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 …
Biting cold wave conditions abated in the state as the minimum temperature increased by a few notches and the weather remained dry due to overcast skies. Higher reaches in tribal areas of Keylong, Udaipur and Kalpa had recorded 2 cm of fresh snow. The state capital of Shimla, Bhuntar, Solan …
Tata group's realty arm will donate Rs 15 lakh per year in the project WWF India today partnered real estate firm Tata Housing to launch a project for conservation of endangered specie 'snow leopards' in the country. Snow leopards population is estimated at 400-700 in India out of 7,000 worldwide. …
After getting a cold response from the past governments, residents of eight panchayats under Sundernagar subdivision in Mandi district have again pinned their hopes on the Virbhadra Singh-led Congress government hoping that they will finally be declared as project-affected panchayats. They are hopeful that the government will direct authorities of …
The piercing cold wave conditions continue unabated in most parts of the state while an avalanche threat looms large over the high-altitude tribal areas following intermittent snowfall in the higher reaches and tribal belt. People in the high altitude tribal areas have been alerted and SDM, Manali, Vinay Dhiman has …
Cold wave conditions continued in much of north India on Tuesday, with some places even in the plains of Punjab recording near-zero minimum temperature. Dense fog hit vehicular traffic in many places, delayed some flights and threw train schedules out of gear. At least 47 Delhi-bound trains alone were forced …
A five-member Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Shimla, headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar, in its orders on January 2, 2014, had issued show-cause notices to the Secretary, Municipal Council, Kullu and Manali, along with Executive Officer, Nagar Panchayat, Bhuntar as to why proceedings for violating its orders should …
To discuss measures to tackle the disease at a meeting today Agriculture experts, Vice-Chancellors and scientists of farm universities and state Agriculture Departments of northern states will meet at Una tomorrow to discuss measures to tackle yellow rust disease in wheat growing states. The meeting had been convened by JS …
The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to continue its construction ban in 17 green belts of the town, an official said on Sunday. "The cabinet last evening (Saturday) decided to continue with the ban on construction in the 17 green belts falling within the Shimla Municipal Corporation limits," a government …
The cold wave maintained its grip over North India on Sunday, with temperatures settling below normal in most parts as fog enveloped the region, disrupting air, rail and road traffic. Dense fog enveloped the Indira Gandhi International Airport in the Capital, disrupting the schedule of over 50 domestic and international …
Men are outnumbering women tuberculosis (TB) patients in the state. Of the 1.5 lakh notified tuberculosis patients undergoing treatment under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), 5 per cent are children. Dr KC Kaushal, WHO TB Consultant, stated this here yesterday. He said 14,000 TB cases were notified in …
Though temperature in the lower and middle belts of the state showed a marginal increase with partial sunshine during the day, tribal and higher reaches of the state continue to remain in the grip of a severe cold wave. Higher reaches of the tribal districts of Kinnaur and Lahaul Spiti …
Residents of upper Khhanni gram panchayat are up in arms against the ongoing illegal mining of the Chakki river bed, notwithstanding the High Court’s ban on unscientific quarrying with JCB machines. Bachan Singh, Kartar Singh, Sham Singh, Rashpal Pathania and Bimla Devi, on behalf of local villagers, submitted a memorandum …
The Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board issued a notice to Associate Cement Company (ACC) as to why their production should not be stopped for violating pollution norms. The notice was issued by Vineet Kumar, Member Secretary of the board, on December 24 to unit-I and unit-II of the ACC …
The HP High Court today directed the state to impose a ban on the sale/stocking of 25 junk food items in plastic packaging in the state from January 26. Dismissing a bunch of petitions filed by manufacturers and others wherein they had challenged a notification issued by the state vide …
A sewerage treatment plant set up by the Irrigation and Public Health Department on the Pathankot-Mandi highway has become a major health hazard for hundreds of families residing in the lower areas of the town. It has made their lives “virtually hell” as the plant has almost become non-functional and …
Four persons have died and nine others are reported missing following heavy snowfall in Himachal Pradesh during the past 24 hours. Two persons - Sanjeev Kumar and Naresh - were found dead in a vehicle (HP 34 1134) that got stranded in the snow near Gramfu in Keylong, administrative headquarters …
Several hilly areas cut off from the rest of the States; communication network down; more rain, snow likely Northern India was fully in the grip of cold weather conditions on Sunday with widespread snowfall in the hilly areas even as the winter claimed its first casualties in Jammu and Kashmir …
800 Mw Koldam to be operational next fiscal State-owned power generator NTPC Ltd on Thursday started filling up the reservoir of its first hydro power project, the 800-Megawatt (Mw) Koldam in Himachal Pradesh. The 163-metre reservoir is likely to be filled over the next 11 months leading to the commissioning …
In Ajmer, Rajasthan a solar-powered reverse osmosis (RO) plant provides clean drinking water to 3,000 people in Kotri village that's surrounded by the briny Sambhar Lake. And at a dairy farm in Latur, Maharashtra the sun's heat is used to pasteurize milk. These are among the non-electricity applications of renewable …
Koldam has an installed capacity of 800 MW comprising four units of 200 MW each State-run NTPC is likely to commission its first hydro power project, Koldam in Himachal Pradesh, in the next six months. "The inauguration of filling up of the reservoir of the 800 MW capacity Koldam project …
