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 …
Following Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s directive to speed up the process of tranquilising the tiger roaming in Rehmankheda forest of Lucknow for the past three months, the forest department has now roped in the Assistant Director of Nandankanan Zoological Park in Orissa, Kamal Lochan Purohit, for the operation. Before Purohit, …
Interview with A.R. Ansari, Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the Neyveli Lignite Corporation. IN the context of the Neyveli Lignite Corporation's (NLC) plans to diversify from lignite-based electricity generating stations in Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan into setting up coal-fired power stations in Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, Frontline …
Almost two years after it was passed by Parliament, the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010, has now been notified by the Union Government. Notified on February 28, it has come into force in Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Sikkim and all Union Territories from March 1. The Act …
ALLAHABAD: Amid growing emphasis on adopting alternative and environmental-friendly means to meet energy demands, the first solar power unit of Uttar Pradesh has started functioning on the outskirts of the city. Situated at Naini, about 25 kms from Allahabad, the 5 MW solar power plant developed by Kolkata-based company, EMC …
LUCKNOW: Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav directed the officials to ensure that promises made to farmers in the Samajwadi Party's poll manifesto are fulfilled. At a meeting held, chief minister, asked officials to prepare and submit a policy for developing agriculture-based industries in a month's time and stressed that his government …
The Planning Commission on Monday released the latest poverty estimates for the country showing a decline in the incidence of poverty by 7.3 per cent over the past five years and stating that anyone with a daily consumption expenditure of Rs. 28.35 and Rs. 22.42 in urban and rural areas …
Hundreds of young and old eco-activists turned up at the Yamuna ghats in this Taj city on Sunday morning to pick up trash, mostly polythene bags, to mark the start of World Water Week March 18-25. A joint initiative of the Rivers of the World Foundation and the Braj Mandal …
For the UPA Government which kept accusing Mayawati’s BSP of ignoring its flagship programmes in Uttar Pradesh, the latest Economic Survey has some food for thought. It shows that the percentage of households provided employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme was the highest in Uttar Pradesh …
NEW DELHI: In damage control mode, the prime minister on Tuesday sent Union coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal to placate the fasting G D Agrawal, a retired professor of IIT Kanpur who recently 'embraced sanyas' and took the name 'Swami Gyan Swarup Sanand'. Agrawal has been on fast since January 14 …
The thunderstorm and lightning which struck the state on Tuesday afternoon claimed half-a-dozen lives besides leaving as many people injured, including children. In Shravasti district, a thunderstorm followed by rains struck when the villagers were working in fields in Masahakala locality under the Sirsiha police station on Thursday afternoon. The …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to Union of India and Uttar Pradesh government on an application seeking a direction to vacate the interim stay on the court monitored CBI investigation of foodgrain scam as directed by the Allahabad High Court A Bench of Justice A.K. Patnaik …
In order to sustain a sound tiger population, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has issued orders to declare 600-1,200 square kilometres as inviolate areas for all the tiger reserves in the country. In all, an area of 32,578.78 sq km has been notified by 16 tiger states as …
The National Green Tribunal has issued notices to various agencies including the Yamuna River Development Authority, issuing a stay on dumping of solid waste on the Yamuna riverbed. Hearing a petition filed by Manoj Misra of non-government organisation Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan on Monday, the Bench of Justice A.S. Naidu and …
Union Minister for Rural Development, Drinking Water and Sanitation Jairam Ramesh announced a national award for sanitation and water in the name of Maharashtrian saint Sant Gadge Baba. The Minister toured several villages in Satara district in Maharashtra to inspect the work of the Nirmal Gram Yojana for sanitation on …
One of the pet projects of Mulayam Singh as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, five years earlier, was the 7,480-Mw Dadri power project. It was also Reliance Power promoter Anil Ambani's dream project, but for some time now, the project has fallen off the radar of the developer. Dadri got …
“No response from official agencies despite reminders” Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan, a non-government organisation fighting for preservation of the Yamuna and its riverbed, has sought intervention of the National Green Tribunal for action against debris being dumped on the floodplains of the river. The NGO claims its repeated reminders to various …
The earthquake today that jolted the National Capital and the adjoining NCR region has brought the safety of buildings in and around the capital back into focus. Two other temblors had hit the area in the past six months. Strong tremors that lasted almost 10 seconds at 1.11 pm today …
Court takes serious view of environment degradation due to illegal mining New Delhi: Taking a serious view of environment degradation due to illegal mining, the Supreme Court has made it clear to Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan that no mining activity should be permitted or auctioned including renewal of leases …
Take a good look at your shelves and the hidden corners of your cupboards. You are bound to find at least one gadget that you had hoarded simply because it had lived up to its worth or because you had replaced it with a newer model. A survey by Nokia …
New Delhi: Even as questions are being raised about the timing of Babu Singh Kushwaha’s arrest on the last day of the seventh phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh, highly placed sources said two more prominent arrests are likely in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam before the votes …
