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 …

UP: HC sends notice over monkey issue

The Allahabad high court has issued show cause notices to three officials for noncompliance of an order, asking them to initiate steps to drive away dangerous monkeys from a village in the district. The officials who have been issued the notice include Pilibhit district magistrate and Vishalpur SDM, reports our …

Conservation implications of the channel changes in Sharda River on endangered swamp deer population and floodplain ecosystem

One surviving stronghold of endangered Northern swamp deer is Jhadi taal (lake) in Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary on the floodplains of Sharda River. Changes in channel characteristics and land use/cover in a stretch of the river were detected during 1948

Digvijay accuses Mayawati Govt. of misusing funds

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh with UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Promod Tiwari in Lucknow on Tuesday. LUCKNOW: Accusing the Mayawati Government in Uttar Pradesh of misusing funds for implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGP), Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh said here on Tuesday …

Digvijay alleges swindling of funds in MNREGS in UP

Alleging gross swindling of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) in UP, Congress national general Digvijay Singh claimed to have thrashed out a one-year programme to expose the corruption in which Chief Minister Mayawati and her cabinet colleagues allegedly indulged. He was speaking on the …

Ghaziabad Nigam move to keep Hindon clean

GHAZIABAD: In an attempt to keep the Hindon river clean, the Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam has introduced a temple waste disposal system which it claims is the first of its kind in the country. Waste material from temples, including offerings, have been identified as major pollutants in the river and the …

Skin Poachers gang busted

The sleuths of the Special Task Force (STF) arrested two persons in Meerut and claimed to have busted a gang of skin poachers on Friday. They said that two skins of leopard were recovered from possession of the held accused along with two mobile phones. A case under various Sections …

Ganga clean-up gets Rs 1,394cr boost

$1bn WB Loan Also On Cards: Ramesh New Delhi: In a boost to the Ganga cleaning programme, the government has cleared projects worth Rs 1,394.11 crore for the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Uttarakhand. While the Union government had allocated Rs 500 crore for the 2010-11 fiscal, …

Assessing for climate-sustainable development in the Ganges Basin

Assessing for climate-sustainable development in the Ganges Basin by Divya Mohan and Shirish Sinha presented at the National Climate Research Conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010. http://www.cseindia.org/docs/IIT_Climate_change/Divya%20Mohan.pdf

World Bank comes calling to save maili Ganga

Biswajeet Banerjee | Lucknow With several crore rupees going down the drain and the Ganga still remaining

Three farmers from UP awarded for excellence

LUCKNOW: Even as the Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee advocated growth in rural sectors of the country, the exemplary efforts of three farmers from Uttar Pradesh were being recognised by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, just a few kilometres away at Vigyan Bhawan in the national capital, on Friday. Ajay …

Floristic and ecological studies of Bakhira wetland, Uttar Pradesh, India

The present paper provides an enumerative account of the aquatic and marshy plants of Bakhira wetland situated in Sant Kabir Nagar. In all 119 species belonging to 79 genera and 42 families have been listed.

Biomass is in vogue

Bio seems to be the buzzword of the moment when experts in India talk about the country's future energy supply. India's government wants to put more emphasis on biomass and the industry shows increaseing interest.

Spring thunder anew

IT has been a long and tortuous route. Forty-three years ago, a group of Maoist revolutionaries conceived of and embarked upon a revolutionary road that still inspires their political descendants, alarms the dominant classes, and provokes slander and denigration on the part of the establishment left, post-modernists and well-funded NGO …

Noise pollution: A threat to sustainable environment

The paper presents results obtained in a monitoring study on environmental noise pollution in the city of Aligarh which is a rapidly developing urban centre and a hub of lock industries.

Azamgarhs Healing Herb

AFTER THE September 2008 ATS raid on Batla House and the Ahmedabad attack, most people have come to regard Azamgarh in eastern Uttar Pradesh as a

Govt lifts ban on transport of raw sugar in UP

For private sugar mills, which have huge consignments of raw sugar lying dumped at ports in Gujarat, the wait is finally over. The Mayawati government has finally agreed to lift the ban on transportation of raw sugar in UP. Now mill owners can bring the raw sugar to UP and …

CM affecting development of Bundelkhand,says Vivek Singh

Congress MLA from Banda and UP Congress Media Cell chief, Vivek Singh on Tuesday, accused chief minister Mayawati of creating hurdles in the development of Bundelkhand. He alleged that the proposed 4000 megawatt power plant, which was sanctioned by the Prime Minister was not coming up in the state just …

Three polluting saree units get closure notice

LUCKNOW: Three units engaged in dyeing and printing of the famous Banarasi saree in Varanasi came under the hammer of UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) on Tuesday evening. The board served a closure notice to the units for discharging untreated effluent in the sewer which ultimately drained into the Ganga. …

States' finances show perceptible progress

On February 12, state governments together held close to Rs 101,461 crore worth of 14-day treasury bills. Five years earlier, just before the Twelfth Finance Commission presented its report, that number was Rs 13,351 crore. Investment by states in 14-day treasury bills provides the closest measure of the cash available …

Industrial clusters to be re-verified

The 88 industrial clusters identified by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) will be re-verified for the amount of pollution they generate, on the basis of which they will be re-rated.

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