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 …
GURUGRAM: In the first survey of its kind on population density of wild animals in five districts of Haryana, the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has found leopards occupy a 200 square km area in these parts of the Aravalis. And the terrain in Gurgaon and Faridabad districts happens to …
GURUGRAM: The state government may be reluctant in declaring the Aravalis a forest, but a study by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has revealed how important the Aravali aquifers are to the city's sustainability as its major source of groundwater rechargen. In the first-of-its-kind study, CGWB carried out a …
The matter is now posted for hearing on Wednesday. The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday slammed the Haryana government and its civic bodies over disposal of industrial waste and construction debris in the Aravalli forests on the Gurgaon-Faridabad road. “Aravalli hill is a forest area. How can you make it …
GURUGRAM: There has been a 125% increase in the number of illegal mining cases in Gurugram in the past one year, revealed the response to an RTI query. As many as nine cases of illegal mining were reported from different parts of the district in 2016-17, as against four cases …
GURGAON: In a first-of-its-kind survey on the population of wildlife in and around Gurgaon, the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has found healthy numbers of 15 species — including leopard, hyena, jackal, wolf, civet, porcupine, nilgai and chinkara — in the Aravalis. Interestingly, sources said, the survey that started in …
पर्यावरण संरक्षण को लेकर लापरवाही चरम पर पहुंच चुकी है। शहर के मुख्य तीन चौराहों के नजदीक लगभग छह हजार पेड़ों को काटने के बदले कहां पौधे लगाए जाएंगे, इस बारे में कोई प्ला¨नग नहीं की गई। न ही इस बारे में वन विभाग ने ध्यान दिया और न ही …
GURGAON: The forest department is planning to conduct a detailed study of the movement of leopards and their habitat in the Aravalis, to prepare a comprehensive conservation and protection management plan to minimise man-animal conflict. This follows the recent thrashing to death of a leopard by a mob, after it …
Delhi may be an urban jungle but, amazingly , it still has space for wild predators. A leopard was caught on camera in the capital for the first time on Monday night, that too far away from the place where another spotted cat's pugmarks were seen last year. The leopard …
Authorities in Gurgaon closed the Sultanpur National Park “until further notice”, as a “precautionary measure” a day after samples from five dead ducks found in Hisar tested positive for bird flu. The ducks were found at Blue Bird Tourist Complex in Hisar on November 1 and had been sent for …
GURGAON: The MCG believes that constructing a wall around the defunct Bandhwari waste treatment plant is enough to prevent leachate from contaminating the groundwater. The civic body told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday that it had constructed a wall around the plant, but it got damaged due to …
Gurgaon: Four new dengue and two chikungunya cases have been confirmed in the last two days, taking the total number of dengue cases to 61 and chikungunya to 25. As the official count of those affected with vector-borne diseases in the city reaches 86 this season, doctors at private hospital …
A government panel has approved that all non-cultivable hill land, rocky and sandy areas in the ecologically sensitive Aravalis in the entire National Capital Region (NCR), including Gurgaon and Faridabad districts, will be treated as part of the mountain range, paving the way for its protection. This will also include …
Gurgaon: The worst fears about a toxic discharge from the defunct Bandhwari waste treatment plant in the Aravalis poisoning the environment have come true. Water samples collected by the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) from a spot behind the plant's compound have shown high levels of contamination. The only …
After initially denying permission, the district forest department has reluctantly given its nod to a four-day car rally through a 30-km track in the Gurgaon-Faridabad Aravali forest. The go-ahead has been given with riders, despite the district forest officials having strong reservations against such a rally. In fact, in a …
GURGAON: The Haryana government will no more give subsidy for constructing toilets but would provide incentives to village panchayats and municipal corporations for maintaining cleanliness, officials said on Wednesday. Additional Chief Secretary of Rural Development Department Navraj Sandhu said efforts will be made to change the mindset of the people …
GURGAON: The district drug control department on Thursday conducted a raid at a private laboratory after the department got a tip-off that the laboratory was charging heavy money for conducting dengue tests. The department found out that the laboratory was actually charging more for dengue tests. "No laboratory or hospital …
Gurgaon: Gurgaon has crossed its installed solar energy capacity target for summer, which was set at 5MW. Officials of the Haryana Renewable Energy Department (HAREDA) said the district's installed solar power capacity has crossed 12 MW (as of last week) and they are all set to achieve the 20 MW …
GURGAON: Before finalising the definition of 'forest', which is likely to end the ambiguity whether large tracts of Aravalis are forest or not, union minister of environment and forest (MoEF) Prakash Javadekar will conduct an aerial survey of Aravali in Gurgaon, Faridabad and Mewat districts of Haryana on Monday. The …
To Issue Notification To Create 500m Shield The Haryana government on Monday announced it would issue a formal notification demarcating Mangar Bani as a no-construction area. The notification will throw a protective shield around the sacred grove in the Aravalis whose preservation environmentalists have waged a long battle for. CM …
Gurgaon: Four months after the Haryana government demarcated a large part of the Mangarbani groves as a 'no construction zone' in February this year, it has failed to come up with a gazette notification declaring Mangarbani and its buffer area as a protected 'forest'. Environmentalists on Sunday wrote a letter …
