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 …
Prof Vir Bala Aggarwal, chairperson, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Himachal Pradesh University (HPU), has been honoured with the Bharat Nirman Award for her outstanding contribution in the field of mass communication. The award was given to Professor Aggarwal at the 20th annual award ceremony held at Kolkata recently. …
Expressing concern over pollution in Ghaggar river in Punjab, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today sought help from his Haryana and Himachal Pradesh counterparts to take steps to prevent discharge of effluents from their states into the river. "Badal sought personal intervention of Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda and HP …
The government's decision to ban 25 food items packed in non-biodegradable packs from July 1 has been relaxed till September 3. The sop came after the Himachal Pradesh high court put in abeyance the notification issued by the state government on June 26. Through this notification, the state government had …
Baijnath town and its adjoining dozen villages have been facing a drinking water crisis for the past four days. Long queues of residents can be seen in front of natural water sources and hand pumps. Information gathered by this correspondent revealed that the water storage tank built at a cost …
This policy will aim to: To achieve an average annual industrial growth rate of 15% per annum, aligned with the target of 9% per annum growth in State GDP as envisaged in the 12th Five Year Plan, with the manufacturing sector contributes at least 25% of the State GDP by …
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Friday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought a Rs.1,000-crore package immediately to carry out relief and rehabilitation work in the State’s flood-affected areas. Mr. Virbhadra informed Dr. Singh that so far 24 lives have been lost in the State while 1,239 people …
Dharamsala, June 26: Heavy rainfall in the month of June in the lower areas of the state is a harbinger of flash floods. Kangra and Una districts have a large number of rivulets that cause flash floods almost every year. These rivulets might cause a disaster in July and August …
As receding glaciers form new lakes across the Himalayan frontier, a new dimension has been added to the strategic paradigm. Geological and climatic considerations apart, many of these lakes lie close to the border and may well be used to trigger floods downstream. While dozens of lakes have come up …
The Wildlife Wing of the Forest Department will undertake a monkey census on June 29 to see whether the sterilisation of 68,000 simians in the state has succeeded in putting a much-needed check on their growing numbers, which stood at a whopping 3.19 lakh a decade ago. As per a …
Cataclysmic floods in the northern state of Uttarakhand are reminder India must act to save its fragile mountains Natural disasters often follow a predictable path in India. A flood or an earthquake happens every few years, the government blames the vagaries of nature, the right sympathetic noises are made, and …
Shimla, June 23: Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has drawn the attention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to the devastation caused by the rains and snow in Himachal Pradesh and sought prompt assistance. In his letters to the PM and the AICC chief, the Chief Minister …
Mandi, June 20: Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today released Rs 10 crore to provide immediate relief to victims and the Border Roads Organisation for the restoration work on the Hindustan-Tibet Road till Reckong Peo and airlifting of 400 stranded persons in the next two days. Reviewing a high-level officials' meeting …
The fast-moving monsoonal circulation coupled with strong westerlies may have been responsible for the havoc wreaked in the fragile Himalyan range known for its poor soil stability and steep slopes. As the extent of damage unleashed by the extreme weather conditions is becoming clearer by the day, environmentalists have now …
An unexpected rise in global temperature during the next decade is expected to result in reduction in crop yields and impact food adequacy in India because of reduction in water availability, a study by World Bank released on Wednesday warned. “India will see a significant reduction in crop yields because …
Ecologists point out that the huge expansion of hydro-power projects and construction of roads to cope with the lakhs of tourists in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh has compounded the scale of the disaster. Sunita Narain, director general of Centre for Science and Environment said, “This is very much a man-made …
Only 77 could be evacuated as IAF choppers lacked fuel The death toll due to landslides and collapse of houses in Kinnaur rose to 14 with recoveries of four more bodies from Pooh. The airlifting of stranded persons was hampered as helicopters of the Indian Air Force ran out of …
As the death toll in Uttarakhand mounts and rescue operations continue in various parts of the Himalayan state, environmentalists have been blaming the successive governments ruling the ecologically sensitive region as well as the Centre for the disaster. They claimed that the recent flash floods in the state that ravaged …
Not just nature's fury, rampant unplanned infrastructural development is also to be blamed for the devastation caused by the recent floods in Uttarakhand. Environmentalists feel the damage to life and property there and also in Himachal Pradesh may be the result of indiscriminate encroachments on riverbeds and unchecked infrastructure projects. …
The model adopted by Ghana and Indonesia for making their industry eco-friendly will now be adopted in Himachal Pradesh which will result in the shrinking of the number of units placed under the negative list for emitting more pollutants. A high-level team from the World Bank (WB) in Washington yesterday …
Dehradun : Cloudbursts, floods and landslides brought on by incessant rain over the past 48 hours have left a trail of destruction across north India, killing at least 60 people, injuring scores and leaving thousands stranded. Uttarakhand has borne the brunt. At least 30 people have died and floods have …
