India's water future remains very bleak. The monsoon season, which once extended to 4 months, is now down to less than 30 days of heavy rain.
Minister of State for Environment and Forests Anil Dave gave these figures to the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
The list has been sent to Governor Ram Naik for approval.
A farmers' association of Tirunelveli district had filed the petition claiming that EIA was mandatory for the project to be implemented in 16,000 acres of land, of which around 3,000 acres would be on the sea shore.
Ministry has set a target to spend Rs 5 lakh crore in road infrastructure
A bench, headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, set up a five-member Committee to probe Thursday's gas leak incident in the chemical factory, in which 11 people were killed and 1,000 exposed, and submit a report before May 18.
It also asked the governments of Punjab and Haryana to take immediate stringent actions to curb stubble burning and authorities in Delhi-NCR to strictly check biomass burning.
Ramesh Menon, the veteran journalist suggests Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi what he should do if he wants to win 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Reacting to Maneka Gandhi's criticism, the Maharashtra CM said that her word were harsh but he unerstands her feelings as she is also an animal lover.
"The new cattle trade and slaughter rules framed by the central government are against the interest of the people. We will not carry out the new rules," Tripura's Agriculture and Animal Resource Development Minister Aghore Debbarma said.
'Wild animals lived in their natural environment.' 'So, viruses could not be communicated.' 'Then came mass production and mass quartering of animals -- whether it be poultry, pigs and cattle -- which gave rise to bird flu, SARS and the mad cow disease.' 'Vast amounts of animal produce are also being flown from one part of the world to another, which has helped to spread the virus.' 'All these changes have led to a new and deadly mutation of the virus that has immobliised human beings.'
An advisory issued by the Delhi development commissioner said that residents can distract the locusts by making high-decibel sound through beating of drums, utensils; playing high-volume music, bursting crackers, and burning neem leaves.
'Why do you want the tribal communities to come out of the jungles?' 'For development?' 'Why cannot their development take place over there?' 'The Modi government is diluting the Forest Rights Act in the name of industrialisation and Project Tiger.'
The Supreme Court asked the Union environment ministry to review six specific hydroelectric projects on the upper Ganga basin in Uttarakhand.
The estimated cost of the project is around Rs 1,642 crore.
The Prime Minister directed that a special cell be created immediately in the Cabinet Secretariat.
The minister was found guilty of conspiring to give licenses for operation of sawmills in the state despite a ban imposed by it.
After a political tug of war on poaching, Rajasthan government has permitted Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the disappearance of tigers in the Sariska sanctuary since October last year.
CM Sangma, introducing the resolution, alleged that the notification was "designed to affect" the people of the north-east in general and Meghalaya in particular.
By refusing permission for the proposed ship-breaking facility, India can send a categorical message to the foreign ship owning countries that they should keep their own waste and recycle
The Supreme Court on Tuesday took serious note of the "pattern" of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai of issuing a tender, then cancelling it and again reissuing it leading to cost escalation and delay in completion of projects.
A survey conducted by Business Standard reveals that a majority of the country's states are still firmly against the move, while a few are open to considering only conditionally.
Jayanthi Natarajan on Sunday dismissed reports that she was removed as Environment Minister because she held up clearances to projects and insisted that she resigned on her own.
According to the amendment adopted by nations, developed countries will reduce HFCs use first, followed by China along with a large number of countries.
The 61-year old is credited with initiating big-ticket reforms as power minister, including the Electricity Act of 2003, under then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
The weather office on Monday forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall over the next three days over some parts of Uttarakhand, which is still recovering from a deluge last week that is feared to have taken over 1,000 lives.
The Union Environment Ministry had on April 22 issued a notification, stating that all constructions in the coastal areas exceeding five crore rupees be cleared by the ministry.
The Action Plan for Control of Stray Animal Menace prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Forests says stopping monkey-feeding will help prevent the menace.
'As of now there are no mining activities,' but 'who knows the future?'
In many cases, all that is required is a final letter from the ministry
100 square kilometre of Panna Tiger Reserve could go under water, writes Nitin Sethi.
Coal India achieved a staggering production of 536.51 million tonnes during the financial year ended March 31, 2016
Rashtriya Janata Dal's Manoj Jha saw the move as an attempt to have a 'committed bureaucracy'.
'Farmers love cows but find it uneconomical to afford fodder expenses'
The groups, including those associated with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's parent organisation the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, have also threatened a big nationwide agitation if growth of illegal GM crops isn't checked.
PMO's stance came as part of a reply to the whistle-blower forest officer, Sanjiv Chaturvedi, after he dragged the PMO to the Central Information Commission for denying information under the RTI Act.
Full list of the rejigged Union Council of Ministers
Ignoring protests by green campaigners, Union Ministry of Environment and Forest has given clearance to the private airport project at Aranmula in Kerala, promoted by KGS Group.
Directions have been issued to about 48 industrial units polluting River Ganga to close down, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday.
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