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 …
Widespread heavy rain, caused by an upper air cyclonic trough, lashed the State for the second day on Sunday, claiming six lives and extensively damaging standing crops in several districts. Five of the casualties were from Kurnool district, while one death occurred in Hyderabad. Three persons were killed at Pesaravai …
At ITC, CSR is built into its businesses. ITC is probably unique in that it does not implement its corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a separate foundation or trust. Instead, it has built these initiatives into its business model, by following what it calls the Triple Bottom Line Approach. Its …
The Mylavaram reservoir constructed with a capacity of 9.5 tmc ft to provide irrigation water to 75,000 acres in Kadapa district is drying up. Everyday, 25 cusecs of water is being supplied from the reservoir to the Rayalaseema thermal power plant (RTPP) for power generation. Pipelines works are also being …
Coconut Development Board (CDB) will promote a new technology that controls pests in coconut trees. The technology that was invented by Bio-Control Research Laboratories (BCRL), a division of Pest Control India Pvt Ltd, would control the pests like Rhinoceros beetle (RB) and Red Palm Weevil (RPW) in coconut palms. CDB …
State's land for poor scheme is a farce: Naidu Hyderabad, March 18: The Opposition on Tuesday termed the state government's land distribution programme for the poor a big farce. However, the government defended the programme vigorously as a progressive one. The debate over the issue veered into a heated exchange …
Andhra Pradesh has been galloping ahead on the road to progress and prosperity at incredible speed in the last four years. Till 2004... every other day, the State had to depend on overdrafts on the RBI to meet its commitments including clearance of bills and payment of salaries. Large sections …
The Union Minister for Panchayati Raj, Mani Shankar Aiyar, was recently in Nagpur to attend a conference. He volunteered to visit Koljhari, Bodhbadhan and Waiphad villages that witnessed many farmer suicides. At Waiphad, he met with a group of farmers and farm labourers who were eager to talk to him. …
plague cases are on the rise and are afflicting countries more frequently than before. A who report says there were around 1,900 cases worldwide in 2002, which increased to 2,100 cases in 2003. In India, 16 cases of pneumonic plague were identified in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, in 2002
On February 15, the supreme court asked the Central Water Commission (CWC) to examine and submit a report on the nature and extent of submergence that the Polavaram project in Andhra Pradesh may cause. The ruling came on a petition by Andhra Pradesh which sought permission for the execution of …
Tribal residents of Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh, are preparing to protest a proposed smelting project that will affect five villages in the district. Despite a formal resolution against mining and smelting projects by the people, the Union environment ministry cleared two such projects in October and December 2007, and …
It is high time Parliament took serious note of the sordid story of the unwarranted hike in the prices of petroleum products. AFTER months of vacillation, the Union government has raised the price of petrol and diesel by Rs.2 and Re.1 a litre respectively. The leftist parties and the National …
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy strongly defended mining leases given for extracting iron ore, bauxite and granite reserves in the State claiming that all these were done in a fair and transparent manner. On a day of high voltage drama in the Assembly, the Telugu Desam Party …
The government has attached high priority to the plantation of organic coffee, minister of state for commerce Jayaram Ramesh said in Parliament yesterday. Regions in the Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh and adjoining Koraput district of Orissa have great potential for producing organic coffee, the minister said while replying to …
The farm loan waiver announced by the Central government has come as a boon to the District Central Cooperative Bank (DCCB), which is facing financial problems with bad debts amounting to Rs 200 crore. The DCCB is expected to get Rs 140 crore from the Central government under the farm …
The much-talked-about Bill to repeal the Urban Land Ceiling Act may not be taken up in the current session of the Assembly. The Bill did not find place in the list of Bills to be tabled in the Assembly on Wednesday for discussion and approval in the next two weeks. …
The hydrochemical characteristics of groundwater in Mehadrigedda watershed of Visakhapatnam district have been studied. Twenty eight samples were collected from open wells representing shallow groundwater of the area during Dec, 2005. 2007
The much-hyped High Voltage Distribution System (HVDS) to improve the quality of power supply is moving at snail's pace. The scheme was started long back but is yet to be completed in the four power distribution companies (discoms). Transco and four discoms have asked the government to extend the time …
Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy on Sunday directed officials to introduce social audit in the Indiramma housing scheme. He said public vigilance in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme had yielded results. Only Rs 1.5 crore had been defrauded from the Rs 2,000 crore that covers 8,980 villages. The Chief …
