Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Activists gathered along the banks of the Yamuna here to demand an early clean up of the river that is the lifeline to millions in northern India. Dozens of people offered special prayers on the river bank and sought the cleaning of the ghats and the demolition of illegal structures …
With Holi just round the corner, green activists are seeing red as rules to burn only dead trees are set to be flouted by many in the festival. For the past fortnight or so, various Holi Committees have been piling logs of woods for burning the symbolic Holika but many …
In order to keep continuously monitoring and maintaining an accurate record of depleting levels of groundwater, the government is going to install automatic water-level recorders (AWLR) in the state. The system which was tested at a few places in Allahabad, Kaushambi and Fatehpur districts, will be first installed across Agra …
Agra: More trouble is in store for the Sharda Group of Institutions. After its Anand Engineering College, another institute of the group, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Management (HITM), is now under scanner of the National Green Tribunal for allegedly violating environment and wildlife norms. Admitting a petition of DK …
An RTI filed by a Greater Noida-based NGO, Social Action for Environment and Forest (SAFE), revealed that more than 27,000 trees would be axed for the construction of the 302.22 km Agra-Lucknow Greenfield expressway. It also revealed that the nodal authority responsible for the project has already started construction but …
After the Allahabad high court's ban on immersing idols in the Yamuna to save it from pollution, the Agra district administration is ensuring that the orders are strictly implemented and temporary ponds are created for 'visarjan'. The Agra municipal corporation has started work of creating artificial ponds at Yamuna's ghats, …
AGRA: Hundreds of saplings were planted on Sunday in Agra, whose green cover has increased from 9 to 11 per cent. The green buffer around Agra and in patches within have contained air pollution which once posed a threat to the Taj Mahal, according to studies conducted by the Uttar …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the go ahead for felling of 697 trees in over four hectares of protected forests in the Taj Trapezium zone for better connectivity across Agra, Gwalior and Mumbai. A Special Bench of Justices T.S. Thakur and C.S. Nagappan on Wednesday permitted the Uttar Pradesh …
AGRA: Thousands of dead fish have been found floating at Samgor ghat of river Yamuna in Etmadpur area of Agra over the past few days. Locals and environmentalists have attributed the death to rising pollution in the river water. However, a team of Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) which …
AGRA: With an aim to curb the rising pollution in Yamuna, the Agra district administration has decided to strictly implement the ban on use of polythene in the city. For the same cause, the municipal authorities have been asked to place barricades at Yamuna ghats to resist locals for throwing …
AGRA: Around 20,000 residents of the Yadav-dominated Budhana village, 15km from Agra, have decided to boycott polls over the lack of development in their area. The village has around 2,500 families. Budhana goes to the polls on April 24. The villagers, who burnt an effigy of CM Akhilesh Yadav as …
Illegal sand mining is posing biggest threat to last of the wild and breeding ghariyals left. Found in maximum strength in national chambal sanctuary running along three states — UP, MP and Rajasthan, ghariyals are losing out to human interference. Illegal sand mining, fishing and stone quarrying in the sanctuary …
Agra city would start getting clean water by the end of 2014, a minister said in the state Assembly. Urban Development Minister Mohd Azam Khan said the Taj city will get 144 MLD (million litre per day) of pure water supply by the end of 2014, and this would be …
Release of excessive water from various dams and barrages for bathing during Magh Mela at Allahabad and unseasonal rainfall in the region have affected the nesting of hard-shell turtles and birds in Ganga, Yamuna and Chambal rivers. Stretches of these rivers are widely known for nesting of hard-shell turtles during …
AGRA: Around 100 nilgais have died in Saurai, Agra district, after allegedly drinking the highly contaminated water of the Karvan river. Panic-stricken villagers, who said the water has turned poisonous due to effluents being discharged by factories in Hathras and Aligarh, added that their heath and crops, too, have been …
The Supreme Court allowed the Agra Municipal Corporation to cut down 38 trees in the protected area of Taj Mahal under the Taj Trapezium Zone but directed it to plant thrice the number of trees in the compound or nearby areas. A bench headed by Justice T S Thakur passed …
Patna is at the bottom of the 50 liveable cities of India, while Mumbai is at the top. According to the latest survey by Institute for Competitiveness, an international agency, Mumbail is followed by Chennai, Hyderababad, Bangalore, New Delhi, Kolkata, Noida, and Gurgaon. Pune and Nagpur which were in the …
Hundreds of farmers demonstrated here today to demand the passing of the Land Acquisition Bill by Parliament, higher compensation for their lands and rehabilitation schemes for their children. Close to 700 farmers from Uttar Pradesh under the leadership of the Uttar Pradesh Congress spokesperson, Dhirendra Singh, staged a dharna at …
Ghaziabad and Allahabad have emerged as the two most air polluted cities in Uttar Pradesh in a recent survey by a research and advocacy organization. The survey conducted by Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) found pollutants of the size of 10 micron in Ghaziabad, Allahabad, Kanpur and Bareilly, …
