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 …
State governments extend full support NTPC Limited chairman and managing director Arup Roy Choudhury on Tuesday met chief ministers of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to get their support for the two 4,000-Mw projects it intends to set up in the respective states. Soon after Choudhury’s meeting with Telangana chief minister …
VISAKHAPATNAM: Despite a ban on mining in Agency limits, illegal activity is rampant in various areas of Vizag district, especially on the Chintapalli-Lambasinghi route near Rajapakalu. Eyewitnesses allege that despite around 20 truckloads of laterite rocks being brought down the hills daily, the forest department seems to be oblivious of …
Visakhapatnam: Last month was the warmest May on record, Meteorology experts said. Officials of the Cyclone Warning Centre (CWC), Visakhapatnam, stated that the nine coastal districts should have received average rainfall of 28 mm in the last week till Monday, but they only received 3 mm. These coastal districts should …
VISAKHAPATNAM: Two years after a major blast left 19 dead at state-run Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd's Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, two engineers were killed in the container laboratory of the same Steel Melting Shop-2 (SMS) of the plant here on Monday reportedly due to gas leakage. The deceased were identified as …
In a bid to raise awareness on environmental pollution among women and children residing in pollution-prone localities, the women’s wing of Green Climate launched a 10-day intensive campaign here on Wednesday. Distributing pamphlets and presenting photo exhibition, explaining the harmful effects of the constant exposure to polluted air, a 10-member …
The 5.8-magnitude quake with epicentre in the Bay of Bengal, around 275 km southeast of Paradip grabbed the attention of scientists and made them take up a fresh investigation into the reactivation of fault lines in the Bay. The quake occurred between the Mahanadi offshore basin and the Bengal basin …
Hyderabad: A moderate earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale jolted Delhi, Ranchi, Vizag, Chennai and parts of eastern and northern India. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to property, but the quake shook up residents. The quake struck 60 km east of Paradip at a depth …
Pollution being caused by the Visakhapatnam Port Trust tops the list of problems of contestants from the Visakha South Assembly constituency. At a face-to-face programme organised by the Vizag Journalists’ Forum here on Thursday, sitting MLA Dronamraju Satyanarayana of the Congress, Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar of the Telugu Desam and two-time …
Decision-making at the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) quickened after January 2013, when a freshly-formed Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) started inducing vigour to the process, reports Kirtika Suneja in New Delhi. This drastically reduced the pendency of projects awaiting crucial environment clearances (ECs) from 130 at end-2012 to …
With summer just around the corner can food poisoning and waterborne ailments like gastroenteritis be far behind? Especially since there are hardly any clean and safe drinking water taps in public places and busy areas of the city, forcing people to drink unhygienic water or buy plastic water bottles and …
Union Minister for Panchayati Raj and Tribal Welfare V. Kishore Chandra Deo on Tuesday said the decisions of gram sabhas were important for recognition of forest rights. He was speaking at a convention of sarpanches and an interactive session with about 500 sarpanches, ward committee members and community-based organisations at …
More than a hundred residents of One Town Area staged a protest in front of the gates of Vedanta General Cargo Berth (VGCB) against the pollution emanating from the Visakhapatnam Port on Sunday, alleging that the cargo was being discharged at the port without the use of water sprinklers causing …
Swell waves reaching a height of 2-3 metres generated by the Lehar cyclone will start hitting the coast near Kakinada from the early hours of Wednesday, much before the landfall time on November 28, according to ocean scientists. Based on modelling studies and data collected in real time from wave …
Army, Navy, Coast Guard alerted; 20 more NDRF teams sought The Andhra Pradesh administration is on high alert as `Lehar’ entered the Bay of Bengal started its movement towards the State’s coastline as a very severe cyclonic storm. The India Meteorological Department said Lehar, after crossing Port Blair, lay centred …
Mouse deer, the smallest ungulate in the country that is on the list of most endangered animals, is being bred in captivity at Nehru Zoological Park with a view to increase its population. No enumeration has been carried out on mouse deer ever in the state but observation over a …
Vijayawada: Cyclone Helen, the second major storm to hit Andhra coast in four weeks since Phailin, made landfall on the coast south of Machilipatnam around 1.30pm on Friday, leaving an aftermath of death and devastation killing 10 people and damaging standing crop over thousands of acres in Krishna, West and …
Trees were uprooted disrupting traffic, communication and electricity towers were damaged as strong gales with speed reaching 100-110 kmph caused havoc in the coastal districts Cyclonic storm Helen Friday hit Andhra Pradesh coast near Machilipatnam, triggering heavy rains and strong gales, killing seven people and causing massive damage to the …
Yesterday’s cyclonic storm ‘HELEN’ over west central Bay of Bengal intensified into a severe cyclonic storm in the early morning of today, the 21st November 2013 and lay centred at 0830 hrs IST of today near latitude 15.80N and longitude 83.40E about 240 km east-southeast of Machillipatnam, 350 km east-northeast …
The proposed 24x7 drinking water supply project for the residential areas in the North-West part of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) limits is all set to become a reality soon as the Centre has issued an in-principle approval to take up the project on a priority basis, GVMC commissioner MV …
The National Immunisation Policy maybe in for a change with oral polio vaccines (OPV) being replaced by injectable polio vaccines (IPV), thanks to a WHO-funded clinical trial and research undertaken by the paediatric department of Andhra Medical College (AMC) on 300 newborns. AMC is one of the four medical centres …
