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Chennai, August 1: Actor, music director and producer G V Prakash Kumar, who has won the National Award for Best Music Direction (Songs) for the Tamil, Telugu bilingual film Vaathi, has called the honour "a blessing for the second time". Taking to his X timeline soon after the 71st National Awards were announced, G V Prakash expressed his gratitude to the jury and the selection committee of the National Awards and the entire team of Vaathi. G V Prakash wrote, "A blessing for the second time. I' ...Read More >
Mumbai: On Friday, the Supreme Court's (SC) stay on the Bombay High Court's (HC) order to declare 120 hectares in Kanjurmarg a protected forest has offered major relief to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The civic body can now continue using the site as a landfill critical to manage nearly 90% of Mumbai's waste. However, the decision has disappointed environmental activists and local residents, who view the land as ecologically sensitive and have long demanded its restoration as f ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a display of judicial solidarity for environmental causes, 20 judges of Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, joined Delhi govt's Van Mahotsav 2025 to plant saplings in memory of their mothers under the Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam campaign on Saturday. The dedicated green space has been formally named Nyay Vatika to honour the judiciary's commitment to environmental justice. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote on X, "The participation of honourable judges in Van Mahot ...Read More >
December 2-3, 1984. Around 40 tonnes of highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas escaped from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal -- choking and blinding the city within hours, with its most vulnerable residents suffering the worst. The disaster, a result of glaring safety lapses, cost-cutting, and technical failures, has since claimed over 25,000 lives, and has left more than half a million people reeling from lifelong injuries, chronic illnesses, and trauma. In 1985, the government passed t ...Read More >
India delivered its strongest intervention yet at the COP29 climate talks on Monday, demanding discussion on "carbon debt" owed by developed nations and calling out trade measures that disadvantage developing countries, while arguing that just transition must begin with wealthy nations, not developing economies. Speaking at the high-level ministerial round table on 'just transition', India's deputy delegation lead Leena Nandan challenged the narrow framing of climate justice, emphasising that d ...Read More >
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