Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
NEW DELHI: The urban development ministry is preparing a plan for promoting "green transport" in cities in a bid to reduce vehicular pollution and put a brake on the rising number of private vehicles. Sources said the proposal primarily focuses on cycling and plying of electric vehicles for public transport …
NEW DELHI: As the capital continued to suffer one of its worst spells of air pollution in living memory and air quality further dipped to the season's lowest on Sunday, the Delhi government finally announced a slew of emergency measures to deal with the public health crisis. All schools have …
Nagpur: Infrastructure development has spelt doom for the residents of Surya Nagar near Kalamna Market Road. Environmental pollution has become a major issue due to slow-paced road construction and other activities. The main road near Old Pardi Naka Square is in a shambles since last few years. It witnesses heavy …
The national capital has been engulfed in a thick cover of pollutant-laden smog for the past few days, primarily after Diwali, forcing the residents to inhale 'severe' quality air. Terming Delhi’s smog situation a serious issue, Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave on Thursday said his ministry will soon issue an …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vardhaman Kaushik Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 04/11/2016 regarding rising air pollution in the area of NCT, Delhi. National Green Tribunal directs all the concerned states to "place on record the action taken in furtherance to the order …
The Delhi government on Tuesday announced an action plan to deal with the severe pollution this winter. This includes a crackdown on construction sites violating norms, reviving the Swachch Delhi app, re-starting vacuum cleaning of streets and sprinkling of water on arterial roads to tamp down the dust. Deputy CM …
The principal driver of air pollution in London is road transport and, within that, diesel vehicles. Nearly 40 per cent of all NOx emissions within London come from diesel vehicles, and unless this is explicitly tackled it will be impossible to cleanse London’s air. New modelling by King’s College London …
As India wakes up on Monday to smoke-filled skies from a weekend of festival fireworks, New Delhi's worst season for air pollution begins, with dire consequences. A new report from UNICEF says most of the 2 billion children in the world who are breathing toxic air live in north India …
HYDERABAD: Alarmed over the rising levels of pollution within the iconic Salar Jung Museum, scientists have now called for immediate measures to save priceless artefacts housed within its premises. During a recently-concluded inspection, a team of experts from the National Envi ronmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) spoke of the deteriorating …
The situation of air pollution is going from bad to worse in Haridwar as per the residents and medical experts both, especially in past one decade the holy city has registered escalated respiratory patients. The residents who once enjoyed the serene ganges and cool breeze sometimes land up cursing themselves …
AGRA: In a letter to Union environment ministry's secretary, Agra entrepreneurs wrote that the industries are wrongly being blamed for causing pollution in the city, while the factors like road dust, lack of greenery, vehicular pollution and dry Yamuna among other reasons have been overlooked. They said such a decision …
The state government was to have inducted 3,000 buses by now to check air pollution in Delhi. But with the transport department pleading that there was no depot space available for any additional fleet, it is unlikely that public transport will have a role to play in improving air quality …
Lack of investment in safe walking and cycling infrastructure not only contributes to the deaths of millions of people in traffic accidents on unsafe roads and poorly designed roadways, but also overlooks a great opportunity to boost the fight against climate change, a new UN Environment report said today. In …
The City of Cape Town on Sunday said electric-powered buses would be rolled out next year as part of its MyCiTi services. "Apart from lowering our carbon emissions, local residents will also benefit from this contract through job opportunities," said Mayor Patricia de Lille in a statement. She said that …
Car industry successfully lobbied for loopholes to dilute EU laws limiting toxic particulates emissions for new cars, the Guardian has learned New European cars with petrol engines will be allowed to overshoot a limit on toxic particulates emissions by 50% under a draft EU regulation backed by the UK and …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Delhi government to reduce traffic congestion on city roads and introduce destination buses to improve air quality in the Capital, which has shown a rapid deterioration in recent weeks with the drop in temperature. The NGT was hearing a petition filed by …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court-appointed pollution control watchdog EPCA threw a surprise on Wednesday suggesting that vehicle manufacturers should stop selling vehicles that are BS-III compliant from next April. However, both automobile manufacturers and government don't favour such change in the policy, which they claimed would cause chaos. Sources said …
Aiming at steps to curb pollution, the National Green Tribunal has directed Delhi government to reduce traffic congestion on city roads and introduce destination buses to improve air quality in the national capital. The green panel said the introduction of destination buses would facilitate an individual to opt for such …
The Delhi government apparently has not chalked out any plans as yet to implement the odd-even scheme as an emergency measure this winter. Though officials remained tightlipped and no one was available for comment, sources said nothing concrete had been discussed as yet. No alternative action plan to deal with …
After two spells of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘odd-even’ experiment—odd-numbered cars were allowed to ply on odd-dates—and even the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) ban on 2,000cc+ diesel vehicles failed to fix Delhi’s pollution, it is just as well that NGT has asked Kejriwal to meet with other regulatory bodies …
