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: Anomalies in the sale of certified seeds in Uttar Pradesh are touching new lows. A survey of NREGS implementation in Kanpur Dehat, conducted by member, state quality monitor, Vinod Shankar Chaubey, has brought to light largescale irregularities in the distribution and sale of certified seeds to beneficiaries of NREGS. …
LUCKNOW: Evicting tribals and traditional dwellers from tiger reserves is not always the solution. Creating a stake for them in reserves could also be an option. The biggest tiger reserve of the country, Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam has its security manned by its tribal folks `Chenchus'. The step taken by Andhra Pradesh forest …
Local communities have always found ingenious ways to overcome adverse conditions like floods, which affect not only farming but also lives and livelihoods. Over centuries, people have evolved ways and means to adapt to this natural phenomenon and have learnt to live with flooding situations.
Kanpur: Days after environment minister Jairam Ramesh expressed unhappiness over its inaction in cleaning the Ganges, the UP Pollution Control Board said it was working towards cleaning the river and had closed down 65 industrial units polluting it. Ramesh, who was here to participate in 'Ganga river basin management workshop' …
The agitation over Government move to acquire agricultural land for setting up townships near Yamuna Expressway is all set to gain momentum after farmers in western Uttar Pradesh put Mayawati government on notice. Farmers of Aligarh have decided to go on an indefinite hunger strike from Monday to demand compensation …
Alleging corruption in maintenance work of dams in the state, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on Sunday demanded a judicial probe in to breaking of Algin-Charsadi dam leading to hundreds of villages being flooded in Gonda and Barabanki districts. RLD state president Ram Asrey Verma accusing state administration for playing with …
The state government has prepared a strategy to provide 100-day job to 10 lakh most deprived families under Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in this fiscal. "These targeted 10 lakh people would include 5 lakh the most poor families and the rest, 5 lakh, would be women," …
Amendments to the Land Acquisition Act, which took centrestage post-Nandigram agitation, are again under the spotlight due to recent protests by Uttar Pradesh farmers. While Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi
As companies begin to look at corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as an integral part of their business strategy, rather than as a tool to meet their social commitments, the scope of the activity has gained in importance for corporates. Businessworld and Ficci joined hands in 1999 to recognise the companies …
Ajay Modi & Jyoti Mukul / New Delhi August 27, 2010, 1:35 IST Taking advantage of its vast pipeline network, GAIL (India) is planning to put up a gas-based power plant each in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. The country
The Parliament gherao by hundreds of farmers led by the RLD chief Ajit Singh on Thursday saw leaders of both the Left and the right, the BJP, coming together to champion the cause of the agitating farmers. All the leaders cutting across the party lines demand from the government to …
LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party organised State-wide demonstrations on Thursday in protest against alleged forcible acquisition of farmers' land by the Bahujan Samaj Party Government in Uttar Pradesh. In a memorandum addressed to the Governor, B. L. Joshi, and submitted to the District Magistrates, the Samajwadi Party demanded abolition of the …
Jiby Kattakayam NEW DELHI: Farmers' protests against inadequate compensation for land acquired by the Uttar Pradesh government for the Yamuna Expressway project reached the capital on Thursday, with thousands of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) supporters thronging the Jantar Mantar for a rally convened by party chief Ajit Singh. Leaders from …
NEW DELHI, 25 AUG: As agitating farmers in Uttar Pradesh observed a state-wide bandh and prepared to gherao Parliament tomorrow, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today assured Congress leader Mr Rahul Gandhi that the pending Land Acquisition Amendment Bill will be brought in the next session of Parliament. Dr Singh gave …
The state-wide shutdown by farmers to press for increased compensation turned violent in Agra with protestors torching government vehicles and fighting pitched battle on the streets throwing traffic haywire on Wednesday. Elsewhere in western UP, rail and road traffic was disrupted by the protestors and the stir found support from …
The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday ruled out any defect in the measles vaccine, administration of which resulted in the death of four children at Mohanlalganj near Lucknow on Saturday. The Government attributed the casualties to systemic failure. “The vaccine was right. There was system failure. There must be something …
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi took UP farmers’ issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday and urged him to step in. The Prime Minister has assured Rahul that the much-delayed Land Acquisition Amendment Bill will be brought in the next session of Parliament. Singh gave the assurance to Rahul …
