Reminding govt of the 44-day-long chain hunger strike in Jan and Feb, the locals said that they are ready to restart their stir if the fencing is not removed within seven days Panaji: Chimbel residents have issued a seven-day ultimatum to authorities to remove the fencing around the scrapped Unity Mall and Prashashan Stambh project…
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) is gearing up to declare two more sites — Kalasamala in Thrissur and Edayilakkad Kavu in Kasaragod — as biodiversity heritage sites.The board had declared around 57 hectares of mangroves in Ashramam in Kollam as state’s first biodiversity heritage site in 2019.Kalasamala and Edayilakkad Kavu sites have been identified…
Karapur villagers staged a protest against the mega project in their village, outside the Town and Country Planning office at Patto in Panaji on Friday Panaji: Residents of Karapur-Sarvan, who have been protesting The House of Abhinandan Lodha’s luxury housing project for the past 69 days, brought their agitation to the state capital on Friday…
Panaji: A long delay in completing the audit of accounts of the Azossim-Mandur panchayat since 2018-2019, slow pace of laying pipeline along Pilar-Old Goa road and criticism about biodiversity management committee’s (BMC) functioning raised some dust at the recent gram sabha.At the meeting chaired by sarpanch Prashant Naik, the members alleged that disbursal of development…
Ranchi: The Jharkhand Biodiversity Board (JBB) has drafted the biodiversity site management plan for Canary Pahar in Hazaribag district, the state’s first notified biodiversity heritage site.Canary Pahar is the first of 111 sites identified by the board to receive the status from the state govt, positioning it as the 45th biodiversity heritage site in India.Board…
Panaji: The issues of an illegal reclamation in khazan land, non-functioning of the local biodiversity management committee (BMC), and a five-hour power outage in the village dominated a heated gram sabha of Neura panchayat on Sunday.The members were agitated over damage to the underground power cable during excavation work for a new water pipeline.The five-hour…
