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 …
function open_new_tigers() { newwd=window.open("dte_slideshow/20090415_tigers/tigers_terai.htm","","height=650,width=600,scrollbar=yes"); newwd.moveTo(200,75); } Tigers that recently killed 11 people were neither old nor injured Close to the foothills of the Himalaya four tigers ventured out of forests and killed 11 people in the past five months. The killings have challenged the official understanding of man-eaters. Unlike the …
Uttarakhand May Shut Supply For Canal Cleaning From April 15 Residents of south and east Delhi may soon have to face water shortage with the Uttarakhand government planning to shut down supply to Delhi for two weeks. Sources revealed that the shut down will take place from April 15 to …
Govt in talks with ADB, Power Finance Corp. Shishir Prashant / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun April 11, 2009, 0:49 IST The Uttarakhand government is in talks with financial institutions like the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Power Finance Corporation to revive a couple of big hydel projects.
The study was conducted in the Terai belt of U.S. Nagar and Rampur districts of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, respectively. 13 guava orchard farms were selected for indepth investigation.
Water resources regime in Kumaon Himalaya is a product of its specific environmental conditions. Major river systems, lakes along with a plethora of streams and springs are the main sources of water in this region. In pre-colonial Kumaon, communities took pride in their water systems and the local communities had …
The MNRE had sanctioned the Saradi test project in January 2006. The project has been implemented by UBB (Uttarakhand Biofuel Board), Dehradun and coordinated and monitored by UREDA (Uttarakhand Renewable Energy Development Agency), Dehradun. Before providing electricity in Saradi, the villagers were using kerosene for lighting and other purposes. The …
Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India proposes to embark on a project, namely, Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihood Improvement Project (BCRLIP), at two sites of global and national biodiversity importance in the country. BCRLIP signals a paradigm shift from hitherto Protected Area (PA) conservation approaches, wherein PAs were …
Loharinag Pala power project resumes after it was suspended THE Uttarakhand high court has ordered construction work be resumed at the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project on the Bhagirathi in Uttarkashi. The order came after environmentalist G D Agarwal succeeded in stalling the 600 megawatt project by going on an indefinite …
The many faces of Himalayan herb bhangjeera Traditional medicine practitioners of eastern Asia know about this spice. People of Garhwal in Uttarakhand have many uses for the leaves and seeds of this plant grown in the upper reaches of Himalaya. But gourmets are yet to discover it. The aroma of …
Shishir Prashant / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun March 30, 2009, 0:49 IST The recession seems to have cast its shadow over the hydel sector with a consortium backtracking after winning the contract for building four hydel projects in the Nayar Valley of Uttarakhand. WWI-RRE, the consortium of RR Energy and …
Nainital: For the second time in a week, officials at the Corbett Tiger Reserve recovered the carcass of a 10-year-old tiger at Hathidangar in the reserve
Construction of a new housing project adjacent to the Khurpa tal by the Army Welfare Housing Organization (AWHO) has caused afresh hue and cry among the villagers in the surrounding area when Dr. Ajay S. Rawat, Professor of History in Kumaon University filed a PIL against the illegal boring of …
The Supreme Court has asked an environmentalist to approach the Uttarakhand High Court to stop large-scale illegal constructions and felling of trees in Nainital to preserve the beauty of the town and the main lake by strictly implementing an earlier order of the apex court. In an order passed earlier …
MANGLORE (HARDWAR): For farmers in this agricultural heartland of Uttarakhand the election issues are simple. They want the Neelgais to be kept out of their farms, a reasonable minimum support price (MSP) for their produce and status of industry for agriculture. This region and the plains of Udhamsingh Nagar form …
But where are the flowers? HIGH temperatures have caused spring flowers to bloom earlier than usual in Uttarakhand disrupting the annual festivities. This has dismayed children in the Garhwal district the most because each year when they wake up before dawn to collect wild flowers like Rhododendron arboreum (burans), Prunus …
