Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
A three-day “World Culture Festival” to be organised next month under the patronage of spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar’s Art of Living came under the scanner of the National Green Tribunal, which sought the Delhi government’s response on a plea seeking to stop holding of the event on Yamuna floodplains. …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has set up a committee to look into the grossly polluting industries located along the banks of the Ganga and inform it about the quantum of sewage they were discharging into the river. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar constituted the panel …
KANPUR: IIT-Kanpur has redeveloped and redesigned its green toilet and named it 'Triansh'. The system has also been installed at Magh Mela campus in Allahabad. Devotees coming to Magh Mela for taking dip in the Ganga are availing benefits of these bio-toilets. Prof Vinod Tare of IIT-Kanpur, who has developed …
Lucknow: While the state is facing one of the worst farm crises ever, experts who took part in a recent workshop organised by the World Bank and irrigation department, suiggested technologies which can predict drought. "Now the time has come for drought forecasting and the researchers have developed such a …
According to the report, a complete ban on MSW burning can almost bring emissions from this source to zero and possibly see an improvement of 5-10 per cent in air quality. As the odd and even vehicle number experiment, one of the measures taken to reduce pollution levels in Delhi, …
Vehicular pollution in Delhi has grown from 64 per cent to 72 per cent from year 1990 to 2000 Air pollution caused by vehicular traffic declined by over 50 per cent in the national capital on Saturday, mainly due to strong winds and sunny conditions, the Delhi government said on …
Delhi’s air may be more toxic than previously imagined: a study by IIT Kanpur found traces of a deadly chemical among the pollutants in the city. Called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), the toxin is a product of emissions of diesel vehicles that, even in small quantities — such as the …
NEW DELHI: The draft IIT-Kanpur report on pollution in Delhi has triggered fresh alarm over the city's winter air quality as it has found "very high" levels of an extremely toxic group of 100 chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), emitted mainly due to incomplete combustion. According to several past …
An elaborate analysis of the impact on air quality would also help officials plan future policy measures like exemptions. To study the real time impact of the odd-even scheme to curb vehicular pollution, mobile air quality machines will be deployed in at least six areas in the capital and 20 …
The world's “most polluted city“ may have reached a turning point going into 2016. Crowning a two-year public campaign for clean air in Delhi, Supreme Court on December 16 delivered a landmark judgment placing numerous restrictions on private and commercial diesel vehicles. It stopped the entry of trucks with pre-Bharat …
NEW DELHI: Daily bulletins will keep you informed about the odd-even formula's impact on air quality from January 1 to 15. The environment department will monitor air quality at 200 locations from 8am to 8pm using data from six mobile units, 20 stationary air quality samplers and the monitoring stations …
New Delhi: The national capital is facing a more serious pollution crisis from secondary particles, in addition to tiny pollution particles (PM2.5) being emitted from various sources like transport, waste burning or dust. The recent draft IIT Kanpur report has flagged that secondary particles which are formed from chemical reactions …
For the first time, the core Mood-I team has made a conscious effort to make the fest a paperless one, in a bid to do their bit for the environment. Every edition of Mood Indigo (Mood-I) — IIT-Bombay’s annual cultural festival — is known to bring in some innovation or …
KOLKATA: The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has welcomed the landmark judgment from the Chief Justice bench of the Supreme Court of India banning registration of luxury diesel cars and SUVs with engine size of 2,000 cc in the entire national capital region of Delhi till March, next year. …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shailesh Singh Vs. Bhushan Steel & Strips Limited & Ors. dated 16/12/2015 regarding pollution caused by Bhushan Steel & Strips Limited, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M;), the country’s leading sport utility vehicle (SUV) manufacturer and the company likely to be worst affected by the National Green Tribunal’s directive to ban the registration of new diesel vehicles in Delhi, has questioned the wisdom of targeting only diesel vehicles to solve all the …
A residents’ association in Ghaziabad has asked IIT-Delhi to conduct a detailed study of air polluting sources in this Delhi suburb in view of the deteriorating air quality in the National Capital Region. In a letter to IIT-Delhi, Col. Tejendra Pal Singh Tyagi (retd), president of the Apartment Owners’ Association …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Om Dutt Singh & Anr. Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. dated 14/12/2015 regarding Kanhar Irrigation Project in District Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, State of Uttar Pradesh stated before the Tribunal that there are …
The Delhi government may be targeting private vehicles to check rising air pollution levels, but a study by IIT-Kanpur shows that cars and jeeps contribute less than 10% of particulate matter while trucks are bigger culprits. A big contributor to Delhi's air pollution is road dust that accounts for about …
The draft report states two-wheelers are responsible for more PM 10 and PM 2.5 than cars when it comes to polluting the air. Exempting two-wheelers from the odd-even formula for plying of vehicles in Delhi to combat pollution will defeat the purpose, sources said Wednesday, basing this view on a …
