<p>Response by National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) in Original Application No 200 of 2014 (M C Mehta Vs Union of India & Others).</p> <p>The matter related to prevention, control and abatement
Tata Motors Considering Rollout From Pantnagar, Moves Equipment Out Of Singur Sutanuka Ghosal KOLKATA
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Nourisher of an ancient civilization, the Ganga could be gasping for its survival. Every few kilometres the water of its tributaries will be diverted to produce power. While there may not be enough flow to run the turbines, there
Unfulfilled promises; villagers hanging loose On July 24 this year, a school block near the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project in Sunagarh, Uttarkashi district, gave away as the rocks under it had become unstable. The subsequent landslide kept the highway blocked for the next three days.
Shishir Prashant / Pantnagar (uttarakhand) September 12, 2008, 5:12 IST Amidst deepening suspense over the future of the Nano car project at Singur, speculation is rife in this industrial town of Uttarakhand that Tata Motors will add a four-wheeler plant to its existing Ace truck factory here. Tata Motors owns 1,000 acres in this rapidly industrialising town in the prosperous terai region of the state. About 30 per cent of it is learnt to be vacant.
A documentary film on how market forces are appropriating natural resources that belong to everybody. IN VARANASI, WITH the Ganga in the background. The documentary is part of a movement to expose the subterranean war going on for water.
Dehra Dun, September 7 Carcass of a young male elephant was today recovered from the Najibabad forest area in Uttar Pradesh barely at a distance of 4 km from the Uttarakhand Motadhang area falling in the Lansdowne forest division. The state forest officials found a carcass of the elephant aged between 5 to 6 years from an agriculture field in the Chaturawla village area. Confirming the death of the elephant Uttar Pradesh chief wild life warden B.S. Patnaik disclosed that no physical injury was visible and the cause of death could only be ascertained after the post mortem report.
The Tatas have sounded the Uttarakhand government on the possibility of shifting the small-car project to Pantnagar if they decide to leave Singur, a top government official said.
Dehra Dun: An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter Scale shook Uttarakhand on Thursday evening, but there were no reports of any loss of life or damage to property. The quake, with its epicentre near the Uttarakhand-Tibet border, hit the State and its neighbouring areas at around 16.23 pm, Meteorology Department Director Anand Sharma said. Panic-stricken residents scampered out of their homes in Dehra Dun and other places when the tremor struck.
A study was conducted to estimate the soil organic carbon pool under Eucalyptus, Poplar, Shisham and Teak plantations in Haridwar and Dehra Dun, districts of Uttarakhand and Yamunanagar District of Haryana State.
