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 …
LUCKNOW: More than 300 idols and only two pits for environment friendly disposal. State agencies lacked in preparations to prevent chemicals and non-biodegradable material from reaching the river during 'visarjan' this year. The conflicting versions from officials of district administration and nagar nigam further prove the point. After the nine …
This paper investigates the underlying causes of poor economic growth of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (UP), India, despite being endowed with relatively rich natural resources. Against the conventional view, the analysis reveals that poor economic growth is not due to a particular factor but an outcome of a myriad of …
Meerut: In order to prevent pollution in Nanu ki Nahar (canal passing by Nanu village), the district administration is thinking of providing devotees with alternate locations for immersing Durga idols. The canal, a distributary of the Ganga, breaks away from the holy river near Roorkie to flow through Meerut. Immersions …
Miffed at the apathy of the Ghaziabad civic agencies towards growing concretisation of pavements and areas which are otherwise marked as ‘green belt’, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) was on Monday “compelled” to find the ground reality itself. The NGT Bench headed by its chairperson Swatanter Kumar appointed a local …
AGRA: With a view to protecting the Yamuna river from pollution caused by immersing idols in its water, members of the Baba Shree Ganesh Kalyan Samiti (Yamunapar) have prepared an idol of Goddess Durga with dry-fruits this time. Their aim is not only to save the environment but also hope …
Half of Lucknow gets unsafe drinking water as the Gomti has dangerous levels of sewage content. Though 25 pumping stations are used to divert untreated sewage to two sewage treatment plants at Daulatganj (56 MLD) and Bharwara (345 MLD), Gomti water remains impure. At the initiative of Lucknow MP Rajnath …
Every 5th Lucknowite Is At Risk: Study Almost 25% of all people who suffer heart attacks are below 45 years of age. And more than half of all these young patients die before reaching the hospital. This is in fact a global trend, and that’s why the theme for World …
VARANASI: After the UPA government constituted the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) in 2009 and announced "Mission Clean Ganga by 2020", the NDA government led by Narendra Modi has set a target to clean the holy river in the next 18 years. But a top Ganga expert claims that …
NOIDA: The groundwater level in Noida is falling alarmingly by a metre every year, says a recently released report by the ministry of water resources, a consequence of the city's breakneck pace of urbanization that now threatens to derail it. The groundwater level, according to the report that was published …
UP To Submit Compliance Report Today Even as UP government prepares to submit a compliance report regarding idol immersion in the Allahabad High Court, the district administration of Varanasi has said it has conveyed to the secretary, urban development that making an alternative site available for idol immersion in Varanasi …
After declaring drought in 44 of Uttar Pradesh’s 75 districts, the Samajwadi Party government on Thursday raised a demand for Central assistance of Rs 6138.42 crore to compensate affected farmers. Following a meeting with a team of officials from the Union agriculture ministry, UP chief secretary Alok Ranjan said UP …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Centre to finalise the national policy for controlling and preventing pollution resulting from burning of agricultural waste in open fields. A bench headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar also directed the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to state what directions it proposes to …
The Uttar Pradesh geology and mining department has mooted the idea of using satellite mapping and remote sensing techniques to tackle the menace of illegal mining in the state.In its proposal to the state government, the department has sought approval to use the Geographic Information System (GIS) technique in Mirzapur …
"We want to verify what you are doing and how you are going to do it," says the Court. The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it wants the NDA government to give it a “commitment” that river Ganga will be cleaned in a phased manner and said the court will …
This report presents information on the ecology and status of tigers and wild ungulates in a portion of the Terai Arc Landscape that lies between the town of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh and Suhelwa WLS in Balrampur District of Uttar Pradesh, referred to as the Central Terai Landscape. The study …
As directed by NGT, the Ministry Of Environment and Forests (MoEF) in consultation with Standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) on 18 August 2015, approved 2014 draft notification of eco-sensitive zone around the Okhla Bird Sanctuary. The Union environment ministry announced that a final notification on this …
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav unveiled the State Road Safety Policy here Monday, saying that it will go a long way in checking road accidents and hence, saving lives in the state. The thrust of the policy would be on spreading awareness about road safety. New Zealand would assist the state …
Even as the state government repeated a familiar story for the third consecutive year, the Allahabad High Court has allowed relaxation in connection with immersion of idols during the festival season near the banks of Rivers Ganga and Yamuna. The district and state authorities have been asked to ensure that …
GREATER NOIDA: The Greater Noida Authority has begun afresh the process of acquiring 156 hectares in Shahberi, the village at the heart of the land crisis that gripped Noida Extension three years ago after the Allahabad high court cancelled the acquisition. The Authority is likely to complete the re-acquisition within …
Despite economic growth, government latrine construction, and increasing recognition among policymakers that open defecation constitutes a health and human capital crisis, it remains stubbornly widespread in rural India. We present evidence from new survey data collected in Bihar, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Many survey respondents' behaviour reveals …
