Vishakhapatnam (D)

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding desilting of the Defence Colony drain in Delhi before the monsoon, 16/04/2025

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 …

Tribals oppose clay mining, face charges

Visakhapatnam: Tribals opposing china clay mining in the Araku Agency Area in Visakhapatnam are up in arms against the authorities. The local CPM and Adivasi Sangham leaders have called for a bandh on Saturday after a showdown with local officials on Tuesday. The tribals allegedly beat up Mandal Parishad president …

US imports challenge biodiesel industry

Already under pressure for delayed blending, the domestic biodiesel industry is facing another challenge in the form of imports from the US. Last July, a shipment of 20,000 tonnes biodiesel from the US reached India. Another shipment of same quantity, at a price of less than $1,000 per tonne (at …

Thermal project ready to compensate farmers

Visakhapatnam, Feb. 4: The East Coast Ene-rgy Private Limited Thermal Power management has come forward to compensate the farmers and the fisherfolk whose land was being acquired for developing the super thermal power project in Kakarapalli village in Santabommali mandal in the district. East Coast Energy Private Limited is a …

Implement forest Act in Polavaram project area, Centre asks AP

ANDHRA Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has been asked to look into complaints about the non-implementation of the Forest Rights Act in the Polavaram project area. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh had written to Kiran Kumar

Producers to raise biodiesel exports on global price rally

After a 20 per cent rally in crude oil prices from November, biodiesel prices have also started rising globally. Biodiesel prices in Europe rose over 15 per cent, owing to a revival in demand. Indian producers, who mainly rely on export markets in Europe and the United States, are planning …

Brighton to set up nuclear equipment unit near Vizag

US-based heavy equipment and forged steel manufacturing firm, Brighton Energy, is expected to enter into a memorandum of understanding with Andhra Pradesh to set up its facility near Visakhapatnam. The proposed facility, with an investment of about Rs 2,724 crore, would manufacture forged steel components, which are essentially fabricated by …

Clean Development Mechanism for pulp and paper industry & JKPL experience

Paper industry generates green house gases in many stage of its operations; there is scope for implementation of CDM project preferably in forestry sector. JKPL's A/R CDM project under LULUCF category aims to GHG mitigation and sell emission reductions earned through carbon sequestration in the established agro-forestry plantations. JKPL, Rayagada …

Role of nearshore waves in identifying vulnerable zones during storm and normal events

Beaches along most of the shorelines of the world, exhibit variations in their geometric form over different time scales in response to the prevailing dynamic forces due to waves, tides and associated currents. The periods and intensity of erosion and accretion alternate over time and are generally coupled to nearshore …

Forest stations to check poaching

Nov. 28: The AP forest department has decided to set up

BJP to launch stir for Polavaram project

Senior BJP leader K. Haribabu said that people of Andhra Pradesh must come together to make the Polavaram dream project come true. Addressing mediapersons here on Tuesday, he said it was sad that some politicians of the state were trying to gain mileage by playing on the fears of people. …

Cyclone threat in Andhra, rains kill 20

At least twenty persons were killed and another four persons went missing in the past 48 hours as torrential rains continued to lash Coastal Andhra. Visakhapatnam and East Godavari accounted for the most deaths ~ six and five respectively. The administration sounded an alert and turned further anxious as another …

Final action plan for improvement of environmental parameters in critically polluted areas Visakhapatnam cluster, Andhra Pradesh

CPCB has evolved a Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) for 88 study areas with an objective of identifying polluted clusters or areas in order to take concerted action and to centrally monitor them at the national level to improve the current status of their environmental components such as air and …

IVRCL to set up water treatment chemicals unit

HYDERABAD: Promoters of IVRCL and Kemira Oyj of Finland have agreed to form a joint venture to manufacture water treatment chemicals at Visakhapatnam. The unit to be set up with an estimated $10 million investment is expected to be operational in six to eight months. Kemira, IVRCL and its construction …

New row over nod for Hinduja power plant

Hyderabad, Oct. 10: The proposed Hinduja power plant in Visakhapatnam has landed in a fresh controversy with questions being raised about the Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) validating the environmental clearance it accorded to the project way back in 1996. In an unusual development, the MoEF wrote a …

Variations in long term wind speed during different decades in Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal

A study has been carried out by comparing the extreme wind speeds estimated based on NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data for 100 years return period using Fischer Tippet-1 (commonly known as Gumbel) and Weibull distributions for three locations (off Goa, Visakhapatnam and Machilipatnam) in the north Indian Ocean. The wind dataset for …

Correlation and regression analysis of some physico-chemical parameters of bore well waters of industrial areas of Visakhapatnam

Considering the extent of pollution and the rapid rate of depletion in both the quality and quantity of surface water, man has put his eyes on the groundwater for safe and immediate consumption. In the present study 15 physico-chemical parameters, such as pH, electrical conductivity (EC), total dissolved solids (TDS), …

Protected drinking water scheme soon

Guntur, Sept. 21: Protected drinking water will be supplied to all villages in Tenali rural and Kollipara mandal soon. Government will take up drinking water schemes at a cost of Rs 25 crore in the two mandals to solve drinking water problem. The rural water supply department will construct a …

Suspension of mines to hit farmers living

Makkavaripalem (Visakhapatnam), Sept. 21: Farmers of Makkavaripalem mandal fear that the suspension of bauxite mining rights to MNCs would result in loss of livelihood. Many farmers of Rachapalli, Ramannapalem and surrounding hamlets have had their agricultural fields acquired for an alumina plant, though they complained about the compensation package. However, …

83 dalit families face boycott over mining

Srikakulam , Sept. 18: The collector, Mr N. Srikanth, and the superintendent of police, Mr Sanjaykumar Jain, visited the famous Bhuddist Shrine Shalihundam, in Gaara mandal in the district, on Saturday to take stock of the situation, where as many as 83 dalit families faced social boycott by village elders …

Farmers meet ex-PM on plant

Visakhapatnam, Sept. 20: Farmers of Sompeta met the former prime minister, Mr Deve Gowda, seeking his intervention into the proposal of a thermal power plant in the village. Mr Gowda assured them that he would take up the issue with the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, in mid-October. Representatives of …

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