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 …
Groundwater with high geogenic arsenic (As) is extensively present in the Holocene alluvial aquifers of Ghazipur District in the middle Gangetic Plain, India. A shift in the climatic conditions, weathering of carbonate and silicate minerals, surface water interactions, ion exchange, redox processes, and anthropogenic activities are responsible for high concentrations …
Monitoring of Environmental Status of Lucknow city with respect to air and noise is being conducted by IITR, since 1997 twice in a year (pre-monsoon and post-monsoon in the month of May and October respectively) to assess the environmental quality and its trends. This study was conducted with the following …
The views of rickshaw pullers and public not obtained or considered: High Court Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court has struck down the decision of Noida authorities to ban plying of cycle-rickshaws in some parts of the city. A Division Bench comprising Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice Virendra Singh delivered the …
Lucknow: The National Forest Rights Act Committee (NFRAC) formed jointly by the Union ministry of environment and forest and Union ministry of tribal affairs to review implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) will visit west UP on May 31. The 19-member committee headed by NC Saxena and comprising experts …
Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: With two persons reported missing from the site of the chimney collapse at the Parichha thermal power plant in Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh still untraced, a case has been filed against the Deputy General Manager of the National Building Construction Company (NBCC), BJMC and Messrs. Vishwakarma …
Groundwater survey in Ghazipur, Varanasi and Mirzapur districts of Uttar Pradesh (UP) in Middle Ganga Plain shows that people in these areas are drinking arsenic-contaminated groundwater. Moreover, 60% of tubewells have arsenic concentration above the WHO guideline value of 10 ?g/l and 20% is above 50 ?g/l, the Indian standards …
Lucknow: Over 50 labourers and technicians were feared trapped under thousands of tonnes of concrete and steel when the newly constructed 210 metre high concrete chimney at Parichha Thermal Power Project in Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh, collapsed on Monday afternoon. Authorities feared that the count of trapped victims could …
Kanpur: The Uttar Pradesh government has decided that no new leather tannery be allowed to come up in Jajmau suburb and warned the existing 418 tanneries against disposing of effluents into the river Ganges, secretary of a leading industries' association in the town said here on Monday.
Deepa Jainani Lucknow: At least 5 people are feared dead and more than 100 labourers are suspected to be trapped under the debris of the 220 metre under-construction chimney of the 2x250 mw Parichha Extension thermal power station collapsed in Jhansi district in Bundelkhand region on Monday. The chimney, which …
Sizzling tempera tures and paucity of water has begun to take a toll on the birds in UP. About a dozen peacock deaths have been reported form Etawah district in the past 24 hours and 10 Gray Francolin, popularly known as teetar have also been found dead in the same …
The Noida Authority has acquired land to set up a solid waste management plant in the city soon. All the preparations for the installation of the plant are done and now only a technical report from the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) is awaited. Once that is done, over …
Lucknow: The sweltering heat could have caused the death of peacocks in Farrukhabad division of UP forests. The forest officials have recovered two bodies and sent them for post-mortem. The report will come up with exact cause of death. In the meantime, forest officials are sticking to the opinion that …
Lucknow: VIP residential colonies might be enjoying 24-hours of power supply through arrangement of an alternate feeder in this sweltering weather, but not many would know that the Gaughat and Balaganj water pumping stations, which are crucial for regular supply of water to the Old City area of the state …
Noida: The Noida Authority has acquired land to set up a solid waste management plant in the city soon. All the preparations for the installation of the plant are done and now only a technical report from the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) is awaited. Once that is done, …
LUCKNOW: The ground water situation is fast deteriorating in the state. In the past four years, the areas under stress have almost doubled. In comparison to 138 blocks in 40 districts of UP under stress in 2004, the tentative figure of the blocks under stress has touched 218 blocks in …
LUCKNOW: Fifteen people have been killed and several others injured in duststorms in different districts of Uttar Pradesh, official sources said here on Thursday. Eleven people were on Thursday killed and 15 injured in eight villages in Soraon tehsil in Allahabad district in duststorm related incidents, they said. Four persons …
