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 …
This entire fortnight paediatricians from the city will be focusing their attention on spreading awareness about the use of oral rehydration therapy (ORS) and benefits of breastfeeding. While they will draw attention towards preventing lakhs of infant deaths because of diarrhoea between July 26 and August 1 to mark World …
Tata Power has announced plans to grow its business by scaling up the generation capacity to 18,000 MW by 2022 from the current generation capacity of 8,750 MW and growing its value added businesses 10 fold by that time. The company said in seven years it would achieve coal or …
NAGPUR: Farmers' suicide numbers over the last two years in Vidarbha have been worse than those recorded in the early 2000s, when the phenomenon first caught the nation's attention. Observers have so far considered 2006 as the peak of the phenomenon, but 2014 figures have surpassed even those numbers. Figures …
Nagpur: Only negligible rainfall has been recorded across Vidarbha in the first fortnight of July. This has led to five out of 11 districts of the region, and the region as a whole, becoming rainfall deficient. Shortage of rains has left farmers worried about the seeds sowed recently for the …
NAGPUR: After getting a rap from Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday withdrew its order that had stayed tree felling on the Mansar-Khawasa stretch of National Highway No 7. Following the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) stay to tree felling on this road passing through a …
New Delhi: The current heatwave gripping India is the fifth deadliest ever in the world, as per a report in a leading Daily. Also, it is the second deadliest in India, the Daily said, quoting an international database of disasters. Before this the worst was in 1998 when 2,541 people …
NAGPUR: Amid strong arguments, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Delhi, on Monday continued the stay on working permission granted to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for felling trees to divert 49.246 hectare forest land for four-laning of NH7 between Mansar and Khawasa. On May 6, hearing a 500-page petition filed …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Paramjeet Singh Kalsi V/s MoEF and Ors. dated 15/05/2015 regarding environmental degradation due to illegal sand mining, with the use of heavy machinery in village Rajola, Tq. Kuhi, District Nagpur, Maharashtra. The Applicant claims that the …
Nagpur: In perhaps one of the biggest illegal mining scams in the country, at Pachgaon near Nagpur, at least 21 forest officials and employees may face action if the list submitted to the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court is considered. On April 20, a bench of justice AB Chaudhari …
Nagpur: After the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Delhi, stayed felling of trees on NH7 on Wednesday, the deputy conservator of forests (DyCF), Nagpur, did not order a stop to felling, which continued on Thursday. The NGT's principal bench headed by Justice Swantanter Kumar, and expert members DK Agrawal and BS …
With a view to checking the menace of garbage burning in the open that pose serious threat to citizens' health, besides causing pollution, Nagpur bench of Bombay high court, on Wednesday, issued notices all municipal corporations and councils in Vidarbha. A division bench comprising Justice Arun Chaudhari and Justice PN …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) in New Delhi on Wednesday stayed the working permission granted to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) by the state government for diversion of 49.246 hectare forest land for the four-laning of NH7 between Mansar and Khawasa on MP border. However, by now 3,394 of …
Residents and business owners from Itwari have complained against gold and silversmiths in the area releasing residues that have choked the drainage lines. They say that blockage is leading to environmental as well as health problems. The complaint has been forwarded to Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) through two local …
Nagpur: Swine flu death toll in the Nagpur circle of state's public health department has now touched 115. Two women who were undergoing treatment for the disease at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) had passed away on Saturday. They were found to have been swine flu positive after their …
It is not corruption alone, but official hurdles too hamper irrigation projects in the state. The union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) had wanted the entire reservoir, that will be created out of Jigaon dam in Buldhana, be declared as a reserve forest! After stiff opposition by the Vidarbha …
NAGPUR: After 13 days of inauguration by a slew of high profile ministers, Western Coalfields Limited's (WCL) Penganga open cast coalmine project has got clearance from Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). The clearance called as 'consent to establish' is for beginning pre-mining activities. The coal company will require MPCB's 'consent …
NASHIK: Over 80 trees have been hacked without permission in various parts of the city in the past three days, catching the civic officials napping and leaving the environment activists fuming. On early Sunday morning, a group of residents near Bajrang Nagar at Satpur noticed that around 70 trees on …
In a bid to promote cooperation, share institutional knowledge and encourage collaborative research, training and outreach activities, a US-India Wildlife Conservation Cooperation Programme (WCCP) will be established in four thematic areas in the region. WCCP intends to share professional expertise and resources for wildlife forensics and conservation genetics, natural interpretation …
NAGPUR: Even as tree felling between Mansar and Khawasa on NH-7 has started, debate over four-laning of the road fails to end. After TOI exposed union environment minister's Prakash Javadekar's double standards on the widening, conservationists have red-flagged violation and dilution of multiple laws in a bid to widen NH-7. …
Nagpur: The Maharashtra government on Wednesday informed the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court that they have to recover Rs 164 crore from National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and Rs44 crore from National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) for repairing the roads around Koradi that were damaged due to movement …
