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New Delhi: To ensure that the economic growth and development in our country is in conformity with regulations for environmental conservation, the Ministry of Environment & Forests has notified the Environmental Impact Assessment Notification 2006.

New Delhi: An all-party delegation of Members of Parliament from Maharashtra, led by the Chief Minister, met the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and apprised him of the losses incurred by farmers in various regions in the State, on account of unprecedented and unseasonal rains recently, resulting in extensive damage to crops. The delegation requested for suitable assistance to farmers to help them tide over the difficulties being faced by them.

New Delhi: Following the incidence of Chlorine gas leak at Mumbai Port Trust on 14 July 2010, a Committee was set up by the Government under the Chairmanship of Joint Secretary (Ports) to inquire into the cause of the incident of leakage of Chlorine gas and to fix responsibility. The committee has submitted its recommendations, which are:

BHOPAL: Bhopal remained paralysed for over 48 hours earlier this week, as thousands of farmers descended on the Capital. They blocked key road squares in the city by parking tractor trolleys. They surrounded the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan’s residence from three sides. The dharna was reminiscent of the call given by Mao ze Dong call of “Let the villages surround the cities”.

KOLKATA: More than any other state, West Bengal needs a Mahatma Gandhi today, to stop it plunging swiftly into an abyss of political negativism.

In a span of 45 days, India has committed to make special purchase of goods worth US$ 70 billion from three countries – the USA ($10 billion), France ($ 20 billion) and China ($40 billion). In addition, India also inked a fresh trade and technology protocol with Russia, involving defence imports worth another $ 25-30 billion, timed with President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit. The country had also committed additional imports of technology products from the UK during Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit earlier this year. All these are in addition to India’s normal annual imports which stood at nearly Rs. 1.32 million crore or US$293 billion during the last fiscal and growing at the rate of 15-20 per cent per annum.

New York: As the General Assembly wraps up the main part of its 65th session, its President today hailed the summit with which it opened for galvanizing momentum towards achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reverse a global legacy of poverty and attendant ills.

New York: Powered by China, the Asia-Pacific region posted a growth rate of some 20 per cent in both exports and imports in 2010 despite “murky” protectionist steps by developed countries, and is expected to grow at a robust, if slower, pace in 2011, according to a United Nations report issued today.

New York: Human rights officers in Côte d’Ivoire have substantiated allegations of more than 170 killings, hundreds of arrests and dozens of cases of torture, ill treatment and enforced disappearance of people over the past one week, a senior United Nations rights official said today.

New York: A senior United Nations official today condemned the demolition of two refugee homes in East Jerusalem, stressing in particular the trauma caused to Palestinian children forced to witness their homes being destroyed.