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: Raising questions on the efficacy of government intervention to prevent female foeticide in Uttar Pradesh, Census 2011 data has registered a steep decline of 14 point in the state's child sex ratio. Referring to the number of girls between the age of 0 and 6 years for every 1,000 …
ALLAHABAD: The district authorities have dispatched over 1,000 field testing kits and study materials to 20 blocks to check water quality in 1,425 villages. The district aims to check areas where ground water contains arsenic or fluoride substances. District Development Officer (DDO) RC Pandey told TOI "after dispatching water field …
At the fifth meeting of the Upper Yamuna River Committee on Tuesday, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit reiterated her demand for a greater share of water from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. With the onset of summers and the accompanying water shortages, Dikshit requested the cooperation of both the Centre and basin …
Declaring that dams are the only possible source of water to meet the city’s future drinking needs, Delhi wants work related to the construction of dams on the Yamuna to be expedited. On Tuesday, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit told the Centre that work on Renuka, Lakhwar Vyasi and Kishau dams …
If you cross over the DND bridge in Delhi to Atta market in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, you will see the incongruous sight of a well-heeled young man with gold-rimmed shades taking an unusual interest in the sweeping of streets and the collection and dumping of garbage into a truck nearby. …
Okhla residents opposing a controversial plant, which converts waste to energy, have filed an affidavit in an ongoing National Green Tribunal case, claiming that the plant is operating in an eco-sensitive zone.The affidavit claims that the Okhla waste to energy plant, a first in the country started by the Delhi …
In a move to appease farmers in the area, Noida Authority announced an increase in compensation rates on acquisition of land at their board meeting on Monday. Noida Authority officials also increased the ambit of those who will get increased compensation for land acquired previously, apart from widening of the …
ALLAHABAD: The city slums are set for a makeover. The slum dwellers would be provided concrete houses under a comprehensive project under the Rajiv Awaas Yojana. On Monday, a workshop was organized for the same where corporators and district authorities exchanged views, complaints and suggestions over it. District magistrate Raj …
Terming the affidavits “entirely incorrect”, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has once again instructed the heads of various authorities in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh to file comprehensive affidavits within six weeks on the extent of debris deposited on the banks of the Yamuna. Last month, the Tribunal had granted a …
The lives of over 150,000 children in the country could be saved by a $5-million-programme launched in India by UNICEF-Canada and Teck under the Zinc Alliance for Child Health(ZACH). The five-year programme aims at scaling up the use of zinc supplementation and oral rehydration salts (ORS) to treat diarrhoea while …
ALLAHABAD: Drawing state government's attention towards the worsening power scenario in the city, Samajwadi Party (SP) national general secretary and Allahabad MP Reoti Raman Singh met chief minister Akhilesh Yadav recently and submitted a set of proposals for improving the power supply. Giving this information, Singh said that to streamline …
The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday issued notices to the Union Environment Ministry and others for failing to take steps to protect the Dadri wetlands in the National Capital Region. The wetlands are the only area within a 200-km radius of the Capital where blackbucks exist in their natural habitat …
New Delhi: The national green tribunal has found that a “majority of the hospitals in the National Capital Territory are not complying with biomedical waste handling rules and are thus posing a very serious hazard threat to human health and environment”. These include prominent names such as AIIMS, Safdarjung, Ram …
ALLAHABAD: When it comes to scripting success stories in terms of vaccinating children, Allahabad district tops the chart among all other 23 districts of the state with a record of administering over 10.7 lakh children with anti-measles vaccine. The final round of Measles Catch-up Campaign brought smiles on the faces …
The super speciality cancer institute proposed to be set up here will have in-house facilities for research, educational programmes and training of medical and para-medical personnel. The Cabinet on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for setting up the institute . The Cabinet meeting was presided over by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister …
Noida: To ascertain which industrial units in Noida are responsible for causing environmental pollution, the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) will start a drive this week to monitor effluents and emissions generated by the units. As part of the drive, samples will be collected from chimney stacks and effluent …
Noida: Several road infrastructure projects to ease traffic flow in Noida got the green signal from Noida Authority in a high-level committee meeting held on Monday. The committee, formed to upgrade road infrastructure, approved seven projects. Makeover plans include four underpasses, two elevated roads and a flyover. One of the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Haat Supreme Wastech Pvt. Ltd. & Ors. Vs State of Haryana & Ors regarding bio-medical waste dated 22/05/2013.
Noida: Acting upon allegations of rampant encroachment of the Yamuna riverbanks, the National Green Tribunal on Monday imposed a ban on all construction activities — whether temporary or permanent — on the floodplain zone in UP, Delhi and Haryana. The tribunal has also directed the three states to take steps …
