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 …
No case of swine flu has been reported so far in the hill state, although one person of Dehra, who reportedly travelled along with the infected Jalandhar boy, is under watch. An alert has been sounded and the health department has been fully geared up for any eventuality. The government …
A high-powered team of Commerce and Industry Ministry would visit Himachal Pradesh within two weeks to hold talks with senior State Government officers to study the industrial growth potential of and make suitable recommendations for providing incentives, Union Minister Anand Sharma said on Sunday. Talking to mediapersons here he said …
Truck used to smuggle deodar; policemen acquitted on april 22, the conservator of forests, Mandi district, ordered the confiscation of a police vehicle used to smuggle deodar wood seven years ago. The police truck registered in the name of Mandi
Ravinder Sood Golden Mahseer, which was categorised as an endangered species by the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR), Lucknow, in 1992, has been fast disappearing from the state. The major causes of this loss are the distortion of rivers due to the construction of river valley projects, multipurpose …
Kuldeep Chauhan The fate of $300 million Himalayan ski village has came under a cloud as nine villages in the uphill of this tourist town are up in arms against the project. Villagers and environmentalists have charged that
Rakesh Lohumi The central empowered committee (CEC) of the SC will visit the state to inspect khair forests to ascertain whether or not the felling practices being adopted were leading to regeneration. The fate of the
Swarleen Kaur Chandigarh: In a move that would boost the economy of Himachal Pradesh, the state Cabinet has given its nod to the Rs 142-crore road-widening project. The 72-km stretch from Kumarhatti to Nahan would be widened and strengthened under the World Bank-aided project, which would link the Kalka-Shimla road …
Mahesh Chander Sharma Sundernagar, June 7 Eleven green trees were axed by the staff of Government Senior Secondary School, Bharari (Sajupiplu), in Sarkaghat subdivision of Mandi district on World Environment Day. The act was committed despite protests by students. While five trees were completely felled, six were heavily lopped. According …
Indian defence scientists have found that temperature in the North-Western Himalayan range, spread over Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh and the source of most of Indus line rivers and their tributaries, have risen by nearly 1.4 degrees Celsius over the last 100 years. The average level of warming for …
Pratibha Chauhan Citing legal wrangles and hurdles being faced in undertaking development works, the local Municipal Corporation (MC) has made a forceful case before the state government seeking restoration of control over urban forests, which were transferred to the Forest Department in 2006. Admitting that the transfer of the 1880.13 …
Himachal Pradesh has been adjudged the top state as regard the implementation of the 20-point programme in the country from April, 2008, to January, 2009. A communication of the Government of India in this regard was received by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal here today. It said the state had …
The present investigation was carried out to study the distribution of biomass in different land uses viz., chir pine, ban oak, deodar, other broadleaves, culturable and un-culturable land uses, distributed in five forest ranges i.e., Dharampur, Parwanoo, Solan, Kandaghat and Subathu along altitudinal gradient from 900 to 2100 of Solan …
A study was conducted to assess the oil content variation in Jatropha curcas seeds collected from seven sites varying in altitude and at different fruit maturity stages from wasteland and cultivable land.
Himachal Pradesh, situated in the centre of the Western Himalayas, having diverse agro climatic conditions ranging from semi-tropical to temperate, alpine and culminating to the cold desert region, is bestowed with a veritable emporium of medicinal and aromatic plants. A tribal district, Kinnaur of Himachal Pradesh, due to its unique …
On August 17, 2009, a number of persons and organisations sent a letter to TERI and chairperson and members of jury panel that decides the award, saying that NHPC does not deserve the TERI 2009 award for environment excellence that was given to NHPC by the President of India on …
The city of Delhi gets a lot of rain every year, more than sufficient for its needs, but it does not use that rainwater. It had hundreds of water bodies, but it has destroyed most of them and continues to destroy the remaining ones. For its supply of water Delhi …
The Government of India has approved an agriculture work plan of Rs 22.22 crore for the state for the current financial year. Director, Agriculture, J.C. Rana said under the work plan integrated cereal development programmes for wheat, pulses and oilseed, schemes for farm mechanism, integrated nutrients and pest management, national …
The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet on Friday decided to extend the National Health Insurance Scheme to the remaining 10 districts covering the entire State during the current financial year. The schemes provides for free insurance cover of Rs 30,000 to Rs 2,98,291 for Below Poverty Line (BPL) families and is funded …
Shimla: Taking a lenient view on allowing construction in green areas, the government is likely to allow raising of double-storied structures in the 17 designated greenbelts in the state capital. It will be a complete deviation from the policy of saving every inch of the precious dwindling greenery. The final …
