Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Lucknow Uttar Pradesh’s tryst with power reforms seems to have boomeranged. Close on the heels of Coalgate, which has had the Central government scurrying for cover, a report by the state accountant general (AG) has alleged irregularities in the appointment of Torrent Power (TPL) as the power distribution franchisee (DF) …
A combination of factors, including a skewed load generation balance across the regional grids, rampant grid indiscipline by northern states, depleted reliability margins on account of system outages and the failure of all major grid protection mechanisms, resulted in the cascade grid collapse witnessed on two successive days in end-July. …
UP government on Monday gave in principle approval to construction of an expressway between Lucknow and Agra. The six-lane expressway that seeks to reduce the distance between the two cities from the existing 350 km to 274 km, will pass through Yadav-dominated belt comprising districts like Etawah, Mainpuri and Kannauj. …
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav inaugurated the 165-km Yamuna Expressway on Thursday, more than five years after the 2003-2007 Samajwadi Party government of his father Mulayam Singh Yadav stalled the project. He inaugurated it through videoconferencing from his residence in Lucknow, while his uncle and Samajwadi Party general secretary, …
NOIDA/LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav inaugurated the Yamuna Expressway by way of a videoconference from the state capital Lucknow on Thursday. Infrastructure major Jaypee Group, which has built the 165-km, six-lane freeway connecting Greater Noida with Agra, has announced to charge Rs 320 from cars and Rs 150 …
Greater Noida/ New Delhi: After several flip flops, now commuters can drive down to Agra in less than two hours taking the Yamuna Expressway from Wednesday afternoon, almost five hours after the project will be finally inaugurated. Sources said a one-way car trip could cost around Rs 320 while a …
TOI Takes A Ride On The Delhi-Agra Yamuna Expressway To Bring You A Sneak Preview. The monsoon is chasing us. We are nearing the third toll plaza on the Yamuna Expressway and the dark clouds hovering above are dancing wildly like dervishes in delight. We have left the Formula One …
Protesting against proposed land acquisition for six lane Lucknow-Agra highway, Communist Party of India (CPI) on Friday demanded state government to drop the scheme in interest of farmers. Stressing that already two highways were existing between Lucknow and Agra which could be developed for more efficient transport between two mega …
The Uttar Pradesh government has stepped up efforts to attract private companies from the United States and South Africa to set up units to generate electricity from solid wastes. "I am very much interested in this scheme. I really want such units to be set up in big cities. This …
Hundreds of young and old eco-activists turned up at the Yamuna ghats in this Taj city on Sunday morning to pick up trash, mostly polythene bags, to mark the start of World Water Week March 18-25. A joint initiative of the Rivers of the World Foundation and the Braj Mandal …
The earthquake today that jolted the National Capital and the adjoining NCR region has brought the safety of buildings in and around the capital back into focus. Two other temblors had hit the area in the past six months. Strong tremors that lasted almost 10 seconds at 1.11 pm today …
LUCKNOW: Even as the city remained under the grip of biting cold on Sunday, the minimum temperature dropped to 1.3 degrees Celsius in Agra, which was the lowest in record in the plains of the country. Significantly, on Saturday, Agra had recorded 0.4 degree Celsius minimum temperature, but Churu was …
Alleging that giving power distribution of Agra city to private hands was causing huge losses to the UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL), the All-India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) on Friday demanded Chief Minister Mayawati to dismiss the agreement with private franchisee company Torrent Power immediately. AIPEF general secretary Shailendra Dubey …
LUCKNOW: An ailing Yamuna may heave a sigh of relief if claims of Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam are anything to go by. The corporation has claimed that the 144 million litres per day (mld) capacity water treatment plant in Agra will start functioning in less than a year. Chairman, UPJN, …
New Delhi: Facing the spectre of another costly bailout of power distribution companies, some of which have started defaulting on payments to suppliers, the Centre has decided to take preemptive action. It has set up a committee under the chairmanship of Planning Commission member (energy) BK Chaturvedi to suggest ways …
Alarmed over the threat to the historic Taj Mahal because of the drying of the Yamuna, a group of concerned citizens have asked for a White Paper on the river and its current state. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, they have said that a White Paper on …
To carry out present study, ecotourism auditing survey has been used as a potential tool in ecotourism with special reference to assess visitor's management in Soor Sarovar Bird Sanctuary, Agra.
LUCKNOW: The Sunday earthquake, which jolted almost the entire north India, has once again raised questions on the safety aspect of the city's multi-storied buildings. Lucknow Development Authority and Uttar Pradesh Housing and Development Board ( UPHDB) make earthquake resistance a mandatory criterion for a building. However, the authorities rarely …
Lucknow Stung by farmers’ agitations and repeated adverse court rulings on land acquisition, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to restructure its development projects by replacing land with viability gap funding (VGF) as the new bidding parameter. That would mean the revenue model for these projects shifts from being land-based …
