBANESWAR: The State Government, it seems, is not in a hurry to provide alternative bauxite mines to the UK-based Vedanta group for its refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district after the Centre rejected the stage-I forest clearance for its proposed mining project in Niyamgiri. It has asked the company to have patience to get alternative sources of raw material in Orissa.

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New Delhi, Sept. 8: The coal ministry has decided to issue show-cause notices to various coal companies to de-allocate 93 coal and four lignite blocks for not making sincere efforts for the development of these blocks for the past several years. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting recently held in the ministry.

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RTI Reveals Chhattisgarh Didn’t Even Have Co’s Registration Number Supriya Sharma | TNN Raipur: The case of alleged pilferage of coal worth hundreds of crore rupees by a sponge iron company in Chhattisgarh raises uncomfortable questions for both the Central and state government.

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Kohima, Sept. 8: The department of geology and mining today conducted a seminar on artificial recharge to groundwater through rainwater harvesting, in Dimapur. Regional director, Central Ground Water Board for Northeast region, G.C.

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Jaipur: The Jaipur Development Authority has converted six non-functioning tubewells and three old wells to water harvesting structures. The effort is claimed to have saved nearly 6.7 crore litres during this monsoon. “The water harvesting structures were created with the help of Malviya National Institute of Technology experts.

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ITANAGAR, Sep 8: Responding to the plea by the Adi Students Union (AdiSU), the All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union (AAPSU) today said that if the visit of Union Minister for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh to Pasighat benefits the local population, then the Union won’t oppose his visit. AAPSU had threatened to disrupt the visit of Ramesh to Arunachal for his statement given on May 9 last s

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Why was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh forced to re-state the obvious on Monday? “Environmental concerns are here to stay, they cannot be wished away from public consciousness,” he said. Nevertheless, “while environmental concerns are important and the environment must be protected, it can’t be done by perpetuating poverty.

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TEZPUR, Sept 8 – There have been serious apprehensions over the possibility that the proposed mega dams and hydroelectricity projects may pose a grave threat to the environment and the geographical and natural situation besides bringing largescale miseries to the people in the district. Although the lower Subansiri and Kameng hydel project and the ongoing dams in the Jia Bharali river may cause

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BHUBANESWAR: Maintaining that the Centre had given conditional clearance to Polavaram dam project, the Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) criticised the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for trying to politicise the issue. BJD is trying to politicise the issue even after the assurance given by Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik that al

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To attract small hydro power developers in the State, developer's interactive meet is being organized by NVDA at New Delhi on 10th Sept. 2010. The Vice Chairman NVDA informed that NVDA had conducted a survey and investigation to know small power potential in the valley.

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MUMBAI: Be it pomfret, prawn, rawas, ghol, surmai, Bombay duck, lobster or carb, soon seafood lovers can tuck in their marine platter without any hesitation.

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Ahmedabad: The rain gods have finally smiled on Gujarat with the state receiving 106 per cent of its annual rainfall by September 4. This has brought glee to farmers and relief to the government. Of the 26 districts in the state, at least 11 have received over 100 per cent rainfall, while another 11 have received over 80 per cent rainfall.

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As hopes for any deal on global warming dims at the Cancun meet later this year, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres on Wednesday made it clear that the Kyoto Protocol will continue post-2012 as a second protocol since it does not have a ‘sunset’ clause. “Yes, it (Kyoto Protocol) will continue to exist as a second protocol because it does not have a sunset clause.

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RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI UNFCC top boss Christiana Figueres on a day-long visit to New Delhi admitted that there was a strong need to develop clarity and flexibility in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for carbon trading. “The global carbon market is dogged by uncertainties arising out of the lack of clarity on how CDM would evolve,” said Christiana Figueres making a keynote address at

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Dhanbad, Sept.

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Christiana Figueres from Costa Rica, who took over as head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) this July, said she expected rich countries to also indicate the “sourcing of $30 billion” that they committed during the last climate summit in Copenhagen. “The funding will be available, but the expectation of 100 per cent additionally may not be met,” Ms Figueres cautioned, refer

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Smriti Kak Ramachandran NEW DELHI: Already anxious over completion of work ahead of the upcoming Commonwealth Games, Delhi now has an overriding worry: rising waters of the Yamuna and imminent floods. On Wednesday, as the quantum of water being released from the Hathni Kund barrage rose, the Delhi Administration began to brace itself up for a flood that is expected to be second only to the o

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Lives of over 15,000 people of Uttarakhand are under threat in disaster-prone areas of the hill State that fall in seismic zone four and five. The Government may be concerned with the predicament of this vulnerable segment of its people but its disaster management efforts have turned out to be a messy affair for want of adequate fund. The interesting fact is that as per an old estimation, th

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Kolkata: An eight-member central team, headed by joint-secretary in the agriculture ministry EK Majhi, on Wednesday held a meeting with West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and finance minister Asim Dasgupta to get a first-hand report on the drought situation in the state. The team also held talks with state agriculture minister Naren De, disaster management minister Murtaza Hussa

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The day Irrigation Minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui held a meeting of his department asking officials to control floods, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came down heavily on the BSP Government saying the state government was not doing enough to provide relief to the flood victims. "State's irrigation minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui has many important departments under his belt.

