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 …
NREGS is on the way to becoming the most lucrative corruption racket ever made for politicians------- Even I, who expected nothing good out of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, find its review by Anil Sharma of National Council of Applied Economic Research depressing. Let me relate how my pessimistic …
Shishir Prashant / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun September 21, 2009, 0:11 IST Hopes of revival of the controversial hydel projects on the Bhagirathi have rekindled after the Centre convened the first meeting of the Ganga River Basin Authority (GRBA) in New Delhi on October 5, which has been entrusted with …
Dehradun: With growing concern over dwindling population of the big cats in the country, a specialized tiger protection force is being set up in the Corbett Tiger Reserve. The Corbett Tiger Protection Force would assist the existing staff at the national park, in keeping a close watch on poachers, Uttarakhand
Scores of elephants statues are to come up in a memorial park here in the Uttar Pradesh capital city at a cost of crores of rupees. But for creation and maintenance of a special elephant reserve, the state government can spare only Rs 50 lakh. The state
Prithviraj Singh | Dehradun A makhna (tuskless bull elephant) was shot dead by poachers at village Dhaluwala of Khanpur forest range in Haridwar on Sunday night. The dead elephant sustained two gunshots to its forehead. A case of wildlife crime against unknown persons was registered by the forest department. The …
Certain plants absorb pollutants from wastewater for their metabolism. A team from the National Botanical Research Institute in Lucknow, planned a plant-based project to clean the Ganga. U N Rai, environment scientist who heads the team, speaks to Savvy Soumya Misra On how the project began With the help of …
Sandeep Joshi NEW DELHI: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank met Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal here on Monday and urged him to give necessary clearances and provide financial help for two vital water projects
Herbal products are becoming popular in society and their demand is showing regular increase in the market. A study was undertaken to assess the number of herbal products in selected categories of face care, tooth care, hair care and foot care at Haridwar, Uttarakhand. It was observed that maximum number …
Invasive weeds have become a major environmental concern at local, national, regional and global level. Very recently, the authors have noticed an exotic temperate weed in the Mussoorie hills i.e. Stevia ovata. It is spreading in moist, South-West hill slopes.
For a country, which gave the world perhaps the oldest medical care system, Ayurveda, boasts of a US $2 billion traditional medicine industry and has over 7 lakh registered traditional medicine practitioners, some alarming signals are emanating from the bio-diverse-rich Indian Himalayan region. The youngsters among the traditional healthcare practitioners …
K. Venkateshwarlu HYDERABAD: The Himalayan Quail, a nondescript species with a trademark red bill that was last recorded in the western Himalayas in Uttaranchal in 1876, figures prominently in BirdLife International
Roma, 44, lobbied in favour of the Forest Rights Act against a State impervious to the possibility of a civil war Roma had just finished a masters degree in social work from a Delhi college. She found herself gripped with the anxieties of a young urban woman.
Raju William The experts at the awareness session organised here today by the CII Uttarakhand State Council for creating awareness about the green buildings concept termed the construction sector as the major contributor to global warming. Attended by over 70 representatives from the Uttarakhand Chapter of CII, architects, builders, engineers, …
At least forty-six people were killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, police said on Sunday. Three villages in the hilly Pithoragarh district were swept away in the landslide after a cloudburst on Saturday, local police official M.S. Sathnam said. Seventeen bodies …
Nainital: Rescue workers on Sunday searched through mud and rocks for other fatalities even as they pulled out 23 bodies from the debris of a landslide that swamped three villages in Uttarakhand
Dehra Dun: Six more bodies were recovered from the debris on Sunday, taking the death toll in the cloudburst that triggered a massive landslip in three villages of Pithoragarh district to 21.
