Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Satyanand Ray Vs State of Bihar & Others dated 27/03/2025. The applicant, Satyanand Ray said that Nagar Parishad Danapur Nizamat has been dumping garbage near his house by creating a boundary through the area which is …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Satyanand Ray Vs State of Bihar & Others dated 27/03/2025. The applicant said that Nagar Parishad Danapur Nizamat, is dumping garbage adjacent to the applicant's house in an open air by creating a boundary though the area which is a …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pramod Kumar, Shambhu Kumar & Others Vs State of Bihar dated 19/10/2020. Grievance in this application is that Pionex Private Ltd. Company in village Gulamichak, district Patna is emitting toxic smoke and gases, affecting the environment and the public health …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Amarshakti Vs State of Bihar & Others dated 14/02/2019 regarding illegal sand mining in rivers Sone and Ganga at Koelnar and Patna in Bihar. The illegal mining was resulting in affecting the flow of the rivers. The Tribunal had directed …
PATNA: Even as the environmentalists world over have been emphasizing upon the need of conserving water resources for meeting the growing demand, more than 70% water bodies in Bihar have surprisingly been allowed to die an unnatural death during the last three decades. There were more than 2.50 lakh ponds …
PATNA: The sand crisis in the state is likely to be eased shortly as the mines and geology department is to commence e-auction for sand mining rights of around 170 ghats in 12 districts from next week. The move comes after directive by chief minister Nitish Kumar on December 20 …
PATNA: The Patna high court on Tuesday ordered the Patna district magistrate (DM) to take action against the unauthorized iron chest manufacturing small-scale industries in Alamganj and Sultanganj area of the city. Hearing two different PILs field by Salimullah and Saroj Kumar, the division bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon …
This study seeks to understand factors that guide the decision-making process to adopt and implement the available arsenic-mitigation technologies in rural areas in the middle-Ganga Plain in India. A total of 340 households comprising 2500 people were surveyed. Socio-economic and demographic factors, water and sanitation status, time spent and distance …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Umesh Prasad Singh Vs Union of India & Others dated 21/12/2016 regarding illegal sand mining /soil mining operations in the district of Patna, Bihar, on the river bed of Ganga in between Digha Railway Bridge to …
Patna: Dengue and chikungunya are fast spreading in the state capital. According to Patna civil surgeon office, two cases of chikungunya and three cases of dengue were reported on Wednesday. With this, total 158 cases of dengue have been reported in Patna district so far. However, 103 are confirmed cases …
In the present investigation the effect of stone crushing dust pollution on the growth performance and yield status of Rice (Oryza sativa) was studied in specified land areas of village Arap, Patna. The results indicated that the germination frequency of seeds, shoot length, root length, chlorophyll content, total carbohydrate and …
Open defecation is practised by over 600 million people in India and there is a strong political drive to eliminate this through the provision of on-site sanitation in rural areas. However, there are concerns that the subsequent leaching of excreta from subsurface storage could be adversely impacting underlying groundwater resources …
Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is used to control visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in India, but it is poorly quality assured. Quality assurance was performed in eight VL endemic districts in Bihar State, India, in 2014. Residual dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) was sampled from walls using Bostik tape discs, and DDT concentrations [grams of …
The Opposition BJP on Wednesday extended all support to the farmers holding protest demanding adequate compensation for the kin of the farmer who committed suicide on Tuesday night. A 50-year-old farmer of Patna district’s Naubatpur area consumed poison after he failed to earn much from his paddy crop and was …
Within a span of just 18 days, another spate of tremors sent waves of fear across the state forcing people to leave their houses Tuesday afternoon. Fresh tremors with magnitude of 7.4 on Richter scale left around six dead and more than 36 injured in Bihar. Though the officially declared …
Patna: Early neonatal mortality (deaths within 24 hours of birth) still makes the highest contribution to Bihar's infant mortality rate. A study in the state's ten districts has found 45% infant deaths take place within 24 hours. Neonatal deaths within 28 days are also high with 21% dying during the …
Presentation by Dr. Sarath Guttikunda of UrbanEmissions.Info at Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
NEW DELHI: China’s dirty air often grabs global headlines with photos of its cities swathed in smog. But it is India where air quality has been plummeting for years and is now the worst in the world. The cost of India’s economic growth is partly recorded in the fact that …
Nine districts of Bihar have been hit by flood which has claimed two lives so far and affected around four lakh people. chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, accompanied by chief secretary Anjani Kumar Singh and Disaster Management Department (DMD) principal secretary Vyasji, conducted an aerial survey of the inundated areas …
PATNA: Bihar government has planned to construct 37,908km of rural roads under Mukhyamantri Gram Sampark Yojna (MMGSY) to link all the habitats having a population of over 250 with all-weather road in the next five years. This was announced by rural works department (RWD) minister Shrawan Kumar in the state …
