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: Telangana Rashtriya Samithi Karimnagar MP B. Vinod Kumar has filed two petitions against construction of the controversial Polavaram Dam. Telangana irrigation minister T. Harish Rao, told Deccan Chronicle on Tuesday: “We will not allow inclusion of the seven mandals of Khammam district in Seemandhra. We will also fight over …
Hyderabad: Union Ministers P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju and M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Thursday that the Narendra Modi government had not taken any new decision regarding the Polavaram project and it was the previous UPA government’s decision that was being implemented. Speaking to the media separately in Delhi, they said …
Environmental impact of private sector CDM forestry projects in India - A presentation by Himangana Gupta at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October 26-27, 2013.
ITC proposes to double capacity in its Paperboards and Specialty Papers Division to one million tonnes. Decks have been cleared for the expansion project of ITC Paperboards and Specialty Papers Division (PSPD) in Andhra Pradesh. The State Wildlife Board, which met under the chairmanship of chief minister N Kiran Kumar …
Committee questions roles of ICMR, Drug Controller-General of India in the “intriguing” 2010 episode Accusing the international organisation PATH (Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health) of exploiting with impunity the loopholes in the system during a trial of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, a parliamentary panel has also questioned the roles …
On 25 May, the ghastly Naxal attack on a convoy of Congress leaders in Darbha, Chhattisgarh, jolted political leaders across the spectrum. Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh — who has been driving the development agenda in the tribal areas and is known to advocate a more empathetic response to …
The Andhra Pradesh government today sought to put at the rest the political controversy over the Bayyaram mines issue, saying there was no proposal to divert iron ore to the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP). “There is no proposal to divert iron ore to Visakhapatnam from Bayyaram mines. The ore is …
Lightning struck and killed at least 21 people and heavy unseasonal rain damaged acres of standing crops, particularly paddy and mango, over the past two days across Andhra Pradesh. Seven persons were struck dead in Guntur, four in Nellore and two in Prakasam. Such deaths were also reported from Warangal, …
Visakhapatnam:Encroachments in the guise of Forest Rights Act, cultivation and smuggling is shrinking forests. As much as 36.44 sq km of forest area has vanished in the state due to cultivation and illegal felling of trees within a span of one year. Andhra Pradesh forest department has completed collecting data …
New Delhi Hit by an acute shortage of land for growing eucalyptus, the paper industry is now banking on agro-forestry to meet the rising demand of wood pulp. Started by paper major ITC, more than 1,500 acres of land is covered under the agro-forestry plan in areas such as Khammam, …
For long, industrialised states were looked upon as the ones trading forest cover for development. However, a recent report by the Forest Survey of India showed five of the nine most industrialised states were able to increase their green cover in 2011, compared to 2009. Between 2001 and 2010, these …
New Delhi The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the petitions filed by Emaar MGF Land, Sandur Power Company and others seeking to stall the ongoing CBI probe into the land allotments made to these companies during the tenure of late YS Rajasekhara Reddy as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. These …
India's forest cover shrank by 367sq km with the maximum 80 per cent loss recorded in Andhra Pradesh mainly due to Naxals felling trees in Warangal and Khammam districts, according to a new survey released on Tuesday. Forest and tree cover of the country as per the biennial assessment report …
New Delhi India’s forest cover has shrunk marginally, says the latest government report. The reduction of 367 sq km (about the size of the Ranthambore National Park) means that the total forested land in the country is 23.81% of the geographical area. The reduction implies the ministry of environment and …
‘Governments snatching lands without consent of gram sabhas' Noted social activist Medha Patkar has alleged that indiscriminate acquisition of farm and forest lands by the governments in the name of development without the approval of the ‘gram sabhas' concerned amounted to snatching the livelihood of weaker sections, mainly Adivasis. Ms. …
A fact-finding team representing a collective of 40 farmers' organisations, Raitu Swarajya Vedika, has found an alarming rise in the number of suicides by farmers — as many as 90 in the last month alone — in Adilabad, Khammam, Karimnagar, Medak, Mahbubnagar and Anantapur districts of Andhra Pradesh. Releasing a …
Geothermal power continues to be one of the least exploited renewable energy segments in India. Almost the entire estimated potential of about 10,600 MW remains unutilised except a few pilot installations for power generation and direct heat transfer. India is yet to establish its first commercial geothermal power plant.
Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has called for fast tracking construction of rural roads under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in Naxalite-affected districts. He said this will be the single most important rural development initiative that can significantly transform the ground-level situation in these districts. Ramesh said an …
AP Genco to add 500 MW at Kothagudam thermal power station Hyderabad, Aug. 4: The sixth unit of 39 MW of Priyadarshini Jurala hydro electric power station was commissioned today taking up the total installed capacity at the site up to 234 MW (6x39) and power generation at the sixth …
