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 …
The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), appointed by the state in 2009 to study and suggest measures for management of e-waste in Mumbai, will submit its report by April 2011. A 2007 report by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board on e-waste in Mumbai and Pune region states that as per …
Until five years ago very few people in Mumbai were aware of the Mithi river running through it. Then, in the monsoon of 2005 it flooded, drowning 500 people. With the devastation it erupted into public consciousness, dark and stinking. Ever since the authorities have been trying to revive it. …
Until five years ago very few people in Mumbai were aware of the Mithi river running through it. Then, in the monsoon of 2005 it flooded, drowning 500 people. With the devastation it erupted into public consciousness, dark and stinking. Ever since the authorities have been trying to revive it. …
Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) has been nominated by Union Ministry of Shipping to carry out environmental impact assessment (EIA) for new alignment of Sethu Samudram channel joining Southern tip of India and Northern tip of Sri Lanka. A press note by Press Information Bureau (PIB) reads that the …
PANAJI: The lawyers of mining company Vedanta on Wednesday assured the High Court of Bombay at Goa that the firm would remove the mining dumps at the edge of its mining lease at Advalpal village in north Goa. Petitioners, a nine-year-old Akash Naik and the Goa Foundation, have moved the …
Mumbai Chief Secretary J P Dange reviewed the progress of desilting, deepening and widening of Mithi river on Sunday along with Metropolitan Commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Commissioner Swadhin Kshatriya. Dange said,
Mumbai As part of its effort to develop a stretch of Mithi river as a tourist spot , the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Friday began the process of infusing oxygen into the river to control its stink. The metropolitan commissioner of MMRDA, Ratnakar Gaikwad said:
Mumbai Even as the Copenhagen Summit on climate change struggles to come up with a solution, agencies in Mumbai have initiated a study to look at ways to reduce carbon footprints in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Mumbai Transformation Support Unit (MTSU) of the All India Institute of Local Self Government …
MUMBAI: The Mumbai coast guard's pollution response team (west) is set to purchase three modern pollution control vehicles (PCVs) to ensure a cleaner sea off the western shores. Induction of PCVs in the Coast Guard's fleet, along with other modern equipment to control oil spills and pollution, will be complete …
The recommendation of NEERI and the P Ram Committee to attain zero liquid discharge by local dyeing units to save the Buddha Nullah has brought the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) back in action. Even as industrialists held protests yesterday demanding the resignation of PPCB chairman Yogesh Goel, the pollution …
SC Settles Dispute: Village Site Neither Riverbed Nor Flood Plain, Behind Embankment TIMES NEWS NETWORK The Supreme Court on Thursday finally put to rest the controversies surrounding the Commonwealth Games Village site. The Village site is located behind an embankment and not on the riverbed or the floodplain as claimed …
MUMBAI: If the MMRDA has its way, American landfill experts will soon visit Mumbai's dumping sites, prod the garbage, take samples of the slush, analyse it and then suggest ways to create new sanitary landfills in the region. MMRDA commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad, who is back after a short visit to …
THE Madras High Court on Thursday directed the State government and a petitioner to furnish details about bodies like NEERI, Rotary Club and the Exnora to enable it to ensure their presence on the future hearing dates on the contempt application seeking to punish the Municipal Administration and Water Supply …
MUMBAI: Even as the fate of Rs 4,500-crore plan for scientific closure of Deonar dumping ground hangs in balance, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has proposed to develop six landfill sites beyond the city limits. A proposal to this effect has been sent to eight municipal corporations for …
Jyotika Sood The much-awaited National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) report, on which industrialists, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) and the state government have been banking upon, clearly states that no direct discharge, be it domestic sewage or industrial effluents, should be allowed in Buddha Nullah. The industrialists had …
