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CITI, ILO join hands for best labour standards in cotton farmsThe project’s inaugural phase will focus on the major cotton-producing districts of Madhya Pradesh, with a special emphasis on small and ma...- Environment ministry to declare 'inviolate' parts of forests soonMinister of Environment & Forests Prakash Javadekar told ET that “the whole issue is under examination of the ministry.”
- Smart cities required for sustainable urbanisation in India: Union Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Secretary Nandita Chatterjee"Proper planning is most essential for rapid and sustainable urbanisation and it has to be ensured that all constructions are disaster or e...
- Consent of tribal and forest-dwellers not required to decide on diversion of forest land: Environment MinistryAccording to the environment ministry, compliance with the Forest Rights Act is to be considered only when the central government decides t...
- Govt to ease curbs on urban constructionSeeking to promote construction activities in urban areas, the govt decided to substantially reduce the number of approvals and 'No Objecti...
- Trinamool Congress condemns BJP's divisive politicsThe ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal today criticised the BJP for allegedly pursuing divisive politics, creating hatred against eac...
- Environment Ministry reworks yardsticks for giving mining nodEnvironMin is diluting current system of using 6 indicators to decide on forest areas where mining will not be permitted. Working on system...
- Ministerial panel to take up ‘inviolate’ forest area issue todayThe panel is also expected to take up for discussion the Morga-II coal block in Chhattisgarh.
- Pipeline projects now need not take tribal nodThe PMO has been pushing for a more relaxed implementation of the Forest Rights Act for projects in forest areas.
- PM calls Deo, Natarajan to resolve forest clearance impasseThe meeting is likely to be held next week in time for the government to put forth a view on the issue before the Supreme Court in the Veda...
- Expenditure on bio-diversity must be looked as an investment: Jayanthi NatarajanExpenditure on bio-diversity should be looked as an investment and present economic crisis should not discourage on investing more on this ...
- Water pollution: Parliamentary committee to summon officials of 6 ministriesTerming water pollution as a "national crisis", a Parliamentary committee has decided to summon officials of at least six central ministrie...
- Environment clearance must for exporting dumps: MoEF tells Goa governmentThe Union Ministry of Environment and Forest has said the environmental clearance is mandatory before allowing mining dumps to be exported.
- Environment ministry for clearance to infra projects on case-by-case basisThe environment ministry is veering towards considering forest clearance for coal, mining and other infrastructure projects on a case-by-ca...
- MoEF draft seeks to keep miners away from ‘Inviolate Forest Areas’The ministry's draft lists criteria for identifying forest patches where mining should be banned following the GoM on coal's decision to ju...
- Forests off limits for all mining?If the environment ministry’s draft proposal for ‘inviolate forest areas’ is accepted, large swathes of healthy forests, including national...
- Environment and forest ministry to demarcate no-go areas for mining within a monthThe environment and forest secretary will head panel to chalk out fresh criteria for the demarcation process that would decide how liberal ...
- India loses 367 sq km of forests in 2 yearsIndia recorded a net loss of 367 sq km of forests between 2009 and 2011 with Khammam district in Andhra Pradesh alone losing 182 sq km of g...
- Andhra Pradesh reports loss of 281 sq km forest cover; Maoists said to be prime causeThe Centre has said that a substantial amount of the loss in forest cover has been on account of Left wing extremism, particularly in the K...
- Kerala CM Oommen Chandy takes his ministry to IIM Kozhikode to turn them into high performers, more programmes needed for politiciansIIMK Director Debashis Chatterjee said Chandy approached him a little over a month ago to work out a programme to turn his ministers into h...
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