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 …
Even as the farmers of western Uttar Pradesh are up in arms against the state government's decision to acquire agricultural land around Yamuna Expressway for construction of residential colony, plots worth about Rs 1800 crore have been sold in the fiscal that ended on Thursday. The government dossiers claim that …
The main purposes of this paper were to assess effects of smallholder farmers access to livelihood capital (e.g. land, livestock and water) on livestock water productivity (LWP) and to evaluate impacts of selected interventions in reducing livestock water demand (per unit of livestock product) and therefore increasing LWP.
India has the world’s second largest urban population (after China). This paper shows the large disparities within this urban population in healthrelated indicators. It shows the disparities for child and maternal health, provision for health care and housing conditions between the poorest quartile and the rest of the urban population …
India Corruption Study (ICS) 2010 is the seventh edition of studies undertaken by CMS since 2000 and fourth in the last five years. The purpose of this and earlier rounds has been to provide a reliable tool for improving governance.
The report analyses the investment climate of the Northern States of India viz. Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. It outlines the economic and industrial profiles of the Northern States, availability of factors of production- land & labour, policies, incentives & regulations …
A budget of Rs 21,000 crore has been approved by the three boards of Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development authorities at a board meeting held here yesterday. Mohinder Singh, chairman of three authorities briefing mediamen after the meeting, said, "Rs 4,955 crore has been approved for Noida, …
The way paan is associated with India, a Chaurasia is associated with paan. But both the equations are changing, said Lalta Prasad Chaurasia, spitting blood red betel juice into an elegantly designed brass spittoon. The 58-year-old is among the last generation of Chaurasia farmers in Mahoba district of Uttar Pradesh …
In many Indian villages, women and children spend a large part of the day fetching water over long distances. This is despite the Centre’s policy to provide drinking water to all rural habitations. The government set deadlines for providing 100 per cent drinking water cover to the country’s 1.6 million …
Read this special report by Down To Earth on the iconic Paan losing its appeal. Its trade has dipped 40-50 per cent in the past decade, while consumption of chewing tobacco, especially gutkha, increased during the period. Farmers now prefer other crops. Iconic paan no more appeals to farmers, traders …
LUCKNOW: For the second year running, Uttar Pradesh has continued its poor performance on the rural hygiene front. After 2009, when six gram panchayats bagged the Nirmal Gram Puraskar, this year, the state has marked a marginal improvement, with the number of such gram panchayats having risen to 13. However, …
Want Demands Met In 3 Days Lucknow: The agitating farmers at Bhatta Parsol village in Gautam Budh Nagar (Noida) on Sunday released the two government officials they had taken hostage on Saturday. The farmers relented after district administration released 12 persons arrested from the Mirzapur village during protests. However, talks …
The claims of better power supply in state during this summer by UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) might get hit by shortage of coal at national level. The recent projections by Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has come as a pointer of hard times ahead for UPPCL which had announced commissioning …
LUCKNOW: After persistently recording higher noise levels, Lucknow has come under the direct watch of the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF). The real time ambient noise monitoring network was launched by minister of state for environment and forests, Jairam Ramesh, in New Delhi on Wednesday. Lucknow is a part …
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) on Thursday allotted the contract to run the multi-level parking lot in Hazratganj and decided the parking rates as well. One would be required to pay Rs 10 for parking a four-wheeler for the first one-and-a-half hours. After that, one would required to shell …
LUCKNOW: A telescopic gun worth over Rs 1.5 lakh, a huge searchlight, two professional shooters (read hunters) and a blue bull writhing in its own blood. And to hide it all, unholy act for many, two butchers at hand to dismember and pack away the day's spoil. It seems, illegal …
LUCKNOW: The forest department has got a target of planting over 2 crore saplings in the year 2011-12. However, it is the rural areas that may get far more saplings when compared to the city areas. Reason: The funds for plantation in 74 forest divisions come through Mahatma Gandhi Rural …
LUCKNOW: The Globe Park near CDRI would now be named after country's first president Rajendra Prasad. Likewise the crossing near the high court would be named after former advocate general and Samajwadi Party Rajya Sabha MP, late Virendra Bhatia. These were among the decisions taken by the House of Lucknow …
LUCKNOW: The aftershocks of tsunami in Japan have reached Uttar Pradesh. The National Ganga River Basin Authority's (NGRBA) ambitious plan to cleanse one of the most polluted stretch of river Ganga in Varanasi is facing the prospects of a forced closure. Funded by the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA), the …