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Barrage Releases Over 6L Cusecs New Delhi: If heavy rain threw Commonwealth Games work out of gear, there is worse to come. Starting Friday, the capital could witness its worst flood in 22 years, with the 6 lakh cusecs of water released by the Hathnikund barrage on September 8 reaching the city.

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HOJAI, Sept 8 – Flash floods occurred during the second week of August as the Jamuna and Dimaru rivers of Hojai subdivision were in spate due to heavy rainfall, inundating more than 50 villages under Hojai and Doboka revenue circles.

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While rains that lashed the township late last night did bring the mercury down by a few degrees, residents were left to handle waterlogged roads and erratic power supply.

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The country has made progress in reducing infant mortality but it is still some distance from its 2015 target Indicus Analytics / September 9, 2010, 0:39 IST According to the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations, India has the target of reducing the infant mortality rate (IMR) to 28 per 1,000 live births by 2015. Where do we stand today?

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Teena Thacker The World Health Organisation’s 63rd Regional Committee Session in Bangkok on Wednesday discussed the drug-resistant “superbug” reported by the renowned journal The Lancet last month.

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Every year, as this season rolls around, Gorakhpur and surrounding districts in eastern Uttar Pradesh are ravaged by a form of encephalitis, which causes brain inflammation and kills hundreds of people. This year, over 250 children have died and many more disabled by the disease. In no other place in India is an illness so predictable and so lethal.

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New Delhi: With the capital recording a total of 1,512 cases of dengue so far, New Zealand has sounded the government out on its concerns over the health of its Games contingent. New Zealand high commissioner Rupert Holborow met Union urban development minister S Jaipal Reddy recently, following a letter seeking assurances on the safety of the Kiwi contingent, besides clarifications on infr

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Jorhat, Sept.

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Jaipur: Malaria has registered a steep rise in the western districts of the state. The districts of Jaisalmer and Barmer registered more than a thousand cases last week.

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Pricing Goes Against Objective Of Reviving Units To Curb Costs Rema Nagarajan TIMES INSIGHT GROUP Two of the three public sector vaccine manufacturing units that were shut down in 2008 have started manufacturing and supplying vaccines for the government’s Universal Immunization Programme (UIP), but their prices are now more than double what they were charging before they were shut down a

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Ranchi, Sept.

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The cabinet on Wednesday gave its consent to the amendments proposed by the centre on organ transplant. As per this amendment, the grandparents, grandchildren and extended family members can play the role of donors for any person. As per the norms in the past, only the closest relatives of the person, that is, either the husband, wife, brother, sister, son or daughter would be considered ac

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Ranchi, Sept. 8: Dengue has arrived on Jharkhand’s doorstep with two confirmed cases reported in the last two days. Both patients are under treatment at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS). While one developed the symptoms in Delhi, the other appeared to have contracted the virus in the state. CRPF constable L.

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BHUBANESWAR: The State Government today decided to continue with the scheme to provide financial incentives to the tribal patients to draw them to hospitals. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here today.

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A highly selective summary of the India Health Report 2010 Shankar Acharya / New Delhi September 9, 2010, 0:24 IST Last week saw the publication by BS Books of the India Health Report 2010 (henceforth referred to as IHR10), edited (and mostly written) by Ajay Mahal, Bibek Debroy and Laveesh Bhandari.

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More and more Asian govts are focusing on public transport that's both mass-scale and rapid, and, generally, subsurface for better connectivity Barun Roy / New Delhi September 9, 2010, 0:36 IST A friend, visiting from Dhaka, recently told me something about that city’s notorious road traffic that was truly revealing.

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Chethan Kumar Bangalore, Sept 8, DHNS Plan not yet finalised for Plaza station on M G Road; Track laying completed only on 3.1 km stretch The mock coach is all that Bangaloreans will have this New Year, as the work at the Reach-1 of Namma Metro from Byappanahalli to Chinnaswamy Stadium is likely to be delayed. Going by the progress of work, experts believe that the Bangalore Metro Rail C

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G Saravanan | ENS G Saravana Chennai, S All along we have been campaigning in a disciplined and democratic manner, and the residents are now planning to start afresh with a massive campaign to tell the government what they want WITH the state government conveniently forgetting the public anticipation on Metro Rail's slight deviation to cover Anna Nagar West and Mogappair areas (in Corridor-2

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Ahmedabad: The BRTS bus service now has a toll free customer helpline number. The number was made operational on August 26 on a trial basis and has since September 1 been made fully operational. One can dial the 11-digit toll free number 1800-2332030 on cellphone and seek real time details about bus routes, bus timings.

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MUMBAI: The state government and City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco), which are developing the international airport at Navi Mumbai, have firmly refused to allow residential buildings near the site.

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The Digambar Kamat-led government appears determined to acquire land admeasuring 1.20 lakh square meters for the proposed multi-utility project despite stiff opposition from the villagers. This became evident on Wednesday when the government ordered the South Goa district Collector to acquire the land in question.

