Himachal Pradesh

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of Godavari river, Telangana, 29/05/2025

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 …

NREGS flop in Punjab, Haryana; hit in HP

An assessment of the implementation of the much-celebrated National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) of the Centre for Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh has found that the scheme has had the least impact on Punjab followed by Haryana. However, the scheme has met with substantial success in Himachal Pradesh. The …

Himachal launches forestation schemes

Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh Government has launched three plantation schemes to increase the State

Animal Welfare Fortnight 2010 launched

An awareness rally was flagged off at the Ministry of Environment and Forests here Tuesday, marking the start of Animal Welfare Fortnight 2010. The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) is organising the rally, which will move through Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh. The rally was flagged off by …

Green target: Sell 6cr CFLs by yr-end

New Delhi: The international climate agenda may have collapsed but India is moving full steam on the domestic front. By the end of this year, the government is on way to selling 6 crore CFL bulbs at the heavily subsidized price of Rs 15

Ambulance in 30 mins: Himachal signs MoU

The Himachal Pradesh government on Monday signed an MoU with Anjana International, an India-based company working in collaboration with Germany, for running the state government

Cement Plant: Govt opts for forceful land acquisition

Sundernagar: Finally, the state government has decided to go for forceful acquisition of land for the controversial cement plant to be setup in thickly populated area adjoining Sundernagar. Interestingly, the government had earlier asked Harish Cement Limited to purchase the land directly from the farmers but when the project authorities …

Dhumal launches pulse polio drive

Chief Minister PK Dhumal formally launched the first phase of the pulse polio immunisation campaign-2010 by administering drops of medicine to infants and by flagging off of mobile pulse polio van from Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay Hospital, here today. He said 7.17 lakh children, up to five years of age, …

Cattle registration to boost animal husbandry

The mandatory registration of cattle will go long way in proper implementation and monitoring of various schemes to boost the animal husbandry sector. The scheme for registration of cattle is being implemented in six districts and so far 11.2 lakh heads of cattle have been registered under the scheme in …

State bans mining in three rivers

The state government has banned mining in three major rivers of the state. The rivers include Chaki and Neugal in Kangra district and Seer in Bilaspur district. The minister for IPH Ravinder Ravi gave this information while talking to The Tribune here today. The most significant among the said rivers …

At 16oC, Shimla faces the heat of global warming

Call it the impact of global warming. Shimla is having warmer days compared to Delhi and the plains of Punjab and Haryana. Just two days after Kufri experienced the best snowfall of the season, Shimla basked under bright sunshine on Wednesday. The town recorded a day temperature of 16 degrees …

Taps run dry in Parwanoo

As the town faces acute shortage of water, some areas went dry for the fourth consecutive day. Bank employee Subash Sharma, a resident of Sector 4, Parwanoo, told Newsline that taps in his house have been running dry for the last three days. He further rued that Himachal Urban Development …

Negotiating participatory irrigation management in the Indian Himalayas

Participatory irrigation management (PIM) reforms are implemented in India to facilitate farmers

Finally, organic farming picks up

Having overcome teething troubles organic farming has finally started making headway in the hill state with more and more farmers securing the mandatory

Schoolkids appear on NREGA rolls in village

Dharamsala: Another case of alleged corruption in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has come to the fore. In Masroor village panchayat, the names of schoolchildren have appeared on the muster rolls of development works carried out under NREGA. Interestingly the school children have appeared in the board examinations …

Energy directorate fails to take off

Set up more than a year ago to put in place an effective mechanism to regulate and monitor the fast growing hydropower sector, the directorate of energy has virtually failed to take off due to indifferent attitude of the government. The directorate has been making do with a skeletal staff …

Rs 267 crore plan for crop diversification

Close on the heels of the Rs 353 crore Deen Dayal Kisan-Bhagwan Samridhi Yojna to encourage protected cultivation, the government has come out with a Rs 267 crore master plan for crop diversification to ensure better returns to farmers from small land holdings in the hilly terrain. The diversification project …

DSIIDC to develop green building in Kangra

Spreading its wings outside the city, the Delhi Government's industrial infrastructure development body, DSIIDC, will now construct an energy-efficient green building in Himachal Pradesh. The DSIIDC (Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Corporation) has been awarded the contract to construct a new building of the prestigious National Institute of Fashion Technology …

HP collects over 1,300 quintal of plastic waste

The Himachal Pradesh government's effort to get the state rid of environment pollutant plastic seems to be yielding results as about 1381 quintal of such waste was collected from across the region during a week-long special drive. The drive was launched by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal from Dharamsala on …

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