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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 …

A lesson in apple cultivation from Java

Apple is no longer a fruit of cold hilly areas only. Scientists are trying to understand how an Indonesian farmer, J Kribben, has changed the

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) study for exploratory drilling of oil exploration in the Block PEL of Kangra-Mandi

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation limited (ONGC) being an operator in the block PEL Kangra-Mandi (Himachal Pradesh) requires to carryout the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study. The purpose of such study is to assess the environmental impacts arising due to the exploratory drilling proposed in the Kangra-Mandi block (HP). To …

Process to acquire land begins

Tribune News Service Mandi, January 11 The stage has been set to develop a modern satellite town at Nalsoh as the Himachal Housing Urban Development Authority (HIMUDA) has started the process to acquire about 1,200 bighas of land for this town that would provide housing for over 10,000 residents. According …

RTI exposes flaws in census report

Tribune News Service Mandi, January 8 Information obtained under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has exposed discrepancies in the census report of 2001 as regards Dhar Kalwad village in the Shiva Thana gram panchayat in the district. The report showed there were just five members of the SC category …

Pine monocultures make way for biodiversity

Fifteen years ago the hillside of Karsog Tehsil in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh was covered with pine mono cultures. The officials of the forest department preferred pine as it is not eaten by cattle, grows quickly after a fire, is hardy, requires minimum effort and had a good survival …

Mandi records in Haryana to go online

Chandigarh: The state mandis will now be connected with Internet services provided at all centres. The Government has planned its computerisation project in such a way that the prices of agro-commodities would now be available online. The farmers would be educated and trained to use the new facilities.

Himachal farmers take to sericulture

Vikas Sharma / Chandigarh October 20, 2008, 0:25 IST After handicrafts helped Himachal Pradesh earn fame, sericulture is now catching the fancy of small and marginal farmers in the state, who are trying to gain from it. Sericulture is not only providing subsidiary employment, but is also supplementing the income …

NREGA dues not released

The Rural Workers Association (RWA) and the district administration here are on a collision course over the non-payment of wages to workers, unemployment allowance to those eligible and non-availability of work for 1,500 job card holders under the NREGA in Khalwahan, Khani, Thata and Bung panchayats in the district. RWA …

The killing waters

No one cares as rivers turn toxic SO thick-skinned is the political leadership and the bureaucracy in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh that media reports of dead fish floating in the states' rivers almost every year fail to move them. Last year a large quantity of fish perished in the Sarsa …

Himachal villagers resist pine monoculture, reclaim forests for fodder

Some 15 years ago, pine-covered hillsides were the typical images of Karsog in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district. But pine provided little fodder for cattle. People in its villages preferred broadleaved species, so they started planting oak and other fodder trees. Over the years, pine monoculture in Karsog has been replaced …

In Short

goa town planning minister resigns: Embroiled in a controversy over the Goa State Regional Plan 2011, the state's town and country planning minister, Atanasio Monserrate, resigned from the cabinet on January 3, 2006. In less than a week, the Goa chief minister, Pratapsinh Rane, sworn in BJP legisator Manohar Azgaokar …

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