Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Madasir Hasan and Others Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 06/03/2024. This Original Application has been registered exercising suo-moto jurisdiction of newspaper report sent by Muddasar Hasan complaining that at village Jalandhari, district Azamgarh, there is a low lying area …
Compliance report by Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board in O.A. no. 806/2019 in the matter of Anurag Sharma Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 06/01/2020. The report was in pursuance of the National Green Tribunal order of September 20, 2019 which directed the UPPCB into the matter of environmental non-compliance …
LUCKNOW: Four deaths of patients tested swine flu positive were reported from the state on Tuesday along with 111 new positive cases on the day. With this the tally of positive influenza A H1N1 cases reached 2,473 since January and the death toll since then till August 29, reached 61. …
Resource-poor farmers, living in marginal environments and more directly dependent on local natural resources, have developed location specific agricultural knowledge systems that help them to adapt to climatic variability. In this research, we documented farmers’ perceptions of climatic variability and related adaptive practices in three selected hamlets of Azamgarh district …
Twelve persons were killed and crops damaged in heavy rain, accompanied by gusty winds, in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. Lightning caused nine deaths, including those of Ankush and Ajay, both 18, at Puresewika Majra in Rae Bareli district, and an eight-year-old girl and Shanti Devi, 55, at Shahgarh in Amethi. …
Thirteen people lost their lives as moderate to heavy rain lashed several areas of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday even as the mercury settled above normal in parts of North India. Reports reaching here said that six people were killed in Mirzapur, while three in Jaunpur, two in Pratapgarh and one …
Rain-related incidents claimed eight lives in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday with moderate to heavy showers lashing most parts of North India. It was a pleasant day in the national Capital with cloud covers keeping the temperatures within the normal level. During the past 24 hours ending at 8-30 a.m. in …
Taking a serious note of indiscriminate encroachment of ponds in the state, which is lowering the water table in the region, the Allahabad High Court has suggested that a special law should be enacted to protect and preserve the ponds, which are not only essential elements of village habitat but …
Even as the Rs 15,000-crore transmission project continues to remain embroiled in a controversy over change of conductors, the UP Transmission Corporation Limited (UPTCL) is all set to embark on yet another ambitious project. The fresh project envisages construction of new sub-stations and transmission lines at a cost of over …
Fourteen persons succumbed to extreme cold in North India today as temperatures plummeted across the region making people stay inside homes. Delhiites shivered in the morning as the mercury plunged to the season's lowest of 5.5 degrees celsius even as dense fog affected air traffic. The minimum was two degrees …
New Delhi: There was no respite from the cold wave across north India on Monday as the mercury dipped close to the freezing point at several places in the region and killed 29 more people, mounting the toll from it this season to around 200. Officials said six people died …
Plummeting mercury, coupled with a thick fog cover, threw normal life out of gear in the entire North India on Monday, with 24 more people succumbing to the chill in various parts of the region. While 20 more people died in Uttar Pradesh, four persons lost their lives in Uttarakhand, …
At least 13 people were killed in rain-related incidents in Uttar Pradesh as heavy showers lashed North India on Monday. Delhi recorded a maximum temperature of 31.5 degrees Celsius, three less than normal, while the minimum was recorded at 26.5 degrees Celsius. The city received 2.2 mm of rainfall. In …
Heavy rain lashed large parts of north India on Sunday, including the national capital, even as seven persons were killed in rain-related incidents. Five persons were washed away in flash floods in Uttarakhand's Nainital district, while two children, including a girl, were killed in Azamgarh of Uttar Pradesh after lightning …
After four dozen deaths due to heavy storm and rainfall during the last 48-hours, 14 more casualties were reported in separate mishaps in the State since Sunday evening. In Bulundshahr, one Rakesh Agarwal, a native of Jawa locality of Aligarh was returning with his family after attending marriage of his …
Farmers's wisdom of soil taxonomy and fertility management dynamics is based on trial and error, problem solving and group approach to manage the natural resources. The farmers' knowledge of defining the soil taxonomy and fertility management practices is compatible to their adaptive skills and rich source of location-specific ecological information. …
In the study, an effort was made to explore the diversities of indigenous knowledge systems pertaining to human health among rural women of the purposively selected villages of eastern part of Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh. Data pertaining to study were collected by using the participatory approach, group discussions, participant learning …
Alka Pandey Posted: Jan 30, 2009 at 2309 hrs IST Lucknow: It wasn't the whiff of money but faith in the small, inconspicuous plant in his courtyard that nudged Kailash Nath Singh, now 87, to venture into something unheard of more than a decade ago. When Organic India, then Indo-Israel …
Atiq Khan Nearly 99 lakh families living below the poverty line (BPL) in Uttar Pradesh can look forward to getting quality medical care under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) in hospitals of their choice, including private nursing homes, from this coming July 1. A memorandum of understanding to this …
