-PTI The Supreme Court today set aside the Orissa High Court order which had quashed state government's petition to allot iron ore licence to South Korean steel major Posco in Khandadhar hills in Sundergarh district for a multi-crore steel plant. A bench headed by Justice R M Lodha asked the Centre to consider all the objections raised by various parties pertaining to the mega steel plant and take a decision. The court was...
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An ecosystem to save, or squander-Madhav Gadgil and Ligia Noronha
-The Hindu Instead of opening a debate on the Gadgil panel's report on the Western Ghats, the government has chosen to sideline and replace it with another by an alternate group This is a challenging time in India's development history where a number of tenets of environmental governance are being questioned by the imperative of growth. Environmental governance in India is under assault, and is thus in need of both fresh thinking,...
More »Make the CBI accountable also to the court, a Parliament committee and NHRC
-The Economic Times The Supreme Court has pulled up the CBI for misleading it on whether the agency had shared its status report with the government. Indeed, there can be no excuse for misrepresenting facts to the apex court. The Additional Solicitor General who told the court something that he knew to his personal knowledge to be false and the Attorney General who did not make amends must both go. The...
More »Tapi tribals launch stir to protest illegal Mining -Melvyn Reggie Thomas
-The Times of India SURAT: Tribals of five villages in Tapi district's Valod taluka are on a fast-unto-death at Kosambia village on the bank of Purna river since April 17. They are demanding a check on illegal Mining of stones from the banks of Valmik and Ambika rivers and illegal operation of stone quarrying at Kosambia village and strict implementation of The Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act. The agitators said...
More »Uttarakhand upset over eco-sensitive zone
-The Hindu Dehra Dun: The Uttarakhand Government would request the Centre to review the notification on eco-sensitive zone between Gomukh and Uttarkashi as its implementation would adversely affect all development activity and economic progress of the region. Briefing newspersons after a high-level meeting at the Secretariat here on Thursday, Chief Secretary Alok Kumar Jain said it had been decided to seek a review by the Centre after discussing the legal aspects, adverse...
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