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: After designing and commissioning several low-cost groundwater defluoridation plants in flurosis -affected villages of Andhra Pradesh, the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology is now looking forward to set up model defluoridation units in Rajasthan. Defluoridation refers to methods of water treatment that reduce the concentration of fluoride in the …
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation is funding a pilot project to enable the state’s farmers to reverse the environmental degradation and rural poverty in the state by applying scientific methods to groundwater management. Baseline studies jointly conducted by the FAO, Centre and state government have identified seven districts …
With Lambapur-Peddagattu uranium mines in Nalgonda district next in line for excavation, nuclear physicists from Osmania University, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology have established ‘baseline data’ for background radiation in villages in this uranium-rich belt near Nagarjunasagar reservoir. The expert team has found that mean …
The Tummalapalle uranium mine located in YSR district of Andhra Pradesh would be commissioned by early April. The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has estimated uranium reserves of the mine at 1.5 lakh tonnes, which are one of the largest in the world. The DAE Spokesperson, Mr S.K. Malhotra, said …
The Andhra Pradesh Government plans to further streamline the sand mining process in the State to ensure there is no pilferage. The Mines and Geology Department may consider a crackdown on those violating State regulations and taking to illegal mining of sand, particularly from areas where there are curbs barring …
A study was carried out in village Mohamadabad, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh to demonstrate the potential of high-resolution remote sensing data in generating soil resource database at village level that would facilitate natural resource developmental planning. For this study, detail soil resource database was generated by interpreting IRS Resourcesat-1 LISS-IV …
The 12th five year plan will address the farmers concern regarding UPA’s flagship job guarantee programme Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The plan approach paper says that while the growth in agriculture in the 11th plan is likely to average 3.3 per cent per year, inflation is …
Identification of work under the Rs 650 crore AP Rural Connectivity programme of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has come to a halt in the state. A local bodies association from Nalgonda approached the High Court with a plea that the identification of work under the …
The detailed project report (DPR) for the Krishna phase-III project that will bring an additional 90 million gallons of water per day to the city has been submitted to the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Board by the Tata Consultancy Engineers Limited, Mumbai. The DPR pegs the total project cost …
Fluoride in drinking water in Nalgonda district is no longer news. It’s been a problem for ages. What is news is the presence of uranium in the water far beyond maximum permissible levels as prescribed by international agencies. The presence of dissolved uranium in ground water in several villages of …
At least one person was killed and scores of villages inundated in the torrential rains that lashed the state since Monday night. All three regions of the state received heavy rains with Nalgonda district being the worst hit. Several tanks breached and rivulets overflowed leaving the main and artillery roads …
In developing countries, 11% of arable land could be affected by climate change. Indeed, farmers are already facing the impact of climate change. The need of the hour, say Sreenath Dixit and B Venkateswarlu, is not to wait for global agreements on mitigating climate change but to act locally, intelligently …
Vijayawada, May 31: The minister for rural water supply, Mr Pinepi Viswarup, said that the state government would spend Rs 10,000 crore to solve the drinking water problem in the next four years. Speaking to reporters in Machilipatnam on Monday, he said the government is also planning to supply protected …
March 4: Over 11 lakh acres under the Prakasam barrage ayacut in Krishna and Guntur districts will be transformed into barren lands in the coming years due to the implementation of GO no.107 issued by the Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy government in September 2004. The Congress government in the order instructed …
Bangalore/Hyderabad: A 500-metre-long bridge across the Tungabhadra river near Gilkesugur village, 32 km from Raichur, was washed away in flash floods in Karnataka, even as the situation eased in Gulbarga, Bijapur, Bellary and Raichur districts of the State with the water-level in the Krishna, Tungabhadra and several streams and rivulets …
WARANGAL: Three persons died and five others fell ill after drinking contaminated water near Kodakandla mandal here on Tuesday night. Eight agricultural labourers who consumed the water fell seriously ill at Ramulugunda village in Tirumalagherry mandal in Nalgonda district. The labourers belonged to Maidamcheruvu thanda in Kodakandla mandal of Warangal …
Sept. 23: Three women died after drinking pesticide-mixed water by mistaking it for drinking water at Tirumalagiri village in Nalgonda district. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening. According to sources, seven women and three men from Balu Tanda of Mondrai village under Kodagandla mandal went to Tirumalagiri to work in …
Aug. 9: Hyderabad is the worst affected among seven Telangana districts, failing to get any rain in the last week, according to the Indian Meteorological Department
