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NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday sharply criticised Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi over their opposition to the Great Nicobar island infrastructure project, accusing them of going to great lengths to derail it. The governing party cited the National Green Tribunal’s nod to the initiative as a triumph of truth that foiled their disruptive attempts.Coal and…
The National Green Tribunal gave a green light to Centre’s Rs 90,000-crore-plus Great Nicobar infrastructure project on Monday, concluding that the environmental clearance granted in 2022 was backed by sufficient safeguards and there was no “good ground to interfere.“ A bench of the tribunal dismissed a series of petitions that had questioned the validity of…
NEW DELHI An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 struck the Andaman Islands at 12:06pm on Sunday, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). The tremor was recorded at a depth of 90 kilometres in the Andaman Sea.However, initial data from the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) estimated the quake’s magnitude at 6.07 and placed…
NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Sunday attacked the Modi govt on the Great Nicobar mega infrastructure project, saying it was “bulldozing this ecological disaster of a project through” even though environmental clearances have been challenged in courts.On Aug 18, 2022, Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration – controlled by union home ministry –…
