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 …
DEHRA DUN: A 12-year-old girl was killed by a leopard in the Jhajara range of jungles in Vikasnagar town of the district in Uttarakhand, officials said on Thursday. The incident occurred when Shanti Thapa and her neighbour went to fetch firewood from the jungles near Rajawala village, where she was …
Mountain communities have been adapting to changing environment for a long time. Traditional farming methods depending on recycling of available natural resources is the key to sustainable production systems. Local marketing systems have also played a vital role in reducing the emissions and food miles.
Regeneration status of a forest indicates its health and a healthy forest ensures good future generations. Sal species which regulates its environment and forms pure stands in Doon Valley. Despite having a wide niche, the species has a great regeneration problem due to various anthropogenic disturbances, limitations of soil moisture, …
The goal of the Living Ganga Programme is to develop and implement strategies for sustainable energy and water resources management within the ganga basin, in the face of climate change. This programme brings together components of climate adaptation, vulnerability assessment, environmental flows and water allocation coupled with pollution abatement and …
The objectives of this study were: ?to examine the various issues associated with irrigation potential creation, irrigation potential utilization, gross irrigation and net irrigation including the definition, the reporting practices and consistencies in the data; ?to suggest procedures for collection of related data to be applied uniformly throughout the country; …
New studies, committees and a tag of national river. Will it help? the government has decided to declare the Ganga a national river, following campaigns from several quarters to preserve its cultural and religious significance. A High Powered Ganga River Basin Authority, to be chaired by the prime minister, will …
Shishir Prashant / Dehradun November 24, 2008, 0:27 IST The new power policy reposes faith on local people and gram panchayats. After many of its big hydel projects ran into problems owing to environmental threats, the Uttarakhand government is focussing on its new power policy on micro and mini hydel …
Lucknow: Pointing to the geology of the Indian subcontinent, a leading geologist on Saturday warned that some regions of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh near Nepal could be prone to an earthquake. Collision course Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology Director B. R. Arora who delivered the 54th Sir Albert …
Dehra Dun: The gates of the Jim Corbett and Rajaji National Parks may not open on Saturday after the long monsoon break with the Uttarakhand Forest Guard Federation on Friday threatening not to allow visitors into the reserves until their demand for better wages are accepted by the authorities. The …
DEHRA DUN: It was a miraculous escape for Pratap Singh Pundir of Dhalwala near Rishikesh as he took shelter inside his house after being chased by an elephant on Wednesday night. The pachyderm pulled down part of the house before being chased away by villagers. Similarly, rampaging elephants damaged two …
A perusal of environment impact assessments for hydel projects in Uttarakhand brings out various deficiencies in the reports, and the unstudied manner in which such projects have been embarked upon. That many more of such projects have been proposed points to the muddled direction adopted for energy supply, reminding us …
The developing world community is struggling with scarcity of power. Most of its power is derived from non-renewable conventional energy resources which are decreasing day by day. Therefore, presently renewable energy resource utilization is the best solution to combat this problem. Geothermal energy is one such renewable energy resource which …
The health of a nation's population is vital for its economic development, prosperity and internal stability. In India, investments to build the country's social fabric, in particular, healthcare and education are especially critical, as India is projected to become the world's most populous country by 2035. It is already the …
Shishir Prashant Indian watermills are all set to get international recognition thanks to the joint efforts of the central government and HESCO, a Dehra dun-based NGO, towards roping in United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDPO), headquartered in Vienna. UNIDO has agreed to set up an international watermill hub in Uttarakhand, …
Chorgalia is a small village at the foot of the rather less prominent Shivaliks in the Kumaon Himalayas, close to the city of Haldwani. A somnolent settlement at the mouth of a pass where the Nandhor river bounces off the hills into the open countryside of 'Bhabar', it was the …
The meeting of the Indo-Nepal Joint Committee on Water Resources in Kathmandu agreed to set up an authority to undertake the 6,000-MW Pancheshwar multi- purpose project on the Mahakali river and expedite work on preparation of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) on Saptkosi High Dam on the Kosi.
