Go Unlimited with Magzter GOLD
Get unlimited access to 10,000+ magazines, newspapers and Premium stories for just
Try GOLD - Free
Govt panel rejects plea to allow forest land in Goa to be used by the Railways
Hindustan Times Jammu
|March 08, 2025
The Regional Empowered Committee (REC) of the Union environment ministry has rejected a proposal to lift the abeyance on the diversion of 15 hectares of land in the Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary in Goa for the doubling of the Kulem-Kalem railway line in the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats.
PANAJI:
The REC discussed the matter at a meeting on February 26 during which the panel said the Supreme Court judgment in the matter has to be read in its spirit. In 2022, the top court revoked the wildlife clearance for the project based on recommendations by the court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC).
The Rail Vikas Nigam Limited had sought the lifting of the abeyance for the stretch on the edge of the sanctuary, arguing the CEC's recommendations against the diversion of land and the Supreme Court's orders in this regard did not apply to it.
This story is from the March 08, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Jammu.
Subscribe to Magzter GOLD to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 10,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
MORE STORIES FROM Hindustan Times Jammu
Hindustan Times Jammu
Trump berates ABC reporter after query about killing of Saudi Arabian journalist
President Donald Trump denounced ABC News’ Mary Bruce as a “terrible reporter” on Tuesday and threatened the network's licence to broadcast after she asked him three sharp questions at the White House.
1 mins
November 20, 2025
Hindustan Times Jammu
Air India lobbies to utilise airspace over China’s Xinjiang
Air India is lobbying the Indian government to convince China to let it use a sensitive military airspace zone in Xinjiang to shorten routes as the financial toll from a ban on Indian carriers flying over Pakistan mounts, a company document shows.
1 mins
November 20, 2025
Hindustan Times Jammu
Revised waqf law raises constitutional red flags
A waqf is, at its heart, a gift to God, a property dedicated in perpetuity for religious or charitable purposes.
3 mins
November 20, 2025
Hindustan Times Jammu
Goyal to review progress on India-Israel FTA
India and Israel are expected to review progress on the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) during commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal’s two-day visit to the country during November 20-22, the ministry said on Wednesday.
1 mins
November 20, 2025
Hindustan Times Jammu
Why the economy needs 4% inflation
Low inflation numbers are worrying economists as inflation needs to be not too high, but also not too low. The target of 4% serves growth without an overheating of the economy
4 mins
November 20, 2025
Hindustan Times Jammu
US Congress approves release of Epstein files
The Republican-controlled US Congress voted almost unanimously on Tuesday to force the release of justice department files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an outcome President Donald Trump had fought for months before ending his opposition.
2 mins
November 20, 2025
Hindustan Times Jammu
Being on guard against perpetrators of terror
The car blast near the Red Fort on November 10 — later identified as a terror incident by the government — has shocked the nation. Often, such incidents spark immediate speculation and deepen divides, with all sorts of narratives not based on facts fanned by various parties. Against such a backdrop, the media must be commended for providing exhaustive yet objective and fact-based coverage of the incident this time. This is the ideal way we can build public opinion against terror and induce our society to lend its weight to our security agencies fighting the uneven war that is terrorism.
3 mins
November 20, 2025
Hindustan Times Jammu
Diluting green protection
Supreme Court withdrawing its prohibition of ex post facto green clearances weakens environmental regulation
1 mins
November 20, 2025
Hindustan Times Jammu
In new Bhutan, tradition & progress march in step
Against the backdrop of high youth migration, Thimphu seeks to reinvent while keeping its traditional core intact
4 mins
November 19, 2025
Hindustan Times Jammu
A movement in disarray
Hidma’s killing in an encounter points to the waning strike power of the Maoists
2 mins
November 19, 2025
Listen
Translate
Change font size