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 …
It is the highest in 2011-12 among southern States Tamil Nadu, during the just concluded financial year of 2011-2012, recorded 9.39 per cent economic growth rate, the highest among southern States. Last year, Karnataka posted 6.44 per cent growth rate; Andhra Pradesh – 6.81 per cent and Kerala - 7.8 …
LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday, started the final stage of stakeholder consultations to formulate the new infrastructure, industrial and service sector investment policy-2012. The three-day consultation process, headed by member secretary of the steering committee, Sanjay Prasad, included discussions about land acquisition for industrial purposes, infrastructure, stamp duty, …
LUCKNOW: After giving 18-month extension to nine power plants proposed to be set up through the memorandum of understanding route, the deadline of which expired on Sunday, the UP government has geared up to invite bids for setting up of a 1,320 Mw power plant in Etah district's Jawaharpur area. …
LUCKNOW: Even as heat wave conditions intensified in the state on Monday with mercury level 5-7 degrees above normal in most districts, it is now also turning out to be the longest dry and hot weather spell in summer in last two decade. While Allahabad was hottest with 46.2 degrees …
LUCKNOW: In a landmark decision on Monday, Uttar Pradesh government cleared the decks for setting up the state's first Mega Food Processing Park at Jagdishpur in Sultanpur district. Pending since 2010, when the Union Ministry of food processing industries gave an in-principle approval to the proposal submitted by Aditya Birla …
From tigers to rhinos — the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) alerting the rhino range States of Assam, West-Bengal and UP, has written to the Chief Wildlife wardens for “institutionalising the monitoring mechanism of individual rhinos” and recording their daily location using GPS. This is in view of rising incidents …
Expediting the proposal on Uttar Pradesh's first lion safari in Etawah, the State Wildlife Department has completed the Master Plan of the project. The department is working hard to make the safari operational in a month. “The Government has sanctioned Rs 5 crore. We have readied the Master Plan and …
Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh give contrasting pictures of the sanitation story in the country. While the latter swears by subsidised toilet building, the latter gave up the subsidy offer route long before. And, while UP is far away from total sanitation, the latter has declared itself Open Defecation Free. …
First Time In 25 Years; June 15 Deadline, Work To Cost 12Cr. The cleaning of the Okhla barrage has finally begun after 25 years. The cleaning drive which began on Monday, is being carried out on a war-footing. Officials hope to complete it by June 15. On Thursday, the district …
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh cabinet, on Thursday, ratified the decision to give a maximum 18- month grace period to nine pending power projects in the state, the MoUs for which were filed during the BSP regime. A decision to this effect was taken by the Energy Task Force earlier this week. …
With this, 6 million units of electricity will be added to the grid State-run BHEL today said it has commissioned a 250 MW unit at Harduaganj thermal power project in Uttar Pradesh. "BHEL has commissioned a 250 MW unit at Harduaganj Thermal Power Station (TPS), in Uttar Pradesh. With this, …
LUCKNOW: An NGO in Rae Bareli's Shivgarh area uses community mobilisation activities to save expectant mothers and neonates from untimely demise. Another met local religious leaders in western UP district to dispel myths relating to health. An organization funded by the US government is banking on mobile-savvy ASHAs for family …
LUCKNOW: The 8.68% rise in the number of vehicles during 2011-12 has taken its toll on city's ambient air quality. As a result, there is no let-up either in the air pollution or the noise pollution levels. The increase in the number of vehicles has also led to a rise …
India’s backward states are growing fast, proving that good economics can be good politics as well The fall in India’s GDP growth to just 6.5% in 2011-12 has caused much moaning and groaning, along with a search for silver linings. The silver linings most often highlighted are falling oil prices …
Even before the peak season of encephalitis, Acute Encephalitis Syndrome has already claimed 80 lives in Uttar Pradesh. In spite of infrastructural support, including new ventilators and wards for encephalitis patients in BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur, as well as awareness campaigns in the area, the number of cases and deaths …
With increase in pollution and illegal supply of water, underground water level in Noida has severely reduced in the recent past. Consequently, the water supply to the region has been affected and the administration is really concerned at the decrease in water level. According to a survey conducted by Noida …
THE Yamuna River is one of the holiest waterways in India. The ghats - the pilgrim-built stone steps at the water's edge - are reminders of the multitudes of worshippers who once came here to pray. But few come to the Yamuna River in Delhi now to bathe in the …
The government has planned 600 dams on the Ganga and its tributaries. So how can it be serious about saving the holy river, asks Brijesh Pandey Once regarded as amrit (nectar), a river that sustained all forms of life, the Ganga is now threated by the very civilisation it once …
A Rs. 500 crore farmers' loan relief scheme to aid the debt-ridden farmers, many of whom have been forced to commit suicide, and three rural development schemes named after the Samajwadi Party ideologue Ram Manohar Lohia are among the 280 new populist measures proposed in the State Budget for the …
Alipurduar, June 1: Six elephant calves that were rescued from various places and raised in Jaldapara would be permanently shifted to a national park in Uttar Pradesh for forest patrol. The animals will be relocated to Dudhwa National Park by the end of this month. Of the six calves, aged …
