Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
CHENNAI: Telangana has successfully negotiated low-cost solar power deals with companies that are ready to sell power at Rs 5.15 to Rs 5.88 per unit from up units they set up in the state. Tamil Nadu, by comparison, has signed 25-year agreements with several companies, including the Adani Group, which …
Hyderabad: The ongoing drought is fuelling distress migration from districts in Telangana, a trend that was witnessed in the early 2000s. The severe drought conditions for the second consecutive year have led to crop failure, mounting debts, chronic unemployment and failure of the NREGA scheme, especially in the districts of …
NEW DELHI: Mean temperature in India has increased by nearly 0.6 degree Celsius over the last 110 years in line with rising temperature across the globe, said the government in Parliament while informing the Lok Sabha that the heat wave phenomena this year were "abnormally" high which had led to …
Telangana and Andhra Pradesh may be on a path of "self-annihilation" as the two states have embarked on a "reckless" race for attracting industrial investment while putting all green concerns on the backburner, a green body has said. "Telangana, India's newest state, and Andhra Pradesh may very well be on …
Tariffs quoted for 2,000 MW of grid-connected solar power sought by Telangana have averaged below R6 per unit in an indication that these continue to decline. Tariffs quoted for 2,000 MW of grid-connected solar power sought by Telangana have averaged below R6 per unit in an indication that these continue …
The Telangana government's plan to augment solar power capacity in the state has got a big push with as many as 184 companies showing interest in the tenders floated by the government. The government called tenders two months ago for producing 2,000 MW of solar energy and 184 companies came …
The lowest bidder turned out to be Mauritius-based SkyPower South East Asia Investments, which quoted Rs 5.17 a unit for a 50-Mw project The largest tender for solar projects in the country to build 2,000 Mw capacity in Telangana saw aggressive bids from sector majors offering to build as much …
The Telangana Government on Thursday constituted a nine-member coordination committee to operationalise the Centre’s scheme for unemployed youth and farmers to establish grid-connected solar PV power projects in the State. The Centre has allotted Rs.233 crore to Telangana as Central Financial Grant at Rs.50 lakh per MW for an allocated …
Hyderabad: Forest fires recorded in Telangana in 2014 were the third highest in the past 10 years. According to the State of Forest Report-2014 released by the Telangana forest department recently, 873 forest fires were recorded in Telangana in 2014 after 1,015 in 2012 and 1,066 in 2009. The maximum …
Conservation efforts pay off in Telangana & Andhra Pradesh The tiger population in the two States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh will soon hit the century mark, thanks to a successfully laid recovery track that channels through Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve. If Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments manage to prevent poaching …
Drug and alcohol addiction have claimed 173 lives, the maximum across the country. Nearly half the suicide cases among farmers across India is from Maharashtra, recent data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows, which is also first of its kind. In 2014, of the 5,642 cases across …
Statistics is the pivotal component for drawing inferences, initiating policy formulations and also for research purposes. In this endeavor, considering the importance of the statistics, this Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES), Government of Telangana has made an attempt to bringing out a publication namely “Economy in Brief – Telangana …
The proposed 800 MW supercritical thermal power plant at KTPS, Paloncha will be a reality only at the expense of eight older units, and an almost equivalent quantity of power for Telangana. This has been made clear by the expert committee constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests …
The Telangana Government has invited the President, Pranab Mukherjee, to launch its green initiative ‘Telanganaku Haritahaaram’ (Green necklace for Telangana) that seeks to plant 230 crore saplings in the next three years. Chief Minister Sri K. Chandrashekhar Rao wrote a letter to the President, asking him to launch the programme …
The Centre has asked nine state governments to expeditiously implement the Forest Rights Act, which recognizes the rights of scheduled tribes living in the forests for generations. Tribal Affairs Secretary Arun Jha has written to the Chief Secretaries of Bihar, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Uttarakhand, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh …
Heavy rains lashed Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, throwing normal life out of gear, for the third day running on Monday. Adilabad district was the worst-hit in Telangana, receiving as much as 91.2 mm rainfall. Similarly, parts of Khammam received 42.6mm rainfall and Karimanagar district 34 mm. In the neighbouring Andhra …
New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment is organising a two-day workshop for journalists on ‘Understanding Environmental Issues for Better Reportage: A Media Workshop’, at Hotel Continental Park, here on June 17 and 18. Media persons would be briefed on the status on thermal power plants in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, …
Water application systems under wells extracting groundwater are one of the major factors influencing climate change in the agricultural sector. In the context of growing demand for adaption of pressurized irrigation with electric pumps in South Central India, the present study was undertaken to assess the carbon dioxide emission (CO2 …
Telangana is more vulnerable than Andhra Pradesh to the changes in climate, natural resources, agriculture, population and employment, reveals a study. According to experts, seven districts from Telangana and three from AP figure in the list of top 10 districts in the two states in the composite index of vulnerability. …
Reeling under the scorching sun, people in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana allege official apathy. For Chinni Shankar Rao and his wife, Lakshmikantamma, it was an intolerable day, with the sun beating down mercilessly on their little kirana shop. The elderly couple from Addanki, a small town in Prakasam district of …
