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 …
Homeopathy is not only a human health care system but a whole science benefiting the entire life forms on the planet including the plants and crops. With the surge in demand for chemical residue free food and growing awareness for sustainability of the system various alternative models are being promoted. …
Biomass studies are fundamental to understand the dynamics of ecological systems and its distribution. It helps in determining the distribution and flow of materials in the ecosystems. The primary productivity of different vegetation types is of great importance for man as he is so much dependent upon plant products.
Sal (Shorea robusta Roth) is one of the most important timber-yielding plants in India, known for its heavy, hard and tough wood. Sal is an important source of hardwood timber in India, with hard, coarse-grained wood.
This study by WWF-India as part of its Living Ganga Programme focuses on climate vulnerability of people living in Ganga basin and covers Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. It identifies the vulnerability of key sectors by assessing the exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity of an ecosystem to changing climate scenarios.
In recent years public-private partnerships have been offered as the miracle-cure that would help fix all the challenges to the health sector. Over the last decade, a number of ppps providing maternal health services have come into existence but few have been evaluated. This paper examines whether ppps with the …
Kanpur: After the investigations into the anomalies into the alleged National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), the health authorities have planned a new way to get rid of irregularities in financial transactions under the scheme. The Central authorities have opted for online banking, which will be operated by the Central fund …
There are 12 "hot spots" in eight States where river water was found to be contaminated. In the first ever report of its kind, the Central Water Commission (CWC) monitored water quality at 371 stations in river systems across the country and identified stretches that need urgent Government action. It …
India’s dependence on a Chinese firm for its supply of the Japanese Encephalitis vaccine could soon be over. Austrian biotech firm Intercell AG and Hyderabadbased Biological Evans have announced that their vaccine to treat JE has been approved by the Drugs Controller General of India. The vaccine Jeev is expected …
“We aim to immunise all children in the age group of nine months to 10 years irrespective of their immunisation status. This is part of the Central Government's massive anti-measles catch-up vaccination drive that will try and cover more than 13 crore children in 14 vulnerable States,” said Union Health …
Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh is caught in a predicament having to play a dual role in dealing with the chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal in a bid to protect his party's interests in the two States. Mr. Ramesh has been using a carrot and …
Despite Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh’s attempt to corner the Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh government over the issue of alleged irregularities in the implementation of NREGS, the Ministry on Tuesday sanctioned Rs 1,200 crore for the state. This takes the total disbursement for the scheme to Rs 3,549 in the current …
NEW DELHI: Farmers from nearby states are planning to troop to Delhi on Friday to protest against key provisions of the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill. The Kissan Mahasangh, a federation of farmers from Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, alleged on Tuesday that these provisions are anti-farmer and have been …
The disease has claimed 861 lives so far with 470 in U.P. alone Concerned over the high mortality and morbidity because of Japanese encephalitis (JE) and acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), the Group of Ministers (GoM) held its first meeting here on Monday to discuss short, medium and long-term measures needed …
With 135 districts across 17 states affected and 861 people dead till November 4, the Japanese Encephalitis epidemic has crossed last year’s figures. This year there were 6,297 reported cases against 5,149 in 2010 and 677 deaths. Approximately, 70-75 per cent of these have been reported from Uttar Pradesh, with …
Elephant population has increased by 2,000 in the past 15 years in the country taking their number to 28,000, as per the latest data provided by Ministry of Environment and Forests. The Ministry, however, said it does not maintain statistics on the death of elephants and their disappearance. According to …
Instead of ensuring effective implementation of MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) schemes in Uttar Pradesh, both BSP and Congress are engaged in a battle of one-upmanship on it. It appears that both Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and the UP Government headed by Mayawati are busy …
Elephant population has increased by 2,000 in the past 15 years in the country taking their number to 28,000 as per the latest data provided by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). The Ministry, however, said it does not maintain statistics on the death of elephants and their disappearance. …
Varanasi: Shankaracharya of Jyotish Pith and Dwarka Sharda Pith Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati, who founded Ganga Seva Abhiyanam (GSA), and the members of National River Ganga Basin Authority (NRGBA) are seeking effective measures from the Centre and the state government to save the holy Ganga river. In the presence of Swami …
Allahabad: A division bench of the Allahabad High Court has directed that if the land of villagers of about half a dozen villages in Bara tehsil of Allahabad have not been possessed till date, then the farmers shall not be dispossessed from their land. The farmers, who have approached the …
Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has proposed social audits for the centre’s big-ticket welfare programmes running under different ministries, on the lines of the scrutiny that he recently mandated for the flagship rural jobs scheme. “The concept has the potential to revolutionise the system. If we can have social audits …
