Green Tribunal pulls up PWD for ‘lie’
New Delhi: The “lie” of a Public Works Department (PWD) official that no trees were cut while widening a road through a South Delhi residential area on Friday raised hackles of the National Green Tribunal which came down heavily on it for trying to “mislead” the forum. A bench headed by Tribunal (NGT) Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar told the PWD official, an Executive Engineer, that while he claimed no trees were uprooted, the Forest Department has said that 48 trees were cut down during the widening of the road.
expert team in china over Brahmaputra data
New Delhi: An Indian experts' team is currently in China to review sharing of the Brahmaputra river data two days ahead of Chinese Premier li Keqiang's visit here during which India is expected to convey its concerns over the construction of three dams on the river by China. According to officials, a senior delegation, comprising among others Commissioner Brahmaputra and Barak, Narendra Kumar, is currently in China to conduct the review exercise. Though the officials maintain that the Indian experts' visit is part of annual meeting to review the data of the water flow under the agreement between the two countries inked in 2008, its timing coincides with li's three-day visit to India, starting from May 19.
PAC to take up 39 agendas in one year
New Delhi: Newly-constituted Public Accounts Committee of Parliament on Friday decided to take up 39 agendas in the next one year, including new issues like farm loan waiver and pending reports on coal block allocation and Commonwealth Games scam. During a meeting, BJP member Prakash Javadekar said the PAC's draft report on 2G scam was still a pending agenda and sought to know when it would be taken up. PAC Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi has kept the 2G issue alive by mentioning in the documents circulated to the members that the “draft report on ‘recent developments in the telecom sector, including allocation of 2G and 3G spectrum' was also circulated to members of the PAC (2011-12).”