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 …
New Delhi: With one western disturbance on its way out, another is threatening to derail life in Delhi over the coming weekend. Met officials say that a fresh western disturbance is approaching and will affect the western Himalayan region and the adjoining plains of northwest and central India between February …
Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has urged Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram to sanction a special economic package of Rs 7,565 crore to tide over the difficult financial situation created in the state due to the reportedly faulty recommendation of the 13th Finance Commission. Virbhadra Singh met the Union minister in …
The Central government has sanctioned a grant of Rs 1.89 crore for the modernisation and construction of fish landing centres in the state reservoirs under the scheme of the National Fisheries Development Board, Hyderabad. Forest Minister Thakur Singh Bharmouri, who also holds the portfolio of fisheries, said here today that …
New NHAI guidelines delay work on road projects New National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) guidelines making forest clearance and acquisition of minimum quantum of land mandatory before inviting bids is delaying road projects to be executed in the public-private partnership mode. As per the guidelines, a project will be …
New Delhi: The World Bank has lined up an over $4.83-billion loan to India for ramping up road and rail infrastructure over the next five years as part of country assistance programme to help boost economic development, officials said on Thursday. The bank is also looking at funding possibilities in …
The apex Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the environment ministry has gifted away 5,000 hectares of pristine forest, much of which provides crucial corridors for animals to move from one habitat to another. The FAC has recommended the diversion of 60 hectares of forest located within the Gola corridor in …
An avalanche in a Himalayan region of northern India yesterday killed at least five villagers when their houses were buried under heavy snow, officials said. The avalanche trapped eight people in the remote Kafnu village in the state of Himachal Pradesh but three of them were later rescued, they said. …
Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan declared that there was no bottleneck in green clearances, and made public the status of various projects, as she sought to counter barbs from companies and colleagues in the government about alleged delays in clearances. “My object in giving all the details is to show that …
Agitated locals detain a truck in Dugh rivulet for ‘loading gravel’ from the riverbed After the failure of the Mining Department and the district administration in reining in illegal mining in Dugh and Poong rivulets, near Hamirpur, by “politically influential” people, agitated locals detained a truck in the Dugh rivulet …
With only few states utilising the money released to them under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the Central government will now release money based on their performance. Earlier, the population of a city was a major criteria to receive the fund aimed at improving infrastructure, transport, drainage …
People carrying out construction scarring hills with material of dismantled buildings The green cover in the McLeodganj area of Dharamsala is being threatened by illegal dumping of solid waste along hill slopes. People carrying out construction are scarring the hills with the material of dismantled buildings. Many such constructions are …
The 100-MW Uhal-III hydroelectricity project here may miss another deadline, December 2013, as the engineers and contractor of the Beas Valley Power Corporation (BVPC) are facing water ingress in the 8.5-km tunnel, of which about a 65-metre stretch is yet to be excavated. The delay has pushed up the cost …
1000-MW Karcham Wangtu unit still awaits repairs The closure of the 1,000-MW Karcham Wangtu hydroelectricity project due to profuse water leakage from the surge shaft and the water-conducting system has again raised concerns about the safety of hydroelectricity projects being constructed in the private sector. It has also underlined the …
The government has proposed an annual Plan of Rs 4,100 crore for 2013-14, which is an increase of 11 per cent from the current fiscal year Plan. Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh stated this while addressing a meeting convened to ascertain the priorities of legislators for the finalisation of the Plan …
Two more deaths in U.P.; temperatures below normal at most places The cold wave continued to affect normal life in most parts of North India on Tuesday as more two persons lost their lives due to extreme cold in Uttar Pradesh. Residents of the national Capital had a taste of …
Harmful chemicals like lead, arsenic, poly aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), organic carbon and elemental carbon, besides an alarming level of particulate matter (PM) of 2.5 and 10 aerodynamic diameter, have been detected in the industrial hub of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) in a latest study conducted by IIT Kanpur. These findings have been …
No relief from the cold wave as skies stay dry and clear There was no relief from the bitter cold in North India on Monday with the mercury sliding further under mainly dry conditions as skies stayed clear following the brief spell of rain and snowfall this past week. Although …
Cold wave conditions persisted in North India on Sunday, where temperatures remained variably below normal in most parts of the region. In Himachal, five persons were killed in an avalanche in Kinnau district on Saturday night, officials said, adding upper reaches of the State remained cut off for the fifth …
NEW DELHI: With learning levels in the country dipping to an all-time low it is states like Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand where the least number of children can read, while those in Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh are worst in basic arithmetic. According to the Annual Status of Education …
The Bihar Government on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding for a 1,320-MW coal-based thermal power project at Chausa in Buxar district. The State expects to procure 85 per cent of the total power generated or 1,054 MW from two units of 660 MW each. The MoU for the joint …
