-India Water Portal Crop patterns in India are changing without consideration for local agro-climatic conditions. This puts a burden on environment, incurring huge long-term losses. The past few months saw Karnataka and Tamil Nadu bickering over the sharing of the Cauvery water. It was the failure of the south-west monsoon that had put crops in Karnataka at risk, forcing the government to stop water supplies to Tamil Nadu. The arrival of...
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Government served legal notice over decision to cut NPPA's powers -Prabha Raghavan
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Civil society group All India Drug Action Network (AIDAN) has sent legal notices to Niti Aayog CEO and secretaries to the health ministry, department of pharmaceuticals and department of industrial policy and promotion over their talks to cut powers of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority. The group has termed the move “anti-national” and “anti-people”, adding that it affects an ongoing case at the Supreme Court over various...
More »Are you waiting for people to die, SC asks government -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the government and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) whether they intend to just sit back and watch people gasp for breath and finally die in a polluted National Capital. “The courts are trying to monitor, the National Green Tribunal is trying to monitor the pollution... and there you are, just sitting there and waiting for people to die,” Chief Justice of...
More »NDTV moves Supreme Court against I & B Ministry order
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: NDTV on Monday said that it has filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court challenging a government order, which has directed its Hindi Channel NDTV India to go off-air for a day. In a BSE filing, the company said that it has filed a writ petition before the Supreme Court, “ inter-alia challenging the constitutional validity of the said order and the provisions of law...
More »Smog costs million kids classes and a meal -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Delhi's 1,800-odd municipal schools have declared a holiday tomorrow citing predictions of "very poor" smog and the health risk it poses, but critics rued that over a million poor children would miss their midday meals. Some parents said the slum children who go to these schools would be playing on the smoggy streets anyway if classes were closed. This is the first time so many schools will close in...
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