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 …
New Delhi: You may have heard of kidney dialysis but did you know that even the liver can be flushed of its toxins using a similar method? At the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New Delhi, the doctors have been using this technology to give a window period …
New Delhi: Extreme summers and winters in Delhi are clearly uncomfortable. But Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has calculated the percentage of hours when most Delhiites may be finding the weather to be “comfortable”. In a recent study, IIT’s Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS) has ranked five cities on …
Work on a building on the IIT-Madras campus is going on despite the National Green Tribunal order to stop all construction work in the green zone. Based on a petition filed by an environmentalist stating that IIT was felling trees and constructing buildings without approvals, NGT on March 4ordered the …
New Delhi: Environmentalists have been warning about growing encroachments on the Yamuna floodplains being a recipe for disaster. Now, the latest UN panel report on climate change echoes these fears, putting Delhi among three of world’s mega cities that are at high risk of floods. The other two cities facing …
Green tribunal responds to petition, stops construction activity till further orders The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Southern Bench on Tuesday restrained the management of Indian Institute of Technology-Madras from felling trees and carrying out construction activities until further orders. Admitting an application filed by E. Seshan, an environmental activist, the …
The Delhi government has kept mum on dealing with severe air pollution in the city, likely to be as bad as Beijing’s. Environmentalists are now hoping that the national auto fuel policy, which is expected to be ready in a couple of months, will bring down the pollution level by …
The damning report of a government appointed panel against IIT professor Girish Kumar, whose studies activists have been quoting in their battle against the unregulated mushrooming of cell towers, has become a major embarrassment for anti-radiation activists here. This came as the civic improvements committee cleared the mobile tower policy …
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal issued notices to the Haryana government, National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) and other agencies on Monday for response to a plea on pollution in the Najafgarh drain basin. According to the plea, untreated waste water is being discharged into the Najafgarh j he …
In May and June when millions of pilgrims throng Rishikesh and Haridwar in Uttarakhand to take holy dip, levels of antibiotic-resistant 'superbugs' have been found 60 times greater than other times of the year, shows research. After studying water samples taken from the upper Ganges river, experts from the Indian …
The project aims for localization of Solar Energy through Local Assembly, Sale and Usage of 1 Million Solar Study Lamps” for empowering populations in underserved communities; through high-quality programs that meet their real need to improve the quality of their lives. IIT Bombay is partnering with remote rural organizations Maharashtra, …
The latest models launched at the 12th Auto Expo 2014 are by now common knowledge among vehicle enthusiasts but few are aware that IIT Delhi has successfully tested India’s first biogas fuelled passenger car. Compressed biogas was tested on a regular CNG car for over 15,000km. The best news was …
Reacting to the safety audit report of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route on Alandi-Nagar road, member of the Nagrik Chetna Manch, Qaneez Sukhrani has said that all recommendations of the report should be complied with before the roll out of buses. The report was conducted by IIT Bombay for …
To address the issue of water crisis in the capital, Delhi government has decided to revive “non-functional” rainwater harvesting systems in schools to raise the groundwater level. Around 800 governmentrun schools have rainwater harvesting pits and over 50% of them are non-functional, mostly due to no monitoring by the previous …
One of the ten recommendations suggested for safe operations of Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) on the Ahmednagar-Alandi Road by IIT Bombay's safety audit report is minimal bus-to-platform gap. Referring to wide gaps found during normal operations in the BRT systems in other large cities in Asia and America, the …
Terms Overall Work Satisfactory; PMC Promises To Fix Problems Pune: A safety audit of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) on Alandi-Nagar Road, conducted by IIT Bombay, has termed the civic work as satisfactory while pointing out certain shortcomings. The IIT report has stressed on the convenience caused to pedestrians and …
Mumbai: The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday directed the state pollution board to ensure that the Mithi, Waduli, Ulhas and Patalganga rivers be restored to pure forms. “It has directed the MPCB to submit a plan to the state government and also directed it to …
Review Done By Citizens’ Groups Pune: A road safety audit of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) on Alandi Road has pointed out several flaws which would affect road users, particularly bus commuters and pedestrians. The audit was conducted by the Save Pune Traffic Movement (SPTM) and the PMPML Pravasi Manch. …
A detailed environmental assessment by IIT-Madras found that despite the cleanup by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) in north Chennai, the volume of oil contaminating drinking water has not decreased significantly. Since July 2013, 947 barrels of oil-water have been pumped out in Tondiarpet. The study follows complaints from residents …
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the government to set up within three months a national environment regulator with the power to appraise and clear projects. The regulator would be created under Section 3(3) of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, for appraising projects, enforcing environmental conditions and to impose penalties …
Fulfilling yet another election promise, the Aam Aadmi Party government on Wednesday ordered a CAG audit into the finances of all the power companies operating in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The decision to audit the private companies came a day after it announced a 50 per cent subsidy …
