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 …
Agra: Agra’s petha manufacturing industry is in trouble. The sweetmeat producers have been forced to down shutters because of an initiative to save the Taj Mahal. Even protests by manufacturers and workers failed to grab the district administration and civic body’s attention. Mini petha units using coal or disposing waste …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday formed a high-level expert panel to determine whether the Ganga was being polluted by industrial effluents that are discharged into it through the Simbhaoli Drain near Ghaziabad. The two-member expert panel comprises member-secretaries of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the UP …
State eyeing 500 Mw of solar power by 2017 Power deficit Uttar Pradesh would soon get an investment of about Rs 880 crore in solar power projects totalling 110 Megawatt (Mw). UP is targetting 500 Mw of solar energy by 2017 under its Solar Power Policy 2013. Last year, the …
Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking ban on a proposed slaughter house near the Ram Ganga river in Moradabad, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday directed the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to take decision in this connection as per the pollution and environmental laws. The above order …
An exhibition on Ganga was organized at Magh Mela area on Wednesday. Addressing the gathering, National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) member Prof BD Tripathi said the river that considered as a cradle of the great Indian civilization was being polluted by the discharge of industrial waste. Prof Tripathi further …
ALLAHABAD: High levels of iron, nitrates and chlorides and turbidity in groundwater in 80 villages of trans-Ganga and Yamuna areas is playing havoc with the health of thousands of unsuspecting villagers. Alarmed over the rise in ailments related to heart, kidney and blood, the district administration has deployed 10-12 tankers …
Central Pollution Control Board will in April install an automatic air monitoring system in Bareilly that will measure pollution levels in Badaun, Pilibhit, Moradabad, Shahjahanpur, Haldwani, Ranikhet, Nainital and Pithoragarh. This is the first time that such a facility is being installed in Uttar Pradesh. Apart from Bareilly, Chennai, Bihar, …
High levels of iron, nitrates and chlorides and turbidity in groundwater in 80 villages of trans-Ganga and Yamuna areas is playing havoc with the health of thousands of unsuspecting villagers. Alarmed over the rise in ailments related to heart, kidney and blood, the district administration has deployed 10-12 tankers to …
Poachers are robbing the Chambal river, flowing through the National Chambal Sanctuary, of its rich aquatic life right under the nose of the Etawah district administration. In a brazen act, an armed gang of poachers overpowered natives of Bhareah last week and fled with a seven-quintal cache of fish caught …
गंगा प्रदूषण मामले में अधिकतम बाढ़ बिंदु 500 मीटर तक किसी प्रकार क निर्माण पर लगी रोक के खिलाफ बहस के दौरान इलाहाबाद हाई कोर्ट ने ओमेक्स सिटी के वकील को अपनी अर्जी समेत संबंधित आदेशों को एक साथ पेश करने का समय दिया है। याचिका की अगली सुनवाई की …
The protest by farmers in Gautam Budh Nagar against the state government entered its sixth day on Tuesday with a dharna continuing unabated in Greater Noida. Upping the ante against the Samajwadi Party government for not granting approval to the policy of returning abadi land (land under habitation) to farmers, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Krishan Kant Singh & Anr. Vs. National Ganga River Basin Authority & Ors. dated 12/02/2014 regarding consent to operate granted to M/s Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd. & Distellery by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board. In its Inspection Report dated 4th …
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Delhi government on a plea to levy higher tax on car owners and making diesel-run cars more expensive. The plea, moved by amicus curiae and senior advocate Harish Salve, was filed in the wake of a rise in the air pollution …
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre and the Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana government on an application to take immediate and adequate steps to prescribe stringent emission standards for both petrol and diesel vehicles to control and reduce air pollution and protect the health and …
An anti-pollution authority has suggested imposition of an “additional 30 per cent environment compensation charge on private diesel cars” across the country and introduction of Bharat Stage Four emission norms for motor vehicles next year to tackle the deteriorating quality of air and the related health problems. The authority has …
New Delhi: Senior advocate Harish Salve startled the Supreme Court on Monday by presenting a report which established a direct link between death of 3,000 children annually in Delhi to the increased pollution level attributable mainly to more diesel cars on the roads. Salve said subsidized diesel price was almost …
Alleging that Delhi was emptying its 16 drains into the Yamuna river which was later converging with the Ganga and polluting it, the UP government has issued a notice to Arvind Kejriwal government and threatened to cut water supply to the national capital. Uttar Pradesh irrigation minister Shivpal Singh told …
Putrid water is being released by drainages With water from the Yamuna becoming increasingly contaminated and unfit for human consumption in Agra and Mathura, the Uttar Pradesh Government has served notice on the Delhi government to ensure that toxic water is not released into the river by factories. The State …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Krishan Kant Singh & Anr. Vs. National Ganga River Basin Authority & Ors. dated 10/02/2014 regarding UP Pollution Control Board granting permits annually to a sugar mill and a dairy plant near Ghaziabad, which have been polluting the river waters …
Statement of the Minister of Environment and Forests in response to Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 272 for 10 February 2014, asked by Shri Kristappa Nimmala and Shri Nama Nageswara Rao regarding progress made in regard to cleaning of Ganga river in the country under Ganga Action Plan Phase - …
