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 …
The proposed thermal project in UP is valued at Rs 10,000 cr The government today approved the state-owned Neyveli Lignite Corporation's (NLC) proposed joint venture to set up a Rs 10,000 crore thermal power project in Uttar Pradesh. The Cabinet has given its approval to Neyveli for the JV to …
People in Kanpur have learnt patience from the Ganga which takes in all the effluence from the ever-growing illegal tanneries here. Neither of them ever had a choice.
New Delhi: A cold snap sweeping across north India continued to disrupt life and killed 13 people in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. The toll from the cold wave mounted to 106 across the country with the latest fatalities. Officials said six people were reported to have died in UP’s Deoria, …
In recent years public-private partnerships have been offered as the miracle-cure that would help fix all the challenges to the health sector. Over the last decade, a number of ppps providing maternal health services have come into existence but few have been evaluated. This paper examines whether ppps with the …
The World Bank on Thursday committed to finance the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor by signing a $975 million loan agreement with Ministry of Finance and Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL). Three phases The World Bank has decided to finance 1,130 km out of the 1,839 km length …
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, has ended India’s import dependence on the West for ejection systems needed to launch nano-satellites into space. For the first time in its history of nano-satellite launching, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) yesterday used the indigenously built separation mechanism (ejection system) designed …
Microinsurance or Community-Based Health Insurance is a promising healthcare financing mechanism, which is increasingly applied to aid rural poor persons in low-income countries. Robust empirical evidence on the causal relations between Community-Based Health Insurance and healthcare utilisation, financial protection and other areas is scarce and necessary. This paper contains a …
Field observations conducted at Kanpur, to analyze the ration of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) contributions by benthasludge to the overlaying waters of the river Ganga were presented in part 1 of this paper. This data was later correlated to the data obtained under different conditions of operating and process variables …
LUCKNOW: The much-awaited city sanitation plan which promises to address crucial civic issues including municipal solid waste disposal, appears to have got embroiled in a bureaucratic maze with the Centre not spelling out the policy and procedural blueprint of the plan. Not only the overall policy format but the funding …
Major U.P. rivers continue to overflow, inundate villages The monsoon remained subdued in parts of North India on Monday, including Punjab and Haryana, even as the flood fury was unabated in Uttar Pradesh. Major rivers continued to overflow, inundating a number of villages in Uttar Pradesh and disrupting the transmission …
With 5,000 MW planned for commissioning in the 12th Five-Year Plan, Neyveli Lignite Corporation is looking for allocation of coal blocks to fuel its growth. The corporation plans to install two 1,980-MW coal-based plants at Ghatampur, Kanpur Nagar District in Uttar Pradesh, and Sirkazhi in Tamil Nadu, besides a 1,000-MW …
The work for procuring and distributing the Ganga water in the city has finally been begun by the Greater Noida Authority. The Authority will begin mixing 85 cusecs of Ganga water with groundwater across the city by 2012. The project will cost Rs 300 crore. According to GNIDA sources, "Groundwater …
OUR BUREAU New Delhi A test conducted on samples of water of the Ganges, lifted at nine sites, has revealed that it is not fit for use even in farming, let alone for human use. The Delhi- based Shriram Institute for Industrial Research and STAR News carried out the research …
The State of the Environment report 2010 released by the UP environment directorate calls for urgent measures to organise solid waste management in a scientific and environmentally sustainable manner. The disposal of solid waste in UP is a major problem. Most cities have poor cleanliness and sanitation. In fact, even …
The quality of river water is an area of concern in Uttar Pradesh, if the State of Environment report, 2010 is to be believed. The report, released on Sunday by directorate of environment, UP, reveals that between 2004 and 2008, water quality indicators in many cases are negative. While Kanpur …
IN THE first week of April, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) oversaw an experiment to monitor, minute to minute, the water quality of the river Yamuna. The two-week trial at the water intake point of the Wazirabad water treatment plant in north-east Delhi was conducted by a private firm …
It is Allahabad -superstar Amitabh Bachchan's hometown -and not Lucknow which is the most populous district in Uttar Pradesh. Allahabad, with a population of 59.59 lakh, is followed by Moradabad has population of 47.73 lakh, Ghaziabad with 46.61 lakh and Azamgarh which has 46.16 lakh. Lucknow ranks fifth with a …
Corruption in implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in UP may be another point of tussle between the state and Central governments, already at loggerheads over various issues. After getting no exact response from the state government over repeated queries regarding the action taken against …
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Tuesday claimed that the recently released six-city study on air pollution sources by the Environment Ministry was
