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: Aware of the ever-escalating power crisis in the state, the energy task force (ETF) headed by chief secretary Atul Kumar Gupta has given its nod to set up two more thermal power stations in the state. The projects -- 660 Mw in Harduaganj (Aligarh) and 210 Mw in Panki …
LUCKNOW: Polio eradication in UP seems to have come across a double whammy this season. In a state where authorities are fighting hard against the sub-optimal efficacy of oral polio vaccine, the increasing challenge of diarrhoeal outbreaks is making things worse. The reason: polio is caused by `entero' virus that …
Lucknow: A choked Ghiyasuddin Haider (GH) Canal overflowed following heavy rains that lashed the state capital on Thursday, leaving many areas inundated even as municipal officials were left redfaced. Significantly, it were some of the areas in and around Mall Avenue, where the GH Expressway is nearing its completion, which …
Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government has protested against the alleged move of the UnionGovernment and the Ministry of Environment and Forests to influence the Central Empowered Committee on the issue of development of a park in memory of Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram, in Sector 14 and …
The Centre itself had said (to the CEC) that prior environmental permission was not necessary for construction in the area A K GUPTA, Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary THE Uttar Pradesh Government has taken strong objection to the second letter sent by the Government of India to the Central Empowered Committee …
LUCKNOW: UP government would enter into an agreement with the Tehri hydro-electric power corporation (THDC) for establishment of a 30 MW hydro-electric power plant in Jhakua near Jhansi district. The power plant, likely to come up at a cost of Rs 100 crore would be constructed by the THDC and …
LUCKNOW: Nine fresh cases of swine flu were reported in the state capital on Tuesday, taking the state total to 83. Health authorities claimed that most of the cases were related to existing patients. Alarmed over the situation, DM Lucknow Chandra Bhanu called upon a meeting to review the situation. …
Shop keepers dealing with pesticides are exposed to multiple pesticides that include organophosphates, organochlorines, carbamates, pyrethroids. Hence an exploratory health study was conducted on shopkeepers selling pesticides in urban areas of Lucknow and Barabanki District, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: The dance of death continues in the eastern districts (Purvanchal region) of Uttar Pradesh. The dreaded acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) has so far killed 199. The victims are mostly children and people below the poverty line. This comes at a time when the Japanese Encephalitis (JE) appears …
J. Balaji NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Atul Kumar Gupta has assured the National Human Rights Commission that the State Government will work out an action plan within a week for removal of illegal furnaces and an abattoir in Meerut and submit it to the Commission. Appearing before the …
People burn crackers world over on different occasions in different countries to express their happiness. Fireworks in large amounts aggravate the level of air pollutants and cause significant short-term air quality degradation with possible impact on human health. Fine particles (PM2.5 <2.5 μm), which may pose detrimental effects on human …
LUCKNOW: The new tiger census will begin this October. But, a noticeable number of the big cats from the reported count of 2008 census will be missing from the exercise. Reason being that they have either been poached, died in an accident, or fell prey to ailments. The 28 tiger …
LUCKNOW: Moving ahead with their afforestation drive, LDA officials planted saplings in sector-N of Kanpur Road housing scheme on Friday. As many as 10,000 saplings were planted by the group of LDA officials which included V-C Mukesh Meshram; secretary, M P Mishra and a host of other senior officials. The …
BARABANKI: The turbulent Ghaghra is finally flowing below the danger mark after causing havoc in villages on its bank. About a hundred villages falling under Fatehpur, Ramnagar and Sirauli Gauspur tehsil of the district were badly affected by recent floods caused by discharge of water from Kali and other rivers …
Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: Hundreds of farmers from Dadri in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh, whose land was acquired for building a gas-based Reliance power project, staged a dharna here on Friday to protest against what they alleged was the
The lack of power, water and even security in the National Capital Region (NCR) is forcing industrial units to move away or expand their base to other states like Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. According to a survey conducted by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), a …
After holding the Mayawati government in Lucknow guilty of giving a go by to environmental norms for the statue complex in Noida, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has now given it a clean chit. In a reply to the Supreme Court
Amita Verma Aug. 25: Even as the nation reels under the impact of the swine flu, Japanese encephalitis (JE), the dreaded disease that strikes in Purvanchal region year after year, has already claimed nearly 200 lives in 2009. Children belonging to Kushinagar, Siddhartanagar and Maharajganj have succumbed to the deadly …
LUCKNOW: It is not only the allotee whose plots in Vyom Khand were cancelled by LDA a fortnight back. Resentment also brews amongst the farmers whose land were acquired by authority for the scheme only to get the land use changed back to green belt. Farmers now fear that the …
