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 …
NOIDA: The Noida Authority has decided to get tough with developers who use sub-standard material. This follows the cave-in at the basement of a building under construction in Sector 45 last month. Rama Raman, chairperson and CEO of Noida Authority, has ordered the setting up of a committee comprising retired …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday directed the Delhi government to submit within two weeks an action plan on reduction of noise pollution caused by heavy traffic near Panchsheel Park. “The NCT of Delhi will ensure that the action plan to execute the recommendations of IIT-Roorkee to control noise …
MUMBAI: The BMC will clean up Powai Lake, which has a catchment area of about 600 hectares. The lake's water is used for non-potable purposes like gardening and by industries. The BMC will remove hyacinths and waste from the lake to improve water quality, for which it will spend Rs …
The Delhi high court on Wednesday criticised the Centre and the Delhi government over their apathy towards the issue of 90 per cent of buildings in the capital being “structurally unsafe” to withstand earthquake. The court directed the Centre and Delhi government to give a status report on action taken …
GHAZIABAD: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has formed a committee to study the level of concretization in the city and frame guidelines on the issue. The step has been taken following a petition filed by a city-based environmentalist, Akash Vasisth, on the "mindless" concretization undertaken by the GDA despite government …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Manoj Mishra Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 12/08/2015 regarding Yamuna river pollution. The Tribunal in its Order said that in relation to the 11 industrial clusters in Delhi which are not connected to any CETP and are directly …
BMC engineers visited the campus and were keen on creating a constructed wetland near the main gate entrance to treat water from Powai village that flows through the IIT campus into the lake. In the next six months, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) are looking at treating …
A WHO report says Amritsar is the ninth most polluted city in the country | PPCB to install monitoring device soon Burgeoning population, increasing vehicular traffic, mushrooming hotels and industrial pollution continue to pose a serious threat to the Golden Temple which was earlier too robbed off its sheen due …
PUNE: The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) has persistently ignored reports on biodiversity concerns and risk assessment studies along the Mumbai-Pune Expressway prepared by experts such as scientists and ecologists. In 2014, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, had prepared a detailed report on the rockfall risk assessment of …
NEW DELHI: The Centre claims vehicles are not the worst polluters but it's not saying what's behind Delhi's terrible air quality either. The Union transport ministry continued to skirt the issue before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday, with additional solicitor general (ASG) Pinky Anand submitting that dry leaves …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday directed the Union transport ministry to submit its views on what is contributing to air pollution in Delhi. Reacting to the Centre's previous affidavits which stated that transport isn't the major contributor to poor air quality, the NGT bench headed by chairperson Justice …
Retorting to the Centre's claims that old diesel vehicles contribute a minuscule amount to air pollution and that the transport sector is not a major contributor, petitioner Vardhaman Kaushik on Monday told the NGT that the ministry has been using “false data and publications“ which were published after the bench …
NGT Asks Govt To Explain On Tuesday Main Reason For Air Pollution In City National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday directed the Union transport ministry to submit its views on what is contributing to air pollution in Delhi. Reacting to the Centre's previous affidavits which stated that transport isn't the …
NGT concerned over poor air quality levels Concerned over the growing number of vehicles, which experts claim, contribute to the deteriorating quality of air in the national capital region (NCR), the National Green Tribunal (NGT) is likely to take a final decision on banning over 10-year-old diesel vehicles from plying …
KOLKATA: A two-member team from IIT-Kharagpur has bagged the top slot at an international green competition in Paris with an innovative technology to conserve electricity by auctioning units. Over 12500 innovators from 168 countries had participated in the 'Go Green In The City', an annual competition, this year. The app, …
DEHRADUN: Rapid concretization is sweeping across rural Uttarakhand as per the latest census report, which states that about 78.81% of houses are 'pucca houses'. According to the report, of the total 14.79 lakh households in the rural region, 11.51 lakh have 'pucca' structures. Under the pucca house category, about 1.21 …
Discussing the increasing air pollution in the Capital, experts viewed that lack of public awareness and concern besides missing political will has led to Delhi acquiring the dubious distinction of being among the highest polluted cities in the world. Many among them blame it on poor air monitoring system while …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of S.P. Muthuraman Vs Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority dated 05/06/2015 regarding grant of planning permission for construction of three hostel blocks on the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) campus.
There is something cyclical about the air pollution debate in Delhi - almost like the seasonal cycle of air pollution itself. When air pollution control slows down and the courts step in to demand action against the killer pollution, especially toxic vehicular fumes, the city gets swamped with 'scientific facts' …
The government says emission from old diesel vehicles is not to be blamed. Experts say government is selectively using data to make its case What is poisoning Delhi's air and making India's capital the most polluted city in the world? The government has taken on the National Green Tribunal, contesting …
