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 …
Growers fear losses to wheat, stone fruit, vegetables Farmers are a worried lot as there is no respite from rain, thunderstorm and hailstorm causing damage to crops. The farmers, who are yet to recover from damage caused by rain in March and early April, fear heavy losses to the wheat …
The State presented its position regarding the construction of hydro-power projects in Uttarakhand at the Supreme Court. Stating this during an informal interaction with the media at the Bijapur guest house on Tuesday, Chief Minister Harish Rawat averred that a myth had been created around hydro-power projects in Uttarakhand. “How …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Voluntary Health Association of Punjab Vs Union of India & Others dated 15/04/2015 regarding sex ratio of India especially Delhi.
The state Pollution Control Board (PCB) has directed field officials to ensure that all existing mining lease holders obtain environmental clearance within six months. The project operators have been asked to submit their applications within three months which will be dealt within six months by the authorities concerned. The National …
These rules may be called the Himachal Pradesh Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Social Impact Assessment and Consent) Rules, 2015.
IPH Dept puts up signboards against use of water for drinking Hand pumps, installed by the Irrigation and Public Health (IPH) Department in Bangana block of Una district, are pumping out excessive contents of iron in water. Consequently, the department has started putting up signboards cautioning people not to use …
Awaits Ministry’s nod for formal inauguration The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) commissioned the first two units (200 MW each) of the 800 MW Kol Dam project yesterday after two machines were synchronised with the northern grid successfully. The other two units, of same capacity, would be commissioned soon, NTPC …
Farmers facing the vagaries of weather for the past two weeks are on tenterhooks as the Met office has predicted heavy rain and thunderstorm, accompanied with hailstorm in mid and lower hills of Himachal over the next 100 hours. Mid and lower hills suffered extensive damage to rabi crops and …
On Monday evening with the commissioning of our maiden hydel power project at Himachal Pradesh NTPC has crossed the 44,000 MW mark of power production, by today evening its one more unit is going to be functional. It was informed by the General Manager of North Karanpura Super Thermal Power …
Hundreds of projects like hospitals await forest clearance While hundreds of projects await forest clearance, the government has revised guidelines for private projects such as hospitals and health institutions for diversion of reserved forests (RFs), demarcated protected forests (DPFs) and undemocratic protected forests (UPFs) for non-forest use. Government projects, including …
Corp chairman to visit today, HP to get 366.48 million unit power each yr After being plagued by cost overrun and a delay of about five years, the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is set to commission the 800-MW Kol Dam, its first hydropower project, on the Sutlej river in …
The deadline for making online monitoring of various pollution-related parameters mandatory has been extended till June 30 from the earlier March 31 for 17 categories of hazardous waste-emitting industries. This has come as a relief to 16 such industrial units which fall under this ambit and have been in the …
The Health Department’s target to make the state “TB-free by 2035” seems a daunting task. About 14,000 new tuberculosis patients have been detected under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in the state last year. This has revealed that there still remains a gap in the access to the …
Tuberculosis (TB) patients, who smoke, have much higher mortality rate compared to non-smokers. However, on quitting, their risk reduces substantially. Some focused studies indicate that deaths due to TB are three to four times higher among ever-smokers than never-smokers. Dr RK Sood, District Tuberculosis Officer, stated this. Out of the …
NEW DELHI: The Centre may have assured the Yamuna Muktikaran Abhiyan protesters that the "ecological flow" in the river will be restored in Delhi, but experts say this can't be done without revisiting the 1994 water sharing agreement between Haryana, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. They suggest that …
The Centre may have assured the Yamuna Muktikaran Abhiyan protesters that the "ecological flow" in the river will be restored in Delhi, but experts say this can't be done without revisiting the 1994 water sharing agreement between Haryana, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. They suggest that the central …
Shimla, March 23: The Virbhadra-led Congress regime in the state today decided to enhance the compensation rates for land acquisition in the state as had been proposed by the previous UPA regime at the Centre under the Land Acquisition Bill, awaiting Parliament sanction. The decision was taken by the Cabinet …
India is likely to witness a normal monsoon across the country in 2015, but rainfall in some pockets might be deficient, says a study. According to the Assocham-Skymet Weather joint report, the damage to Rabi crop due to unseasonal rains will continue and a major spell of rainfall is expected …
Himachal Pradesh will try to light up three non-electrified villages located in the deep forests of the Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area, India's richest biodiversity spot in the western Himalayas, through solar energy, Power Minister Sujan Singh Pathania said here on Thursday. "We are planning to install a solar …
Indian minister is not attending the first international meeting for the conservation of snow leopards in Kyrgyzstan despite the need for greater conservation efforts to protect its leopard populations The first international steering committee meeting to coordinate conservation efforts for the snow leopard is being held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on …
