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 …
Shimla : The Union Ministry of Renewable Energy has agreed in principle to develop Shimla and Hamirpur towns as solar cities and Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, and National Institute of Technology (NIT), Hamirpur, as energy parks. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting held …
Charanjit Ahuja Chandigarh: After working for the preservation and protection of precious forest wealth, Himachal Pradesh has now come up with a novel afforestation scheme,
Bilaspur: Sixtyfive gram panchayats of the Bilaspur district, which had attained distinction in the Total Sanitation Programme within the target time, were given prizes worth Rs 1.24 crore here yesterday. Forest Minister JP Nadda, who was the chief guest, Deputy Speaker of Vidhan Sabha Rikhi Ram Kaundal, MLA Randhir Sharma …
The Himachal Pradesh High Court has directed the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) to stop construction work at the Parbati Stage-II site (Kullu) till further orders. While passing this interim order, the court observed that visual impression of the photographs annexed with the petition showed that debris had been thrown …
Residents of Kachiari village last night caught five Army vehicles and a JCB allegedly being used for illegal mining in the Sukot khud. However, tension prevailed in the area for more than two hours before an amicable settlement was reached. According to Kachiari village pradhan Rajinder Kaur, five Army vehicles …
Joining issue with villagers of 10 panchayats, the Himalaya Niti Abhiyan has also lent support to the cause of villagers who are opposing the 30 MW captive thermal plant being set up at Bagheri by the JP Associates. This organisation was a coalition of environment activists and community movement leaders …
The government will formulate a new transport policy to effectively regulate the functioning of private operators and the state road transport corporation will make efforts to secure agency of the Tata Motors for supply of chassis and spare parts. Stating this, while replying to the discussion raised recently in the …
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh has been praised by the World Bank for running "effective and focused" programmes to check HIV/AIDS in the state, which has witnessed a surge in the number of positive cases in the last three years. A six-member team of the World Bank, which had toured the state …
Forest ponds will be constructed to check the depleting groundwater and to harvest rainwater in Himachal Pradesh, state Forest Minister J.P. Nadda said Sunday. He said the 'van sarovars' or forest ponds will be constructed under the NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) programme. "These would help check depleting water …
Green Award winners cast light on the renewable energy sector While environment experts complain about the tardiness that afflicts the launch of India's Solar Mission, three Indian ngos brought sunshine by winning the Sierra Club's first ever Green Energy and Green Livelihoods Achievement Award last month. They included the well-known …
Roma, 44, lobbied in favour of the Forest Rights Act against a State impervious to the possibility of a civil war Roma had just finished a masters degree in social work from a Delhi college. She found herself gripped with the anxieties of a young urban woman.
The government has posed the Rs 1197.60 crore Pabbar gravity drinking water scheme to the World Bank for funding to cater to the water requirement of the state capital for the next 35 years. This was stated by Irrigation and Public Health (IPH) Minister Ravinder Ravi in reply to a …
The government will soon appoint a Commissioner of Food Safety and a Food Safety Appellate Tribunal to check adulteration of food items and medicines. This was stated by Health Minister Rajiv Bindal while replying to the issue of adulteration in food items and medicines, raised by Kuldeep Pathania of the …
The protected areas of Himachal Pradesh in the Indian Himalayan Region are facing high anthropogenic pressure due to grazing rights. Habitat degradation coupled with overexploitation of sensitive biodiversity elements has caused habitat alteration and rapid decrease in their populations. This has necessitated evaluation and prioritization of habitats and communities and …
Shimla: The state Assembly today unanimously adopted a private member resolution, urging the Centre to allow the state to impose a cess on the hydropower generated to meet the fiscal deficit. It also sought consent for the Bill passed earlier by the House in this regard which was pending with …
Solan: Apart from their brilliant academic track records Ankit Chaudhary, Rajinder Rana, Anchal, Devi, Anjali and a bunch of others like them in Nauni, a picturesque town nestled in Solan, 45km from Shimla, have one more thing in common. They are all workers labouring under NREGA.
