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 food security plan will be implemented in Himachal from August 20, the birthday of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, Transport and Technical Education GS Bali gave this information while addressing a press conference at Mini Secretariat here today. The minister said 32 lakh …
Kullu, July 22: Villagers of Balh and Mahol gram panchayats recently held a protest on the National Highway against the faulty integrated waste management and treatment plant. They said it had become a health and environmental hazard, spreading stench and noxious gases in surrounding villages on the banks of the …
Gearing up for a bumper apple crop, the state-owned HPMC has drawn up a plan to process a record 20,000 tonne of fruit during the current season to make the Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) an effective tool for regulating prices and ensuring remunerative returns to growers. The production has been …
The flash flood triggered by landsides inundated 10 shops in the Bagi bazaar and washed away 12 bighas of land in Mandah and Baha villages in the Shegli gram panchayat in the Kataula area in Drang last night. The flash flood struck a second time in 10 days, wreaking havoc …
Saplings of different plants, including the 45 lakh of medicinal variety, will be planted on 17,500 hectares in the state during the current financial year. This was stated today by Forest Minister Thakur Singh Bharmouri while addressing a public meeting at Dhaulatpur, near here, after he inaugurated the 64th circle-level …
A day after Congress president Sonia Gandhi asked the party-ruled states to implement national food security Bill in ‘letter and spirit’, food minister KV Thomas on Sunday said the biggest challenge is to improve the existing targeted public distribution system (TPDS) so that highly subsidised foodgrain reaches the masses. “The …
Ajit Bhardwaj, Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM), Kangra, has recovered a fine of Rs 1 lakh from miners indulging in illegal mining in the subdivision during the last two months and impounded hundreds of vehicles and JCBs during the raids. SDM Ajit Bhardwaj today conducted raids in the Suddhu Khad on …
The Energy Resource Institute (TERI), New Delhi, will help apple growers in the state to tide over the problem of obsolete and senile plants and provide virus-free elite rootstocks to them so that the fruit production is enhanced considerably. TERI is carrying out extensive studies in collaboration with YS Parmar …
An earthquake of moderate intensity rocked parts of Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday but there was no report of any injury to people or damage to property. The quake, measuring magnitude-5, occurred at 19.19 hours with its epicentre at Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal border, the local MeT office said. However, …
The Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board has constituted a special committee to check illegal and unscientific dumping of muck by hydropower projects and other developmental activities in the basins of the Sutlej, Ravi, Beas and Pabbar, which could cause havoc during the rains. The decision has been taken by …
The Union Environment and Forest Ministry has approved the diversion of 1.80 hectares of forest land in the Sultilla area of Nurpur for constructing the proposed building of the local Arya Government Degree College. Sources said the proposal was made during the previous BJP government after the initiative of the …
Courtesy lack of infrastructure upgrade With a little infrastructure upgrade in the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), it failed to abide by norms laid down by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to monitor air quality in industrial areas. This is not only leading to air pollution but also the …
Public sector enterprise Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) has acquired 100 per cent equity in Buxar Bijlee Company and it has been allotted a coal block in the Deocha-Pachami belt in West Bengal for its upcoming 1,320-MW power plant at Chausa in Bihar. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed …
Crops and property, worth crores of rupees, were destroyed in different parts of Chamba district as the region experienced incessant rains recently, according to reports reaching the district headquarters here today. The reports revealed that in rural areas, the kharif crops in several bighas had been damaged due to flooding. …
Muck generated by hundreds of hydro power projects in Himachal Pradesh is being dumped along river beds, which has disturbed the natural course of major rivers in the state. With large scale construction of houses and hotels along the banks of major rivers, especially Satluj, Beas and Parbati, even a …
Himachal today earned the distinction of becoming the first state in the country to be declared smoke-free with a compliance of 84.52 per cent, based on a scientific technical survey conducted as per international standards. The milestone achieved by the state was formally announced by Health Minister Kaul Singh Thakur …
Technologists have prepared a road map for building a sun-charged, smarter direct current (DC) power micro grid system that suits the power sector, mainly in the ecologically sensitive Himalayas. “This system will be secure from terrorist and virus attacks, stable, low cost and reliable for sustainable energy sector in the …
In a short term reprieve to multinational companies and local manufacturers, the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Monday stayed the government’s ban on polythene packaging of potato chips, candies and biscuits. Hearing a bunch of petitions, a Division Bench of Justices D.D. Sud and Sanjay Karol stayed till September 3, …
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today sought the personal intervention of his Haryana and Himachal Pradesh counterparts Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Virbhadra Singh to stop the reckless discharge of untreated domestic waste water and industrial effluents into the Ghaggar in Punjab’s territory. Presiding over a meeting of senior officers of …
