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 …
Incessant rain has put the Tehri dam under tremendous threat with water levels in the reservoir crossing the 828.85 metre mark. This is seven metres above its normal strength. Once the water level crosses the 830-metre danger mark, the automatic discharge system will get activated and this could lead to …
Dehradun/Lucknow: Water levels at the Tehri dam rose menacingly, following incessant rain in the hills of Uttarakhand, and the release of waters from its massive reservoir to avoid breaches threatened flooding of nearly 1,200 villages downstream along the Ganga. But a threat of floods in Haridwar passed, with Tehri authorities …
Ravish Tiwari New Delhi: A day after Uttarakhand chief minister raised alarm bells over overflowing Tehri reservoir, the Union Cabinet secretary on Monday took stock of the situation during a high level meeting of the National Crisis Management Committee. The committee is learnt to have asked concerned central government agencies …
Neena Vyas NEW DELHI: A Bharatiya Janata party delegation here on Monday demanded in a memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that Uttarakhand be declared disaster-struck and given a package of Rs. 5000 crore. At least 150 people have already lost their lives. In the unprecedented situation caused by incessant …
New Delhi: State-owned power generator NTPC seems to be cautious about capacity addition through hydropower projects after the government recently scrapped its 600-mw Loharinag Pala project in Uttarakhand on resistance by some environmental groups. NTPC plans to review its hydro-based power generation capacity addition programme.
Heavy monsoon rains and landslides swept the hilly areas of northern India over the weekend, killing at least 47 people, officials said Monday. Twenty-four people died Sunday as falling boulders crushed their homes in three villages in Almorah district in Uttrakhand state, said Prashant Kumar Tamta, a state government spokesman. …
Top BJP leaders L K Advani and Sushma Swaraj on Sunday spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram about the grave flood situation in the BJP-ruled state of Uttarakhand. Sources in the BJP said Uttarakhand CM Ramesh Pokhriyal
A cloud burst over arid Himalayan town of Leh in Ladakh on August 6, pouring some 250 mm of rain in an hour. The sudden downpour triggered flash floods and mudslides, killing over 180 people and wiping out the old town of Leh and two villages. Weathermen say the high-altitude …
THE three-member Group of Ministers (GoM), reviewing the construction of dams on the Ganga, have scrapped the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project in Uttarakhand. The August 20 decision comes after protests by socio-religious groups and environmentalists against the 600 MW project on the Bhagirathi, a Ganga tributary. They said the river …
DEHRA DUN: The temporary suspension of work at the 330 MW Alaknanda hydropower project near Srinagar by the Uttarakhand Government this past week has evoked loud protests from the coalition partner Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) and the local people. Work at the project was suspended by Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal
This is how they did it THE DEAN PRANAB MUKHERJEE Union Finance Minister HE TOOK the call on scrapping dams across the upper reaches of the Ganga. In March, as head of the Group of Ministers on the project, he had agreed to the dam, as Rs 650 crore had …
Several plans for city sanitation have been prepared in the meeting of Munikireti Nagar Panchayat. These plans are aimed at facilitating civic sanitation in the Munikireti area to prevent solid waste and sewage from being dumped into the Ganga here. Addressing the gathering at the meeting held in the Panchayat …
Lives of over 15,000 people of Uttarakhand are under threat in disaster-prone areas of the hill State that fall in seismic zone four and five. The Government may be concerned with the predicament of this vulnerable segment of its people but its disaster management efforts have turned out to be …
CHANDIGARH: Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Monday said that Shivalik Hills would be notified as the country's first inter-State biosphere reserve with the setting up of a bio-diversity corridor there to protect its natural habitat, flora and fauna. Speaking at the inaugural session of the sixth …
Shivang Mehta & Kahini Ghosh Mehta take a close look at the economics of tiger conservation and seek freedom from it IT IS not a hidden fact that millions of dollars are being poured into the conservation of the striped wonders of India but the situation remains precarious. With fewer …
