Reply affidavit by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board in Original Application No 32/2023 (WZ) (Raju alias Devavappa Anna Shetty & Others Vs M/s Shri Dutt India Pvt Ltd & Others) dated 17/02/2024. The SPCB informed said that total environmental damage compensation (EDC) amounting to Rs 90 crore has been calculated and …
The district magistrates and five Senior Superintendents of Police in western Uttar Pradesh have been fined by the National Green Tribunal for their repeated failure to reply to its notice on polluted rivers causing cancer among villagers. The officials of Meerut, Saharanpur, Shamli, Ghaziabad, Muzaffarnagar and Baghpat have been fined …
The district magistrates and five Senior Superintendents of Police in western Uttar Pradesh have been fined by the National Green Tribunal for their repeated failure to reply to its notice on polluted rivers causing cancer among villagers. The officials of Meerut, Saharanpur, Shamli, Ghaziabad, Muzaffarnagar and Baghpat have been fined …
Reliance Industries will relinquish its Krishna Godavari basin gas discovery block, KG-D3, mainly because of operational restrictions placed by the defence ministry. RIL, which had made four consecutive gas discoveries with close to 500 billion cubic feet of in-place reserves in block, proposed immediate relinquishment, its minority partner Hardy Oil …
The separate and combined effects of different drivers of change to water fluxes and resources on land (CWOL) remain difficult to distinguish and largely unknown, particularly at a global scale. Our study analyzes CWOL during the period 1901–2008, based on available hydroclimatic data for up to 859 hydrological basins. We …
MEERUT: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notice to the Union ministries of health and environment, the UP chief secretary, the central and state pollution control boards and district magistrate and senior superintendents of police of Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Baghpat, Meerut and Ghaziabad districts over excessive pollution in rivers …
Contaminated waters of the Krishna river in Baghpat district of western Uttar Pradesh, barely 55 km from the nation's capital, may be responsible for cancer, bone deformity and paralysis among residents of several villages along its banks. Independent studies have shown that the extremely high content of heavy metals and …
Vijayawada: Krishna district forest department has finalised a plan to plant five lakh trees along the district’s coast, mostly in Machilipatnam area. Earlier, the forest department had failed to implement the Coastal Regulation Zone rules, right from Tada to Ichapuram. As per CRZ rules, no construction activity, including roads, is …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to Karnataka, Maharashtra and Telangana State on a petition filed by Andhra Pradesh seeking directions to the Union government not to notify the award of the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal on distribution of Krishna river waters. A Supreme Court bench ordered issuance of notice …
Physicochemical investigation of water from public water supply schemes was carried out with the objective of assessing its potabiliy for drinking purpose. It was observed that, lowest BOD value of 5.3 mg/L and highest BOD value of 8.1 mg/L where as the lowest COD of 75.3 mg/L and highest COD …
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US, the Cabinet on Wednesday cleared five agreements with that country's government.These are for a global telescope project, on education, gas hydrates, clean energy and climate change. In the deal to be signed in gas hydrates, US and Indian scientists will …
Greenfield development is going to have a long-term impact on the climate and it will also create a series of heat islands. This was exactly what happened in Bangalore, according to N. Sridharan, Director of School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Vijayawada. Participating in the inaugural session of an international …
Parched areas in South India may no longer be water starved if Karnataka plans to link Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna and Cauvery in consulation with the states concerned succeed. "The government is planning to link these rivers - Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna and Cauvery - to solve water problems afflicting parched areas …
Hyderabad: A promising exploration in the Bantumilli south field for hydrocarbons by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in Deyyaladibba, off Krishna Godavari basin, seems to be turning out into a goldmine for the energy major. ONGC has found more gas than what had it initially anticipated. The gas …
Khammam: The Indirasagar-Polavaram Multi-purpose Irrigation Project took a new turn with the passing of the Bill in the Lok Sabha, which paves the way for the Polavaram project in AP by merging seven mandals in Khammam district with Seemandhra. The Centre will now have to float a company called Polavaram …
Benefits of interlinking of rivers are in the areas of irrigation, drought and flood prevention, hydropower generation, conversion of wastelands to cultivable lands, better groundwater resources and so on. Areas of concern include ecological issues, deforestation, submergence of habitable or reserved lands, displacement of people and their rehabilitation. But, with …
Hyderabad: The controversy surrounding the release of Krishna waters between Telangana and AP governments seems to be over for now, with the Krishna River Joint Management Board ordering the release of 6,000 cusecs per day for a week (roughly 3.4 TMC ft) from the Nagarjunasagar dam to the Krishna Delta …
Hyderabad: AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday announced an ex gratia of Rs 1.5 lakh to families of those who died in the heatwave recently. He said the government will pay Rs 1 lakh from the CM’s relief fund and Rs 50,000 from the Apathbandhu scheme. Mr Naidu …
PUNE: Maharashtra has missed the bus as far as the proposed national river-linking project is concerned, but the state should throw its weight behind the Ganga-Cauvery link as it may benefit its citizens, said engineering consultant R C Mahulkar here on Sunday. "The river-linking project has been on hold for …
* K Chandrashekar Rao takes oath as maiden CM * 11-member Cabinet inducted After leading the statehood movement for 13 years, Telangana Rashtra Samithi founder president Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (60) was today sworn in as the first Chief Minister of the new state of Telangana amidst massive celebrations. As Telangana …
