Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Mining activities in Sirigao village located 35 km from Panjim have virtually depleted the water table of the village. Also, the topography has been altered significantly due to the open cast mining activity, a study has revealed. The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur in its report submitted to …
The five-member committee constituted by the government monitor work on the proposed land fill site at Sonsodo has decided to seek the services of experts from the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur to guide the Margao Municipal Council in executing the land fill project. Members of the Committee …
Gandhinagar: River Narmada as well as Bharuch-Dahej area have been kept out of the newly-designed Kalpasar region due to "serious ecological problems" affecting the sweet water lake to be build by damming Gulf of Khambhat. Sachivalaya sources said state environment department has prepared a note, which said that the area …
LUCKNOW: A clean Gomti, one of the important poll planks of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the general elections, has once again been battered to the background as tons of municipal solid waste gets dumped on the flood plain area of the river. The dumping, officials said, was being …
MUMBAI: In the backdrop of power shortage in the state, there is good news for the people of Maharashtra and Reliance Power as well. An appeal filed against the environmental and CRZ clearances given to the power company for its proposed 4,000 MW power project in Konkan has been dismissed …
RInfra, which is developing a 4,000 Mw power plant at Shahpur village in the Raigad district, has received a shot in the arm with the National Environmental Appellate Authority (NEAA) rejecting a petition filed by some of the affected villagers challenging the environmental clearance to the project. The thermal plant …
Mumbai: To ensure better coordination and proper usage of dumping grounds in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), the MMRDA would ask the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) to conduct a study on these grounds. For the study, the MMRDA has identified six sites
28 Jan 2009, 0002 hrs IST, Rajeev Deshpande, TNN NEW DELHI: Concerned over reports of water at Patancheru in Medak near Hyderabad containing drug residues that are as high as 150 times the levels detected in US, PMO has asked for testing of samples and a report on the composition …
Kanchan Vasdev and Jyotika Sood Tribune News Service Ludhiana, January 20 The state government has set yet another deadline for the local dyeing industry to ensure discharge of effluents into Budda Nullah as per the stipulated standards of the Punjab Pollution Control Board. The industry has been asked to start …
Starting with the granddaddy of them all, Project Tiger in 1973, to the more recent vehicular pollution norms and the coming up of sustainable architecture, a green agenda has been part of governance much before it became a globally cool movement. Whether it was creating biosphere reserves or establishing the …
SMALL ENGINES MAKE BIG NOISE The city has been breathing a lot easier ever since a majority of auto-rickshaws plying the road changed to CNG a couple of years ago. But a recent BMC study shows that there has been little respite from noise pollution caused by three-wheeler cargo carriers …
The shadow cast on the 2010 Commonwealth Games has moved away. The Supreme Court on Friday stayed an order of the Delhi High Court, which had virtually stalled construction of the Games Village near the Yamuna river. In addition to this relief, a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan …
Committee Will Decide Fate Of Games Village Ruling out staying ongoing construction of flats for Commonwealth Games in the Capital, Delhi High Court (HC) on Monday flagged its concern on possible ecological damage to Yamuna river and formed a high level committee to gauge the same. The four member committee …
NEW DELHI: Questioning the bona fides of the National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on their shifting stands over the construction of the Commonwealth Games Village along the Yamuna riverbed in East Delhi, the Delhi High Court …
By Rashme Sehgal New Delhi, Oct. 7: Delhi Lt. Gov. Tejendra Khanna, chairman, Yamuna River Development Authority, has finally announced a moratorium on future construction along the flood plain of the Yamuna. Mr Khanna announced this decision during the course of a meeting with water activists who are part of …
JAYANTA BASU The Nagpur-based organisation the state government is banking on to bring the Book Fair back to the Maidan was the one that had documented the environmental damage caused by the event. Chief secretary Amit Kiran Deb said on Tuesday that the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) would …
Availability of potable water under emergency situations like flood will soon be a reality. For researchers of the Geo-Environment Division of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) have come up with a water filter for such purposes. The water filter, called NEERI-ZAR and designed by Mr Subhash Andey, Mr …
Mumbai, August 12 Environment Status Report says unfit water samples up by 37 pc; in peak hours, vehicles move at 5-8 km per hr, holding up ambulances The grades on the city's annual environmental report card are slipping with drinking water getting more contaminated than last year, decibel levels shooting …
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has constituted a six-member experts committee headed by Rajendra K. Pachauri, director-general, Tata Energy Research Institute, to look at an alternative alignment, avoiding the Ramar Sethu stretch, for implementing the Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project. He is the chairman of the inter-governmental panel on climate …
Centre studying court suggestion on alternative alignment for Sethu project J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Centre will inform the Supreme Court on July 29 of the feasibility, or otherwise, of an alternative alignment, particularly Alignment No. 4, for implementing the Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project. Senior counsel Fali Nariman, appearing for …
