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: Over 9,600 trees will face the axe for laying the transmission line for evacuating power from the 1000 MW Karcham Wangtoo power project in Kinnaur, which is likely to start generation by June this year. In reply to a query during Question Hour in the assembly by Congress MLA …
Cong for ban on land sale to outsiders Accusing the BJP regime of encouraging realtors in the state at the cost of the interests of Himachalis, the Congress today demanded a complete ban on the sale of land to outsiders and sought details about two housing projects in Shimla and …
The Congress has raised questions over the construction of housing projects by private builders DLF and Optima in forest areas of Shimla and Solan districts. Speaking during the budget debate on Thursday, Una MLA Mukesh Agnihotri accused DLF of operating in a benami mode for a housing project under the …
Want cash, wait for sometime Apple growers whose produce was procured under the Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) will have to accept bulk of the payment in kind, mostly in the shape of farm inputs, because of cash crunch being faced by government procurement agencies. The record crop of 8.92 lakh …
In what is likely to revolutionise seed potato production in India, the Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI), Shimla, has developed a technique based on Aeroponics to produce seed potatoes without exposing them to soil. The institute first designed a prototype and tested it on three varieties of potato seeds, namely …
The Economic Survey for the year 2010-11 presented in the assembly today pegged the annual growth rate at 9 per cent with the per capita income expected to increase by 9.4 per cent. Presenting the Economic Survey in the House on the eve of presentation of the budget for the …
Registering a steady pace of growth, and emerging as an ideal destination for investments in the power and tourism sectors, the economy of Himachal Pradesh economy is all set to grow by 9 per cent during the current year, ,which is higher than the national estimate of 8.6 per cent. …
Pollution board, JP and Ambuja firms to blame: Study Solan: With the detection of particles of several heavy metals far exceeding the safe limits in an air sample taken from the villages around two cement plants
With intermittent spells of rain and snowfall continuing for the last three days in Himachal Pradesh, there is no let-up in the prevailing cold conditions. While the pace of life in the higher reaches of Kullu, Shimla, Chamba, Kangra, Mandi and Kinnaur has been disrupted, the gripping cold has also …
New Delhi: The Planning Commission on Tuesday approved Himachal Pradesh's Rs.3,300-crore Annual Plan outlay for 2011-12, which is 10 per cent more than the Plan size for the current fiscal. The Annual Plan was finalised at a meeting here between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Himachal Pradesh …
Forest fires are calamity that causes damage to the forest economy which is considerably greater than all damages caused by the harmful insects and diseases. The study area is prone to fire because of the presence of dominant species of pines which are highly susceptible to fires due to the …
For the first time in the state, a successful vulture conservation operation has been carried out jointly by Dr RS Kishtwaria, livestock and wildLife expert of the Department of Animal Sciences and Veterinary College, HP Agriculture University, here in collaboration with the state Forest Department. This operation was executed in …
With the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) working overtime to protect the tiger population, poachers have now shifted their attention to killing leopards and selling their body parts as tiger parts. The states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh are the epicentre of this illicit trade and the Wildlife Protection …
Amid claims that there is a drastic improvement in the sex ratio profile of Punjab, the unpalatable truth is that preference among couples of not having children once they have a son is the highest in the country. This has established that a desire for a son is as desperate …
The government has sanctioned Rs 16 crore for two important roads in the apple belt to facilitate smooth transportation of the fruit.Horticulture Minister Narinder Bragta said here today that Rs 10.09 crore had been sanctioned under the first phase for widening and improvement of a 30 km stretch on the …
The higher reaches of Himachal Pradesh continued to receive snowfall on the second consecutive day today, leading to disruption of road traffic and life in many parts of the state. In Shimla district, after snowfall at Kharapatthar and Narkanda peaks, the Shimla-Rohru Road and the old Hindustan-Tibet Road leading to …
The long winter season in the upper reaches of Himachal has raised hope of a quality apple crop in the upcoming season. This is good news for apple growers, as last year, despite a bumper crop, the growers had to pick small fruit due to early flowering in the month …
