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 …
The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board has directed 97 healthcare establishments with over 100-beds capacity to submit bank guarantee within a week, assuring that they would conform to Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules. Located in Hyderabad, Warangal, Ranga Reddy and Karimnagar districts, these hospitals were found violating rules. The …
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 …
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 …
All the villages and tribal hamlets of Warangal, Karimnagar, Khammam, Adilabad and neighbouring districts have been affected by viral outbreaks, with hospitals of various regions being flooded with patients suffering from viral fever. Most of the viral fever observed in these regions include dengue and other unknown viral pyrexia. Both …
This article studies the development of the Non-Pesticidal Management Project (NPM) that emerged in the late 1980s in Andhra Pradesh's Warangal district of the semi-arid region Telengana as a response to accumulating agrarian distress, when chemical pesticides did not help to counter massive pest infestations.
This cover story in Down To Earth online charts the growth trajectory of India’s microfinance institutions and consists of a special report on the microfinance institutions in Andhra Pradesh who grew rich by lending insured loans to the rural poor.
Ega Mounika was born into debt, lived in debt and died with debts. The college-going 20-year-old of Warangal’s Karimabad village immolated herself on September 25; three days later, she died. “My daughter wanted to release us from debt,” said her father Laxmi Narayan who sustained burn injuries trying to rescue …
The total demand for micro-credit in the country has been estimated at Rs 50,000 crore. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) estimates that in 256 of India’s 626 districts the credit gap is at least 95 per cent or more. Most mfis are concentrated in these districts, including two of …
Warangal, Sept.21: Around 100 species of trees lovingly nurtured for a decade at the Kakatiya University arboretum were mercilessly cut down by the district medical and health department to make way for an unplanned construction. Ironically, the forest department, which helped raise the trees for conservation and research, did not …
Warangal, Aug. 25: Policemen standing guard during distribution of subsidised fertilisers to farmers has become a common sight in almost all mandals of Warangal. Local police are said to be under pressure, especially in those mandals where irrigation facility for farmers is made available through medium and hundreds of minor …
Aug. 22: The state roads and buildings minister, Mrs Galla Aruna Kumari, said that proposals had been made for projects worth Rs 3,560 crore, extending to over 712 projects for the state. The Central governm-ent too has given a positive picture, stating that the State of Accruals were in proper …
Thorur (Warangal), Aug. 18: Diarrhoea deaths in rural parts of Warangal continue unabated. On Wednesday, a tribal youth named Banoth Seenu, 25, an agricultural labourer in Somaramkunta thanda in Thorur mandal, fell to the disease bringing the official death toll to six in the district. In a span of 15 …
Narasimhulupeta (Warangal), Aug. 9: Diarrhoea is rampant in remote tribal villag-es in Narsimhulapet mandal of Mahbubabad revenue division in Warangal district.Sanitation has deteriorated due to the recent heavy rains. Drinking water has been contaminated and seasonal diseases like malaria, diarrhoea and viral fevers have spread in interior places.People are suffering …
A two Judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court of India, on 20th July, 2010, quashed[1] the criminal defamation case against 11 activists initiated by the Crop Care Federation (formerly Pesticides Associations of India, a consortium of pesticide manufacturing companies). The chemical consortium had filed the case against the activists …
A two Judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court of India, on 20th July, 2010, quashed the criminal defamation case against 11 activists initiated by the Crop Care Federation (formerly Pesticides Associations of India, a consortium of pesticide manufacturing companies). The chemical consortium had filed the case against the activists …
HYDERABAD The allotment of 1.37 lakh acres of iron ore-rich area in Khammam and Warangal districts to a private company, Rakshana Steels, whose executive director is Anil Kumar, son-in-law of former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, rocked the Assembly on Monday. The Opposition alleged that when YSR was the Chief …
Warangal, July 4: Since 2008, 79 Water Users Association (WUA), each having 12 members, are working on paper as water is yet to be pumped into the 48 distributaries in Warangal, known as distributaries beyond Maneru (DBM), from Lower Maner Dam (LMD). The 48 DBM in Warangal were primarily supposed …
