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Cops caught red handed
In a dubious first, a police vehicle has been found to be used in smuggling and a station house officer (sho) nabbed for his role in the incident.
The forest development committee members at Samnoh village of Gohar subdivision in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district impounded a police truck …
The forest development committee members at Samnoh village of Gohar subdivision in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district impounded a police truck …
Counting the cost
on march 14, 2002, the Supreme Court (sc) slapped an "exemplary damage' of Rs 10 lakh on Span Motels Private Limited (smpl), a resort in which former Union environment minister Kamal Nath's wife is a major shareholder, for causing environmental degradation by changing the course of …
Tapping wastewater
WHEN the Union ministry of urban affairs and poverty alleviation issued a notification on July 28, 2001, making rainwater harvesting mandatory in Delhi, it had inserted another clause that went largely unnoticed: a stipulation that all structures discharging 10,000 litres and above should incorporate wastewater recycling for horticultural purposes. Though …
Construction halted
for now, the construction of the controversial Dalhousie-Chamba highway has been stalled. Recently, the Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF) ordered the Himachal Pradesh government to stop work on the highway which cuts across the Kalatop-Khajjiar wildlife sanctuary
Grim reminder
THE contagion appears to have been contained before it could assume epidemic proportions. But it has still claimed four lives.
The recent outbreak of plague in the Rohru-Jubbal belt of Himachal Pradesh (HP) highlights how a surveillance mechanism is conspicuously absent in India. While the disease is said to …
The recent outbreak of plague in the Rohru-Jubbal belt of Himachal Pradesh (HP) highlights how a surveillance mechanism is conspicuously absent in India. While the disease is said to …
Plagued
If nothing else, the incidence of plague in Himachal Pradesh served to focus attention on the entire gamut of disease management in the country. At the end of it, at least one message was clear
Uttaranchal aglow
the owners of some 70,000 traditional watermills ( gharat in local parlance) in Uttaranchal have finally been empowered. The state government has granted small-scale industry status to gharat , fulfilling a long-standing demand. Significantly, watermills
Going dry
the groundwater situation in the foothills of the Kangra valley, especially in Nurpur and Jawali subdivisions, is quite grim today. There are no water canals for irrigation in these areas. Fetching water from the rivulets passing by is also difficult. Hence, in the last few years, the underground water …
In dire straits
the recently-released comptroller and auditor general (cag) 2000 report has revealed that river pollution is on the rise as sewage finds its way into river bodies and pollution parameters are being flouted. The report says that in Haryana, 611 of 2,867 polluting units identified were functioning without …
Wave of concern
plans of the Himachal Pradesh (hp) government to set up the 100-megawatt Sainj hydel project has kicked up a row. Environmentalists feel that the proposed project in the ecosensitive area of Kullu's Great Himalayan National Park (ghnp) would pose the threat of damage to its …