Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
After a 62-year-old woman from Haldwani died of swine flu on Tuesday, district administration woke up from its slumber and declared an alert across the district. A medical team rushed to the house of the victim and took samples of her family members and people in the locality. The team …
Though the protest on ban on mining in Gaula river by NGT has begun in by the affected groups in Haldwani, the Uttarakhand Forest Development Corporation deny from any such ban in place. Dinesh Pandey, the environment activist, had made the plea before NGT to quash the Forest Clearance accorded …
NAINITAL: As many as 422 children in the six districts of Kumaon division have been diagnosed with an illness, with 267 of them suffering from heart-related ailments, according to data released by the health department. Under the Rashtriya Baal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) programme more than 5,000 children in government schools …
While the State Government claims to be working on conservation of environment, planned development and boosting tourism in Uttarakhand, the number of slum settlements across the State present a picture that contradicts official claims with more than 500 slums being listed across the State. While Mussoorie is touted as the …
The forest department is working on getting ready two enclosures, one at Chidiyapur range of Haridwar Forest Division and the other at Haldwani Forest Division, to trap and sterilize monkeys. A budget of Rs 5 crore has been allocated for the purpose. A proposal of getting people from Mathura to …
NAINITAL: In an illustration of how fast HIV is spreading in Uttarakhand despite the government spending crores in AIDS-control measures, a query by a Haldwani-based RTI activist has revealed that the state spent almost Rs 5 crore in curbing the disease and spreading awareness in last 10 years, while 652 …
As a 1991 Times Fellow, you worked on a project that involved following butterfly trails. What was the outcome? The project was titled, 'Towards the rehabilitation of Indian rivers'. It enabled me to travel over a large part of peninsular and eastern India, observing butterfly communities, forest ecosystems and water …
Drive for distributing soil health cards among farmers will be intensified in Udhamsingh Nagar, Haridwar, Nainital and Dehradun districts so that that the process is complete within six months, Chief Minister Harish Rawat said on Monday. Making the announcement while inaugurating the State’s first Mango Festival here, Mr. Rawat said …
Landslides due to heavy rains in different parts of Nainital have put lives of many at risk. The district administration Nainital has, however, directed the officials concerned to shift families from Nainital’s landslide-prone Harinagar/ Tallital area to safer places in view of the incessant rains that continued here for two …
NAINITAL: The major rivers of Uttarakhand are under severe stress with excessive sand mining from the river bed and commercial activity along the banks. The rampant quarrying of sand has changed the landscape of the river beds to such an extent that there are now deltas forming, changing the course …
In order to establish the gene bank of the highly threatened and rare varieties of medicinal, wild food and other species and to develop their nursery for re-plantation of the seedlings of these rare species for restoring and enriching of the floral diversity of the region, the Haldwani forest division …
Acute drinking water scarcity rages on in different parts of Haldwani city and its adjacent areas with the officials concerned remaining laggard. Suffering is compounded with the mercury surging up. About half a dozen electricity-driven tube-wells put in place to buttress the existing drinking water distribution network are out of …
The Uttarakhand high court, taking a serious note of illegal mining of the Kosi riverbed in Udham Singh Nagar's Bajpur, on Wednesday sought responses of the state secretary for industrial development, UDS Nagar district magistrate and the area's divisional forest officer on the issue by April 30. A PIL was …
Haldwani resident Ravishankar Joshi filed a petition on Saturday alleging rampant illegal mining in areas like Jamrani, Amiya and Amritpur by people who had got government land on lease. The court has sought a response in the matter from the state government within four weeks. "As per the law and …
In a bid to protest against the attack on Statehood freedom-fighter Prabhat Dhyani and social activist Munish Kumar, allegedly by the mining mafia in Ramnagar on Tuesday, citizens including members of different social organisations took to the streets and kept the markets in Ramanagar closed on Wednesday. Statehood freedom fighter …
With the onset of summer season, drinking water crisis has also started giving a tough to the citizens here. After tube-wells becoming faulty in Haldwani’s Damuwadhunga area of late, people of that region are experiencing a tough time. Though the officials of the Jal Sasthan, Haldwani, claimed that works have …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) has sought an inspection of the Century Pulp and Paper Mill, Nainital, by a team comprising representatives of the Union ministry of environment and forests and central and state pollution control boards. The NGT has also nominated a professor of IIT Roorkee as part of the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Gauri Maulekhi Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 27/02/2015 regarding pollution caused by Century Pulp and Paper mill, Nainital,Uttarakhand. The Tribunal noted that the industry was ordered to be closed in the year 2011. After …
Different teams of the anti-mining vigilance cell raided different cities for the fourth consecutive day today in order to check illegal mining in the state’s riverbeds. The teams have impounded dumpers and sealed stone crushers. They have also imposed heavy penalty on miners for flouting norms. Several teams comprising senior …
After the startling revelation about a Haldwani reserve forest area being used as a dumping ground came to the fore, the forest department and the Haldwani-Kathgodam Municipal Corporation have collaborated to deal with the problem. While the municipal corporation has started clearing garbage from the area, the forest department is …
