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 …
Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal once again raised the demand for restoration of excise duty exemption to industry in Himachal Pradesh before Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday. The exemption under the Special Industrial Package was discontinued with on April 1, 2010. The CM raised the issue while speaking …
Beas level rises above the danger mark to flood NH near Mandi, road closed for 6 hours With continuous rainfall across the state for nearly 16 hours on the second consecutive day on Tuesday, the level of water in the Beas river in Mandi district crossed the danger mark and …
Shimla, July 2 Improper storage and negligence continues to damage foodgrain stock of the Food Corporation of India (FCI). In fact, it had about 14,000 tonnes of totally damaged rice, wheat and paddy, which could not be issued for distribution at the start of the year. According to information obtained …
Desertification is one of the most serious problems facing the world today. Large tracts of the dry areas that cover more than one third of the earth?s crust are being degraded or are in the process of degradation, posing serious threats to environment. These areas also include the most severe …
Shimla: Environmentalists fear that cutting of slopes for four-laning of the Shimla-Parwanoo section of the National Highway-22 will destabilise the fragile mountain ranges, making the stretch prone to landslides. The main concern is about the environmental fallout of widening which will involve almost vertical cutting of hills, causing huge debris, …
VILLAGES on the border of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab are protesting an under-construction thermal power plant in Solan district. The villagers had rejected the project promoted by Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) at two public hearings held in June 2007 and in September 2009. But the Union Ministry of Environment and …
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday laid the foundation stone of the strategic 8.8-km-long Rohtang tunnel through the Himalayan ranges at Manali. Defence minister A.K. Antony was also present on the occasion besides several dignitaries, including Himachal Pradesh chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal. However, J Jammu and Kashmir chief minister …
Chandigarh: After being down for months, the water levels of the Bhakra and Pong dams in Himachal Pradesh are looking up and the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) is increasingly becoming confident of meeting the irrigation needs of farmers in Punjab and Haryana this paddy season. According to reports received …
Ashwani Sharma , SOLANG NULLAH UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday laid the foundation stone for the long awaited Rohtang Tunnel project and reiterated the present regime
In the peak of June as tourists make a beeline for the interior villages of Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh, locals have no time to chat with them or pose for pictures.
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways sanctioned five new national highways for Himachal on Tuesday. The highways will be upgraded out of the existing routes. The ministry also agreed to fund the 1.7-kilometre Swarghat tunnel project on the Chandigarh-Manali road. The projects were sanctioned at a meeting between …
The villagers had rejected the project promoted by Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) at two public hearings held in June 2007 and in September 2009. But the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) cleared the project in Tikri village in Himachal in February. http://www.downtoearth.org.in/node/780
Hamirpur: The work on Dhola-Sidh, the first hydel project of Hamirpur district, being built on the Beas near Nadaun by the Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN), would begin by March next year. The clearance for term of reference (TOR) for the project, which has now been upgraded from the proposed …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: Seeking to focus on rural tourism to generate employment, income and promoting new destinations by exhibiting ancient heritage and culture of the hills, the Himachal Pradesh Government has launched the
Union Minister for Steel Virbhadra Singh is upset over the alleged attempts to derail the Rs 260-crore Arki Limestone project, for which the Steel Authority of India Limited signed an agreement with the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) in November 2009. Arki has huge limestone mining reserves to generate substantial …
Forests of the hill state will now have a strict and more intense monitoring system to check illegal felling of trees. Instead of a single guard monitoring the forests, there will be a group patrol system in place. The decision comes in the wake of the mass illegal felling of …
Shimla: With a satellite-based fire alert messaging system likely to be in place by next year, the forest department hopes to further bring down incidents of forest fire and, more importantly, the devastation caused by it. Even though incidents of fire has been much less as compared to last year, …
