Not planting trees borders on denial of human rights, says Delhi HC
Observing that it is not merely the court’s order that has been disregarded, the HC further said the citizens of Delhi and its adjoining cities have also been deprived of fresh oxygen and reduction of pollution in the area December 22, 2020 1:36:58 am
Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the petitioners, aged 25 and 22 years, to do community service at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital for a period of one month. (File)
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA)’s failure to plant trees on a piece of vacant land despite a court order “borders on denial of human rights” by an authority duty-bound to protect the land and to green the areas under its jurisdiction, the Delhi High Court has said.
11 grenades dropped by Pak drone recovered from near border in Punjab
DGP Dinkar Gupta said the Punjab Police mounted a search operation immediately after receiving information from the BSF about drone movement across the Indo-Pak border in Gurdaspur district. Updated: December 21, 2020 9:46:58 pm
A case under sections 3, 4, 5 of the Explosive Substances Act has been registered at PS Dorangla, district Gurdaspur, and further investigations are in progress, said Gupta. (ANI)
Security forces have recovered 11 hand grenades dropped by a drone launched from Pakistan, from Salach village, located about one km from the International Border, in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district, police Monday said.
Facebook takes down farmer protest page, restores it later
The removal caused outrage on social media, with people questioning why the page was taken down. Updated: December 21, 2020 1:57:32 pm
The farmers have been camping at several border points into Delhi for over three weeks. (Express photo by Amit Mehra)
A Facebook page, which was set up by farmer organisations’ “IT Cell” to “counter misinformation”, was taken down by Facebook on Sunday for a few hours. According to a statement issued by the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, at 7 pm, a Facebook live was being streamed from the page where they were talking about how they had reached 94 lakh people through the page. “The page was unpublished at 7 pm. We had started a live (streaming), telling people that Kisan Ekta Morcha’s Facebook reach was 94 lakh and the page was unpublished. We will address a proper press conference tomorrow with all farm leaders… the page was (later) republished,
60% rise in leopard numbers from 2014 estimates: Prakash Javadekar
The largest number of leopards have been estimated in Madhya Pradesh (3,421) followed by Karnataka (1,783) and then Maharashtra (1,690). December 22, 2020 3:15:21 am
To better understand the leopard in an urban landscape and its interaction with humans, SGNP authorities initiated a project to study leopards by using radio collars (Picture for representation)
Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday announced that a “60 per cent increase has been recorded in the population count of leopards in India from 2014 estimates’’.
The 2014 estimates placed the population of leopards at nearly 8,000 which has increased to 12,852.
Releasing the ‘Status of leopards in India, 2018’ report, the minister said, “There were 8,000 leopards in 2014. Increase in the population of tigers, Asiatic lions and now leopards shows how India is protecting its environment, ecology
Delhi Confidential: Others In A Spot
While the Congress attacks the Centre regularly over federalism, Banerjee is signaling that she will use it as an issue in the Assembly polls. December 22, 2020 2:44:04 am
Mamata Banerjee
While Congress chief ministers such as Bhupesh Baghel, Amarinder Singh and Ashok Gehlot have come out in support of their West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee in her fight against the Centre over the transfer of police officers, her reported plans to hold a rally inviting the likes of NCP chief Sharad Pawar and DMK leader M K Stalin will put the party in a quandary. The Congress is set to take on the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal Assembly elections next year along with the Left parties. While the Congress attacks the Centre regularly over federalism, Banerjee is signaling that she will use it as an issue in the Assembly polls. It is to be seen whether Banerjee would reach out to the Congress, and how the Congress res