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 …

Why Dont They Take Saccharine?

With his basic needs mounting, the sugar mills not yet operating and the window for sowing his wheat crop narrowing, Amarjit Singh of Kayastha Ganwadi village in Meerut district decided he couldn

UP migrants son is Himachals 1st polio case in 3 yrs

After a gap of three years, Himachal Pradesh has been re-infected with the polio virus as a two-and-a-half-year-old male child of a migrant labourer from Uttar Pradesh, who lives in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, has tested positive with wild type-3 polio virus. The child has a history of constant …

Sugar row: Crushing on, UP rules out SAP hike

The Uttar Pradesh government has ruled out the possibility of a hike in the State Advisory Price (SAP) of sugarcane. UP

U.P. cane farmers threaten to intensify agitation

LUCKNOW: Even as the Uttar Pradesh government issued directives to the Divisional Commissioners and District magistrates (DMs) for evolving a consensus on the sugarcane farmers getting a price more than the State Advised Price (SAP), the growers have threatened to intensify their agitation. The cane farmers have demanded a price …

UP says alls well on cane front,but stir on

Govt Claims Mills Working, But Cane In Short Supply As Farmers Stick To High Price Demand WITH farmers remaining steadfast on their demand for higher cane prices and now expected to train their guns once again on the state government, the Mayawati administration on Sunday claimed that crushing of cane …

Explain shortage of fertilisers: HC to state

LUCKNOW: The high court on Friday sought reply of the state government on a PIL seeking timely availability of fertilisers to farmers in the state. The court fixed November 26 for next hearing of the case. The order came on the PIL filed by five farmers from Lucknow, Pilibhit, Sitapur …

Improved organic waste management: climate benefits through the 3Rs in developing Asian countries

This working paper is based on research carried out as commission work for the Ministry of Environment, Japan (MOEJ). It presents the analysis of climate benefits through the 3Rs focusing on organic waste management. It shows separate treatment hierarchies for different kinds of organic waste and recommendations for selection of …

Improved organic waste management: climate benefits through the 3Rs in developing Asian countries

This working paper is based on research carried out as commission work for the Ministry of Environment, Japan (MOEJ). It presents the analysis of climate benefits through the 3Rs focusing on organic waste management. It shows separate treatment hierarchies for different kinds of organic waste and recommendations for selection of …

Maternal tragedies

A Human Rights Watch report emphasises the need for a system of recording and investigating all maternal deaths. A scene inside the Government Maternity Hospital in Kothi, Andhra Pradesh. In this file photograph, two lactating mothers, with their babies, are seen sharing the same bed. The lack of proper post-natal …

Ban cotton export & we march to Delhi: Farmers

After Uttar Pradesh farmers protested against sugarcane prices, Punjab farmers are now threatening to march to Delhi if the Union Government bans export of cotton. Punjab is the leading producer of medium staple cotton in the north followed by Haryana and Rajasthan. The government has assessed a combined production of …

PCB teams inspect Kanpur tanneries

LUCKNOW: Several teams constituted by the UP Pollution Control Board inspected 44 tanneries in Kanpur district on Wednesday. The teams were constituted by the UPPCB as a follow-up to an order passed by the Allahabad High Court early in November. The bench comprising justice Ashok Bhushan and justice Arun Tandon …

Sugarcane farmers force factories to close down

LUCKNOW: The sugarcane farmers in UP continued to agitate against state and Central governments cane purchase prices. While some farmers set afire documents and furnitures of a sugar mill office in Muzaffarnagar and forced other factories to suspend their work, in Sultanpur, farmers blocked the roads in protest. Farmers, led …

Leather park in Unnao to reduce pollution in Ganga

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh could boast of owning the country's biggest leather complex, if plans of UP State Industrial Development Corporation (UPSIDC) actualise. In a significant move, the corporation is planning to set up a Leather Park sprawling over an area of 1,500 acre in Unnao, bordering Kanpur district. "The UPSIDC …

Bundelkhand package Centre bid to outwit UP govt

LUCKNOW: Year 2009 will go down as the year of Bundelas in Uttar Pradesh's history. A focal point of bitter confrontation between the Congress and the ruling BSP, the parched terrain, straddling seven districts in UP and five in MP, has never had it so good. Recent months have seen …

Farmers run riot in heart of capital

New Delhi: No less than 12,000 farmers descended on the capital on Thursday to protest against the Centre

UP Govt to use NREGS fund for highways

With an aim to increasing its green cover the state government has decided to use NREGS money for beautification of national and state highways by setting up parks and nurseries along the highways. The State Horticulture department has been asked to sanction Rs one crore from each district

Bundelkhand package is insufficient: BSP

Hitting out at Congress-led UPA Government the Bahujan Samaj Party said that the much-hyped Bundelkhand package was "insufficient" and was aimed at gaining political mileage rather than solving problems of that rugged region. "The Congress government has ditched the people of Bundelkhand who are craving for development. With this package …

Cabinet nod to Rs 7, 266 cr Bundelkhand package

The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared a special package worth Rs 7,266 crore for the implementation of a drought mitigation strategy over a three-year period starting 2009-10 for the development of 13 districts in the Bundelkhand region.

Cabinet clears Bundelkhand package

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a Rs.7,277-crore Drought Mitigation Special Package for the integrated development of the drought-hit Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh from 2009 to 2010. The package covers seven districts of Uttar Pradesh (Banda, Chitrakoot, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalipur and Mahoba) and …

Bundelkhand to get agriculture package

Days after the Congress failed to make any electoral headway in the Bundelkhand region, identified by AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi as a stepping stone for the grand old party

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