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 …

Waking up to a fault alarm

For a city that boasts of a 24-hour power supply, of course only on papers, Lucknow sure has a long way to go. Frequent power cuts, faults that remain unattended for several hours at a stretch and transformers burning at the drop of a hat. One just hopes the forthcoming …

Ghariyals in peril again, face starvation threat

TIMES NEWS NETWORK Lucknow: Winters are turning inauspicious for ghariyals in Uttar Pradesh. More than 100 ghariyals died in the winter months last year at the National Chambal Sanctuary. This winter 1,000 ghariyals of Kukrail Rehabilitation Centre might perish due to hunger. The fishermen supplying fishes to the rehabilitation centre …

UP may be in for an acute sugar crisis

Anil Yadav | Lucknow Sugar will not be that sweet this year as its production is likely to fall because cane-growers are diverting cane from sugar mills to khandsari units in the wake of their pending cane dues. With such largescale diversion of cane crops, the Sugarcane and Cane Development …

Bringing about a sweeping change

Lucknow: The Lucknow University students did not shy away from donning an unusually different role on Tuesday. Just a handful of students, 15 of them to be precise, from different departments of the Lucknow University came together to clean the campus. The role was short-lived but the students are more …

Pilibhit tiger highlights the plight of wildlife in UP

STRAYING FOR A CAUSE Lucknow: The incident of a young tiger venturing out of Pilibhit forest has been a blessing in disguise for the wildlife of Uttar Pradesh. The tiger, it seems, has walked 300 kms away from its natural habitat for a cause

Tiger surfaces again in UP, 1 more killed

lucknow: Even as the Forest Department has its hands full trying to track down two stray tigers in Ghazipur and Faizabad, another one surfaced near Tanda village of Lakhimpur Kheri district and killed a 16-year-old boy on Sunday. Pillu Singh was killed by the tiger, which Forest officials suspect, strayed …

Searching the evasive tiger not a time-bound operation

TIMES NEWS NETWORK Lucknow: Has the young tiger of Pilibhit outwitted WII? The twomember team of Wildlife Institute of India (WII) had joined the search operation about a week back. Going by the reports from Faizabad division, the team has gone back. In all possibility, another set of experts have …

Alarm bells: UP goes on the great wild (goose) tiger chase

New Delhi: When a tiger walks over 400 kilometres, it

2007-08 credentials (A compendium of annual achievements of GEAG)

This annual report by Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG)highlights their contribution to the various environmental movements in India. And addresses the issue of sustainable livelihood through environmental and natural resource management by concentrating its efforts towards empowering marginalized section of the society. GEAG is a part of South Asian collaborative …

Its a bright time for the power sector in UP?

Government claims that its endeavours would make UP a power surplus state from one hit by chronic shortage by 2012, but industry says that there are many a slip between the cup and the lip, hence don

Another tiger and same set of follies

Lucknow: The forest department has flunked the test on operation tiger once again. The villagers behaving rowdily around the area where the tiger wandered into the agri-fields in Ghazipur division of Varanasi showed that no lesson has been learnt from the incident of Barabanki. A boy was killed by a …

Physico-chemical studies on the pollution potential of river Kosi at Rampur (India)

River Kosi is subjected to severe domestic and industrial pollution and this recent study on the Kosi river concludes that due to high alkalinity it is not suitable for agriculture. Also indicates that most of the pollution is due to the Industrial discharge and agricultural run-off and cattle dropping are …

Concurrent assessment of Janani Suraksha Yojana ( JSY ) in selected states

JSY is a safe motherhood internention under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) being implemented with the objective of reducing maternal and neo-natal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among the poor pregnant women. JSY is a centrally sponsored scheme and integrates cash assistance with delivery and postdelivery care. The scheme …

Noida prone to polio virus

Though no polio case has come to light in this satellite town adjoining the national Capital, Noida and other areas of western Uttar Pradesh continue to be danger zones for polio. The state

Malhotra asks Sheila to convene States meeting on water

Expressing concern over the high level of ammonia in the Yamuna that has made the Delhi Jal Board shut down the Chandrawal and Wazirabad water treatment plants leading to an acute scarcity of water, Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Vijay Kumar Malhotra has asked Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to …

Experts against decision to shoot down stray tiger

With the forest hunters desperately looking for the stray tiger to gun it down, the wildlife experts have slammed the move.Instead, they say, that it is a garb adopted by the forest department to cover its inability in catching the animal despite repeated attempts. It is a perfectly healthy and …

Riding on luck, big cat evades hunters

Neha Shukla | TNN Lucknow: Luck seems on its side, at least for now. Ever since the shooting orders were issued, forest hunters have not made a sighting of the stray tiger. But, they feel the animal should now run for its life. Its only chance to survive is the …

Noida Authority to acquire farmers land

The Noida Authority in its board meeting had decided to acquire about 1,000 acres of land from farmers near the barrage of Yamuna and Hindon rivers and develop it for different projects. Noida chief executive officer Mohinder Singh informed some land in the area had been encroached, but 80 per …

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