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 …
Government says enough grain stock, farmers go hungry Budhi Rikisyan sat in her house making leaf plates for the last rites of her granddaughter, Mantawa. Unable to suppress hunger pangs, the 12-year-old girl plucked surbari leaves from the field and ate them in early August. After five days she was …
A village killed its forest then revived it with herbal therapy Simple herbal cures can bring trees back to life. Kamleshwar Nath believes. He has been healing trees in Sonebhadra district of Uttar Pradesh for 20 years now. The task before Baba, as the 55-year-old is called, is to save …
Sept. 13: Seven officials of the Kanpur zoo have been suspended following the mysterious deaths of 13 spotted and one swamp deer on Saturday. The deer were found dead in their enclosures on Saturday and there was no visible sign of any injury on their bodies. The post-mortem carried out …
Apprehending that farmers were turning away from cane farming due to the apathetic attitude of the Centre and state governments, the BJP has demanded the cane price be fixed at Rs 300 per quintal for upcoming crushing season. State vice-president and spokesman of BJP Hriday Narayan Dixit, while talking to …
LUCKNOW: Epidemiological studies show that 1-2% of the total Indian population is a carrier of Hepatitis B. This makes a large chunk of these carriers vulnerable to cirrhosis and cancers of liver. Transplant is perhaps the only way to save these lives. These facts were shared by Dr M Rela, …
LUCKNOW: Thirteen cheetal and a swamp deer were found dead in mysterious circumstances on Saturday morning. All of them were fed the fodder on Friday evening and deaths reportedly took place on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday. The month of September it seems goes down hard on the …
Lucknow: The ambitious Saryu Canal Project (SCP) launched in 1977-78 has been able to meet barely 18 per cent of its targeted irrigation potential while there has been a 743 per cent increase in the cost of the project. This is the finding of the latest report of the Comptroller …
Noida: The World Health Organisation and district health department, Gautam Budh Nagar, have confirmed that two new cases of polio have come to light in the district. The first case is from Sector-71, Noida while the second one is reported from Kalaunda village in Dadri. The Sector 71 case is …
Greater Noida: With the Yamuna water level breaching the danger mark in Delhi, Greater Noida authorities are keeping a hawk eye on the situation. Though no one has been evacuated so far, the administration has identified three villages
Spread over 123 acres in Gomti Nagar, this vast expanse of stonework, also known as Ambedkar Memorial, is the dream project of Chief Minister Mayawati. So far, more than Rs 3,000 crore has been spent on the project. For extension of its area, the Mayawati government has demolished Ambedkar Sahitya …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Even as the number of drought-hit districts has risen to 278, the affected 11 States have altogether sought additional Central assistance of Rs. 72,313.62 crore for relief including diesel subsidy to farmers. Of this, Bihar has sought the highest (Rs. 23,071.13 crore), followed by Maharashtra (Rs. …
The school in the hamlet of Bagraha in Chitrakoot district has three rooms, but these are built only in name. There is dried mud in place of a floor, the walls are unplastered, and there are no windowpanes. A fan hangs in one room and some electrical fittings were put …
LUCKNOW: Chief minister Mayawati has requested prime minister Manmohan Singh to classify Jhansi, Chitrakoot and Mirzapur revenue divisions as special category divisions under Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP) for ensuring rapid development of backwards areas like Bundelkhand and Vindhyachal. She has also asked the PM to include three irrigation projects …
LUCKNOW: Light to moderate rains continued in many parts of the state, thus bringing the rainfall deficit up by seven per cent in the last 10 days. The total rains in the monsoon season till August 27 were 46 per cent below normal, which stood at 39 per cent below …
LUCKNOW: A middle-aged man suffered burn injuries after a car which was being installed with a CNG kit caught fire here on Wednesday afternoon. The incident was reported from Chinhat police circle. The man, who was injured, was identified as Vijay Pal Singh, owner of Pratap Motors on Deva Road …
Ghaziabad/Greater Noida: After the recent clash on NH-24 between the police and agitated locals, it was the turn of hundreds of farmers who took to the streets near Jaitpur village in Greater Noida protesting against the construction of the Ghaziabad-Greater Noida Expressway. The farmers allegedly beat up the road construction …
LUCKNOW: Expressing concern over the reports that poverty stricken people in drought-hit Bundelkhand region were ALLEGEDLY mortgaging their women, the UP Congress Committee (UPCC) would send a three-member team to the area on Tuesday. UPCC spokesperson Subodh Srivastava said that state president of the party Rita Bahuguna Joshi while taking …
LUCKNOW: After tasting success in elevating the health standards of the state through Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) workers, state government will appoint women to take care of state's livestock. Designated as Ladies Livestock Link Worker (LLLW), they will be operational at village level. Working under the local veterinary officers, …
At the sleepy office of the Bundelkhand Vikas Nigam in Jhansi, senior assistant O P Gupta, lone member of the staff apart from a chaprasi and the newly appointed chairman, is clearly unaccustomed to visitors. He recalls the time when the Nigam
