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 …
The Supreme Court has allowed Karnataka government to go ahead with the construction of 26 crest gates on Almatti dam despite serious objections of Andhra Pradesh. The court, however clarified, "The work to be carried out by Karnataka at the dam will be at the risk and cost of Karnataka …
The field trials of US-based biotech company, Monsanto, on transgenic cotton "Bollgard' in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have, stirred a lot of controversy. On November 29, a group of farmers belonging to the Karnataka Rajya Raita Sangha MRS), a farmers' union, set fire to the first trial of the genetically …
A writ petition has been filed in the Andhr* Pradesh High Court challenging the establishment of the garbage storage, treatment and disposal plant at Dindigal in Hyderabad. The plant is spread over 200 acres. The petition was filed by Purshottam Reddy of the 0smania Univcrsity@ Hyderabad. He argued that the …
THE Union ministry for environment and forests held an independent probe into the controversial dinner hosted by the Telugu Desam Party members near Hyderabad. According to the findings, meat of wild animals is commonly served in some areas of Andhra Pradesh. This particular dinner was organised to celebrate state irrigation …
THE goal of universal education eludes India even though there is now a primary school in practically every village. The rate of dropouts continues to be over 50 per cent. The greatest casualty in the failure of our education system has been the girl child - whether in terms of …
The success story of education in Arunachal Pradesh has been narrated by Purer Haimendorf. The socio-economic and political strength which Arunachal tribes enjoy has no doubt been the rock on which the edifice was founded and on which it subsequently grew. The strategy they adopted was based on the residential …
The Supreme Court has directed the government of Andhra Pradesh not to locate new industries in the industrial estates of Patancheru, Bollarum and Jeedimetla in Medak district, The existing units are contributing to a large-scale water contamination in these areas. A division bench comprising justice V Manohar and justice G …
A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court has ordered the closure of six polluting industries in Kattedan Industrial area. The industries are Vijayanand Textiles, Ramachandra Refinery, Anil Refinery, Bhavani Industries, Supreme Pigments and Jayadurga textiles. The closure was ordered on the basis of a report submitted by the …
This Writ Petition was filed in 1990 in the Supreme Court by the Indian Council for Enviro Legal Action & Others. against the industries and the CETP managements of PETL at Pathancheru and Bolaram for the pollution of the ground water and surface water caused by the discharge of the …
In the 1996 ninth general elections in India, water as an issue figured prominently in at least nine states. Among them all, Nalgonda in the Telengana region in Andhra Pradesh takes the cake. Nearly 500 farmers of the Telengana Jalasadra Samakhiya filed nomination papers, aiming to disrupt the electoral process …
THE hammer and sickle insignia flashes on fluttering red flags over 'Porattu Nagar' (township of struggle), a conglomerate of 500-odd huts in an encroached forest tract near Kanimerla village of Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh. Repeated attempts of forest and police officials to evict the encroachers failed. They retreated in …
GREEN has once again proved its superiority, though in an unusual field this time - pulses. Experiments conducted in recent years to find a suitable alternative to the less remunerative horse gram have indicated that green gram is more farmer-friendly than horse gram (Farmer and Parliament, Vol 30, No 9). …
IN ANDHRA Pradesh, woodlots maintained by farmers are the venues of social, cultural and religious festivals. In the northeast, much of the cultural life of the people revolves around events in the jhum calendar. Agroforestry has been around in India for a long time: the traditional practices have evolved in …
SEVERAL foods people all over the country consume daily -- milk, butter and cereals, for example -- have been found to contain substances hazardous to health by a nationwide survey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The ICMR surveyors found that as much as 87 per cent …
SCIENTISTS have found that several sheep in south India, which were thought to be suffering from rinderpest are actually infected with peste des petits ruminants (PPR), a new viral disease hitherto thought to be restricted to West Africa. Rinderpest usually afflicts Indian cattle, wild Indian bison and smaller ruminants such …
Laundered money will be used to clean slums in 454 towns. Black money to the tune of Rs 63 crore, which was deposited last year with the National Housing Bank (NHB) for immunity under the Voluntary Deposits Scheme, will be used to establish a revolving corpus to refinance loans given …
What can be done When Elements that sustain life -- air and water Turn to destroy...? -- Dasarathi, the acknowledged poet laureate of Andhra Pradesh. DASARATHI'S poem was inspired by the fury of the killer cyclone that crossed the Andhra coast at Chirala during the evening of November 19, 1977, …
PRIMARY schools with a difference have sprung up in some villages around the elite Rishi Valley School (RVS) in Andhra Pradesh. These satellite schools, started by the Rural Extension Centre (REC) of the RVS, use instruction cards, puzzles and games instead of standard text books to make education interesting. The …
CERTAIN wasps are inveterate nectar thieves. The wily insects sneak through the back door and loot nectar, damaging the flower and reducing chances of pollination and fruit formation (Current Science, Vol 26 No 10). Insects help in pollination by acting as carriers of pollen grains, picking them up from one …
FISH TRADERS of Andhra Pradesh have a good market in far away Assam. Even after paying transportation charges of upto Rs 8 per kg of fish taken to Assam, the traders get to put away a tidy sum for themselves. The irony is that Assam itself abounds in wetlands, but …
