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 …
Multi-lateral funding agency, the World Bank will provide $500 million loan for water supply and sanitation projects in the rural areas of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. “The World Bank has approved a $ 500 million credit for the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) Project for Low Income …
The National Green Tribunal has expressed displeasure over the absence of a representative of the Ministry of Environment and Forest in a sand mining case, saying even in the New Year it “persists” in its “practice” of being unrepresented. “Nobody is present on behalf of respondent 1 (MoEF). It had …
Fog Disrupts Vehicular Movement Lucknow: Even as cold conditions continued to lash the state, three deaths, including two children, due to cold were reported on Thursday. Vehicular traffic remained affected due to fog in some parts of the state. The weatherman said that there will be no change in weather …
Concerned over the rising pollution in Ganga, members of Ganga Pradushan Mukti Abhiyaan warned to boycott the upcoming Magh Mela to be organized in Allahabad from January 14. With this, hundreds of seers associated with Ganga cleaning initiative will also not take part in the Magh mela. Recent reports issued …
The new act sets compensation limits and resettlement of affected families India’s new land acquisition Act came into force on Wednesday, mandating compensation limits and the resettlement and rehabilitation of affected families, a critical reform aimed at making the process fairer and more transparent. However, the amendment of 13 different …
Connecting Ken-Betwa To Be First Of 30 Projects Costing 5,60,000cr New Delhi: After almost a decade of political objections and green opposition, the Cabinet is likely to clear on Thursday the ambitious project to inter-link rivers, beginning with the process of connecting the Ken and Betwa rivers in Madhya Pradesh. …
The Centre has finally approved the rollout of the Multi-sectoral Nutrition Programme to address the problems of maternal and child under-nutrition in the country. The programme, recommended by the Prime Minister’s National Council on India’s Nutrition Challenges in 2010, will be implemented in 200 high-burden districts in two phases at …
The formulation of Ganga River Basin Management Plan (GRBMP) by a consortium of seven IITs could be viewed as one of the most significant development for the region in 2013. The basic approach in this framework action plan is - "apply modern science and technology in conjunction with traditional wisdom". …
The environmental damage due to mismanagement of plastic waste is a matter of serious concern. The landfill sites are mostly filled with plastic waste due to littering habits and non-biodegradability of plastic wastes which persist for several years and therefore, may creates complexities on land and water. To validate the …
Passengers commuting across the National Capital Region (NCR) will finally get some respite from harassment by auto-rickshaw drivers with Transport minister Saurabh Bhardwaj announcing plans to issue inter-state permits for 5,500 auto-rickshaws. "Many face problems while commuting from Delhi to Gurgaon, Noida and other NCR regions. Auto-rickshaws and buses are …
Rajasthan is getting better for pregnant women's healthcare as sample registration system report 2010-12 shows maternal deaths per 100,000 live births have declined by 63% points. However, the state is lagging far behind the national average of maternal mortality rate (MMR). Office of registrar general under the ministry of health …
Bad Drainage, Vanishing Water Bodies, Poor Planning To Blame Lucknow: Close to 60% water logging in Lucknow exists due to improper drainage network system. Of this, blockage in existing drains is the major cause of water logging, concludes study by a research scholar of department of Geology, Lucknow University. The …
The menace of encephalitis continues unabated in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, as three more children succumbed to the disease at the BRD Medical College Hospital, official sources said here today. With these, the toll has reached 640 this year. Sources in the office of Additional Director (Health) said all the three …
Nearly 88.5% of households in rural India have access to improved source of drinking water while the corresponding figure for urban India is 95%, says the latest National Sample Survey released on Tuesday. An improved drinking water source is one that is protected from outside contamination. Rural households in Kerala …
Sixty percent of rural households do not have access to toilet facility even after 66 years of independence Among the reasons that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won electoral support in Delhi may have been its pledges to provide 700 litres of free drinking water each day along with a …
Several hilly areas cut off from the rest of the States; communication network down; more rain, snow likely Northern India was fully in the grip of cold weather conditions on Sunday with widespread snowfall in the hilly areas even as the winter claimed its first casualties in Jammu and Kashmir …
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu, home to several rare flora and fauna, is lagging behind many other states in implementing the National Biological Diversity Act, 2002, according to data released by the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), an autonomous statutory body. Under the Act, the NBA coordinates the conservation activities across the country, …
Dumping of waste into drains, saving flora and fauna and adherence to environmental norms by industries were issues that engaged National Green Tribunal which gave a blow to the construction sector by banning sand mining nation-wide without due clearance in the year 2013. Three years after its inception, the NGT …
ALLAHABAD: North Central Railway has achieved a milestone by winning the first prize in National Energy Conservation Award 2013 amongst all the 17 Zonal Railways. The award has been given in recognition to North Central Railway's adoption of numerous energy efficient technologies and measures/practices. President of India Pranab Mukherjee presented …
The National Green Tribunal was annoyed over Uttar Pradesh government's non-complianc of its order concerning illegal sand mining in Jalaun and Hamirpur district and directed the state to file complete report by 13 January, 2014 Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ram Babu Vs. Union of …
