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 …
Lanco Infratech has said that more than 5,000 MW of its planned and existing generation capacities would get a boost from Coal India’s decision to sign fuel supply pacts for power projects. “It is a positive step and Coal India agreeing to ink Fuel Supply Agreements (FSAs) will benefit Lanco’s …
Singh Sheds Mildness To Deliver Sharp Jab At CM In First UP Outing. Kanpur: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shed his aloofness here on Friday and threw sharp punches at the Mayawati government, charging it directly with misusing National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) funds and neglecting her state’s development. Mincing no …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday minced no words in accusing Mayawati government of misusing funds meant for the National Rural Health Mission. KANPUR: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday minced no words in accusing Mayawati government of misusing funds meant for the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). Promising that …
Foraging wild animals in cropland are threatening livelihoods, turning the farmer against conservation efforts. THE DAMAGE to the national economy due to crop depredation by wild animals has never been computed. But for lakhs of farmers around India’s many protected forests, it is the biggest challenge to livelihood. In Maharashtra …
How much of the benefits of economic growth accrue directly to farmers and workers who lose their livelihoods when agricultural land is taken over for development? If handled properly, the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill 2011 offers an opportunity for equitably addressing the interests of diverse sections affected …
The National Rural Health Scheme scam in Uttar Pradesh has turned murkier with another health official being found murdered at his home — the fifth victim in the past one year after the alleged bungling of over Rs.10,000 crore of Central funds surfaced. The U.P. Police found the body of …
With an aim to promote wildlife and tourism in the district, the Noida Authority has decided to name a Metro station on the proposed Noida-Kalindi Kunj Line after the Okhla Bird Sanctuary. The station was earlier to be named as ‘Amity University’ as the station is located in close proximity …
BANDA/CHITRAKOOT: Sunita's hands tremble as she picks up a heavy hammer to break a stone boulder in Narhari village, about 40 km from main Banda city. It has been more than three hours since the 18-yearold has been doing what her father Jagat Pal never wanted. "But we do not …
Meena Chaturvedi is an Indian Audit and Accounts Service official of 1987 cadre. After a 23-year career she took voluntary retirement to join SREI Sahaj e-Village Limited as chief executive officer (public services and e-learning) in October 2010.
Following an intervention from the PMO, the Highways Ministry has extended an assurance that it will wrap up the award of 26 road projects to ensure that the target set for the current fiscal is met. “On the direction of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Ministry of Road Transport …
Blaming Congress and its general secretary Rahul Gandhi for the poverty and backwardness prevailing in the Bundelkhand, Bahujan Samaj Party president and Chief Minister Mayawati said that had the Centre accepted her government's proposal for special package, the face of this rugged region would have been different. Addressing election meetings …
PATNA, 14 FEB: Against the backdrop of alleged irregularities in implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MNREGA) in Uttar Pradesh, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh today said the onus was also on the states to keep a “strict vigil” to prevent misuse of central funds and …
Petrol prices are expected to rise by about . 3 per litre early next month after the crucial assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, industry executives said on Monday. Executives in Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum said petrol rates had not been revised for two months despite high …
Agitated farmers from Naggal, Ambala, held a demonstration against the laying of gas pipeline through their fertile land on Monday. The landowners held a rally the New Grain Market in Ambala City, where protesters alleged that the farmers of Haryana were being discriminated as they were not being given rates …
The Common Service Centre scheme aims to establish nearly three lakh rural internet kiosks across India. A recent evaluation study, however, found poor demand among users and delayed roll-out of government-to-consumer services, causing losses and attrition among private operators of the scheme. There is space, therefore, for greater engineering of …
In a decision that is likely to benefit rice farmers of West Bengal, an Empowered Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday is learnt to have decided to allow foodgrain exports to Bangladesh through specified points across border. The decision is likely to benefit exporters by …
State-owned NTPC Ltd’s capacity addition target of 66,000 mega watt for the Twelfth Plan period could take a knocking as legal hurdles hold up the placement of equipment orders for key projects slated to come up over the next five years. The company has been unable to go ahead with …
It is another Greater Noida project gone wrong, as the Uttar Pradesh government is in the middle of a new land deal controversy, and coming just ahead of the assembly polls in the state. The latest controversy is about the Union environment ministry asking the state government and private builder …
New Delhi: In another embarrassment for the poll-bound BSP government in Uttar Pradesh, the Union environment ministry has put Ansal’s 2,400-acre housing project, Hi-Tech Township City, at Dadri on hold for ‘illegally’ reclaiming a wetland in the plot. The ministry has sent a showcause notice to the project developers under …
HATHRAS (UP): At least 17 peacocks were found dead near Kheria village here, officials said. The peacocks, which died allegedly after consuming insecticides used by farmers, were found near agricultural fields. A case will be registered under the Wildlife Protection Act (under Section 9 and 51), they said. Forest officials …
