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: The bivalent polio drop seems to be working. Not a single case of polio has been reported from Uttar Pradesh till now. However, more than 700 suspected cases (those suffering from acute flaccid paralysis) have been reported from across the state. But detailed examination of their stool samples revealed …
LUCKNOW: There are broad hints of a change in original draft to set up a metro rail in the state capital. LDA sources said that the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) reviewing the status of the project has indicated an increase in the coverage area. As per the original plans, …
Pioneer News Service | Lucknow Pioneer News Service LucknowOwing to rampant corruption in the implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in the state, CPI (ML) on Sunday said the poor given employment under scheme were not being paid the prescribed wages. CPI (ML) state secretary Sudhakar Yadav, ahead …
NEW DELHI: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday launched the bivalent oral vaccine against polio in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh to mark the national immunisation day. The vaccine was launched in Bihar last month and offers protection from the P1 and P3 types of polio …
S.S. NEGI Concerned over the inordinate delay in executing the east and west peripheral corridors meant for reducing the traffic load in the capital, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to expedite work on the project to save Delhi from the traffic woes. A …
LUCKNOW: Managing director, Madhyanchal Electricity Distribution Company, Parthsarthy Sen Sharma has directed the officials of the distribution company to initiate adequate measures in solving the problem of overdrawal in the forthcoming summers. Sharma asked the officials of the districts coming under the jurisdiction to see that the capacity of the …
MUKESH RANJAN Treading the path cut out by AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi, the ministry of water resources intends to seek Cabinet approval for according special category status to districts falling under Bundelkhand region. The districts fall under Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. After announcing special package worth Rs 7,266 …
Given the importance of a credible monitoring and evaluation (M&E;) of NREGS for qualitative improvements, timely redressal of grievances and mid course corrections in implementation, a third party monitoring and evaluation team was set up in June 2009 by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of Uttar Pradesh. The government …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005 has been a landmark legislation in the Indian history of social security legislation post independence. This Act has been devised as a public works programme with a rights-based approach of providing 100 days of guaranteed wage employment as income security to rural …
Chhoti Gandak is a meandering river which originates in the terai area of the Ganga Plain and serves as a lifeline for the people of Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh. It travels a distance of about 250 km and drains into Ghaghara near Gothani, Siwan district of Bihar. It has been …
The present study deals with the impact of agriculture crop residue burning on aerosol properties during October 206 and 2007 over Punjab state, India using ground based measurements and multi-satellite data.
In a novel initiative, record holders from all over India will gather at the Taj Mahal March 22 to campaign for cleaning river Yamuna. A new platform -- World Record Holders Organisation -- launched here Friday, announced the initiative. The organisation brings all Guinness World Records, Limca and India Book …
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh may soon get yet another chance to voice its concern before the Centre over its dismal power situation. Come February and a forum of regulators and northern region forum of electricity regulator would be holding a meeting in the state capital to review the power situation. While …
Environment education will be a part of the school curriculum in Uttar Pradesh from the next academic session. State environment principal secretary Alok Ranjan said the government has already taken the first step in that direction by taking a decision to constitute a State Climate Change Board that would chart …
LUCKNOW: After throwing open thermal power generation to private players, the UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) is mulling to repeat the act with hydro power as well. On Monday, a decision to this effect was taken at a review meeting presided over by UPPCL chairman-cum-managing director Navneet Sehgal. It was …
Six rivers in western Uttar Pradesh, including the Yamuna, are now so polluted that they should be classified as dead, says a new study. The study, carried out by local NGO Neer Foundation as part of a project of the World Water Monitoring Day Organisation, found that six of the …
The government has roped in the Asian Development Bank to assist it in implementing the restructured programme of Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas on a pilot basis The government has roped in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to assist it in implementing the restructured programme of Providing Urban Amenities …
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided not to consider new development projects for Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Singrauli, Noida, Agra and Varanasi-Mirzapur for the next eight months following directions from the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF). An environmental assessment of industrial clusters conducted by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and …
M.J. PRABU TANDIYA IS 30 km from Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh. Local farmers grow wheat, barley, gram, mustard, chilly, pea, brinjal during Rabi season and bajra, sorghum, paddy, tuwar, moth bean, green gram and groundnut during Kharif. It is also famous for its vegetable market. Like several others in the …
