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 …
The new station to come up in Anand Vihar With the Capital's ambient air quality approaching its crunch time during Diwali, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee has decided to add one more ambient air monitoring station to its existing five. “The new station that is due to come up in …
With the focus now on the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, scheduled for early next year, the Congress led-UPA government has once again displayed its keenness to position itself with the agitating farmers by trying to ensure the passage of the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill during the winter …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to meet 10 chief ministers this month to finalise a strategy to deal with agrarian and land reforms, an official said here Sunday. A National Council for Land Reforms (NCLR), under the chairmanship of the prime minister, was set up earlier this year with …
Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, and Karnataka have shown high-growth momentum in agricultural foodgrain production during the last five years and have the potential to contribute significantly to India’s foodgrain basket. The share of these low-foodgrain yielding states in the total foodgrain production of India have improved from 17.4 per cent to …
New Delhi The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has decided to crack the whip on states overdrawing power much beyond approval. It may slap penalty on Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan which heavily overdrew electricity from the northern grid during the recent power shortage, causing blackouts in several regions. The …
With another person testing positive for Japanese Encephalitis, the number of people affected by the virus rose to five in the city. 30-year-old Ram Swarth, a resident of Inderpuri in southwest Delhi, is the fifth victim in the city to be diagnosed with the disease that primarily affects the central …
New Delhi: The city continued to be hit by long power cuts, leading to water crises in many areas, even as the Delhi government blamed poll-bound UP for aggravating the problem while promising to end the outages in a day or two. Residents of Vikaspuri in west Delhi had barely …
Ahmedabad:A study of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) warns that Nitrous Oxide (N2O) emissions from excessive use of fertilizers by farmers in the country is significantly adding to global warming. The study suggests that better planning could increase the national food grain production without further increasing the emission. …
Microinsurance or Community-Based Health Insurance is a promising healthcare financing mechanism, which is increasingly applied to aid rural poor persons in low-income countries. Robust empirical evidence on the causal relations between Community-Based Health Insurance and healthcare utilisation, financial protection and other areas is scarce and necessary. This paper contains a …
Mumbai Loans disbursed to state governments by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) crossed the Rs 1,00,000 crore mark cumulatively and stood at Rs 1,02,844 crore as on September 30. NABARD has crossed a disbursement of Rs one lakh crore for the creation of rural infrastructure in …
Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Power on Monday said it would earn Rs.2,000 crore by trading carbon credits from its Tilaiya ultra mega power project (UMPP) in Jharkhand in the first ten years of its operations. In a statement issued here, it said the Tilaiya project had got approval for carbon credits …
It was Mahatma Gandhi's dream to see an India free from hunger. Today, India is going to operate the largest social protection programme against hunger in human history. Right to food through the National Food Security Bill has been recently introduced in Parliament.
Field observations conducted at Kanpur, to analyze the ration of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) contributions by benthasludge to the overlaying waters of the river Ganga were presented in part 1 of this paper. This data was later correlated to the data obtained under different conditions of operating and process variables …
A survey of birds was carried out from March 2007 to August 2007. The birds were observed during most active period of the day i.e. 0515 to 0830 hrs and 1530 to 1830 hrs. A total of 200 bird species were recorded in the sanctuary.
To carry out present study, ecotourism auditing survey has been used as a potential tool in ecotourism with special reference to assess visitor's management in Soor Sarovar Bird Sanctuary, Agra.
WWF-India has been working in the upper Ganga river stretch since 1997. Various programmes and projects involving indicator aquatic species and local communities have been implemented. It has been a major learning experience. The overarching focus has been on the effort to improve the status of the Ganga river ecosystem. …
The flood-ravaged Indian state of Orissa is asking for billions of rupees in federal funds to help cope with the destruction and relocate hundreds of thousands of people. The monsoon flooding follows a severe drought earlier in the year and has killed at least 81 people in Orissa alone since …
Delhi has been hit by a new health-scare. Japanese encephalitis, a viral disease, has been reported for the first time in the metropolis. Four people have been affected so far. The viral disease affects the central nervous system and in severe cases can cause death. As of now, the patients—one …
Four confirmed cases of the disease reported With four confirmed cases of Japanese encephalitis being reported from Jehangirpuri and Bawana in the Capital, the Delhi Government on Tuesday swung into action and said it was committed to controlling the deadly disease. Health Minister A. K. Walia took a review meeting …
Wockhardt Foundation has joined hands with state-run GAIL (India) to expand its ‘Vision 1000’ CSR initiative to the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, offering free primary healthcare to poor people in rural and remote areas. Wockhardt Foundation, the corporate social responsibility entity of Wockhardt Group, has entered into …
