Dehradun

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding construction of a petrol pump, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 28/05/2021

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bhagwati Prasad Dabral Vs State of Uttarakhand & Others dated 28/05/2021. Grievance in this application is against construction of petrol pump at khasra no. 1081, near Mothrowala road, Dehradun. According to the applicant, the construction of the petrol pump is …

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding construction of a petrol pump, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 28/05/2021

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bhagwati Prasad Dabral Vs State of Uttarakhand & Others dated 28/05/2021. Grievance in this application is against construction of petrol pump at khasra no. 1081, near Mothrowala road, Dehradun. According to the applicant, the construction of the petrol pump is …

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding violation of environmental norms by Arborea Luxury Homes, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 15/03/2021

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sarvesh Dangwal Vs State of Uttarakhand dated 15/03/2021 regarding allegation of violation of environmental norms by Arborea Luxury Homes, Tarla Nagal, Kulhan, Dehradun, having a swimming pool and 96 apartments. The report filed by the Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board January …

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal cutting of hills at Sahastradhara, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 16/04/2019

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Anil Kakkar Vs State of Uttarakhand dated 16/04/2019 regarding hills being illegally cut to sell the plots at Sahastradhara, Dehradun. NGT directs Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCFF) to look into the matter and take appropriate action in accordance with …

Report On Action Plan for Air Quality Improvement of Dehradun City

Uttrakhand Environment Protection Pollution Control Board (UEPPCB), Dehradun has awarded a project on Action Plan for ambient Air Quality Improvement of Dehradun City to Pollution Control Research Institute, BHEL Haridwar, as Dehradun is an important tourist place because of pilgrimage due to holy Ganga River. It was found that there …

Uttarakhand records maximum female swine flu patients

DEHRADUN: State is witnessing a mild surge in the number of swine flu patients. The total number of patients have gone up to 15 of which 12 are from Garhwal region. Surprisingly, majority of 'women' are inflicted due to swine flu and state capital, Dehradun, has recorded maximum seven female …

Tributary Suswa carries Doon's waste to Ganga

Downtown Dehradun city lives between two rivers, Bindal and Rispana. The two rivers that are part and parcel of the city’s life are horribly polluted. A few people know that all the dirt and filth that gets collected in these two rivers finally goes into the Ganga. The two rivers …

83% of food samples on Char Dham yatra fail food safety test: Survey

DEHJRADUN: Almost 83% of food samples tested on the Char Dham yatra route were found to be adulterated, according to a recent survey carried out by the Dehradun-based Society of Pollution & Environmental Conservation (SPECS) scientists. The body, which has been conducting food adulteration sample surveys along the Char Dham …

Biodiversity board asks firms to deposit .5% of profit as per Act

The Uttarakhand Biodiversity Board has issued notices to 350 companies using bio-resources of Uttarakhand directing them to provide 0.5 per cent of their gross profit to the state biodiversity management committees as enshrined in the Biological Diversity Act, 2002. Addressing a press conference here today, Uttarakhand Biodiversity Board chairman Rakesh …

Court order brings relief to Uttarakhand villagers

Land meant for Coca-Cola plant should be returned to panchayat, says HC. The Nainital High Court’s order on Monday that land meant for a Coca-Cola plant should be returned to the Chharba gram panchayat has brought relief to the locals. The villagers have been opposing the setting up of the …

Climate footprints in the Late Quaternary–Holocene landforms of Dun Valley, NW Himalaya, India

The Himalayan mountain front is characterised by front parallel longitudinal valleys called Dun, that occupy the synformal troughs. The perennial glacial fed rivers Ganga and Yamuna experience first major gradient loss along the valley floor of Dehra Duyn and produce characteristic landforms and deposits by the gradational processes of streams …

Positive indications of diverse wildlife emerge

Having completed the field work of tiger census for a week in the Sathyamangalam forests, the Forest Department is now in the process of compiling data for submitting it to the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. There were a number of positive indications implying the presence of elephants, spotted deer, …

Coca-cola's Dehradun plant: Water supply to hydel projects threatened

Proposed plant plans to use water from the Yamuna river, which also provides water to five hydel power projects in Uttarakhand. Reports that Coca-Cola plans to use surface water from Yamuna for its upcoming bottling plant near Dehradun have raised concern about power production from hydel projects on the river. …

Assessing the potential for reintroducing the cheetah in India

A Group of Experts has submitted a detailed assessment of the potential for reintroducing the cheetah in India, recommending three potential sites for reintroduction. The cheetah, which is a flagship specie of the deciduous dryland/grassland ecosystem, became extinct in India in the 1960s. The word "cheetah" derived from the sanskrit …

National studbook of clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)

This Studbook is a part of the Central Zoo Authority, New Delhi, assignment to the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, for the compilation and publication of studbooks of selected endangered species of wild animals in Indian zoos. The present studbook compiles and analyses data for the Indian zoos.

Feminist from the farm

Apouch of organic brown rice or arhar dal, or anything organically grown is enough to remind us of Vandana Shiva-scholar and relentless campaigner of eco rights, who has made the term 'organic' part of uppity fashion. Her 'Navdanya' label of organic grains, grown in her Dehradun farm of the same …

Bio Resource Centre for Dehra Dun

Will provide post-retirement solution for Army men, boost rural economy DEHRA DUN: An Army Bio Ressource Centre to train retiring personnel in rural technologies so as to enhance their post-retirement earnings will be established here with the help of the Himalayan Environmental Studies Conservation and Research Organisation (HESCO). Announcing this …

A foreign vocabulary

Why are we, as a nation, so non-serious about following through on actions? Is it the curse of a foreign language in which we act, but not think, that we pick up words and so believe the deed, too, is done? Take any major challenge that has confronted decision-making in …

Grow back wisdom

Farmers in Raipur division, Dehradun, have been reaping unprecedented profits from their rocky, infertile lands. But it took Vaidya Balendu Prakash, eminent ayurvedic physician and director of the Vaidya Chandra Prakash Cancer Research Foundation, quite a bit of convincing before they agreed to cultivate medicinal plants in place of their …

Beating the drought

Part I: Untapped data Four consecutive years of drought have brought home a lesson that the people of Hamirpur district and its neighbouring districts in Himachal Pradesh have learnt well. These areas had started receiving piped water supply from the government and gave up on their traditional water harvesting structures. …

Propagation of bamboo

A new technology has been deve loped at the Forest Research Institute (fri), Dehra Dun, for rapid mass propagation of bamboos through macro-proliferation. According to the findings of Adarsh Kumar, a senior FRI scientist, the new technology involves the use of locally available materials. The produce is small in size …

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