Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
ALLAHABAD: The area of Sangam would now be rid of all litter as Allahabad Municipal Corporation has decided to clean up the banks of Ganga and Yamuna routinely. For this, Allahabad Municipal Corporation has also prepared a gang of about 36 sanitary workers who will perform the duty of cleaning …
Mercury climbed further making Thursday hottest day of the city this summer. The maximum temperature was 43.3 degrees Celsius, above Wednesday’s 42.6 degrees Celsius. If Lucknow experienced scorching heat, Allahabad simmered at 46.3 degrees Celsius and was hottest place in the state during last 24 hours followed by Banda which …
ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad high court asked state government and principal secretary Medical Education to file a short counter affidavit within two weeks in reply to a public interest litigation against equipment for cancer patients lying defunct in Moti Lal Nehru Medical College( MLNMC) Allahabad. Petitioner advocate Manoj Kumar Singh has …
Lucknow: Exactly a year after chief minister Akhilesh Yadav mooted a proposal to set up the 100-acre Information Technology City to boost the IT sector in the state, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court on Thursday stayed its construction. The HC’s order restrains the state government from removing trees, …
ALLAHABAD: After Maha Kumbh, the 22 crossroads of the city are set to wear a new look, as officials of Allahabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) have decided to take up solar powered traffic signal system with the help of a Delhi-based firm under the public-private partnership (PPP ) model. As part …
According to a World Bank Sponsored Study (State of Environment Report- U.P.) pollution levels in the Ganga are contributing 9-12% of total disease burden in Uttar Pradesh. The coliform bacteria levels are in excess of 2 lakh MPN as against the national water quality standard of 5000. The report estimated …
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 …
ALLAHABAD: Indian culture propagated and developed due to Ganga, and it is unfortunate that reduced water levels and discharge of effluents has polluted it immensely, said noted social activist and thinker Avinash Dharmadhikari at the Ganga Yamuna Water Pollution Removal Exhibition at the ongoing Maha Kumbh on Sunday. However, he …
New Delhi: Two years ago, 10 small villages along Yamuna were selected for a river restoration project. The Nadi Mitra Mandalis were given an action plan that included natural and organic farming, waste water management, improvement in sanitation, catchment restoration, and assessment of the river and village health. Children were …
The Ganga Action Parivar (GAP) has taken primary steps towards constructing the first zero-waste, “bio-digester” toilet in Uttar Pradesh along the banks of the Ganga. The initiative is part of GAP’s drive to build 5,000 eco-friendly toilets in villages along the 2,500-km stretch of the Ganga and also integrates its …
KANPUR: It is the time of the year when hundreds of turtles make their way to the banks of Yamuna to lay their eggs. However, heavy release of water from Tajewala dam and Hathnikund barrage in Haryana for bathing purpose at Kumbh mela in Allahabad has delayed the mass nesting …
The Maha Kumbh in Allahabad has perhaps no parallel in terms of the sheer size of the congregation. In less than two months over 100 million people are expected to come to this city, at the confluence of the Ganga and the Yamuna. But even as they celebrate the rivers …
ALLAHABAD: Chairman of the All India Anti Terrorist Front (AIATF) and former chief of Indian Youth Congress Maninderjeet Singh Bitta observed there was urgent need for comprehensive work to free the Ganga of pollution and that there should be no politicisation of the issue. He had come to Sangam to …
Mumbai: The first verdict from international health experts stationed at the Kumbh Mela to record diseases among pilgrims has been positive. The team, comprising mainly medical doctors from Harvard University in Massachusetts, is “largely impressed” with the orderliness of the Mela and the lack of any major disease outbreak there. …
ALLAHABAD: Ganga is not just a river but it has acquired the status of a goddess and regarded as the cradle of Indian civilisation, said vice-chancellor of Maharshi Visvavidyalaya, West Indies, Swami Brahmaswaroopji Maharaj while visiting the Ganga gallery in the Mela area on Thursday. The VC said the river …
ALLAHABAD: Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna on Wednesday said that the holy Ganga should be freed of pollution right from Himalayas to Ganga Sagar. "Although the level of pollution in Ganga is comparably less in Uttarakhand, still it is our duty to ensure unrestrained flow of the river right from …
Despite the tall claims of the UP government of providing pollution-free water at Sangam, Allahabad, devotees at Kumbh continue to take their holy dip in polluted water. The latest report of UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB), the Bio-chemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) at Sangam is around 5 mg/litre, much above the …
SANGAM: Angry over Ganga water turning black and red over the past 48 hours, Shankaracharyas, seers and Dandi swamis, with all the akaharas in tow, expressed on Tuesday said the state government was hurting their faith and sentiments. Taking an oath at Harishchandra ghat to make the river clean and …
ALLAHABAD/LUCKNOW: Swami Chidanand Saraswati of the Parmarth Niketan Ashram has earned sanitary distinction for the campaign he is running during the ongoing Maha Kumbh to provide clean toilets in religious places. The seer from Rishikesh has recently entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Defence Research and Designs Organisation …
ALLAHABAD: The Control of Ganga Yamuna Water Pollution Exhibition is a praiseworthy effort which emphasis glorious aspect of the Ganga, its significance, problems of river and also gives solution to make it clean, said chairperson, committee on anti-trafficking of women and children, International Federation of Women Lawyers, Malaysia N Saraswati …
