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 state has set a target of connecting all villages having a population of 250 by roads as Rs 250 crore is being spent under the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) during the current financial year. This was stated by Public Works Minister Gulab Singh while presiding over the …
Power producers planning to lay transmission lines for evacuation of power produced in Himachal will have to tread a more difficult path for approvals. The state government has fixed stringent rules in this regard to prevent any toll on environment, specifically forests. In a recent amendment to the Hydro Power …
Extensive damage caused to roads during the recent monsoon has drawn attention of the government to its inadequate maintenance. It has now decided to use NREGA ( National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) for proper upkeep and timely repairs of the fast-expanding road network. Every year about 1,500 km of new …
Farmers in the high-altitude orchards are a shattered lot as more than 40 per cent of the fruit has dropped in the apple belt in the last leg of the season. This correspondent found it difficult to walk in the apple orchards as it was almost littered with rotting or …
Dharamsala: Next time if you are on trip to any Himachal hill station and found spreading plastic packing in unspecified areas, you could be challaned. To enforce ban on plastics strictly, the state government has decided to delegate powers for imposing fine for spreading plastic litter up to the level …
Shimla: State-owned power generating companies have joined hands under the banner of National Forum of Power Generation Utilities (NFPGU) to cooperate in the filed of research and development, share technical and evolve a common approach to deal with issues related to environment and rehabilitation. The forum will also explore the …
Rajasthan: Land not available in Ganganagar Lalit Mohan Dharamsala, September 30 The first meeting of the standing committee formed for redressing the grievances of Pong Dam oustees has thrown some options for solution to over 40-year-old problem. The meeting was held in Bikaner on September 27 under the chairmanship of …
Soil fertility status of hilly microwater watershed in Shivalik hills, was assessed in relation to three locality factors, viz. altitude, slope and aspect. It was found that at higher altitude (440-450 m) of watershed, the soil fertility parameters were less and more in lower altitude (420-430m).
The Shivalik landscape is extended from the Indus basin to the Brahmaputra with one gap of over 300 km from the Sapta Kosi to the Manas river. The Shivalik landscape, has been categorized under Indo-Gangetic plains and it has special significance in India's biogeography due to intermingling of taxa from …
Livelihood security has been interpreted in different ways by various scholars. While livelihood has been defined as an adequate flow of resources (both cash and kind) to meet the basic needs of the people, access to social institutions relating to kinship, family and neigbourhood, village and gender bias free property …
The journey of honey from bee farms to breakfast tables has become complex with time. From wild honey gatherers, honey supply has passed into the hands of cooperatives of individual beekeepers and then to big companies. The cooperatives could have helped beekeepers demand better prices, but they did not last …
It can sound like a dream but the local Municipal Corporation (MC) plans to provide round-the-clock water supply in four wards of the city on an experiment basis. If it succeeds, it will be implemented in all 25 wards. The
Dharamsala: The state government will extend all help to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for setting up High-Altitude Biology Centre in the Lahaul valley. The centre will help farmers who opt for cultivation of lilium as cash crop keeping in view the suitability of the farm soil …
Too many hydel projects spell ecodisasterRerouting Water 400 hydel projects in four river basins of Himachal Pradesh could end in environmental disaster 600 more awaiting allotment They could
Chandigarh: The Himachal Pradesh government has come out with an Rs 4,668-crore integrated watershed management perspective (IWMP) plan for treatment of 31,12,472 hectare in the state. Highly placed official sources told FE that
