Uttar Pradesh

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of Godavari river, Telangana, 29/05/2025

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 …

Dust storms claim 15 lives in U.P.

New Delhi: Fifteen people were killed on Thursday as dust storms lashed different districts of Uttar Pradesh while North India continued to reel under the heat wave with the mercury crossing 45 degrees at several places. A dust storm swept across the trans-Ganga region in the morning killing nine people, …

Lack of monitoring hits UP road projects badly

Uttar Pradesh, a major beneficiary under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), has not only ignored action against erring officials for poor implementation of the flagship scheme but has instead awarded additional works under the scheme in certain cases. Lack of close monitoring by the National Rural Roads Agency, …

The Uttar Pradesh Groundwater Conservation, Protection And Development (Management, Control And Regulation) Bill, 2010

A bill to provide for the management, control and regulation of the conservation, protection and development of groundwater in the State and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. This Act may be called the Uttar Pradesh Groundwater Conservation, Protection and Development (Management, Control and Regulation) Act, 2010. It extends …

Demographic dividend?

Reform of education and urban mgmt and priority for growth in the Gangetic belt are the key Nitin Desai / New Delhi May 20, 2010, 0:16 IST Population growth seems to have dropped off the public agenda these days. One reason for this is a twist in the old Malthusian …

Plan panel nod to UP's Rs 42k cr plan

LUCKNOW: The Planning Commission after having detailed discussion with a team of senior officers of UP, led by chief secretary Atul Kumar Gupta in New Delhi on Tuesday, approved Rs 42,000 crore annual plan for the state for the year 2010-2011. According to official release, the chief minister had demanded …

UP trips on prime power projects

LUCKNOW: Thanks to the tardy pace and poor execution of work, two ambitious power projects, which could have diffused the critical power crisis in Uttar Pradesh to a considerable extent this summers, may not come up on time after all. The two projects

Is memorial an environ threat, asks HC

LUCKNOW: Ambedkar Sthal, the dream project of Mayawati government appeared as Helen's necklace for the state capital, said Justice AK Roopanwal of the full bench of the high court while asking the opponents of the said project if the dwellers residing in the vicinity of the sthal face any environmental …

42000 crore annual plan for Uttar Pradesh

The Planning Commission has approved the annual plan of Rs 42000 crore for the Uttar Pradesh for the year 2010-11. However this could not satisfy the state government as it has alleged that in comparison with the other states the Central Government was not providing expected share to Uttar Pradesh …

Ganges River Dolphin becomes national aquatic animal

Starting Tuesday, the Ganges River Dolphin is officially the national aquatic animal of India. The Environment Ministry notified the endangered species

States allege bias in food subsidy

AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI Non-Congress nruled states insist that they are being discriminated against on the key issue of food subsidy. Non-Congress states, including UP, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Orissa and Punjab, have been demanding the numbers of below poverty line (BPL) persons getting subsidised ration under the targeted …

Census 2011 begins in UP

LUCKNOW: On Sunday, Census 2011, India's 15th enumeration drive since 1872, was kickstarted in Uttar Pradesh. The exercise began with chief minister Mayawati filling up her details in the census schedule 2011 at her residence in Lucknow. The CM also made an appeal to residents of UP, to cooperate with …

UP at loggerheads with Centre again over Singrauli power plants

Anil Yadav | Lucknow The state government and the Union Environment Ministry are at loggerheads again as the Centre has stalled four power projects of 5300 mega watts at Singrauli on the ground that

Lokpal to address complains relating to MGNREGS

All districts of the state will soon have a local resident as ombudsman (Lokpal) for disposal of complaints related to implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). State level cell of MGNREGS working under rural development department has invited applications in this regard from non political persons …

Sun light, at night!

Even as Delhi and NCR reel under power cuts, solar energy is beginning to light up villages just a few miles into the countryside. The sun no longer sets on Nakshandabad. It continues to light up this small village in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh well past dusk. Even as …

Low farm output will hit food security

AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI Low farm productivity in big states like UP, Bihar, Orissa, MP and West Bengal is proving to be a limiting factor to India's food security in the long run Low farm produc tivity in big states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal …

Uranium Pradesh is all set to end Chinese exports raj

Swati Mathur | TNN Lucknow: The minister for mining and geology in Uttar Pradesh, Babu Singh Kushwaha made a significant announcement last Friday; one that has the potential to change UP

Lucknow lags behind Kanpur on sanitation front?

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh now has a unique distinction. The state, after scaling new lows on several fronts, has now achieved another statistical feat most would shy away from. In a ranking of cities, along 19 sanitation parameters, conducted by the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) in New Delhi, 34 cities …

Reliance Power mulls AP as alternative to Dadri

RELIANCE Power is considering setting up a gas-based power plant in Andhra Pradesh, instead of Dadri, after the Supreme Court ruled that the government-approved gas price of $4.2 per unit is the benchmark price for gas from the Krishna Godavari basin. Litigation over land for the power plant in Uttar …

India rolls out the smart-city way of living

Kalpana Jain & Sharmistha Mukherjee / New Delhi May 12, 2010, 0:55 IST India is finally set to give shape to its futuristic smart cities

Eclipsed At Dawn

Last week, the central government celebrated five successful years of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and its outreach programmes. But an international report from the voluntary group Save the Children, to be released on May 3, comes as a dampener. The figures show India topping the global list for …

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