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 Girl A Special Invitee Of Ban Ki-Moon Lucknow: At around 10:30am on September 22, after Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangari Muta Mathaai finishes her speech at the Summit on Climate Change at the United Nations, she will yield the lectern to a 13-yearold Lucknow girl. Yugratna Srivastava, a class IX …
Madan Lal Sharma, a farmer from Nithari village, has won a three decade-long legal fight against the Noida Authority over land compensation. The Allahabad High Court has ordered the Noida Authority to pay Sharma compensation for his land at the rate of Rs 28.12 per sq. yard instead of Rs …
NEW YORK: A 13-year-old girl from Lucknow, speaking on behalf of the world's three billion children, will address over a 100 world leaders including US President Barack Obama during a summit on the climate change here tomorrow. "I'm going to tell him (Obama) that the policies that they make today …
Within two months of Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demanding a development package for the Bundelkhand region, the Planning Commission has firmed up a proposal to set up a 4,000-Mw power plant there. The panel is working on a Cabinet note with other suggestions …
As part of a fresh initiative to check pollution of the Ganga river, the Ganga Mahasabha, a voluntary organisation in Varanasi, has asked people not to immerse Durga idols, painted with artificial colours and chemicals, in the river during Navratri this year. Acharya Jitendra, the secretary of the Ganga Mahasabha, …
Even after 30 years of its inception, the modern hi-tech city of Noida is yet to find a scientific way of treating its waste which is dumped at any vacant place. All these years, Noida Authority officials have gone on several foreign jaunts to every possible city looking for ways …
LUCKNOW: With its plans to set a 4,000 MW ultra-mega thermal power plant in Lalitpur district nose-diving, the UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) is now weighing the possibility of setting up the project in Bargarh in Chitrakoot district. Also, the proposed super thermal power station has now been scaled down …
The pollution control board has cracked down on three multinational companies. Three Phase-2-based companies have been served with notices for not putting in place scrubber systems. The notices have been sent on the receipt of complaints from the district administration, it is learnt. Two of the companies which have received …
LUCKNOW: Lucknow station has taken a step towards making train travel a pleasant experience for passengers. Dirty and stinking toilets will no longer put the passengers off. This is what the CTS plan promises. All long route trains will get a proper cleaning at Lucknow station before they are given …
Ambedkar villages will be lit up with sodium lights as Chief Minister Mayawati has asked the officials concerned to install 10,000 sodium bulbs in these villages besides setting up 2,000 Ambedkar Community centres in the villages. The Chief Minister has also asked the officials to implement government schemes in the …
In the wake of the increasing incidents of animal deaths in zoos, campaigners of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) today demonstrated in front of the Central Zoo Authority in the national Capital, and called for shutting down of all zoos in the country. During the protest, PETA …
LUCKNOW: Heated controversy over the dwindling numbers of tigers in Dudhwa will shortly be put to rest, The Wildlife Institute of India is preparing to commence a new tiger census in Uttar Pradesh to make a correct assessment of the big cat family. The exercise is expected to be a …
Within a week of issuing a notification declaring its intention to acquire land in Gautam Budh Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh for the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor and, in turn, sparking off a row over acquisition of agricultural land, the Railway Ministry on Wednesday went on the defensive and said …
Surinder Sud / September 17, 2009, 0:43 IST Good rainfall since August 15 in most part of the country has changed the kharif crop outlook perceptibly. Apart from enhancing the yield prospects of the standing crops, these rains have improved the outlook for the next rabi season which can help …
Rich nations are diverting aid from other causes to pay to help poor countries fight the growing impact of climate change, according to this Oxfam report released on 16th Sept 09. In 2000, at the UN Millennium Summit, the international community agreed a historic set of goals aimed at freeing …
LUCKNOW: Banke has his clan growing. The dusky old rhino, now 30 plus, has seen his fourth generation set in. When his female partner Rajeshwari gave birth to a calf on Friday (September 11), a new hope dawned for the rhinos in Dudhwa. In the prime of his youth, Banke …
Scores of elephants statues are to come up in a memorial park here in the Uttar Pradesh capital city at a cost of crores of rupees. But for creation and maintenance of a special elephant reserve, the state government can spare only Rs 50 lakh. The state
Monsoon this year has failed most of India, causing drought in even well-irrigated and rainfed areas. Ravleen Kaur reports how our food preferences are making us vulnerable to drought Hari Achal Singh has been a farmer for as long as he can remember. And that
