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 …
State yet to decide on Kalinganagar or Bolangir to locate the complex The Union ministry of commerce and industry has urged the Odisha government to identify suitable land with appropriate power, road and transport linkages for establishment of a National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ). Though the state government has …
Almost entire Delhi went without power for about eight hours on Monday due to the collapse of the Northern Grid, putting people to misery on a humid day when water distribution and Metro services were largely affected. Top Delhi Power Department officials said the technical failure near Agra resulted in …
The spectre of drought looms large over major parts of northern and western India and Karnataka following a poor monsoon threatening kharif (summer sown) crop output and leaving farmers and livestock in distress. Shortage of drinking water and an adverse impact on the prices of fruits, vegetables, pulses, sugar has …
Close on the heels of three villages in Noida banning tobacco and tobacco products, around 30 gram panchayats are also set to follow suit. “We will be conducting a regional panchayat next week, in which heads of nearly 30 villages will take part. We will declare tobacco banned in these …
Lucknow: Acting on the government directives, the state forest department will speed up creation of eco-sensitive zones. Principal secretary forest RK Singh has directed officers to act on the recommendations of the committee set up to identify the eco-sensitive zones. To conserve wildlife, state forest department has planned setting up …
Much of the scholarship associated with the “urban turn” in south Asia has focused on the upper middle class or the poor. This study examines social change through the lens of interstitial places and populations. In particular, it focuses on young men who find themselves “in-between” in multiple senses: between …
Visits to seven small towns in north India reveal how paucity of funds, slipshod planning and a dearth of capabilities have contributed to poor civic services and inadequate infrastructure. Citizens in some areas have organised themselves into neighbourhood committees to tackle problems that the urban bodies neglect, but this has …
Lucknow In a move that could push up up the price of land across Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authorities, land acquisition rates as well as the land development rates in these three areas have been hiked substantially between 20-40% across all categories, including residential, commercial, industrial …
Compensation To Farmers For Acquisition Goes Up By 10.4% . Noida/Greater Noida: Buying a house or land in Noida, Greater Noida and the Yamuna Expressway areas has become costlier. In a board meeting held on Wednesday, the three development authorities announced a substantial hike in the allotment price across all …
LUCKNOW: The price of petrol, diesel, cooking gas and kerosene went up marginally in the state following recalibration of 'state surcharge' by the oil companies. While the petrol got costlier by 70 paise, the per litre price of diesel went up by 64 paise. Similarly, the cost of cooking gas …
LUCKNOW: Moderate to heavy rain on Tuesday improved the rainfall situation in the east UP, but the threat of drought looms large over the western parts of the state. Though the weatherman was hopeful about the improvement in west UP in next couple of days, the state government is keeping …
Supreme Court warns gives three weeks to States that are yet to issue notification To protect tigers, the Supreme Court on Tuesday banned all tourism activities in the core areas of the tiger reserve forests. A Bench of Justices Swatanter Kumar and Ibrahim Kalifullah passed the order on a petition …
We Indians have got so used to seeing garbage spilling over from municipal dustbins at street corners and often even strewn around in open public spaces, that we accept this phenomenon as inevitable. We look the other way with what seems like futile hope that some day, someone will find …
We Indians have got so used to seeing garbage spilling over from municipal dustbins at street corners and often even strewn around in open public spaces, that we accept this phenomenon as inevitable. We look the other way with what seems like futile hope that some day, someone will find …
Uttar Pradesh, which has about 4,000 mines of coal, silica, bauxite and granite – mostly in Bundelkhand region, has mandated e-tendering for future allotment of mining leases in the state. This step is aimed at preventing hitherto rampant illegal mining and ushering transparency in allotment of mining leases. Under the …
Digital health-mapping service to be extended to all districts. If everything goes well, Uttar Pradesh can soon boast a state-wide digital health-mapping facility. Once implemented, the service will provide people access to information about essential medicines and vaccines at their doorsteps—through automated voice alerts, SMS and phone calls. The service, …
With sowing of kharif crops lagging by over 86 lakh hectares compared to last year, owing to an erratic southwest monsoon and the average water level in major reservoirs declining by 2 per cent (to 59 per cent of last year’s storage) over the previous week, the country faces a …
LUCKNOW: Man-animal conflicts are common in various parts of the country. In India, wild elephants probably kill far more people than tiger, leopard or lion. But, surprisingly, human conflict involving leopard draws great amount of public attention compared to other animals. Other carnivores - tigers, lions and wolves, which have …
The Annual Plan for Uttar Pradesh for 2012-13 was finalised at Rs.57,800 crore at a meeting here on Wednesday between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. While the outlay for the current fiscal is 23 per cent higher than the Rs.47,000 crore that was …
Lucknow Maya govt abandoned attempt after pilot project Apprehensive that the now-infamous first-come, first-served policy for allocation of natural resources comes with risks, states are now wiser and embracing the safer option of auctions for these allocations. The newly-elected Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh has introduced an e-tendering system …
