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 …
Central Groundwater Board report out The large-scale urbanisation has taken its toll on the groundwater resources in the districts falling in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Haryana. While painting a gloomy picture on the exploitation of groundwater, the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has termed 31 zones as “dark …
The campaign slogans of the volunteer group raising its voice against noise pollution in Gurgaon are impatient and exclamatory - "Do not honk!" "For God's sake stop honking." It's almost as though the aimless honkers of a busy road were being shouted down. But is there any other way approach …
Nearly 880 students, 150 of them girls, suffered from nausea and complained of stomach ache after consuming iron tablets in government schools in several districts of Haryana, officials said on Tuesday. The folic acid (iron) tablets were given to them as part of Haryana Health Department’s supplementation programme to combat …
With spurt in water-borne diseases being reported every day, experts believe the level of contamination in Millennium City's water has reached alarming levels and is not fit for drinking. In South Delhi, bordering Gurgaon, one person died and more than three dozen were hospitalized on Wednesday after they reportedly consumed …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) resumed the hearing in the case between the residents of National Media Centre (NMC) and HUDA-DLF on Wednesday. The residents have opposed trees being cut on their premises to widen the sector road. The petitioner claimed that the Haryana State Pollution Control Board has changed …
Tree felling has been going on unabated around the sacred grove of Mangarbani on the Gurgaon-Faridabad road. According to locals and environment activists, about 100 trees have been chopped off in the past fortnight at Sahibwala Johad, located on the southern side of the forest. Activists said the affected area …
The sanitation contract of Zone 4 of the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) seems to be jinxed. For the past one year, the MCG authorities have been trying to finalize and award the contract for this zone but have failed. Now it seems, they have decided to dump the entire …
The Supreme Court has directed the Haryana Government to pay additional Rs 9,24,644 per acre to landowners in Manesar, Gurgaon, for the acquisition of 771 acres of land in 2002 for the second and third phases of the Industrial Model Township (IMT). A Bench comprising Justices GS Singhvi and SJ …
GURGAON: The threat of diseases such as dengue and malaria looms large over parts of the city that were flooded in the first spell of monsoon last week. The district malaria control department has already registered six cases of malaria and same number of patients are expected to be admitted …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) was on Thursday informed by Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) that the road-widening project of DLF and HUDA in Sectors 55-56 of Gurgaon, which is embroiled in controversy over cutting of trees, requires environmental clearance (EC). A vacation bench of the NGT headed by …
The nondescript Jasauti village in Pahari tehsil of Bharatpur district on the Rajasthan-Haryana border has emerged as bhindi gaon (village of lady’s fingers) sending over a dozen vehicles filled with the vegetable every day for six months in a year to Gurgaon and Delhi. Eighty per cent of agriculturists in …
Most districts of South Haryana have fared poorly on the sex ratio, final population figures of Census 2011 for the State released on Wednesday have revealed. The sex ratio has gone up from 861 in 2001 to 879 in 2011, but it is still less than the all-India sex ratio …
There is no policy or guidelines for disposing of toxic waste generated by city hospitals and nursing homes in the city. This shocking fact came to light in a recent RTI reply. According to the RTI reply, there does not seem to be any specific policy or instructions to dispose …
Disinterest of Haryana in the girl child is very pronounced and the Census data, released today, vouches for its ‘notoriety’. The child sex ratio in the age group of 0-6 years has been pegged at 834 girls for 1,000 boys in the state, the lowest in the country despite an …
Gurgaon got the lion's share of Rs 605.48 crore in the total budget estimate of Rs 890.77 crore approved for development works in the urban estate developed by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) across the state. Stormwater drainage system, construction of a flyover, special repairs of roads connecting Surajkund …
A moderate intensity earthquake shook Jammu and Kashmir and some other parts of north India, including the national capital and adjoining satellite townships on Wednesday afternoon. There were no reports of any casualty or injury though there were minor damages to some buildings, including two schools in Bhaderwah in Jammu …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued instructions to Haryana government to submit the details of hospitals adhering to the prescribed standards for the management of biomedical waste. The Delhi bench of the NGT has been hearing a case regarding the bio medical waste in hospital in three states, including …
With an attempt to bring more people who use polythene bags under the ambit of challan, the state government has brought in an amendment to the garbage control Act. According to the finance commissioner and principal secretary of the urban local bodies department, P Raghvendra Rao, the Vidhan Sabha passed …
Tremors were felt in north India, including the national capital and adjoining satellite townships as well in Srinagar, on Wednesday afternoon, the second such occurrence in nine days. The quake, measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale at 2:51 PM, was epicentered in southern Afghanistan, the MeT Department said. The quake …
Tremors were felt in north India, including the national capital and adjoining satellite townships, on Wednesday afternoon, the second such occurrence in nine days. The quake, measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale at 2:51pm, was epicentred in southern Afghanistan, the MeT Department said. The quake took place 6.6km down the …
