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 …
Creation of a separate Telangana state with Hyderabad as its capital and keeping Andhra Pradesh united with constitutional and statutory measures for empowerment of Telangana region were among the six choices recommended by the Justice Srikrishna Committee. The recommendations were tantamount to nothing since the committee itself described four out …
Hyderabad, Dec. 7: A leopard which strayed into the Utupally village in the city outskirts at Parigi on Monday was trapped by the forest officials after tranquillising it. Two people, a police constable and an assistant conservator of forests, who were holding the nets to capture the wild cat sustained …
Will continue cashing in on non-core investments at appropriate time. Larsen & Toubro plans to achieve financial closure for the Rs 12,132-crore Hyderabad Metro Rail project by March next. Mr R. Shankar Raman, Senior Vice-President (Finance & Legal), said the company was finalising the details. L&T; won the Hyderabad Metro …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday called on the scientific community of the developing world to work together and pool in knowledge to solve problems that cannot be done individually. Inaugurating the 21st general meeting of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) here, the PM said developing …
More than 350 scientists from 50 countries will be discussing ways to promote science in less developed countries during the three-day 21 {+s} {+t} general meeting of TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World beginning on Tuesday. The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, will be inaugurating the meeting. …
Biomonitoring of exposure in workplaces has gained importance in evaluation of human health hazards. Since occupational exposure to petroleum hydrocarbons may have deleterious effects, genotoxicity risk among 200 fuel filling station attendants (FFSAs) and 200 matched controls was investigated. http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/8/944.abstract
Hyderabad, Oct. 11: Despite repeated requests from environmentalists, the state forest department has failed to protect and translocate the Kalpavriskha trees, a rare and endangered species, situated along the highways. Thus from 20 such trees in the state, there are now only 13. They have, instead been removed during highway …
HYDERABAD needs to contain the ever-increasing air pollution and traffic congestion, and soon. For any delay, warns NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), will take a toll on the health of its people.
A piece of floral decoration of one of the minarets of Charminar broke and fell off on Sunday night during heavy downpour. The historic 418-year-old monument is soaked due to spells of heavy rains every night since last Sunday, and parts of the minarets that are carved in lime-mortar paste …
FOR the past five years Hyderabad has been trying to clean the Hussain Sagar Lake, separating the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh. The efforts suffered yet another blow on June 20 when the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) denied permission to dredge the mouths of …
For the past five years Hyderabad has been trying to clean the Hussain Sagar Lake, separating the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh. The efforts suffered yet another blow on June 20 when the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) denied permission to dredge the mouths of …
July 28: With concerns about polluted environments growing and the Centre identifying several industrial clusters across the country that pose an unacceptably high risk to human health, cleaning up some of the worst areas is a big challenge for the authorities. The Centre has identified five industrials clusters - Vishakapatnam, …
A report prepared by the Hyderabad Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has ascertained the exact number of tigers in the Palamau Tiger Reserve, Jharkhand, to be six. The report was based on DNA analysis of scat samples collected from inside the reserve area of 1026 sq km, between …
Hyderabad, May 2: The AP Forest Inventory Report 2010 has revealed that the state forest growing stock has decreased by 60 million cubic metres. As a direct result of the depleting growing stock, experts say the state will experience adverse climate changes and increasing temperatures. The survey report states that …
In a significant breakthrough with the potential for helping bio-pharmaceutical sector in the country, scientists at the Project Directorate on Poultry (PDP), Hyderabad, have mastered a technology to develop transgenic chickens
New Delhi: The small car that changed the way Indians drive and helped put the Indian automobile market into the global big league will stop rolling out of showrooms in major cities from today. It has been driven off the roads by stringent emission laws that the original people
New Delhi: Consumers will have to fork out up to 40 paise a litre more for motor fuels in 13 cities that will upgrade to Euro-IV quality. Petroleum secretary S Sundareshan on Monday confirmed that the government was considering a differential pricing for Euro-IV petrol and diesel but declined to …
Opposition members disrupted the Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Thursday demanding an immediate discussion on the acute drinking water problem in the state. The proceedings had to be adjourned first for 15 minutes and then again for 30 minutes as agitated Telugu Desam Party members stormed the Speaker's podium and demanded …
