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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Krishan Kant Singh Vs. M/s. Hindustan Cocacola Beverages Pvt. Ltd., Mehdiganj, Rajatalab, Varanasi & Others dated 17/11/2014 regarding pollution of river Ganga.
Union water resources and Ganga rejuvenation minister Uma Bharati on Friday announced that major drains would either be tapped or diverted in the next 45 days to prevent further pollution of Ganga. Following inspection of major drains discharging waste in Ganga in the city , she also ruled out ban …
NASHIK: The Bombay High Court has asked Godavari Gatarikaran Virodhi Manch, an NGO that had filed a public interest litigation on river pollution, to make Indiabulls and Nashik Thermal Power Station (NTPS) a party in the case and ask them to appear on November 7. The court said though these …
The water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation minister, Uma Bharti, suggested on Tuesday that "electric" crematoriums should not be used on river banks and instead bodies should be burnt in a traditional way with minimum use of wood. She said that religious leaders - "sadhus" - have not approved …
The proposal to appoint the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) to prepare a municipal waste management plan for the city was deferred once again by the MC House after former Mayor Subhash Chawla pointed out anomalies in the existing garbage processing system. Chawla said that the Memorandum of Understanding …
Hopes that Tata Power Company will be able to soon enhance its thermal power production in the city are now in serious doubt with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) having ordered notices to be issued to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and to the Maharashtra Pollution Control …
The much-waited iron ore mining lease policy, expected to be out by September 20, is likely to classify all 360-odd mining leases into three categories depending on their status, based on which leases would be executed for resumption of mining activity. PANJIM: The much-waited iron ore mining lease policy, expected …
Garbage Stifling Lake's Spirit, Say Experts Over the last five years, naturalist and bird watcher Sunjoy Monga has spotted 102 spe cies of birds over and around Lokhandwala Lake. But on Thursday morning, all he could see was a heavy layer of garbage coating the edge of the lake. Lesser …
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has recommended that the buffer zone around the Moshi garbage depot in Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) can be reduced to 300 m. People have built their houses and housing schemes have come up around the depot. These residents have demanded that the …
Citizens' group Nagrik Chetna Manch said on Sunday that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has neglected taking important measures, such as waste segregation at source, which could have averted the current garbage crisis. The Manch said that it had made repeated appeals to the corporation for the last three years …
DAHEJ: Around 1,000 farmers from 35 villages of Vagra taluka raised serious objections to the environment impact assessment (EIA) report for the proposed Petroleum, Chemicals & Petrochemicals Investment region (PCPIR) at a public hearing on Wednesday The public hearing that lasted for nearly six hours saw farmers armed with powerpoint …
The tar ball phenomenon in Goa could be due to oil exploration activities from offshore oil installations, natural phenomenon from sea bed or from sea going vessels passing through the area. In a written reply in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar said tar balls have been …
Alvares tags Saligao project as most expensive in the country and that proposal doesn’t speak about collection, transport and proper generation of different types of waste; D’Cruz suggests govt should instead focus on setting up composting plants in every village PANJIM: While Goa government has trumpeted a garbage-free Goa through …
Union Minister Prakash Javdekar Says NBWL Will Also Be Notified Soon The National Board For Wildlife will be reconstituted and notified in a few days and approvals for industrial projects in Gujarat pending with the Union ministry of environment and forests will be dealt with in two weeks on a …
A Bombay high court division bench of justices Abhay Oka and M S Chandurkar on Friday issued a show-cause notice to the Kolhapur Zilla Sahakari Dudh Utpadak Sangh Ltd, popularly known as Gokul milk dairy , for not having a facility to treat waste water. The directions came after the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Sunita Devi Kol Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 10/07/2014 regarding illegal mining is going on in the forest area of Gram Hata, Tehsil Hanumana, District Rewa, Madhya Pradesh in contravention of the Forest (Conservation) …
Javadekar said the government will find out whether pollution, specially through tar balls, was created by an ulterior design by countries which wanted to destroy tourism Asserting that Narendra Modi Government was committed to "development without destruction", Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said a high-level panel would assess reasons behind …
With Goa tar balls phenomenon getting wider attention of environmentalists and parliamentarians, the Center on Tuesday announced calling a high-level meeting of stakeholders, including experts from across the country, later this month to find out exact reason of the deposition of polluting substances along the state coasts every year during …
NASHIK: Around 200 citizens came together on Saturday evening to form a human chain from Tapovan to Ramkund in protest against the concreting of the ghats of the Godavari. The movement was initiated by environmental activist Shekhar Gaikwad. A stretch of the 1.2-km and 20-metre wide ghat from Tapovan to …
The pre-monsoon churning of currents on the high seas throws up sticky and oily tar balls, which turn people away from Goa’s pristine beaches annually. This May to October menace has grown in magnitude over the last four decades since it was first noticed in the 1970s. A recent National …
