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 …
In a move that threatens to dislocate the lives of millions of Orissa's tribal people, the state government has decided to allow transfer of land in fifth schedule areas for mining and industrial operations. En route, it has interpreted the Supreme Court's (sc) landmark Samata judgement of 1997 to suit …
on june 25, the police opened fire on a crowd of restive farmers desperate to purchase subsidised maize seeds from a distribution centre in Andhra Pradesh's (ap) Ranga Reddy district. The toll: one farmer dead and more than 100 injured. Even before protests against the police action had died down, …
the sale of more than 5,000 hectares (ha) of land in the command areas of northern Karnataka in a span of just three years has made the state government sit up in alarm. It swung into action on June 6 notifying the Karnataka Irrigation (Amendment) Ordinance. The regulation bans the …
Andhra Pradesh's response to the Paragodu project has been multi-pronged - when the government takes the issue to the Centre and the Supreme Court, the political parties adopt the agitational approach. Andhra Pradesh views the Paragodu dam project as yet another attempt by Karnataka to deprive it, the lower riparian …
Groundwater sustains almost 60 per cent of the irrigated land in India. Most districts in India today have larger shares of irrigated land under groundwater irrigation than under surface-water irrigation. This ominous change in water use patterns in India has been extremely rapid since the 1970s. Extensive groundwater usage has …
When Gond tribals of Chalpadi village in Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh agreed this April to export 900 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in emission reduction little did they realise the impact their action would create. The news was splashed in local newspapers. Neighbouring villagers and government officials came to witness …
till about a year ago, Gauzia Begum Mohammed, 40, and Velimela Kalavathy, 35, residents of the Bandalguda village of Andhra Pradesh, were counted among the 35 crore Indians who could not read or write. Not anymore. Both have learnt to read. Gauzia can now sign her name and Velimela knows …
The death toll in the unprecedented heat wave has reached an all-time high of 1,139 in Andhra Pradesh, causing panic among the people of the state. The coastal and Telangana regions in particular are reeling under the impact of the soaring mercury. Temperatures in these areas are hovering between 45 …
Upset over the issue of the plummeting prices of tobacco at state auctions, Andhra Pradesh chief minister (CM) Chandrababu Naidu severely reprimanded members of the industry. He even threatened to burn all the stocks of tobacco if the traders did not mend their ways. The CM was addressing a high-level …
Illegal variants of GM seeds are threatening the future of cotton in India The biotech revolution in India has turned into a nightmare. At least in Gujarat, where cotton farmers are happily using illegal versions of genetically-modified (GM) cotton seeds. The so-called regulator set up by the environment ministry, the …
In this paper, a review on worldwide literature on trends in tropical cyclone frequency, intensity, and impact, with special reference to the North Indian Ocean Basin, that is, the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea.
The Krishna river waters have changed course. They are suddenly flowing in the reverse direction, from the lower riparian state of Karnataka to Maharashtra which is an upper riparian state. But the water is bypassing Andhra Pradesh even though it falls in the way. The reverse flow is Congress-ruled Karnataka's …
Bathing daily is now a punishable offence in three gram panchayats of Andhra Pradesh. The village bodies in Mellacheruvu mandal of Nalgonda district have ruled that villagers will bathe once in four days and wash clothes once every 10 days to save water. Those who defy the diktat will be …
http://www.saukaryam.org International accolades are pouring in for Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation's (vmc) cyber initiative, Project Saukaryam (convenience). Awards received include the United Nations Development Programme (undp) cyber city award 2002, to add to the prestigious Stockholm Challenge International Award (public service) in 2001 to name just two. Designed by Sanjay Jaju, …
a survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line (bpl) households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society groups under the 'right to food' campaign. They are objecting to the exercise on two counts: firstly, the criteria used for poverty estimation are incorrect; …
on december 25, 2002, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee unveiled an ambitious scheme to provide drinking water to all villages in the country by April 2004. The project, called
#1 Who is the polluter? What is their waste-typology? This is the first critical and often make-or-break step. Get the property rights regime wrong and it is clear that nothing will work, is the advice of common property managers in rural areas. It is the same for a cetp. Delhi …
