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 …
Noida-Agra in 90 minutes By December this year, all it would take you to reach Agra from Noida will be just 90 minutes, because the Yamuna Expressway is going to be completed two years earlier than the scheduled date of November 2013. From December, vehicles are expected to zoom on …
Party fears any major shift from the UP policy could lead to a loss of face for the government The Congress may be running down the governance template of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, but it wants the Centre to emulate her land acquisition policy. Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, …
To take Mayawati's government head-on on farmers issue, state Congress would organise a massive Kisan Maha Panchayat in or near Bhatta-Parsaul in Greater Noida under the leadership of party general secretary Rahul Gandhi before June 25. ''UP Congress would hold chaupals at all the villages which are affected due to …
Sales of soft drinks have long been stymied by erratic power supply, but an environment-friendly innovation developed by Coca-Cola India now promises to change all that. Armed with the new product, Coca-Cola India plans to offer an entire range of its chilled soft drink products to markets deep in the …
Heat wave sweeps North India; temperatures soar at several places Thunderstorms killed 16 people in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday even as heat and humidity continued to wear down people in North India where temperatures soared at several places while falling marginally in Delhi. In the national Capital, where the mercury …
Govt plans to bring it in monsoon session, says RLD chief Ajit Singh after meeting Prime Minister The UPA Government plans to bring a Bill to amend the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, in the coming monsoon session of Parliament, said a confident RLD chief Ajit Singh after meeting Prime Minister …
Protests over land acquisition today spread to Agra, Mathura and Aligarh as farmers clashed with police and torched vehicles, while the toll rose to four in violence-hit Greater Noida. The UP government announced rewards up to Rs 50,000 for information regarding the whereabouts of some farmers' leaders who allegedly instigated …
Lucknow: When Shah Jahan decided to build the Taj Mahal on a wooden base on the banks of the Yamuna, he got everything right from design to science. Except for one thing: he never factored in the Yamuna going dry. In the Mughal era, wood was used to lay solid …
Concentrations of water soluble ions (Na, K, Ca and Mg) in PM10 alongwith gaseous pollutants (NO2 and SO2) were measured during summer season of 2009. The sampling site is located near National Highway which is a high traffic density site.
New Delhi: The drive to Taj Mahal through NH 2 will become faster and nearly signalfree in the next three years. NHAI plans to build flyovers or underpasses at all traffic intersections on the route, including one at Ashram Chowk in the capital, and a major private developer will start …
Out of the total geographical area of India about 53% suffers from different kinds of land degradation, and Uttar Pradesh accounts for 9.06%. About 4.0 m ha (11.03%) area of the country is suffering from ravine problem. U.P. shares 1.230 m ha (31%) ravine land of the country spread over …
LUCKNOW: Zero rains in Uttaranchal hills on Sunday helped to stabilise the rising water levels of Gang Naher and Kosi rivers which have wreaked havoc in west UP, much to the relief of lakhs of people affected by flood. However, the unrelenting Yamuna continued to swell on Sunday. Meanwhile, the …
Lucknow: People of western UP heaved a sigh of relief as rainfall activity slowed down and water began to recede in some places on Thursday. But their ordeal is far from over as a fresh alert has been sounded for districts along the banks of the Ganga and Yamuna. The …
In a major boost to the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court today cleared the decks for the ambitious multi-crore six-lane Yamuna Expressway Project linking Greater Noida to Agra by upholding its decision to acquire 1,604 hectares of private land. A bench of Justices V S Sirpurkar and …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the decks for the Yamuna Expressway project to link Greater Noida with Agra by upholding the Uttar Pradesh government's decision to acquire 1,604 hectares of private land. A Bench of Justices V.S. Sirpurkar and Cyriac Joseph dismissed the petitions filed by landowners …
LUCKNOW: The plantation exercise started by Agra forest division with an aim to provide an eco-protection cover to the 17th century monument has struck a chord with the people. This season, some 2,000 saplings have been planted under `My Tree Programme' in the vicinity of Taj through individual contributions. The …
The state-wide shutdown by farmers to press for increased compensation turned violent in Agra with protestors torching government vehicles and fighting pitched battle on the streets throwing traffic haywire on Wednesday. Elsewhere in western UP, rail and road traffic was disrupted by the protestors and the stir found support from …
All governments must carry conviction with farmers Business Standard / New Delhi August 25, 2010, 0:01 IST Compensation to farmers for land acquired for non-farm purposes has once again come to the fore, now in Uttar Pradesh on the Noida-Agra expressway. Investors who have already sunk funds into both the …
