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 …
Life in a slum is comparable to life in most urban households in India, according to Census 2011 data on living conditions in slums. Depending on how one looks at it, ‘slumming it’ may just have acquired a whole new meaning — either most Indian towns live the life of …
In what could be a slight setback to the government's programme to bring safe and adequate drinking water to all rural households, only around 67 per cent of the targets have been met under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) in 2012-13, as against the over 90 per cent …
Lucknow: The government is keen on increasing the green cover in the state. To realise the plantation target, forest department is planting trees on vacant forest land, roadsides, alongside canals as well as gram sabha land in collaboration with other departments. The department has planted about 3,200 ‘kanak champa’ plants …
The city is fast transforming into a concrete jungle and while some call it development others are worried for the future of the Sangam city in terms of availability of underground water. The depleting green cover of the city has affected adversely the underground water level of localities in the …
New Delhi: Most people think of leopards as predators that live in forests except for a few that occasionally stray into human settlements. Breaking that myth, a new study has found that a large number of these big cats may be residing in human habitats, quietly sharing space with people …
National Green Tribunal Hauls Up Industries For Not Having Proper Pollution Control Systems Noida: A six-member expert committee constituted by National Green Tribunal to determine ‘sources’ and ‘extent’ of pollution in Noida has taken cognizance of diesel generators operating in large numbers, due to lack of adequate power, for causing …
Study Says A Trial On Vitamin Supplementation Among Preschoolers Did Not Substantiate Earlier Claim Of 30% Reduction Two so-called magic bullets of the international health community’s armoury — pre-school vitamin A supplementation, assumed to reduce child mortality by a quarter and intestinal deworming, assumed to improve child nutrition, growth, and …
Urbanisation, Insecticides Pushing Winged Creatures Towards Extinction Lucknow: Many bird species once sighted commonly across Uttar Pradesh are now vanishing. The reasons could be many and diverse, but technology appears to be the biggest factor behind this threat looming over the feathered friends of man. First mynahs faced the extinction …
The responsibility of cleaning and maintenance of 12 ghats located along the Ganga will be given to seven NGOs, a senior official said. The ghats, including Dasaswamedh ghat, Sheetla ghat, Rajendar Prasad ghat, Prayag ghat, Manmandir ghat, Meer ghat, Munshi ghat, Bhonsle ghat, Guleriya ghat, Ganesh ghat and Shivala ghat …
Letter to Central Empowered Committee from D. K. Joshi (Member, Monitoring Committee, constituted by Supreme Court of India) on the issue of an educational institution, Anand Engineering College belonging to Sharada Group of Institutions operating within the Soor Sarovar Bird Sanctuary, Agra.
What does it say about the rest of India when Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's pet project is reeling under corruption? Fake bills, inflated estimates, non-transparent contracts and sub-standard works have turned the Rs.7,466-crore Bundelkhand economic package into the latest multi-crore scam. Spread over 13 districts in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya …
Monsoon in Gorakhpur seldom brings cheer. For the past 30 years, rains in the region are synonymous with children dying of encephalitis. 2012 witnessed 557 encephalitis deaths. Six months since then very little progress has been made in the fight against this deadly disease. Encephalitis, which has claimed 50,000 lives …
KANPUR: During the national seminar named PACT Vision-2013 at the campus of HBTI, GN Tewari, alumnus of HBTI, informed that the solvent-based paints pollute the environment while the water-based paints have least affect on the environment. The water-based paints are also known as green paint or eco-friendly paints. "The vapours …
Around 15,000 persons from various organisations, under the umbrella of the Yamuna Rakshak Dal, entered Delhi on Monday morning, as part of a protest padyatra, organised to voice their displeasure with the pollution in the Yamuna. The march started on March 1 from Vrindavan and included devotees, who treat the …
Punjab continues to paint a grim picture so far as the growth rate of its Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) is concerned. Among the big non-special category states, Punjab is a laggard. Though against the growth rate target of 5.9 per cent, fixed for the state in the 11th Five-year …
Had Proposed To Charge 5.25/Unit After 100 Units Lucknow: The UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) plans to raise sagging revenue and reserve by hiking power tariff received a setback on Monday when the UP Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) set aside the annual revenue requirement (ARR) submitted by the corporation for …
New Delhi: Delhi is not close to any of the tiger belts of the country, yet it figures among the five hotspots in India connected to big cat poaching, says a report by a global wildlife trade monitoring network and WWF. Tiger part seizures in the capital are predominantly of …
New Delhi: About 19 years ago, the Supreme Court first scrutinized pollution in the Yamuna. Innumerable orders later, Yamuna is dirtier than ever with a mind-numbing Rs 6,500 crore spent to clean the river and the latest plan — interceptor sewers — going nowhere. On Monday, when SC reviews Yamuna’s …
The challenge will only become stiffer as projected sewage generation by 2021 is likely to be about 4,500 mld. This means sewage treatment capacity will have to be augmented by 2,000 mld in less than 10 years, says the central pollution control board. “I agree that our STPs are not …
Plan To Divert Sewage Of Certain Areas Near Kukrail Nullah Lucknow:The Lucknow Municipal Corporation has started the second innings of the Lucknow Sewerage Yojana under the Centre’s flagship scheme Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. As a result, residents of Aliganj, Mahanagar and Gomtinagar area who had long been struggling …
