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 …
PEOPLE displaced by the Pong dam are still waiting to be rehabilitated, forty years after the dam was built. They were promised canal-irrigated land in Ganganagar district, but the Rajasthan government is now offering them semiarid land in Bikaner. The dam in Himachal Pradesh supplies water to Punjab, Haryana and …
To ensure the protection and conservation of wildlife, the state government has declared Bisalpur in Tonk district, Jodbeer in Bikaner district and Sundhmata in Jalore district as new wildlife sanctuaries in the state. Stating this on the conclusion of the 56th Wildlife Protection Week on Thursday at the Jaipur Zoo, …
Rajasthan: Land not available in Ganganagar Lalit Mohan Dharamsala, September 30 The first meeting of the standing committee formed for redressing the grievances of Pong Dam oustees has thrown some options for solution to over 40-year-old problem. The meeting was held in Bikaner on September 27 under the chairmanship of …
Ajay Parmar | TNN Jodhpur: Despite the fact that population of vulture is constantly declining in the state, nothing substantial has been done so far to conserve these natural scavengers. Though they are being treated at the rescue centres of the zoos, researchers have stressed the need of creating separate …
P. SunderarajanNEW DELHI: In a reversal of roles, the desert State of Rajasthan received more rain than the green States in the northeast.As per the latest data available with the India Meteorological Department, Rajasthan received 20 per cent more rainfall than the normal, while Manipur is faced with a whopping …
Nitrate has become of the key environmental issues because of its implications on human and animal health. Nitrate enters in the human body through the use of ground water for drinking and causes number of health disorders. In Rajasthan, ground waters of Nagaur, Barmer, Bikaner, Churu, Ganganagar, Hanumangarh and Jhunjhunu …
The Opposition MLAs walked out of the Assembly on Wednesday protesting against inadequate supply of irrigation water to the farmers in Kota and Bikaner divisions of the State. They alleged failure of the Government in procuring water from the Chambal and the Ravi-Beas river systems for the standing crops in …
Discom BSES has tied up with a Gurgaon-based firm for 50MW of solar power that will be available for the capital by March 2013. The MoU for 25 years between BSES and ACME Tele Power Ltd was signed on Tuesday. The agency is establishing solar power plants at various locations …
Cancer patients from various towns of Punjab travel on this Lalgarh-Abohar-Jodhpur train no. 339 to a hospital in Bikaner for treatment. Cancer patients from various towns of Punjab travel on this Lalgarh-Abohar-Jodhpur train no. 339 to a hospital in Bikaner for treatment. Photo by writer Bathinda/Bikaner, September 30 There was …
Aug. 19: The Delhi government is planning to acquire land in the desert areas of Rajasthan to set up solar power plants in its efforts to boost availability of power in the city. Delhi government officials will soon be visiting Rajasthan where land is available in the desert areas of …
JAIPUR: About 20 big private companies functioning in the power sector have evinced interest in a new project for establishment of a lignite-based thermal power station at Gudha village in Bikaner district of Rajasthan. This will be the first power project in the private sector in the State under the …
Seechewal(Jalandhar): Environmentalist Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal announced to take out a Chetna March from Jalandhar to Bikaner along the polluted natural water resources to educate people about the importance of salubrious surrounding. A panel of doctors and lawyers would accompany the march that would begin on April 1. The residents …
The Gajner police in Bikaner has registered a case over the cutting of Khejri trees during the shooting of Veer, starring Salman Khan. The shooting of the movie has been going on for the past five days in and around Bikaner. Salman and other actors also camping in Bikaner for …
NEW DELHI: The first lignite mine-cum-thermal power with 2.1-million tonne capacity at Barsingsar in Bikaner, Rajasthan, has taken off on Monday. The lignite mine would feed initially the 250-MW thermal power plant in western Rajasthan. he lignite mine was inaugurated by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. The Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd …
The Rajasthan Government on Thursday declared 2,381 villages in 10 districts as scarcity-hit following extensive damage to rabi crops caused by frost and cold wave earlier this year. The maximum number of 1,722 such villages are in Jaipur, followed by 249 in Sriganganagar, 178 in Jhalawar, 103 in Tonk, 43 …
RAPD analysis of DNA isolated from soils under Ker and associated open areas of Bikaner, Kodamdesar and Nagaur regions of western Rajasthan was carried out using six primers to find out the effect of Ker (Capparis deciduas) plants on microbial diversity.
while some areas in Rajasthan are still fighting to drain floodwater, in other districts, farmers have revived their agitation for more water for irrigation. On October 11, hundreds of farmers demanding water from the Indira Gandhi Canal (igc), protested in Sriganganagar, Hanumangarh and Bikaner
