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 …
SHIMLA: With apple production facing a decline due to global warming, vegetable cultivation is gaining popularity among farmers in Himachal Pradesh. In 1951-52, the state had vegetable production area of 3,000 hectares with annual production of 25,000 tonne, which has now increased to 65,000 hectares with annual production of 1,269 …
Palampur: The entire Dhauladhar range and the Chhota and Bara Bhangal areas of the Palampur region experienced the heaviest snowfall of this season in the past 24 hours. Lower reaches were lashed by heavy rain, paralysing normal life in the valley. Power supply and road transport were the worst affected …
Shimla: The government is promoting organic farming on priority as part of its efforts to make agriculture a sustainable, environment-friendly and remunerative proposition for small hill farmers. After framing a comprehensive organic farming policy delineating short-term and long-term measures to be taken for systematic propagation of organic farming, the government …
After milk, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has found that contamination is, in fact, quite common among other food items across the country. In Rajasthan, adulteration rate is as high as 23%, the study has found. In 2010, the FSSAI picked up over 1.17 lakh samples of …
For the first time in about five years, India will have data on district-level malnutrition. The data has been collated by Hyderabad-based Naandi Foundation in a report titled HUNGaMA (hunger and malnutrition) which will be released by Prime Minister manmohan Singh Tuesday. The district-level health data was collated for nine …
Under the Professional Institutional Networking (PIN) of Ministry of Rural Development, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) sanctioned the Impact Assessment study in three districts namely Sirsa in Haryana, Sirmaur in Himachal Pradesh and Hoshiarpur in Punjab. NREGS was started in the first phase in these selected districts.
The infant mortality rate (IMR) has shown a 3 point decline, dropping from 50 deaths per 1,000 live births to 47 and moving a step closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target of 30. However, IMR increased by one point in Kerala, Mizoram and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. …
From 48 In 2009 To 44 In 2010, Fall Is Of 4 Points Gandhinagar: In a positive development for a state which is under fire for poor nutrition levels and high child morbidity, Gujarat’s Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) has experienced a fall of four points, from 48 in 2009 to …
The Ghaggar is facing twin attack: the industrial waste from Himachal and Punjab and the sewage drained into it from Sirsa, causing irreparable damage to animals, plants and humans alike. Samples of water taken from Sirsa and on the upstream at Chandpura in Fatehabad show a grim picture. The biochemical …
Mumbai: Japanese drug major Daiichi has lowered its profit forecast for the year ending March 2012, and slashed senior executive pay, to offset the impending loss arising out of its Indian subsidiary, Ranbaxy’s $500-million legal settlement in the US. After months of sticky negotiations, Ranbaxy finally announced on Wednesday that …
When the Union environment ministry gave the GMR Group its go-ahead to the Alaknanda hydroelectric project in Uttarakhand three weeks ago, it invited suspicion from non-profit organisations about a possible underhand deal. For, the project was approved despite a recommendation against it by none other than a statutory body, the …
The Union Government plans to provide financial assistance to State Governments to set up transmission networks to evacuate renewable energy generated in the States, a senior government official said. “Renewable power generation capacity in the country is enormous. But the issue is of evacuation. We plan to provide some assistance …
NEW DELHI, Dec 16 – Even as the agitation against mega dams in Assam gathers momentum, the Centre is currently examining the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) of seven private hydropower projects proposed to be set up in Arunachal Pradesh. Of the seven projects, three are over 1000 MW capacity, including …
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Ltd will set up its biggest solar (green) power station of 50 MW in the electricity-starved Madhya Pradesh. “We are setting up our biggest solar power project at an estimated cost of around Rs 700 crore in Rajgarh district. NTPC will sell the entire power …
State-owned power major NTPC is going to set up its biggest solar (green) power station of 50 megawatts next year at an estimated cost of around Rs 700 crore in the electricity-starved state of Madhya Pradesh. "We are setting up our biggest solar power project at an estimated cost of …
The winter is shrinking and the overall precipitation during the season, particularly snow, is decreasing at an alarming rate in the “Queen of Hills”, making a White Christmas and a White New Year for which it has been famous, a rarity in recent years. The disastrous impact of excessive and …
Disaster management is the last thing on the mind of the Punjab Government. Out of the 29 states across the country, Punjab is bracketed with Arunachal Pradesh as the states that have not spent a single paisa from the Central grant received for training its functionaries in disaster management. According …
Agartala: Tripura has once again topped all the states in implementing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which guarantees minimum job days to people in rural areas, a minister said here Saturday. State Rural Development Minister Jitendra Chaudhury, quoting a performance report of the union rural development …
KOLKATA, 1 DEC: The first ever global project to access genetic resources in the state has been launched by the West Bengal Biodiversity Board (WBBB) and Biodiversity Authority of India (NBA), said Dr Balakrishnan Pishupati, chairman of NBA, today. The programme ~ Implementation of National Biodiversity Act with Special Focus …
Even as decongestion of the town by way of having three satellite townships and shifting of the grain, timber and vegetable markets and other services to the outskirts of the town have been suggested in the interim City Mobility Plan proposed for the town, the local Municipal Corporation (MC) has …
