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 …
Surprise was in store for Sushil Kaushik when in 1989 he first joined duty as a constable in Serkot in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district. He had no idea how corrupt police officials can be. He saw policemen taking bribes, and superiors deducting constables’ salaries without giving any explanation. Kaushik questioned …
LUCKNOW: Judicious use of available water is just the tip of an overall conservation strategy that needs to be adopted by the state government. For, it
Iodine deficiency diseases on the rise againIDDS, or Iodine Deficiency Disorders, have never been on the government list of priority health issues. Till now, that is. A recent cross-country study by the Directorate General of Health Services, Indian Council of Medical Research and state health directorates have thrown up alarming …
NEW DELHI, 10 JUNE: The government today approved a proposal for carrying out the second phase of Ganga Action Plan worth Rs 496.90 crore with Japanese assistance at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The proposal by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will be under the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) …
The cabinet committee on infrastructure (CCI) approved highway projects worth Rs 2,500 crore today. These highways will come up across Gujarat, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and will be built under the National Highways Development Programme (NHDP). The CCI also approved the four-laning of 123 km Jetpur-Somnath …
New Delhi: The river Ganga may soon get a much-needed clean-up act at the section where it crosses the pilgrimage city of Varanasi, with a little help from the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh state government. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday approved a Rs 497-crore project to …
NEW DELHI: The Centre has approved a Rs.497-crore project for Varanasi under Mission Clean Ganga. The project, which comes under the National Ganga River Basin Authority, will set up a plant to treat 140 million litres of sewage a day, lay 34 km of sewers and rehabilitate existing systems, construct …
LUCKNOW: The site for the proposed municipal solid waste management (MSW) project would undergo yet another environmental scrutiny on June 14, when the state environment directorate would look into objections pertaining to environmental threat from the project. On Tuesday, the state advisory council (SAC) headed by Satish Chandra Mishra decided …
Its proximity to the Capital might have actually caused more damage to Ghaziabad than good. While it was busy dealing with its own pollution mess, a large part of Delhi
ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, TEAM TOI TAKES A WHIFF OF THE POLLUTION CONTAMINATING THE COUNTRY For the first time, seven Indian Institutes of Technology will prepare a comprehensive river basin management plan for Ganga. The plan is being prepared for the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) which is headed …
Revised CNG Rate 58% Less Than Petrol Price New Delhi: Even after the CNG price goes up by Rs 5.60/kg from June 8, the cost benefit of the green fuel against petrol and diesel will not come down substantially and will push up the per km running cost of various …
LUCKNOW: Even as the heatwave continued in the city, many parts of the state were lashed by duststorm on Thursday evening. While the city witnessed dusty clouds and was lashed by strong winds, the storm in other parts of the state though brought relief but also left behind a trail …
LUCKNOW: Come September and each honk in the city would register itself at the national level. With MoEF keeping its date with the ambitious `national ambient noise monitoring network' project, there are hardly any chances that city's high decibels will be missed. UPPCB has started "procuring equipment" to set up …
LIKE any normal child, Illyas from Varanasi, a 13-year-old, wanted to go to a regular school and become an important man some day. But poverty forced him to start working at an eatery for Rs.200 a day so that he could feed his younger siblings. He, however, continues his studies …
Alarmed over the death of a large number of peacocks in Uttar Pradesh due to soaring heat, the state forest department has stepped in to fill up water bodies dried up by the scorching summer heat. The reports of recovery of carcass of scores of peacocks in Auraiya, Kannauj, Farrukhabad …
Increasing depletion of groundwater has turned Agra into a desert. The groundwater table has gone down to 45 metres while the soil has lost its moisture and turned to coarse sand at places.
Firm Likely To Set Up Smaller Plants At Multiple Locations; In Talks With Maharashtra, Andhra & Gujarat Rajeev Jayaswal & Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI ANIL Dhirubhai Ambani group company Reliance Power (R-Power) may substantially scale down its 7,480 mw Dadri power project and instead set up two or more plants …
