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 final Census data has brought out an overall improvement in sex ratio in the state from 968 to 972 over a decade, but a declining trend in the rural areas is a cause of concern. While the sex ratio in urban areas increased from 795 to 853, it came …
Even as the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is about to revise the cost of its 800-MW Kol Dam hydro power project, filling is still incomplete and the ponding of water may not be started this year as planned. As a result of the delay in filling and concreting in …
With the only government-run production unit for yellow fever vaccine in Kasauli out of order for nearly two years, most authorised vaccine centres in the country are fast running out of stock. This has prompted the Ministry of Health to issue advisories allowing prospective travellers to purchase the vaccine from …
Shimla, May 17: The state will import new and healthy genetic strains of trout from countries like Norway and Hungary with advice from experts at the Directorate of Cold Water Fisheries at Nainital so as to enhance its trout production. The State Fisheries Department has approached the Indian Council of …
The state Wildlife Department will get a fresh population estimation of leopards, snow leopards and monkeys done with the help of experts who will suggest ways and means to reduce man-animal conflict resulting in increased attacks by wild animals. Experts from an NGO headed by Vidya Athreya, a wildlife biologist, …
Keen to take advantage of the decision of the United Progressive Alliance regime to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in the housing sector, the state government plans to set up satellite townships in the public private partnership mode. The Urban Development Department and the Town and Country Planning Department have …
With the water supply shrinking in the city with the arrival of summer, the Himachal Pradesh government is planning to launch over Rs 500 crore scheme to ensure regular supply of water to the people in the state capital. “There is a scheme of Rs 516 crore to uplift the …
The Virbhadra Singh-led Congress government, in a late evening cabinet decision on Wednesday, decided to grant licence to Reliance Industries for setting up a cement plant in the Chopal tehsil of apple-producing upper Shimla district. The cement plant would be based on limestone, shale and quartzite and was given a …
Govt Reworked On Documents After UN Body Rejected Five Of The Six Monuments Last Year Six hill forts of Rajasthan have been included in Unesco’s World Heritage list. The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), which evaluates cultural properties for Unesco, has recommended the inclusion of Chittorgarh Fort (Chittorgarh), …
The Himachal Pradesh government has claimed R1,365 crore in damages from Brakel Corporation of Netherlands for the delay in execution of the 980-mw Jangi Thopan Powari hydroelectric project. The private developer had bagged the project by quoting the highest upfront premium payment to the state in an auction held in …
The Asian Development Bank will maintain its lending rate to India of about $2 billion per annum for the next three years, which will be invested in power, transportation, water and sanitation, the multilateral bank’s president Takehiko Nakao said on Sunday. Nakao added that the bank had identified some projects …
Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today announced that steps shall be taken to curb illegal mining in the state. Strict action would be taken against those involved in illegal mining, he said. The Chief Minister, who was on a visit to Una district, yesterday announced opening of a subtehsil at Jol …
The state government has provided Rs 2.44 crore for the Bhapraal-Ladhiyani-Sumadi-Bharadi drinking water supply schemes so that all the villages falling in this area get sufficient drinking water in hot summers. This was said by the Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Forests and Fisheries, Rajesh Dharmani, while addressing a large gathering at …
The technology is used for laying “all-weather roads” From October 4, 2002, when the first ‘plastic road’ was laid on Lenin Street, Kovilpatti in Tuticorin district, the technology of using waste plastic with stone for laying roads has come a long way. Developed by the Department of Chemistry of Thiagarajar …
The state government is taking special precautions to overcome the challenge of paucity of drinking water in commonly draught-affected Bilaspur district this summer and 25 new hand pumps would be set up in each subdivision this summer here in the district. This was stated by Ram Lal Thakur, chairman, HP …
Officials of the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) have served a three-day notice to Parwanoo-based Pronto Industries for causing air pollution in the area. Reacting to a news item published in these columns, where the plight of residents of nearby villagers, including Dhagger, Taksal and Dangiar, who had been facing …
This financial year has begun on a promising note for the authorities of the Nathpa Jhakri hydroelectric project with generation surpassing the target for April. There had been a sharp decline in production during 2012-13. The project owned and operated by the Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) has generated 449 …
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Rs. 22,507-crore National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) that seeks to address healthcare challenges in towns and cities with focus on urban poor. The scheme will now be introduced as a sub-mission under the National Health Mission (NHM). The mission will be implemented in …
25 children among 58 hurt in Doda, Bhaderwah Epicentre on J&K-HP; border An elderly shepherd was killed today and at least 58 persons, including 25 children, were injured after a moderate-intensity earthquake — with epicentre on the Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh border — jolted the region. The quake, …
The implementation of the Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project has increased the average income of families under the project area by a significant nine per cent. Stating this while interacting with a delegation of the World Bank Mission, led by Norman Piccioni, here yesterday, Forest Minister Thakur Singh Bharmouri said there …
