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 …
Sub-watersheds in border areas not to be covered With the Survey of India (SoI) and the Ministry of Defence reluctant to grant permission for the digitisation of restricted maps, the Forest Department has decided to go ahead with the finalisation of integrated catchment area treatment plan for the Sutlej basin …
HC gives another chance to state govt Pollution board told to file list of offending units The court cannot be a silent spectator to a situation where a whole new industrial township is set up without giving the proper infrastructure of common effluent treatment plant (CETP), municipal solid waste plant …
With the rise in mercury, forest fires have been triggered in Kangra district. A number of pine forests in the lower hills of the state are on fire. In the absence of adequate financial support for preventive measures the Forest Department has been looking towards the
The aim of the Himachal Pradesh State Disaster Management Policy is to provide guiding principles for reducing, preventing, mitigating disaster risk and creating a system for effective disaster response. The policy also aims at providing guidelines for post disaster relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction codes and guidelines.
Taking early warning lessons from the tragedies in Japan, Himachal Pradesh, which falls in a critical seismic zone, has got into serious business to formulate disaster management plans at district levels. At the end of the two-day training workshop for the senior level officers, including principal secretaries, heads of various …
As many as 126 different species of birds were spotted during the first-ever Bird Race organised to ascertain the status of the avian diversity in Shimla and surrounding areas yesterday. The one-day survey was carried out by eight teams of bird watchers, researchers and wildlife officials covering different segments of …
The Himachal Pradesh Forest Department, which had failed to do a bird count for six decades in the hill State, now claims to have done a 12-hour bird count with the help of an NGO. Shimla-based NGO
Ornithologists, researchers and nature lovers from the northern region assembled here today to undertake the first-ever bird species count since Independence. The exercise was part of the Shimla Bird Race organised by the Himachal Birds, an NGO founded by serving IPS officer and bird lover Somesh Goyal. Divided into eight …
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal yesterday said states should be allowed to implement their own agriculture initiatives, claiming the Centre should not force its programmes, particularly those connected with GM technology, on the states. Addressing delegates and later talking to newsmen at the two-day national convention of its …
With next assembly polls being round the corner, UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) is all set to shell out over Rs 4000 crore for purchase of additional electricity in order to keep the power starved consumers in good humour. Out of this huge amount the power corporation have to manage …
Members of the Sal Ghati Sangharsh Morcha have been on an indefinite protest in the Jadera area near Chamba against the 4.5-MW Hul stage-I micro hydel project for the past nine days. Their contention is that there will be no water left for the ongoing and future drinking water and …
The HP High Court has expressed displeasure over the delayed approach of the state government in the setting up of common effluent treatment, sewage treatment and municipal waste plants in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrial area and non-compliance of the order of the High Court and observed that the court may take …
Agriculture scientists have opined that if just 10 per cent farming in the country is turned organic, it will lead to net saving of about Rs 25,000 crore in the country. The saving will be in terms of savings on farm inputs like fertilisers and pesticides and subsidies given on …
