By: Satyakam Bharti

On Sunday the Himachal Pradesh government declared that the World Bank has in principle agreed to finance a bio-carbon project in the state, claiming it to the first in South Asia, the modalities for which would be completed by year end. A good beginning, it can be said, to realize those 1,50,000 crore [...]

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Baddi: Concerned over non-compliance of environment safety norms in the Baddi-Barotiwala industrial belt, the Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board has now served notices to at least 15 units for spreading pollution by burning rice husk in industrial boilers. They have been asked to switch over to  fuels like furnace oil, diesel or petrol for all [...]

By: Eesha Duggal
Living and growing up in Shimla  feels like being Mogli of Jungle Book sometimes. Born in the building, somewhere, in the jungles, then playing in the woods, climbing every possible tree, running at the site of monkeys, building a temporary house of ‘ghaas-phoos’, being friends with every stray dog around, doing crazy stuff [...]

By: Satyakam Bharti
An occasional ripple in the rising waters of Tehri Dam still reminds people in the area about the old Tehri village that was finally given a jal-samadhi some time back, of course a forced one. The 9,290 families spread across 107 villages of which 27 villages were completely submerged and 80 partially may [...]

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Shimla: Concerned over fast depleting environmental health of the state, environmentalists working in Himachal have raised concern over increasing activities of hydro power production, cement industries and indiscriminate mining and have asked the government to consider these factors seriously while framing its new environmental policy.
The activists, under the umbrella of Himalya Niti Abhiyaan Samiti, have [...]

By: Vividhaditya
On April 22, the Himachal government banned spitting and littering on the Mall Road, Shimla. A whistle-blower brigade of school students was set-up to embarrass the defaulters by the Science and Technology department and state Pollution Control Board. I wish the government had let the children study and asked its own employees to do [...]

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Shimla: Una on Wednesday crossed the scary 40 degree Celsius mark as the town recorded a maximum temperature of 41.2 degrees while the rest of the state too reeled under heat. The steep rise in temperature appears ominous considering the destruction sudden changes in weather pattern in the past have brought in the state.
For example, [...]

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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh had been selected for a reforestation project under the Bio-carbon Revenue Project which is financed through the Rs 365-crore Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project (MHWDP). Stating this at a meeting of senior officers and a World Bank delegation, forest minister JP Nadda today said that the government was committed to increase green cover [...]

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Shimla: The first-of-its-kind Primate Park for monkeys in Himachal Pradesh was inaugurated by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal at Tara Devi near Shimla today. Earlier, the government had decided to open two Primate Parks in the state on experimental basis - one in Shimla and the other in Nadaun to keep 2,500 monkeys annually at [...]

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Shimla: A study carried out by Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group, New Delhi, and Lok Vigyan Kendra/ Navrachna, Himachal Pradesh, along with information sought under the Right to Information Act have revealed gross irregularities in the execution of 800 MW Parbati II hydel project being executed by the National Hydro Power Corporation. Not just this, even [...]