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 …
Uttar Pradesh has fared badly in utilising the financial assistance received under the Bundelkhand Package managing to spend only 43.89 per cent of the money allocated to it as Additional Central Assistance (ACA) by the Planning Commission. Of the Rs 1,695.76 crore allocated to it as ACA for seven districts …
Himachal today earned the distinction of becoming the first state in the country to be declared smoke-free with a compliance of 84.52 per cent, based on a scientific technical survey conducted as per international standards. The milestone achieved by the state was formally announced by Health Minister Kaul Singh Thakur …
The Wildlife Wing of the Forest Department will undertake a monkey census on June 29 to see whether the sterilisation of 68,000 simians in the state has succeeded in putting a much-needed check on their growing numbers, which stood at a whopping 3.19 lakh a decade ago. As per a …
The final Census data has brought out an overall improvement in sex ratio in the state from 968 to 972 over a decade, but a declining trend in the rural areas is a cause of concern. While the sex ratio in urban areas increased from 795 to 853, it came …
The state Wildlife Department will get a fresh population estimation of leopards, snow leopards and monkeys done with the help of experts who will suggest ways and means to reduce man-animal conflict resulting in increased attacks by wild animals. Experts from an NGO headed by Vidya Athreya, a wildlife biologist, …
Keen to take advantage of the decision of the United Progressive Alliance regime to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in the housing sector, the state government plans to set up satellite townships in the public private partnership mode. The Urban Development Department and the Town and Country Planning Department have …
ALLAHABAD: With the objective of checking infant mortality rate (IMR), state health authorities have come up the Khasra Rakshak Abhiyan, a campaign to control spread of measles, as part of the national routine immunisation programme starting from April 22 in the district. All children aged from 9 months to 10 …
People’s Science Institute carried out the first trials of the System of Wheat Intensification (SWI) during rabi 2006-07. Starting with systematic research trials on farmers’ fields, SWI practice has now spread to many Indian states, through the efforts of PSI and other voluntary organizations.
Agitated locals detain a truck in Dugh rivulet for ‘loading gravel’ from the riverbed After the failure of the Mining Department and the district administration in reining in illegal mining in Dugh and Poong rivulets, near Hamirpur, by “politically influential” people, agitated locals detained a truck in the Dugh rivulet …
The traditional rainwater harvesting system of lower hill areas is being neglected by the government. Much is being said and proposed about the need for rainwater harvesting, but the tradition acumen of the people is being neglected. Traditional rainwater harvesting structures are known as ‘khatris’ in the local dialect. These …
An Environment Ministry panel has recommended conditional nod for a hydro-electric power project located on River Beas in Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh. The Expert Appraisal Committee for River Valley and Hydro Power Projects (EAC) has recommended environment clearance for Dhaulasidh Project subject to submission of the updated avi-fauna list, …
Shimla: The government will provide 4,337 solar lanterns to nomadic shepherds who keep moving around the state for grazing their sheep. Stating this after flagging off the Akshay Urja Rally, organised to mark the birth anniversary of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi here today, Chief Minister PK Dhumal said a …
The needles shed by pine trees had since ages been a cause for worry for hundreds of villages in Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh. The needles, which contain resin canals making them inflammable, would lead to major forest fires in summers, reducing trees to ashes and charring wild animals to …
Bilaspur: Suresh Chandel, three-time MP from the Hamirpur constituency and a former BJP state president, who is now national vice-president of the BJP National Kisan Morcha, has pointed towards the deteriorating condition of peasantry in the country. He has demanded that the Central Government must immediately come out with a …
Shimla: Forest fires in Himachal Pradesh have destroyed more than 20,000 acres of forest land and caused a loss of more than Rs 2.6 cr of green property in three weeks. The fires, which first started in the Hamirpur circle, were later also reported in the forests of Shimla, Nahan …
Shimla: The transmission of power from the hydel projects located in the Chandrabhaga basin will be undertaken through the 9-km-long Rohtang tunnel, thereby reducing the total cost of transmission by several crores. The state government has already held talks with the Rohtang tunnel authorities to allow the transmission of power …
Hamirpur: The government has provided the drinking water facility in every government school of the state through the Irrigation and Public Health Department. Now, every government school in the state is being supplied drinking water either through pipes or through hand pumps installed on the school premises or near the …
Nara (Hamirpur): Chief Minister PK Dhumal today said Rs 57.88 crore were being spent on various drinking water and irrigation schemes in Hamirpur district during the current financial year. Addressing a public meeting at Nara during his two-day tour of Hamirpur district after dedicating a motorable bridge over the Nara-Galot …
Mandi: Fourteen towns, including Mandi, Sundernagar and Kullu, in the state are set to get rid of the frequent breakdown of power supply and low voltage as the state electricity board is overhauling its jaded electrical and distribution system under the centrally sponsored Accelerated Power Development and Restructuring Programme. Funded …
With a view to creating awareness and disseminating information about the usefulness of solar energy in the housing, institutional, commercial and industrial sectors, thus reducing energy dependence and cutting green house gas emissions, the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in association with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, …
