Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
The key purpose of this document is to provide an assessment of impacts of Renuka dam from the point of view of those to be affected and analyze the issues in the frame-work of community rights, resource ownership, use and distribution. The role of the state and its policies in …
The proposed project by GMR Bajoli Holi Power Pvt. Ltd. is located in Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh and is one of the projects that are being developed in Ravi River basin. Ravi River is one of the four major river systems of Western Himalaya in Himachal Pradesh, the other …
Work is yet to start on the two World Bank-funded road projects in Himachal, which are already running at least 12 months behind schedule. Even as the 11-member team of Chinese engineering experts has arrived in Himachal after the clearance of their visas under new norms, the actual work on …
Precise characterization and inventorization of soil resource of Moolbari watershed was undertaken using satellite imagery and Survey of India toposheets to generate several layers of maps such as watershed boundary, drainage, soils, land use and land cover, physiography, slope and soil erosion using Geographic Information System technique.
Hundreds of villagers today took out a protest march against JP Associates at Nalagarh, opposing the 30 MW captive thermal plant, extension of 2mtpa cement grinding unit and 3x10-98 MW DG set at Bagheri. A memorandum was handed over to the SDM to be forwarded to the Chief Minister by …
An enchanting spectacle of over 42,000 common pochards at a single site near Haripur at the upper end of the sprawling Pong Dam Wetland was the highlight of the three-day winter bird count from January 15 to 17 during which a record number of 1,44,000 migratory winged visitors were enumerated. …
IVRCL bags Rs 1,550 cr road project from NHAI'India needs an efficient regulator for nanotechno...IL&FS; hikes stake in Maytas Infra to 37.01%L&T; says current order-book at Rs 75,000-cr Chandigarh: Jaypee Himachal Cement Grinding & Blending Plant, a unit of Jaiprakash Associates Limited has been commissioned at Bagheri near Solan in …
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal plans to replicate Israel's success in apple cultivation in his state. "With no snowfall and much lesser rain than us, they produce 50 tonnes of apple per hectare.We produce one-fifth of it, " he says. Apple production dropped almost to half in the …
The National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has agreed in principle to allow detailed project reports (DPR) of bridges of less than 60 metre span on the basis of preliminary projects drawings so that more projects could be funded. The matter was discussed during a meeting of high …
With the Patanjali Yog Peeth all set to open up in Solan district, Himachal is fast emerging as a herbal state as one crore herbal and medicinal plants are being planted under the
Shimla: Introduced as a cash crop to supplement the meagre income of farmers from small landholdings, mushroom cultivation has started suffering a decline over the past three years. The official data published in the economic review reveals that the production has declined from 4,318 tonnes in 2006-07 to 3,417 tonnes …
Shimla: The state government is preparing a 20-year integrated master plan to accelerate growth of tourism in the hill state. Besides introducing several schemes to promote tourism and related activities, the government plans to spend Rs 400 crore on strengthening the infrastructure with the assistance of the World Bank. Clearance …
Climate change is the newest, fastest way to make money. For corporate India, as also for much of the industrialised world, global warming is bringing in cash like never before, and throwing up novel opportunities to make more, all in the name of reducing emission of dirty greenhouse gases (GHG). …
The Himachal government is changing laws to make environment norms stringent for real estate developers, forcing them to take care of concerns of the local ecology and residents. Any real estate developer found fleecing the home allottees will face jail term up to three months and be liable for fine …
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today accepted the demand of state MLAs to include protection of crops from wild animals by employing rakhas (guards) under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Winding up his two-day meeting with MLAs on budget priorities for 2010-11, Dhumal also assured a …
All mega cement plants, except one, coming up in the state have fallen well behind schedule due to problems in acquisition of land, opposition from local people and failure of the promoters obtain various mandatory clearances. The only exception is the cement plant being set up at Bagha in Solan …
Acting on the directions of the High Court following a massive fire at the landfill site, the Forest Department has moved the case for diversion of nine hectares land at Baral village on the Tutu-Tara Devi bypass for scientific dumping of non-biodegradable waste. It was only yesterday that the Forest …
