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What Is A Forest?: How Govt Defines It, What Supreme Court Suggests

Snehashish RoyFebruary 21, 20240

The Supreme Court of India has issued a directive to the government, instructing it to follow the broad and all-encompassing definition of forest as laid down in its 1996 judgment in the T N Godavarman case. This directive will remain in effect until a consolidated record of all types of forests across the country has been prepared. The directive was issued by a three-judge bench, led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud, on Monday, February 19, in response to petitions challenging the 2023 amendments to the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 (FCA). These amendments were being challenged on the grounds that they had substantially diluted the definition of forest and reduced the scope of the FCA. The government had passed the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023, in ...

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‘GRAP-4’ Implemented Amidst Increasing Pollution, Know What Restrictions Will Be Applicable In Delhi-NCR

Gunjan ChaudharyNovember 3, 20220

The Air Quality Management Commission (CAQM) has implemented Phase IV of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to control the increasing pollution in Delhi NCR. Delhi's air quality remained in the 'severe' category on Thursday, according to data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Delhi's overall air quality index (AQI) stood at 426 at 9:10 am. The AQI in Anand Vihar and Jahangirpuri stood at 460. Let us tell you, if the AQI is more than 400, it is considered 'severe' and can adversely affect the health of healthy people and can seriously affect those who are already ill. So, now let us know what will be restrictions that will be applicable in Delhi NCR in the fourth phase of implementation of GRAP: There is a big change in the commutation of trucks in Delhi and now ...

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Uttar Pradesh To Get Country’s Largest Airport, Going To Be Bigger Than Jewar Airport In This District!!

Gunjan ChaudharySeptember 22, 20220

There is a good news for the people of Uttar Pradesh. Now the country's largest airport is going to be built in UP. This new airport will be bigger than the Jewar airport being built near Noida. Yogi government is preparing to build this new airport. This airport is going to be built in Nawabganj of Unnao. Following the instructions of the government, the concept plan prepared by the KDA under the State Capital Region (SCR) includes a proposal to make it. According to media reports, this airport will be built at a distance of about 5 km from Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary. So that there is no effect on the Habitat of the birds. Recently, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had approved the concept note on SCR on the lines of National Capital Region (NCR). Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) is lik...

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More Than 90 Airports Of The Country Will Be Carbon Neutral By 2024, Said Union Minister!!

Gunjan ChaudharySeptember 20, 20220

Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday said that over 90 airports in the country will become carbon neutral by the year 2024. He also said that the number of airports in the country will reach 220 in the next five years. The Union Minister, while speaking during the National Conference of All India Management Association, said that at present there are 141 airports in the country. Of these, airports at Kochi and Delhi are already carbon neutral. He said, "When I took over as the Minister of Aviation, the first thing I did was carbon mapping profiling of our airports. It revealed that our two airports, Delhi and Kochi, are already carbon-neutral and by the year 2024, there will be 92 to 93 in the country." He said that the ministry has set a target of zero carbon e...

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Palitana Of Gujarat Became World’s First Vegetarian City, Indian City Where Non-Veg Is Completely Banned!!

Gunjan ChaudharySeptember 19, 20220

India is a country of unity in diversity. Where every state has a different dialect, food, and cultural identity. At the same time, there is also a saying that 'Here the water changes at every 1.5 kilometers, and language at 16 kms', there are beautiful ancient and divine religious places here. Now we are going to tell you about the city of the country which is not only India's but the world's first Vegetarian City. Palitana city of Gujarat is the only vegetarian city in the world. In 2014, the Gujarat government declared it a complete vegetarian. Here followers of Jainism from all over the world reach in large numbers. Obviously, this is also the only place in India which is completely vegetarian. Meat is completely banned in this city. Now in such a situation, you may be thinking that...

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Firecrackers Completely Banned In Delhi Till 1 January By AAP Government, Read To Know More!!

Gunjan ChaudharySeptember 7, 20220

For those people who loves fire crackers and wanted to enjoy Diwali with fire crackers will not be able to do so this time too. This time also Diwali will be without firecrackers in Delhi. Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said on Wednesday that the production, sale, and use of all types of firecrackers will be banned in the national capital till January 1, 2023. He said the ban is also applicable to online sale of firecrackers. He said on Twitter that to save the people of Delhi from the menace of pollution, like last year, this time also the production, storage, sale, and use of all types of firecrackers are being completely banned in Delhi, so that people's lives can be saved from the pollution that people has to suffer each year. He informed that this time there will also be a b...

