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 …
Talk about weeds changing labour market Vandana Khobragade, a small farmer, knew the wheat and chickpea growing on her half hectare farmland needed weeding. But she could not afford to pay Rs 50 a day for labour to farm hands in her village Matkazari in Maharashtra
Mumbai: Babanrao Pachpute, the state forest minister, wants a mining project on the outskirts of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve. So much so that he has threatened an NGO of dire consequences for opposing the project. During a meeting at Nagpur on January 20, activists of Shrushti Paryavaran Mandal in Nagpur …
Chittaranjan Tembhekar | TNN Mumbai: This train is more than a year late. The Vidarbha Queen has been waiting for about a year-and-a-half to make its inaugural run as a luxury tiger safari train, but it may be shunted back onto the passenger track because of a disagreement between the …
Nagpur : Lack of staff in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) may mean that tourists will not be able to visit the place this season. On Monday, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) B Majumdar issued an order to close down TATR for tourists from November 25 onwards.
Nagpur, November 12 The Forest Department is considering closing down the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) for tourists owing to lack of staff and a large number of vacancies. "We have only one range forest officer operating there instead of five. Under the circumstances, we are seriously thinking along those lines," …
NAGPUR: It was a temptation that 65-year-old Daulat Moon could not resist. The deal was too big for him to reject: Rs 40 lakh per acre of land or a little less than Rs100 per sq feet.
VIVEK DESH PANDE NAGPUR,OCTOBER A body found in Junona village in Chandrapur close to where a woman was killed by a leopard on September 22 could be that of a missing youth. He appears to have been killed five days before the 52year-old woman was mauled to death. Prashant Bharsagade …
Be it health, water, cleanliness or alcohol consumption, villages in rural Maharashtra are witnessing a silent movement in the last few years, thanks to the women sarpanches at the helm.
The effect of irrigation by the effluent of paper industry versus well water on properties of soils in three seasons was studied in Nagpur district, Maharashtra. The effluent had high total dissolved salts and biological oxygen demand than well water. pH, EC and availability of N, P, K, Zn, Cu, …
your natural sweetener may become healthier and a little cheaper. The Food Technology Department of the Lakshmi Narayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur, has devised a method to prepare a water-based extract of stevia, a small bushy herb that yields natural sweetener stevioside. The technology involves boiling the leaves in water …
Newswire18 / Kochi August 25, 2008, 3:59 IST The National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) is planning to launch futures trading in thermal coal by September 10, the exchange's Chief Business Officer Unopam Kausik said on Saturday. Initially, the exchange plans to introduce a contract lot size of 100 tonnes …
Jamshedpur: Work for the Adityapur Auto Cluster has gained momentum after the Centre announced 75 per cent subsidy for the Rs 65-crore project. Pushpak Management Services has been appointed as the consultant. Officials said a team of industrialists would soon leave for Pune and Nagpur to study auto clusters. The …
The Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) established in 1948, is a multi-disciplinary government organisation under the Department of Mines, Ministry of Mines, engaged in promotion of conservation, scientific development of mineral resources and protection of environment in mines other than coal, petroleum & natural gas, atomic minerals and minor minerals.
Nagpur : Two more persons were arrested by Forest officials in the Chinkara hunting case, which prompted Dharmaraobaba Atram to resign as Maharashtra's transport minister. Shripati Wadkar and Sandip Mane were arrested on Tuesday from Pachgani and were remanded to police custody till July 11. Two others, Suresh Biramane and …
Nagpur- Two more persons were arrested by Forest officials in the Chinkara hunting case, which prompted Dharmaraobaba Atram to resign as Maharashtra's transport minister. Shripati Wadkar and Sandip Mane were arrested on Tuesday from Pachgani and were remanded to police custody till July 11. Two others, Suresh Biramane and Pradip …
Meena Menon MUMBAI: Farmers' agitation against shortage of fertilizers in Maharashtra resulted in traffic blockade on the Nagpur-Hyderabad highway on Saturday morning. The angry farmers, led by the Shiv Sena's Ramtek MP Prakash Jadhav, agitated for over an hour and burnt tyres. The State is admittedly facing a 60 per …
Waste plastic products should not be treated as threats to our environment. A proper system to recycle these products and efforts at extracting fuel from them may turn these waste products into invaluable assets, said Amarjyoti Kashyap president of the non-Government organisation (NGO) Environ. This is very significant in these …
India's own Bt cotton is set for commercial release. The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), the apex body for granting clearances to genetically modified crops, in its meeting on May 2, granted permission for the commercial release of Bikaner Narma (BN) Bt variety, developed by Nagpur's Central Institute for Cotton …
The crucial change required in cases of compulsory land acquisition is to pay the farmer the replacement cost of the asset being acquired at the time he receives the compensation, says Prabhu Ghate THE Land Acquisition Act 1894 was formulated in much simpler times. There were few large projects in …
In a grubby courtroom in Manmad, a major train junction around 90 km from Nashik, a pitched battle is being fought to protect the rights of an elephant. Lakshmi has been in custody since April 14 after the Manmad police registered a complaint against the owner, alleging that he had …
