Amid the ongoing debate over delay in green clearances hampering key development projects, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Tuesday said her ministry is not a "bottleneck" for economic development but "partner in development". ...
12:58 AM, Feb 06, 2013
Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Tuesday accused the Railway Ministry of remaining "indifferent" to the death of wild animals particularly elephants caused by speeding trains. ...
02:05 AM, Jan 09, 2013
New Delhi: The Amur falcon, a tiny majestic bird from the raptor family is being poached in thousands in North East India. The small raptors arrive in North East India from Siberia en route to their final destination in Southern Africa, stopping briefly in Nagaland where they are poached in huge numbers. Activists have caught on camera, how the birds are trapped, then the injured birds are kept alive in...
07:41 PM, Nov 08, 2012
Amala Akkineni, who is also the wife of actor Nagarjuna has been arrested in Hyderabad. The actress, along with nine others were arrested for protesting against Coal Mining in forest areas. Amala took part in the protest as a Greenpeace activist which was staged near the historical monument Charminar. However, she was later released on personal bonds. The protesters used the sign 'Stop Coal Crimes-Save Indian Forests' and attracted a...
12:56 PM, Oct 10, 2012
New Delhi: Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan has written a strongly-worded letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh opposing any move to bypass required green clearances for mega project approvals by the proposed National Investment Board (NIB) mooted by Finance Minister P Chidambaram. The proposed NIB is envisaged to act as a final body for clearing big investment proposals after which no ministry will have power to raise objections. Natarajan in her...
07:20 AM, Oct 10, 2012
New Delhi: After CNN-IBN reported how missile installations in Andaman and Nicobar Islands could hurt the existence of the endangered bird species Nicobar Megapode, the Enviornment Ministry has rejected the proposal. "The habitat of the megapode should not be disturbed and the missile firing range should not come up in that area," Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said at a programme organised to mark the wildlife week in New Delhi. The...
05:45 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Hyderabad: Hyderabad will be hosting India's first United Nations Conference on Biodiversity on Monday. Tight security arrangements are in place for the summit as it comes a day after the Telangana march that took a violent turn on Sunday with protesters going on a rampage, destroying media vans and public transport vehicles. Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma assured that there will be no compromise on the security to the 19-day...
08:24 AM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: Government on Friday said it was open to imposing additional conditions on the Kudankulam nuclear power project, if directed by courts, to protect the marine ecosystem of the region. The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) has met all the conditions set by the Environment Ministry while granting clearance to the project, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said. The Environment Ministry, while granting green clearance to KNPP, has asked Nuclear...
03:50 AM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Narcondam Hornbill is found at only one place in the world - Narcondam, in the Andamans. The Nicobar Megapod, a wingless bird, is found in the Tillanchong Sanctuary, again in the Andamans. Both these birds and the fragile ecology of the Andamans are now facing a direct threat from proposals floated by the Coast Guard and the Indian Navy. The Navy wants to construct a structure for...
01:48 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal has the highest number of red category industries causing high pollution, followed by Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, while 43 industrial clusters have been identified as "critically polluted", the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday. Environment and Forest Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said during Question Hour that the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and IIT-Delhi had conducted a survey based on Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) for assessment...
03:58 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Yet another setback for South Korean multinational Posco's plans to build a steel plant in Odisha. The National Green Tribunal on Friday has suspended the environment clearance given to Posco a year ago by then Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh. Ramesh had appointed a special four-member committee and had given the environment clearance even though only one member Meena Gupta had voted in favour of the project. The bench...
06:57 PM, Mar 30, 2012
The National Green Tribunal on Friday suspended the environment clearance given to Posco Steel. ...
02:01 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Chennai: Ruling out a mid-term poll in the wake of Congress' setback in the recent assembly polls, Union Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Thursday said the Manmohan Singh-led government will complete its term and asked opposition parties not to nurture hopes of destabilising it. "There is no question of a mid-term poll. The Union government will last its full term," she told reporters in Chennai. Asserting that Congress had "very good...
02:19 PM, Mar 08, 2012
Chennai: Ruling out a mid-term poll in the wake of Congress' setback in the recent assembly polls, Union Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Thursday said the Manmohan Singh-led government will complete its term and asked opposition parties not to nurture hopes of destabilising it. "There is no question of a mid-term poll. The Union government will last its full term," she told reporters in Chennai. Asserting that Congress had "very good...
02:19 PM, Mar 08, 2012
A day after the International Olympic Council (IOC) turned down the Indian Olympics Association's (IOA) request to drop Dow as a sponsor for the Olympics, Enviroment Minister Jayathi Natarajan on Friday slammed the decision. Jayanthi said, "Someone who is responsible for such a tremendous environmental disaster should not sponsor Olympics." ...
12:10 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan has ordered a probe and a site inspection of the wetlands in Greater Noida which have been sold to a private builder. ...
04:30 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: Union Minister of Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan has ordered an investigate into the sale of wetlands in Greater Noida's Dadri by the Uttar Pradesh. The Uttar Pradesh government sold 2400 acre of wetlands, home to over 5,000 migratory birds to a private builder. "We are extremely concerned about the project on wetland in Greater Noida. A fact-finding team has been sent to Greater Noida this morning. If...
11:39 AM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: India will not sign any legally binding global agreement for emissions reduction, as the country needs to eradicate poverty through economic growth, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said on Tuesday. "There is no question of signing a legally binding agreement at this point of our development. We need to make sure that our development does not suffer," Natarajan said in Rajya Sabha. She was responding to clarifications on her...
02:42 PM, Dec 27, 2011
New Delhi: Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Monday took a dig at JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav, saying he has no confidence on a woman minister apparently due to his reservations on the Women's Reservation Bill. Replying to a debate on the state of river Ganga in the Lok Sabha, Natarajan referred to certain comparisons made by Yadav between her predecessor Jairam Ramesh and herself while participating in the discussion. She...
03:04 AM, Dec 20, 2011
Durban: After two weeks of chaos, infighting and mistrust, it's finally happened. All 196 countries cleared the text for a landmark deal at the Climate Summit in Durban. The breakthrough capped 13 days of hectic negotiations that saw high tension and drama between the developed and the developing nations. The existing regime Kyoto Protocol puts the onus only on the developed nations to curb emissions. Management of a climate fund...
09:52 PM, Dec 11, 2011