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THE Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) has decided to review the functioning of infrastructure ministries every quarter and suggest ways to meet targets. The first such review is likely to take place at Thursday’s CCI meeting.

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Pune Green Build Products, a city-based company that manufactures eco-friendly products used in the construction industry, launched its website on Tuesday. Shashank Paranjpe, MD, Paranjpe Schemes Constructions launched the website.

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Several plans for city sanitation have been prepared in the meeting of Munikireti Nagar Panchayat.

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The US says it will look to India to see what “changes” can be made to the nuclear liability law just passed by Parliament, in the wake of concerns over making suppliers of equipment also liable in the event of a nuclear accident. “We continue our discussions with the Indian government on this issue and we note that Indian business leaders are concerned about some specific aspects of the law th

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The Bombay High Court at Goa on Wednesday directed the State government to start process of removing River Princess vessel from Candolim shore within two months. The Division Bench comprising of Justice D G Karnik and F M Reis also asked the government to make sure that the vessel is removed before onset of next monsoon. Pointing out to the report submitted by the Ministry of Earth Science, the

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Noor Mohammad New Delhi: Azure Power plans to invest Rs 1,500 crore over the next five years to develop solar power projects.

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Tirupati/Kadiri, Sept. 8: A rabies-infected wolf on Wednesday created havoc in seven villages for about nine hours in Chittoor district, biting and scratching at least 40 people before angry villagers stoned the animal to death.

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Though the Union ministry of environment and forests announced last week that elephant would soon become India’s national heritage animal, its population is fast dwindling in Orissa thanks to apathetic attitude of state forest department. In spite of a recent letter from Union environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh to chief minister Naveen Patnaik to take steps to protect elephants, no c

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- Abundant fish stocks draw common teal to Jayanti Sarovar after several years Jamshedpur, Sept. 8: Population of the picturesque Jayanti Sarovar is swelling. Fruit bats and turtles are no longer its only occupants.

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It’s been often asked why our officialdom, with all the intellectual capital at its command, is unable to quantify the number of the really poor in India. Is this such a difficult thing to do? It is all the more baffling because in recent times, the debate on India’s poverty has only further confounded ordinary citizens.

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Back in 2005, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), now called Mahatma Gandhi NREGS or MGNREGS, was offered as a tool to liberate Dalits and weaker sections in rural India by giving them employment. Five years down the line, a Union Ministry of Rural Development-sponsored investigation has found that the scheme has become “yet another instrument in the consolidation of the exi

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Expressing strong resentment over the draft Coastal Regulation Zone notification 2010, National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) have alleged that granting of permission for setting up nuclear plants along the coastline would have adverse effect on the environment. Speaking at a one-day seminar on ‘CRZ-2010 Draft: Responses & Challenges’ at Dona Paula, NFF acting chairman Matanhy Saldanha claimed the draf

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P Vinod Kumar, Kavitha Venkatraman Chennai: Decks have been cleared for the fast-tracking of Tamil Nadu Electricity Board’s (TNEB) 2 X 800 mw coal-fired power project to be set up in the Ennore special economic zone (Ennore SEZ) with state-run power utility getting the much-needed clearance from the ministry of environment and forests to go ahead with the project. The power-starved state is

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Sanjay Jog / Mumbai September 09, 2010, 0:09 IST Dow Chemical Company is once bitten, twice shy.

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Madhya Pradesh will have Exit Policy for sick industries. In order to keep cities pollution-free, tehsil level waste processing industries would be encouraged for which special provisions would be made in the renewed Industry Policy.

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Pune: It is curtains for Dow India’s Rs 400-crore global R&D facility in Pune. Dow India on Tuesday said it is calling off its project in Pune and returning the land to the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation. Dow’s R&D project that started in 2007 was to be a greenfield project on 100 acres. The plan was to have an R&D centre with 500 scientists at full capacity.

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Pune As Dow India conveyed its intention to return the 100-acre land in Shinde village allotted to it for a technology research and development project, residents of Shinde and Vasuli who have been agitating against the project for three years heaved a sigh of relief. On Wednesday, the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) submitted an affividavit before the Bombay High Court re

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Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: The Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) will only deal with the safety and efficacy aspects of biotech products, leaving the controversial commercialisation aspect hanging in the air, according to the latest version of the BRAI Bill, 2010. The Bill, which was supposed to be introduced in the last session of Parliament, is back in limbo after object

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Israeli start-up firm Tawkon (pronounced talk-on) has developed a software to measure mobile phone handset radiation, to help users reduce exposure to emissions without giving up their phones. Tawkon’s application is already available for Research in Motion’s (RIM’s) BlackBerry phones and will be launched for Google’s Android-based phones and Nokia’s Symbian later this year. “It’s the first solu

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GEAC To Be Rechristened As Environment Appraisal Panel Under The Proposed Body Urmi A Goswami NEW DELHI THE Centre has pruned the mandate of the proposed Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India.

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ANGUL: Mahitala under Chhendipada block was declared 'total literate village' by Angul Zilla Swakhyarata Samiti today. Of the total population of 364 people, 179 are women in this village. The initiative was taken by Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) under its corporate social responsibility. Informing this at the International Literacy Day, District Collector and Chairman of the Sam

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