Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents Welfare Association Savita Vihar Vs Irrigation & Flood Control Department & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant raised the grievance against throwing of construction debris and sewage obstruction in the Ghazipur drain. According to the applicant this drain flows behind …
The Delhi High Court has issued notices to several government organisations after hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL). The PIL has sought to protect people in Delhi from serious health hazards due to the 6,000 tonnes of fly-ash generated every day by the three power stations. The PIL says fly-ash …
it started off as a picnic. About 50 children in the 12-13 age group from schools in and around Delhi were taken on a boat ride down the river Yamuna on Saturday, May 2. The aim: sensitising the children to the state of the river that flows through the city …
lutyens Bungalow Zone, one of the greenest areas in New Delhi, should be razed and replaced by multi-storey apartments, says Union urban affairs minister Ram Jethmalani. The government has constituted a three-member panel to study and recommend a viable plan of action within two months. Jethmalani says that the zone …
The Supreme Court has asked the Union ministries of petroleum and surface transport to furnish data regarding the supply of lead-free petrol in India and the introduction of catalytic converter in existing motor vehicles. The court was hearing a public interest petition regarding traffic pollution of which it has passed …
a recent study conducted in Delhi has found alarming levels of metals such as lead and cadmium in several placental tissues. This has sharply highlighted the hazards of air pollution as these metals are both toxic and often, are the cause many irreversible health effects. The threat unborn babies face …
A Public Interest Petition filed in the Delhi High Court seeks disciplinary action against G P Phondke, director of the National Institute of Science Communication, a part of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. A division bench comprising Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice C K Mahajan has ordered …
The Supreme Court has ordered a high powered panel to probe charges of corruption against the the Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board chairperson for power theft and swindling. Electricity theft, leading to bungling of over Rs 750 crore and a dubious coal purchase deal involving Rs 123 crore are the …
The Tamil Nadu government has appealed before a divisional bench of the Madras High Court, seeking to set aside a single judge order for a CBI probe into the Tirupattur sandalwood smuggling case, involving a ruling party MLA, G Shanmugan. The state government has contended that "in the absence of …
the crowds thronging Janpath, Delhi's premier shopping mall in Connaught Place, are blissfully unaware of the serious health risk due to the alarming level of cancer-causing benzene in the air. The new indicative data on benzene levels, available from an investigation done by a foreign scientist, is a rebuke to …
each year, between March and June, the Grim Reaper celebrates. It is around this time every year that the nation witnesses a sharp rise in the number of suicides among the school-going children. The capital's police, for instance, refer to this period as the "suicide season'
delhi 's forests are shrinking at an alarming speed. The ridge is depleting at the rate of one per cent every year, reports Vatavaran , a Delhi-based non-governmental organisation. There has been no reforestation in encroached areas which have been cleared. Nearly 60 per cent of the encroached land has …
The Supreme Court has ordered the relocation of nearly 50,000 industrial units from non-conforming residential areas to end environmental degradation. The Delhi chief minister signalled the first phase of the relocation when he laid the foundation stone for a building which will house 5,000 factories in Trans-Yamuna area of the …
Several architects, conservators and planners have criticised the proposed Delhi Heritage Bill 1997 as it leaves out many heritage sites from its preview. At a seminar held recently at School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi, they suggested that more categories under heritage should be included in the legislation: …
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) is setting up a National Brain Research Centre at Gurgaon. The centre would be an autonomous institute under the dbt managed by a steering committee headed by Prakesh Tondon, a well-known neurosurgeon. Asha Ignani of Mumbai along with a non-resident Indian couple has initiated a …
delhi has faced yet another cut in its water supply due to pollution in its prime source of drinking water - the Yamuna. Between February 17 to 20, the Delhi Water Supply and Sewage Disposal Undertaking (dws&sdu;) had to cut down by half the drinking supply from their Wazirabad treatment …
• The 20th International Conference of Radiology will be held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, during September 18-23, 1998. A K Chaturvedi, head of radiology department at Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute, New Delhi, says that nearly 6,000 delegates are expected to parti-cipate in this mega event. • The World Watch …
The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on an application seeking contempt proceedings against CBI officers who had "virtually raided' the office of Delhi Forum, a non governmental organisation. The application filed by Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) stated that the raid …
on february 12, Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma's phone lines were flooded as citizen's of the city called his office continuously and told him clearly that he could not barter their health for votes. They were responding to a call by the Centre for Science and Environment (cse) to …
jasbir kaur, 23, died at a private nursing home in west Delhi on February 3, after childbirth due to severe bleeding. The doctor who treated her said that timely blood supply could have saved her. "We had to wait for nine days for a transfusion," said Mam Chand, brother of …
