Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Dehradun: Forest guards and officials of the Uttarakhand Forest Corporation are on a tree-cutting spree in the Lachchiwala reserve forest area for developing chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
The three-day workshop for those involved in goat rearing organised by the Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organisation (HESCO) concluded in Dehradun on Thursday. Local residents engaged in goat rearing participated in the workshop which was coordinator by senior social activist Jaipal Singh Chauhan. Himani Purohit convened the concluding session …
An international conference on Clean Energy Technologies and Energy Efficiency on sustainable development will be held in between December 27 to 29 in Dehradun. The conference will be jointly organised by Uttarakhand Technical University, Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur and Shivalik College of Engineering, Dehradun. This was disclosed by the …
Keeping in view of fragile condition and small holding in hilly region, State Government has decided to set up cluster-based modern polyhouses in Uttarakhand. The Government would set 4,000 clusters this year, informed State Horticulture Secretary Vinod Fonia while talking to mediapersons. As the State's hilly condition, fragile environment, small …
Members of the Gola Sangharsh Samiti, staged a protest against alleged 'illegal mining and stocking of riverbed materials' by various stone-crusher companies alleging that the stone crushers owners in connivance with the mining department have caused losses worth crores to the State exchequer and demanded inspection of these companies. Thus …
C. K. Chandramohan DEHRA DUN: The Uttarakhand Government's decision to form a special Corbett tiger protection force with 30 per cent reservation for Van Gujjars and other forest dwellers has been described as a good step, but it violates the fundamental right to a full-time job and security to the …
The Uttarakhand High Court has admitted a public interest litigation (PIL) on raising the height and increasing the production capacity of Sirnagar Hydro Electricity project filed by some residents of Tehri Garhwal district. The joint Bench of Chief Justice Barin Ghosh and Justice VK Bist asked on Tuesday the Union …
DEHRADUN: Following on the media report about the crisis in Food and Civil supply department in Uttarakhand, State Chief Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has convened a meeting with Food and Civil supplies Minister Diwakar Bhatt and its officials on Tuesday. After the meeting, CM instructed to ascertain the authenticity …
The decision of the Union environment ministry to allow parts of the Ganga’s tributaries to flow freely in Uttarakhand, indicates there is finally some recognition of the environmental impacts of hydel projects, long hyped as clean energy producers. Dams in Uttarakhand and the Northeast have been at the centre of …
Steps have been initiated to move the Indo-Tibetan Border Police camp and remove other encroachments from the age-old Dehradun-Tanakpur-Nepal wildlife corridor. Official sources inform that the measures are being taken following a letter sent by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest to the Union Home Ministry. Acting on directions …
It's a forum where new parameters for leadership are calibrated as governance comes up for scrutiny. The Eighth India Today State of the States Conclave featured eight chief ministers, one deputy chief minister and three state ministers. They came to debate-and celebrate-critical development issues. (From Left) Sushil Kumar Modi, V.S.Achuthanandan, …
Shishir Prashant / Dehradun December 07, 2010, 0:28 IST The mountainous terrain, a fragile environment, small and fragmented holdings, a complete lack of irrigation facilities and poor marketing infrastructure, among other factors, has hampered the growth of horticulture in Uttarakhand. To overcome these odds, the state government has launched an …
This report by the IES presents the findings of a study that explores the likely impacts of the recent proposals in India to build a dam at Pancheshwar in the Himalayas on the river ecosystems and the surrounding areas and people involved. This dam will be the world's second tallest …
Minerals are the gift of nature which occurs either in thick forest areas or adjacent to it. During the course of mining, vegetation/forest gets destroyed and gets replaced by huge quantities of overburden dumps. Restoration of these dumps becomes necessary so that the land may come back to its original …
As we hurtle headlong into the twenty-first century creating technologies, breathing development, and grabbing land and resources, most of us will readily acknowledge that we may be harming the natural world by our actions and that we must do what we can to correct this. Judging from the enthusiastic response …
SILIGURI, 29 NOV: The forest officials in north Bengal have planned to look for legal provisions from the Uttarakhand government to initiate cases against train drivers on charge of killing elephants following the court's order to sentence a train driver to three years rigorous imprisonment. Recently, it was reported that …
The State Government had planned to facilitate the farming of industrial hemp on about 30,000 hectares of barren land in Uttarakhand which has failed to take off this year. The execution of the plan has been deferred till next year because the executing agency has been unable to procure seeds …
Rankings are no pyramid; they are a ladder and there's room for only one at each rung. A historical advantage in infrastructure and its fields of gold may have kept Punjab on the top rung of the India Today State of the States study for long but Himachal has broken …
