Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
LUCKNOW: Scores of dead fish were found floating on the banks of the Ramganga river in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad District. Locals blame industries dumping chemical waste into the river behind river pollution. They stated that the level of oxygen slipped to sub normal level because of pollution which choked the …
How the battle that won India’s war against polio was fought in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh A Friday evening. A muezzin in Pakbada, a densely populated village in Moradabad district in Uttar Pradesh, summons the faithful for prayers. He ends his call by reminding them that the next Sunday is Polio …
THE WORLD’S biggest grid failure has put the green ministry in the dock yet again. India’s power shortage is between 10-13 percent and power projects are apparently held up due to delay in environment clearances (EC). So to many, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) is the villain in …
The CAG has questioned the eligibility of the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Power to have bid for any of the three ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) and said the company would enjoy undue benefits of Rs 29,033 crore over 20 years by using surplus coal at another plant. The CAG said …
PEOPLE from villages along the Yamuna Expressway continued their protest on Friday and held up traffic, demanding interchanges and slip roads. Protesters in Tappal and Greater Noida have been disrupting traffic by throwing bricks and stones on the expressway, where the speed limit for cars is 100 kmph and people …
New Delhi The state-owned NTPC on Thursday said it has been assured by the coal ministry of the fuel-linkages for its upcoming projects that are to come up over the next 5-10 years, helping it become a 75,000 mw generating firm by 2017. The company has received assurance from the …
Few vehicles seen on first day, authorities open slip road after farmers protest. The 165-km Yamuna Expressway was largely empty on Thursday as authorities brought toll charges into effect and police began monitoring the road for traffic violations. “The rush has come down because it is a weekday. Five vehicles …
To avert a total breakdown of the grid system and prevent a major blackout in future, the northern grid States have formulated a 12-point plan including installation of automatic demand management schemes. At a recent meeting held at the Power Ministry, the plan was agreed upon by a dozen States …
The six-lane expressway will cost Rs.9,500 crore Within a week of the 165-km Noida-Agra Yamuna expressway becoming operational, another expressway, from Agra to Lucknow, has been proposed by the Samajwadi Party Government here. A presentation of the proposed 274-km Agra-Lucknow Greenfield Expressway was made before Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on …
The bauxite mining operation in Mali Hill in south Odisha’s Koraput district by Hindalco Industries has been stopped due to the agitation by the local tribal people. Taking up cudgels under the banner of Mali Parvata Surakhya Samiti (MPSS), the tribal people of the area have launched an agitation demanding …
With a view to prevent land agitations, the Bharatiya Kisan Sangharsh Samiti has written to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and the CEO of Greater Noida Authority, asking for pubic hearings before the government acquires land under the Greater Noida Master Plan 2021. The Samiti, an umbrella organisation of …
The rains over the past few weeks have triggered a spurt in vector-borne diseases in Delhi, with official figures indicating that malaria cases have doubled compared to last year. The city’s Health department has been on its toes after a recent stated that approximately 458 cases of malaria were reported …
Giving a boost to tiger conservation efforts, the Centre has given in-principle approval for creation of five new tiger reserves in the country. This was stated by Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday. Spelling out the initiatives taken by Government for conservation of the big cats, the …
UP government on Monday gave in principle approval to construction of an expressway between Lucknow and Agra. The six-lane expressway that seeks to reduce the distance between the two cities from the existing 350 km to 274 km, will pass through Yadav-dominated belt comprising districts like Etawah, Mainpuri and Kannauj. …
It can only happen in UPA. Hours after Union Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde presided over the most extensive power cuts in Indian history, affecting an estimated 670 million people over 16 long hours of complete blackout in the last two days of July across north and east India, he was …
Up from global 7th in 2008 among 40 large generation firms, says Washington think tank NTPC contests charge of prime polluter India’s state-owned NTPC Ltd is the world’s sixth-largest polluter among a total of 40 large power generating companies, according to the Centre for Global Development (CGD), a Washington-based think …
The food ministry has submitted a ‘Plan B’ for the proposed Food Security Bill to the parliamentary standing committee for consideration after getting clearance from the prime minister, a source in the food ministry said. The new plan will provide food to a larger crosssection of population than originally thought. …
Six more children died of acute encephalitis at Gorakhpur's Baba Raghav Das Medical College since Saturday. With this, the death toll dur to this dreaded disease since January this year has touched 161, including around 130 children. Until now, 778 patients have undergone treatment at the Gorakhpur medical college this …
THE CENTRE has finally asked the bustard range states to prepare species recovery action plans for the three critically endangered birds following its guidelines. The population of Great Indian Bustards (GIB) has fallen below 300 and the bird’s last stand is in a few pockets of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra …
