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 …
LUCKNOW: With more than 70 out of 802 blocks in the state labelled as over-exploited, the ground water situation is alarming. However, the menace could be checked by resorting to rain water harvesting and river re-charging. "There are 72 out of 802 blocks where water is over-exploited", said KB Biswas, …
New Delhi: The development of the Okhla Bird Park has been on hold for several years as its notification has become a bone of contention between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. UP notified the park as a sanctuary in 1990, including areas that came under Delhi. While the state is in …
A unique UP system to monitor scheme through cloud telephony to be replicated across the country For the past six months, around noon every day, a cellphone rings in 1.5 lakh government schools across Uttar Pradesh. On the other end of the line is a computer-generated voice asking if the …
LUCKNOW: In order to conserve and develop forests through public participation, Forest Development Authorities (FDAs) have been created at the level of a forest division. Till now, the state has 63 divisions, where FDAs got funds from the Centre. "FDAs have been existing in almost all the forest divisions," said …
A powerful quake struck south-western Pakistan on Wednesday and its effect was felt in Delhi, Rajasthan and parts of western Uttar Pradesh and Haryana where people came out of their homes but there were no reports of any damage or loss of life. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the …
The new union rural development minister Vilasrao Deshmukh takes charge of the key ministry at a time when the mega Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) 2005 completes mandated five years of implementation within next few weeks. Deshmukh would lead the rural development ministry which gets the largest …
It is important for the states to come out with solutions to achieve long-term foodgrain self-sufficiency. Production of foodgrain, that is, cereals and pulses, has been rising in India, from an average of 65 million tonnes in the fifties to 211 million tonnes in the 2000s. Foodgrain yield rose from …
A powerful quake today struck southwestern Pakistan and its effect was felt in Delhi, Rajasthan and parts of western Uttar Pradesh and Haryana where people came out of their homes but there were no reports of any damage or loss of life. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the epicentre …
LUCKNOW: It was a partial relief for the heavily polluted Gomti, as Asia's largest sewage treatment plant (STP) got operational on chief minister Mayawati's birthday on Saturday. Around 290 million litres per day (mld) of sewage was pumped into the 342 mld STP situated in Bharwara, around 20 kilometre from …
LUCKNOW: Denying any difference with the environment ministry over mining in the forest area, minister for coal Sriprakash Jaiswal said here that he had no intentions of disturbing the area notified in gazettes as dense forest. The forest land in the country is estimated to be .025 per cent and …
The Uttar Pradesh government has given the nod to go ahead with the proposed eight-lane Upper Ganga Canal Expressway (UGCE) project, kick-starting the process of getting bids for tenders from the month-end.
LUCKNOW: In a bid to promote organic farming in Uttar Pradesh, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry in India (ASSOCHAM) will adopt five districts in the state. The names of the districts will be finalised after a meeting of the ASSOCHAM officials with chief minister Mayawati. Under the programme, …
Almost 10 years after work started on the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) project, one of the biggest highway networks in the country, the 754-km stretch on Delhi-Kolkata road is almost complete, except for a railway overbridge (ROB) at Tundla in Firozabad, which would be ready in March.
Blocked roads and sub-zero temperatures in Himachal affect normal life Winter chill returned on Sunday in most of the northern States as the cold wave pushed mercury to record lows in Shimla and Pahalgam and claimed two more lives in Uttar Pradesh. Two more persons died -one each from Hardoi …
Funds to be used for building 24,000 km of roads The World Bank will offer a loan of $1.5 billion (about `6,800 crore) to India for building 24,000-km of all-weather roads in the rural areas of seven economically poor and hilly states like Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. This is …
Chief Minister Mayawati would inaugurate projects worth Rs 4000 crore on Saturday when she would turn 55 despite Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leadership's appeal to party workers for a simple celebration of her birthday. The people of the state would get 250 new power sub-stations, 22 power distribution centres, road …
