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 …
By 2016, commuters from Meerut will benefit from a direct link to Sarai Kale Khan, which will help them reach the Capital in less than 70 minutes. The high-speed rail link will run through 17 stations, covering approximately 90 km from Modipuram, and terminate at Sarai Kale Khan, which is …
The families of the farmers of Bhatta-Parsaul village who were killed in police firing on May 7 could be offered a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each. After receiving instructions from the state government, district officials have submitted a list of the farmers killed and wounded in the police firing …
The divergent recommendations on how government should acquire land made by the National Advisory Council and the Uttar Pradesh government has split industry down the middle. Shedding any pretense of reconciling differences, the two leading industrial chambers, Ficci and CII issued clashing statements on Friday. While CII director general Chandrajit …
The quality of river water is an area of concern in Uttar Pradesh, if the State of Environment report, 2010 is to be believed. The report, released on Sunday by directorate of environment, UP, reveals that between 2004 and 2008, water quality indicators in many cases are negative. While Kanpur …
More Cars On City Roads May Choke You The past few years have seen more and more fourwheelers and two-wheelers zipping across the city roads. But, surprising as it may sound, this trend may affect our health in the long run. An IITR report on air quality, released on Sunday, …
In a move that took many by surprise, the National Advisory Council (NAC) huddled into a seven-hour discussion on the land acquisition and rehabilitation and resettlement bills on Wednesday, and emerged with a sweeping document that reaffirms the government’s will to keep a strong hold over all matters linked to …
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) said that Opposition's criticism of the newly-amended land acquisition policy was uncalled for and showed the anti-farmer mind set of these parties. In a statement released here on Friday, the party's spokesman said that the BSP government had taken an initiative to solve this perennial …
Varanasi: For the promotion of green or non-conventional energy sources, the Jatropha Mission Cell, Department of Planning, is taking initiative to expand its activities in eastern UP.
Tamil Nadu well ahead in demographic transition CHENNAI: The good news from the provisional Census 2011 figures is that the demographic transition is on track in India, but the imbalance in child sex ratio is a serious cause for concern, P.M. Kulkarni, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, has said. He said …
Lucknow A day after the Uttar Pradesh government announced a new land acquisition policy that puts the onus on private developers and keeps the state out, the government announced further modifications to clear ambiguities. The state has decided that in case there is a land acquisition programme by the government
The Union government will set up an independent financial institution to give funds for effective functioning of the self-help groups (SHGs) and better empowerment of the rural poor. UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi announced this while launching the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), which will be funded through financial institutions. As …
Having had to face a series of farmers' protests and flak from Opposition parties over acquisition of land for development and expressway projects in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday announced that all future land transactions would be clinched directly between the farmers and the private developers by adopting …
In Greater Noida, farmers resist fiercely attempts to take over their land for the Yamuna expressway and a hi-tech city. A farmer who was injured in the May 7 clashes between farmers and the police at Bhatta and Parsaul villages in Gautam Buddha Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh rests at …
In an attempt to send a soothing message to farmers who are angry over arbitrary compensation for their lands and no hearing, the UP government is likely to announce setting up of an authority to hear disputes regarding compensation at the
Oxfam, an international confederation of 15 human rights organisations fighting poverty and injustice, launched a new campaign here on Wednesday for a hunger-free world even as it announced that the number of hungry people the world over has crossed the billion mark and one in four of the world's hungry …
Economists divided factors of production in four categories - land, labor, capital and entrepreneur. Anything that goes into production can be put in any of these four categories. Land is the primary factor of production since all natural resources fall in this broad category.
Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh for decades but law does not recognise them. They have hope from the Forest rights Act 2006 in getting legal identity, as it recognises the traditional rights of scheduled tribes and other forest-dwellers on forest land and resources. Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh …
ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad high court on Monday scrapped the acquisition of 170 hectares of land in Gulistanpur village of Gautam Budh Nagar in Greater Noida. The bench of Justice Sunil Ambwani and Justice K N Pandey quashed a UP government notification citing the urgency clause for planned industrial development in …
McDonald saheb, Qureshi saheb, Jivan Singh, Aadal Singh, Udham Singh …. Eighty-yearold Lakshmi Nishad rattles off all the names she remembers of the forest officers who have served in the Gorakhpur range. The display of memory is a desperate attempt to prove that she has lived all her life in …
Staff at a bank in Uttar Pradesh has been blamed for allowing termites to eat their way through banknotes. The insects are believed to have chewed their way through notes worth some Rs 1 crore. “The branch management has been found guilty of laxity due to which the notes were …
