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 …
HYDERABAD: The 13th Finance Commission has warned that subsidies provided by Andhra Pradesh government towards rice, free power and other schemes could jeopardise the impressive fiscal achievements of the State in the recent past. The Commission expressed concern that the fiscal burden on account of subsidised rice in 2008-09 was …
Farmers in Andhra Pradesh will have access to more credit this year as the Annual Credit Plan of the State for 2009-10 has been enhanced to Rs 55,500 crore. This is against last year
The scientists at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) here have developed a genetically modified (GM) fish that are superior in yield and quality. The popular fish variety
The Andhra Pradesh government on Tuesday scrapped the Rs 12,132 crore Hyderabad Metro Rail Project contract awarded to Maytas Infra. Minister of Municipal Administration and Urban Development Anam Rama Narayana Reddy said that a Cabinet meeting would be held on July 13 to decide whether to go for global retendering.
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet has unanimously approved the proposal for taking up community or cooperative farming in the State with a village as a unit. The proposal of the Chief Minister was approved at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, chaired by Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy. Minister for Information and …
June 30: The Krishna water supply pipeline, water treatment plant and pump houses that supply drinking water to Hyderabad, will now be guarded by the Special Protection Force. The decision was taken following the warning issued by the state police and intelligence agencies that the pipeline could be blown up …
June 30: At least 10 officials of various departments will be arrested by the Central Crime Station (CCS) for their alleged negligence, which resulted in contaminated water being provided to Bholakpur. As many as 14 persons died and 785 others were hospitalised in May due to consumption of contaminated water.
Agricultural scientist and chairman of National Commission on Agriculture MS Swaminathan said that any attempt to promote the cooperative or group farming will succeed only if it is made into win-win situation for all those who join it. Addressing a meeting on
The press release by Greenpeace on its protest against herbicide-resistant rice trial by Bayer Crop in the village of Chinnakanjarla, about 45 kilometers from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. It warns that this would lead to serious contamination of non-GM rice grown in the vicinity. Greenpeace activists today raided a genetically …
New Delhi: With the samples of a nine-year-old boy, who arrived in Hyderabad on Sunday night from New Jersey through London, testing positive on Tuesday, the number of confirmed cases of H1N1 virus in India has gone up to 31. The boy was detected with flu-like symptoms at the Hyderabad …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: With new cases of swine flu reported from Jalandhar and Hyderabad on Monday, the total number in the country has gone up to 30. The new cases include a 48-year-old woman, and two girls
The discharge of heavily contaminated domestic and industrial waste into Phuleli Canal in Hyderabad continues unabatedly and no relevant authority has taken notice of the grave threat this situation poses. A large portion of the province, particularly the lower Sindh, has brackish and saline underground water due to the influence …
Hyderabad: The 23-year-old student, who was the first person to suffer from swine flu in India, is stable and recovering at the Government General and Chest Hospital at Erragadda. The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), New Delhi, found evidence of the H1N1 strain in throat secretions and blood samples …
Gas has been discovered by the Oil and Gas Development Company in its exploratory Pasakhi-West deep well No 1 located in Hyderabad district in Sindh. The wells were drilled down to the depth of 3.500 meters targeting to test the potentials of sand of lower Goru formation of cretaceous age. …
Hyderabad: One more patient from Bholakpur died at Osmania General Hospital on Friday after drinking contaminated water. With this, the total number of deaths have risen to 16. The patient, Sakku Bai, 66, was first admitted to Fever Hospital at Nallakunta and then referred to Osmania hospital on May 12 …
May 11: The city meteorological centre has predicted heat wave conditions in parts of Telangana including Hyderabad. Strong north-westerly winds and dry air from the Thar desert is leading to rise in temperature in the state. The maximum temperatures rose at one or two places over Rayalaseema and changed a …
May 7: In the backdrop of 500 people taking ill due to water contamination in and around Bholakpur, concerned citizens have voiced their apprehension over the functioning of animal skin and hides trade in the area even as government officials were trying to pass the buck. Officially, no tanneries are …
