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 …
SunEdison, a US-based solar power developer and an active player in India too, has announced that it has raised $110 million in debt to fund its several ongoing projects in India. The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), which is part of the US Government, L&T; Infra Finance, and IDFC, have …
Absence of preventive measures and affordable and accessible health care leads to nearly 500 encephalitis deaths in Uttar Pradesh. IT is a strange paradox. In a country that aspires to be a superpower and boasts of rapid economic growth, 488 children died in a State, Uttar Pradesh, from encephalitis alone …
The Patna High Court has asked the state government to submit a detailed report on measures taken to treat and control encephalitis cases, especially in Magadh region. The government has to file its reply within two weeks. Since August, of the 386 children admitted at ANMMCH, 83 died — the …
Terming as unhealthy the focus on undertaking road projects under the NREGS, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday advocated discouraging road projects under the scheme and suggested keeping the scheme focussed on water harvesting and water conservation. “I find roads being built under the scheme in many states. Too …
Concerned over the large number of child deaths due to measles every year, the Centre has launched a massive anti-measles vaccination drive. More than 13 crore children are expected to be covered under the Measles Catch-up Campaign, irrespective of their previous measles vaccination status. The drive has been launched by …
Finally, good news on the health front. Next year will be crucial for India’s polio eradication programme, which appears on track with only one case reported so far this year. “If no wild polio virus is identified throughout the high-transmission season in 2012,” said an article in a US Centres …
High-speed connectivity between the regional centres of the National Capital Region will soon become reality, with Minister of Urban Development Kamal Nath giving in-principle approval to the concept proposal of implementing the Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) along three important corridors. The RRTS will come along the Delhi-Gurgaon-Alwar, Delhi-Sonepat-Panipat and …
New Delhi The rural development ministry has asked for a special audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of the R40,000-crore annual budget of the National Rural Employment Programme. The audit, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said, will also include other major programmes like the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana …
Contrary to a common belief that India’s public distribution system is irreparably dysfunctional, a nine-state survey of the pds finds that the respondents received 84-88% of their full entitlement. The implicit subsidy for households below the poverty line from pds foodgrains alone is roughly equivalent, in many states, to a …
New Delhi The country will not get a new law to change the rules for land acquisition for industry any time soon. The Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill is unlikely to be cleared in the winter session of Parliament despite rural development minister Jairam Ramesh’s assurances as the …
New Delhi: Facing the spectre of another costly bailout of power distribution companies, some of which have started defaulting on payments to suppliers, the Centre has decided to take preemptive action. It has set up a committee under the chairmanship of Planning Commission member (energy) BK Chaturvedi to suggest ways …
Sparring over portfolios between the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party in Maharashtra has begun anew after Union Minister Jairam Ramesh's suggestion that the Rural Development Department implement the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). While the NCP is happy about the suggestion, the Congress — which holds …
To improve the power situation, the Union Coal Ministry has despatched fresh stocks of coal to power stations across the country. It has also advised coal companies to ensure priority movement of the dry fuel to power stations to improve generation. A total of 141 rakes were despatched to the …
Behind the numbers, a complex story of birth and ageing Baby Nargis, the world's seven billionth person, born in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, and the 102-year-old Hilla Sorab Billimoria of Kolkata represent, between them, two ends of India's complex population story. At one end are the staggering numbers. With an …
The planet’s seven billionth human is due to arrive on Oct. 31, according to the United Nations Population Fund, and a village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is likely to hog the limelight for this population landmark. The U.N. agency has said it cannot pinpoint “the exact …
The encephalitis dance of death in eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar’s bordering districts looks set to cross all previous records this year. With 2-3 weeks still left in the ‘season’, the country-wide death toll is nearing the 1,000-mark, of which UP itself has a staggering toll of nearly 500. More …
New Delhi: Even after the coal ministry’s assurance of supplying more coal to power plants, as many as 33 electricity generating stations are running at less than four days of stock due to less receipt from Coal India. As per the data (as on October 23) released by the Central …
Only one polio case has been detected in the country in the past nine months, making it the longest polio-free period ever since eradication efforts were launched. Now closest ever to eradicating polio, the government has decided to treat any fresh case of polio as a “public health emergency” in …
Lucknow: The Allahabad high court’s reiteration that all projects in the National Capital Region must have the approval of the NCR Planning Board has thrown into uncertainty investments made by more than 22,000 people in the ambitious Yamuna Expressway township, located 40km from Delhi. Thousands of plots have been sold …
