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 Ministry of Home Affairs has sanctioned Rs 11 crore to build 21-km Chitkul-Dumpti border road leading to the last forward post manned by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) in Kinnaur district. Similarly, the BRO has already constructed three major links from Powari-Pooh-Kaurik national highway to the India-China border. These …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has accorded the much-awaited forest clearance to the four-laning of National Highway-22 from Parwanoo to Solan, paving the way for initiating the project. The clearance for the remaining stretch of the national highway -- lying in Shimla district and extending till Shogi -- …
There are virtually no takers for the 37 hydropower projects located in the “remote locations” in the five river basins of the Sutlej, Beas, Ravi, Chenab and Yamuna. The reasons: remote location, lack of data and location maps and unviable projects, claim Independent Power Producers (IPPs). The government got just …
After relaxing land rules to enable investors to buy plots offered by the industrial department, Himachal Pradesh will now speed up industrial proposals by reducing the project clearance time-frame to 30 days. “We are going to reduce as much as we can the period for granting of all clearances from …
The piercing cold wave conditions sweeping most parts of Himachal continued unabated even as the stormy conditions subsided and the region had a clear sky in the morning. The minimum temperature stayed below normal as high altitude tribal areas experienced moderate snowfall in the past 24 hours. The lower areas …
The Court of ADM-cum-Adjudicating Officer has imposed a penalty of Rs 1.75 lakh on a hotel under the Food Safety and Standards (FSS) Act, 2006. A case was registered under Sections 56 and 58 of the FSS Act against the owner and the manager of Hotel Partap Palace here on …
The 21st Century should be the last phase for tobacco-related deaths and diseases, said Dr Nikhil Gupta, a medical researcher and Kangra district AIDS programme officer here on Friday. He has recently published his research work titled “Death knell for tobacco in 21st Century” in an international journal of health …
Programme extended to entire state after success of pilot project The benefits of going the organic way Enthused by the success of pilot organic farming projects in Shimla and Rampur launched in 2005, the state Agriculture Department has extended the programme to the entire state now. Farmers in rural and …
All vehicles moving towards Rohtang will now have to undergo emission test at the pollution checking centre that has been built near Vashisht on the Manali-Rohtang highway. The pollution check centre has been built by Himachal government under the guidelines of National Green Tribunal (NGT). Concerned about the increasing effect …
Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh said that the state government has reduced the change in land use fees for industrial use to attract more industries to invest in the state. Presiding over a review meeting of the Town and Country Planning Department here today, the Chief Minister said he had given …
In order to redress frequent complaints of illegal mining activities in privately owned lands of farmers and residents of Khanni belt, adjoining the Chakki rivulet in this sub-division, the local police administration took the initiative last evening of demarcating lands where mining permissions have been procured by fish pond builders. …
The administration and the Animal Husbandry Department today breathed a sigh of relief as all 17 samples of dead and alive broilers sent to a Jalandhar-based laboratory tested negative for bird flu. The samples were sent for testing after about 352 broilers supplied from Haryana, which arrived at a Shimla …
More than 200 villages in Nadaun subdivision here will have a year-round irrigation facility as work on the Rs 130-crore project has started. The scheme is being implemented on the banks of the Beas near Bilikaleshwar village. Water will be lifted from the Beas for Rail, Rangs, Plasi, Bhumpal and …
Panic gripped the local meat market as about 300 broilers, supplied from Haryana, were found dead as the supply arrived at Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC)-run slaughter house early today. As a precaution in view of the bird flu scare in adjoining states of Haryana and Punjab, the remaining lot of …
Solan, December 23: With gram sabhas failing to identify eligible families that are supposed to benefit from the centrally-sponsored National Food Security Scheme introduced in October last year in the state, the scheme had failed to benefit the targeted population. Out of the about 35,000 families enlisted under the Public …
Biotechnology is a fast developing field with wide applications for all human beings. Biotechnology is formally defined as ''the application of science and technology to living organisms as well as parts, products and models thereof, to alter living or non-living materials for the production of knowledge, goods and services. It …
Increasing footfalls and unregulated movement of horses are taking a toll on the fragile ecosystem of Naldehra, located at a height of 2,044 metres, in Himachal Pradesh. The impact on environment includes degradation of vegetation and deodar trees, pollution and accumulation of waste, officials say. "The deodars in the Naldehra …
Himachal Pradesh has passed a new transport policy that will promote environment-friendly water transport besides ensuring more safety for passengers in buses, an official said here Sunday. To provide safe, comfortable and modernised transport facility to commuters as well as tourists, the government Nov 25 introduced a new transport policy, …
The project cost will be executed with a 75:25 debt to equity ratio Shimla-based public sector undertaking Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) on Thursday signed a project development agreement with the Nepal government for building the 900-megawatt (Mw) Arun-3 hydro electric project. The project cost is estimated at around Rs …
Shimla: The state government plans to table a bill for regularisation of illegal buildings, which is awaiting the National Green Tribunal's nod, in budget session of Himachal Pradesh Assembly next year, Urban Development Minister Sudhir Sharma said on Wednesday. "The government will bring the retention policy in the budget session …
