Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
June 22: Mud snakes and star tortoises from Anantapur and Kadapa districts are being smuggled out of the state for a neat profit. Unscrupulous traders from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Chittoor, Nellore, Kadapa and Anantapur in the state have been buying mud snakes weighing three kg for Rs 3 lakh …
June 8: The Red Sand Boa, an endangered snake, is being smuggled out of the state because of its medicinal value. Forest officials nabbed a gang of smugglers at Chittoor a few days ago with a snake weighing 3 kg. But they secured their release by paying Rs 1 lakh …
Hyderabad, June 7 A Central legislation will be enacted soon to pave way for the establishment of an independent environmental protection authority to ensure effective implementation of the Environment Protection Act, according to Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Environment and Forests. Addressing a press conference here, Mr Ramesh said this …
Sreenivas Janyala Posted: Friday , Jun 05, 2009 at 0134 hrs IST Hyderabad: Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Thursday pulled up Forest Department officials over reports of rampant felling and smuggling of red sanders (red sandal wood) trees from the state
May 29: The Nannari plant, from which the famous Rayalaseema sharbat is made, has been listed among endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Apart from the Nannari plant, 46 other species from the State have also been put in the red list by the IUCN.
April 9: The district medical and health authorities have alerted people in the city to take precautionary measures against anthrax. This warning was given in the wake of three deaths suspected to be caused by cutaneous anthrax in Visakhapatnam and confirmed incidence of the disease in Prakasam, Srikakulam, Chittoor, Kurnool …
March 29: Elephant menace is a jumbo poll issue in four Assembly and two Lok Sabha constituencies in Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Chittoor districts in the state. Tribals, the worst affected by elephant terror, are up in arms against political leaders for their apathy towards their problems. Elephants have been destroying …
Hyderabad: This may put former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu in the hot seat just before the general elections. The state Government has ordered a case to be registered and an investigation by the CID into the irregularities in selecting BHC Agro (India) Private Limited as consultants for a pilot …
SIVAGANGA: Sivaganga district has been selected as number one in the country in implementing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Scheme. While the second position has gone to Chithoor district in Andhra Pradesh, Ganjam district in Orissa has been selected for the third position. Sivaganga Collector Pankaj Kumar Bansal will …
Tirupati Nov 27: Normal life has come to a grinding halt in Chittoor district for the last two days due to heavy rains following the Nisha cyclone in the Bay of Bengal. As on Thursday night, over a hundred houses have collapsed and thousands of acres with standing crops of …
Tirupati, Nov. 26: Several villages continue to be in the grip of fear as the herd of 13 elephants that damaged standing crop in Bangarupalem mandal in Chittoor district have not left the area. Officials of the forest and revenue departments stood guard at the villages only till late in …
Rajahmundry, Sept. 19: The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education has taken up a study to find out the rate of absorption of carbon by forest soils of the country. The study will also help scientists assess levels of carbon emissions into the atmosphere in various parts of the …
NEW DELHI: The Central government on Thursday approved a grant-in-aid assistance of 50 per cent of the project cost in general areas and 75 per cent in the north-eastern region and
HYDERABAD Andhra Pradesh is emerging as the uranium and thorium hub of the country with new reserves of these rare minerals being unearthed in Chittoor and Warangal districts. Uranium has been found in Kadapa and Nalgonda districts while thorium reserves have been discovered in Visakhapatnam , Prakasam and Nalgonda districts. …
The sanatorium was central to tuberculosis treatment in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The long-drawn nature of treatment and the highly infectious nature of the disease made the sanatorium regimen effective and popular before antibiotics entered the scene. The sanatorium was not just a hospital, it was a social …
Anantapur, June 30: The Non Conventional Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (NEDCAP) is promoting production of wind energy to supplement state and central governments' efforts to boost power production. It is making efforts to realise full potential in the Rayalaseema districts of Chittoor, Kadapa, Kurnool and Anantapur. Presently, 200 …
The state government on Wednesday decided to continue the controversial cloud seeding operations for another five years. Tenders have been called to select the company which will conduct the operations. A top official said that there was actually no scientific reason for continuing the programme but added that there was
Farmers are suffering huge losses as elephants continue to create havoc in Chittoor district. Elephants once again atta-cked a mango grove and paddy fields and destroyed trees and crops near Nagapatla under Rangampeta pa-nchayat limits in the mandal, late on Saturday night. According to sources, farmers raised mangoes and paddy …
Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD) has been working in the Rayalseema reion of Andhra Pradesh since the mid 1990s on restoration of Panchayati Raj tanks. Around 40 tanks have been restored in the region by SPWD in collaboration with local Non Government Organizations (NGOs), through formation of representative …
The Rajiv Arogyasri scheme has come as a boon for the poverty stricken parents of seven-year-old Lavanya of Sanjeevapuram in Bukkara-yasamudram mandal. The little girl was suffering from congenital cardiac problems and her parents, Mr Thimmappa and Ms Bhagyalakshmi, did not have the Rs 1,00,000 required to repair her heart …
