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 …
Following an inspection of the site and discussions with various stakeholders, including local people, State government and pollution control officials, the NEAA quashed the clearance of the integrated cement plant and captive limestone mine promoted by M/s. Lafarge India Pvt. Ltd., at Village Alsindi, Tehsil Karsog, District Mandi, HP.
As companies begin to look at corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as an integral part of their business strategy, rather than as a tool to meet their social commitments, the scope of the activity has gained in importance for corporates. Businessworld and Ficci joined hands in 1999 to recognise the companies …
Shimla: The Public Works Department (PWD) has not been able to start work on as many 266 road projects for want of the mandatory clearance under the Forest Conservation Act. This was stated by PWD Minister Gulab Singh in the Vidhan Sabha during the Question Hour. He said the government …
Shimla, August 18 Chief Minister P.K. Dhumal introduced the Himachal Pradesh Prohibition of Cow Slaughter (Amendment) Bill 2010 and the Maharishi Markandeshwar University (Establishment and Regulation) Bill 2010 in the state Assembly today. Even though the HP Prohibition of Cow Slaughter Act 1979 prohibits cow slaughter and its progeny within …
Lokpal Sethi | JaipurAfter failing to persuade the Rajasthan Government to rehabilitate all the Pong Dam oustees, the Himachal Pradesh Government is building pressure on the Centre to direct Rajasthan to resolve this decades-old problem at the earliest.Before approaching the Centre, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal recently spoke …
The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to leave it to the Supreme Court to decide on the fate of Netherlands-based company Brakel Corporation, which was allotted the mega 960 MW Jangi-Thopan power project but the allotment was later set aside by the High Court.The company has filed a special leave …
The Bhakra-Beas Management Board has sounded its intent to increase the discharge of water following continuing rainfall leading to unacceptably high levels in its reservoirs.While BBMB authorities are slated to meet representatives from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi on Thursday, the board has already begun a phased release of …
Hem Lata Verma The exceptionally high rainfall recorded across the cold desert of Lahaul and Spiti district from April to July this year has surprised as well as shocked everyone. The district administration is busy compiling data from villages of the large tracts of agricultural land that have been washed …
Mandi, August 8Scientists and meteorologists attribute the catastrophic flash floods and cloudbursts to climatic shift, but they still grope in the dark to predict these
The government considers giving corporates more than a nudge towards social initiatives Thanks to the Satyam scam, the continuing protests against corporate land acquisition and the more recent Bhopal case verdict, public expectations of companies have plunged to a new low. It
Read the court judgment on how Himachal allowed a $1 company to bid for a Rs 6,000-cr project Sunil Jain / New Delhi August 02, 2010, 0:04 IST Anyone looking for case study on how not to deal with bids for public property, and how state governments can brazen their …
Project set to attract investment of Rs 200 cr and generate employment for 500 people The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet cleared setting up of the proposed Biotechnology Park at Aduwal village near Nalagarh in Solan district. To be developed on 35 acres in the public private partnership (PPP) mode, the park …
Solan: Detection of toxic chemical phenyl from the viscera of dead fish, which were killed in Chikni river early this month, has set alarm bells ringing for the State Pollution Control Board. These findings have emerged from the twin reports of two laboratories of the pollution board as well as …
Shimla: The World Bank-funded state road project has run into rough weather due to exorbitant cost escalation, creating problems for the government which will have to arrange over Rs 400 crore more to complete the work. Slipshod implementation has not only delayed work on various packages for upgradation of roads …
Van Mahotsav Bankhandi (Dharamsala), July 26 The state government has planned a major investment in forestry-related activities. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, while presiding over the 61st state-level Van Mahotsav function organised at Bankhandi, 40 km from here, said Rs 123 crore would be invested by the state government in …
Two labourers lost their lives and three people were injured at Kanlog in Shimla due to heavy rains on Sunday morning. A temporary hutment made of tin sheets collapsed in an under-construction building resulting in the death of two people. In another incident, 20 persons living in Ruldu Bhatta locality …
Bouyed by the success of Tattapani eco task force, additional DG (Territorial Army) Major-General ADS Grewal will launch the eco task force of the 133 Infantry Battalion (Ecological Dogra) at Jalogi tomorrow. The task force has set up a target of planting trees in 250 hectares in catchments of the …
New Delhi: Reversing its earlier position, Himachal Pradesh has informed the Supreme Court that it would give 960-mw Jangi-Thopan and Thopan Powari power projects to Brakel Corporation and rejected the allegation of