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India Presents NDC On Climate Change In UNFCCC, Made A Target Of Net Zero By Year 2070!!

Gunjan ChaudharyAugust 31, 20220

India has submitted its latest Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) under the Paris Agreement, emphasizing that it will meet its long-term goal of reaching net-zero by 2070. In a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) document submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in a cover letter on 23 August, Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav said that India's NDC will not take any sector specific mitigation action or does not bind liability. On August 3, the Union Cabinet had approved the country's NDCs, which incorporate Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Panchamrut' strategy announced at the Glasgow conference last year. According to the latest NDC, India is now committed to ...

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World Is One Step Away From ‘Nuclear Devastation’: UN Chief Antonio Guterres Warns

Vikas DeshwalAugust 17, 20220

The UN alerted the planet on August 1 that "humankind is simply one misconception, one miscalculation away from nuclear devastation," mentioning the battle in Ukraine, nuclear hazards in Asia and the Middle East and numerous additional elements. The threat of growing nuclear dangers and a nuclear tragedy was also presented by the U.S., Japan, Germany, the U.N. atomic chief and many other entry lecturers at the conference to check gain and decide on future efforts to enforce the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, comprehended as the NPT. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told North Korea is prepping to perform its seventh nuclear trial, Iran "has either lived reluctant or incompetent" to get a contract to produce to the 2015 atomic deal desired at reining in its nuclear plan, and Mos...

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India Celebrates ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’: Read About India’s 75 Years Of Journey Since Independence

Vikas DeshwalAugust 12, 20220

On August 8, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi established the historic Quit India movement. Gandhiji's clarion ring of "Do or Die" in his glorified Quit India address at the Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay, loaned a feeling of a hurry to the growing increase against Colonial rule the whole country standing as one. The common choice of the Indian individuals, pushed by an enthusiasm to manage themselves and shape their tomorrow, found countenance in the significant occasions that ensued, directing inevitably to the nation's Independence on August 15, 1947. Eighty years behind Gandhiji's call to Quit India, as India marks 75 years of Independence under the descriptive title of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, let us wait to meditate on our actions. The meaning of the mantra of ahimsa fibs in the fact that it

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India’s Geopolitical Concerns For Antarctic Amid New Law Passed In Lok Sabha 

Vikas DeshwalAugust 6, 20220

New Delhi's polar policy administration will shortly be in a location with the Indian Antarctic Bill, 2022 – enacted by the Lok Sabha on July 22 – predicted to be presented and emptied by the Rajya Sabha this week. Before this year, the Union administration formally declared India's Arctic policy. While the Arctic guideline has been said as the region of India's official statement with references to more widespread attention – such as the nation's science prudence, financial and mortal expansion, conveyance, and connectivity – the Antarctic ruling is living put in the position to "protect the Antarctic conditions and hanging and associated ecosystems and to give impact to the Antarctic Treaty System, the law on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Life" and corresponding protocols t

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Kim Jong Un Warns ‘First Use’ Of Nuclear Weapons Policy Against South Korea, US

Vikas DeshwalAugust 2, 20220

North Korean chief Kim Jong Un alerted he's prepared to use his nuclear weapons in possible military confrontations with South Korea and The United States, Korea, state media declared Thursday, as he released passionate verbiage against opponents he states are pushing the Korean Peninsula to the cusp of battle. Kim's address to battle vets on the 69th anniversary of the back of the 1950-53 Korean battle inspired inner harmony in the developing country amid pandemic-related financial difficulties. While Kim Jong Un has increasingly endangered his enemies with nuclear arms, watchers express it's doubtful that he would employ them first against the superior militaries of the U.S. and its allies. "Our armed forces are completely prepared to respond to any problem, and our government's nu

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Japan’s New Water Discharge Policy Likely To Turn It Into ‘Sick Man Of Asia’

Vikas DeshwalJuly 23, 20220

Japan's nuclear controller on Friday supported the dismissal method of Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water, with Chinese spectators expressing problems that the out of the dirty water into the pacific ocean may begin before the earlier program of next spring and witness that Tokyo will take the brunt of the damage, with people's lives underneath serious threat and seafood consumption and export nosediving. The Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan on Friday officially authorised Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) 's enactment method of releasing treated Fukushima nuclear accident polluted water. Although the Foreign Ministry statement said this does not mean that TEPCO can instantly activate the release of the polluted water into the ocean as there are staying procedures, ...

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