The fully operational airport, with 4 terminals, is expected to have a capacity to handle 90mn passengers annually, slightly more than the capacity of London's Heathrow airport.
39 categories of 'white industries' will no longer need dual environmental permits to start operations. Activist worries it'll weaken pollution monitoring, set a 'dangerous precedent'.
Bench said Centre showed 'undue haste' and failed to provide reasons as to why it issued 2020 notification in public interest during Covid lockdown without inviting public feedback.
Data presented in Lok Sabha also showed that time taken for forest, wildlife, coastal & environmental clearances had also come down thanks to govt's digital clearance platform PARIVESH.
No clearance to project till June as agency didn't have licence for conducting environmental assessment of soda ash units. Villagers want action on other agency involved in review.
Centre's move to grant states the power of clearing large projects was contested by NGO. Earlier, NGT had found 'inadequacy in performance' of authorities in 2 states.
Piyush was about celebration—of life, of people, of stories. He believed that what we create can shape popular culture, can make people feel proud of who they are.
Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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