Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
After assurances from the Centre, thousands of Yamuna Muktikaran Abhiyan (YMA) protesters, who had been camping in Delhi since Friday, were on their way back to Mathura and other parts of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. The Centre has promised that the "ecological flow" in Yamuna downstream of Delhi will be …
A day after India officially informed the Paris-based Organisation of Animal Health (OIE) of an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus in the Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, the Union agriculture ministry directed the state to intensify surveillance to monitor further spread of the virus. Uttar Pradesh has …
Uttar Pradesh Government has issued directions to authorities to stop the practice of dumping dead bodies directly into rivers, after 81 bodies were recovered from Ganga in Unnao district of the state early this year, the Lok Sabha was told today. The recovery of the bodies was probably either due …
LUCKNOW: At a primary school in Saraidand village of Sonbhadra district, dozens of students rush to queue up before a tap to quench their thirst from pure RO water. This is a new phenomenon. Not very long ago, water of any kind, let alone RO water, was a distant dream …
UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) has served show-cause notices to four industrial units in Ghaziabad, asking them to explain within 15 days why they should not be shut down for causing large-scale pollution in the vicinity. Pollution board officials said the four units - two stone-crushing units and a concrete …
KANPUR: For the first time in any event of IIT-Kanpur, waterless urinals and zero discharge toilet system (ZDTS) have been installed for use. Techkriti-2015 is the first event to witness the use of waterless urinals and ZDTS. Developed by Dr Vinod Tare, professor of environmental engineering last year, it was …
Over 50 petha-making units in the city have been sealed as they were found to be flouting environmental norms. The units were sealed yesterday during a surprise check by joint teams of the state pollution control board, district administration and Agra Municipal corporation in the last two days. The team …
LUCKNOW: Amid the brouhaha over the Centre's proposed land acquisition policy, the Samajwadi Party government has decided to adopt its own successful template to acquire land for all future projects in the state. The state cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday cleared a proposal to replicate the …
LUCKNOW: As many as 18 suspected cases tested positive for swine flu in the city on Tuesday. With this, the tally reached 941 for Lucknow. Two positive cases were reported in Bareilly, followed by one case each in Amethi and Barabanki. The state total of affected patients this season reached …
The new system of land acquisition was granted approval at a meeting of the state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav yesterday. Land for development of state-funded projects in Uttar Pradesh will now be acquired through mutual agreement with land owners and land holders. The new system of land …
Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti today said a meeting of Upper Yamuna River Board has been called on March 20 to amicably sort out various issues related to the river among UP, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi. Addressing a group of Yamuna Muktikaran Padyatrees near Palwal at Haryana, she said …
Agra: The state government has sanctioned funds to install 150 water hand pumps in urban areas of the city. The move comes after MLA Yogendra Upadhyay from south Agra constituency put the problem of water scarcity during summer months into sharp focus. As per information, out of the total amount …
More than twothird of the sewage generated by 118 towns located in the Ganga basin gets discharged into the river untreated, which makes Ganga rejuvenation an all the more arduous task. A recent study by experts from different government agencies has concluded that the towns, spread across five states, generate …
The National Green Tribunal on Thursday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh Government for failure to perform its “statutory duty” towards identification of wetlands in the State and directed it to complete the exercise within a period of three months in accordance with the law. “We direct Uttar Pradesh (Government) to …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Om Dutt Singh & Ors. Vs. State of U.P. & Ors. dated 12/03/2015 regarding Kanhar Dam in Uttar Pradesh. The counsel appearing for MoEF submits that the original letter of 1980 granting Forest Clearance to the …
Access to energy is an important determinant of quality of life. Inequality of access to energy for cooking, lighting and livelihood purposes has engaged the attention of researchers, policy planners and activists in recent years. In 2005, India launched the ambitious Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana that aimed at universal …
Five of the country's 32 severely polluted industrial areas are in Jharkhand, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has concluded after studying air, water and soil quality across the country while formulating a comprehensive environmental assessment report. While Jamshedpur, Ramgarh, Bada Jamtara, Seraikela and West Singhbhum are the concern zones …
The golden motifs and shimmering silk often eclipses the perennial risk of tuberculosis Varanasi silk weavers live with. Though considered highly vulnerable to TB, health officials do not have a clear idea of the extent of the problem. But these residents in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency will get …
More industries along Ganga will face closure and penal action for polluting the river. Principal committee constituted by the National Green Tribunal in its first meeting held on February 25 revised the guidelines to also identify seriously polluting industries along with grossly polluting ones that pose threat to the national …
Govt’s project monitoring group, set up to unlock hurdles facing big-ticket and strategic investments, has so far resolved problems facing over 200 projects worth .`6.9 lakh cr. While the government seeks to reform the land acquisition law this week, it has decided to fast-track 10 power projects worth . 90,000 …
