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 …
With the east corporation trying to reduce the pollution footprint of the city’s only functional slaughterhouse, the Ghazipur landfill site and its surrounding areas are likely to get respite from one of the most polluting forms of waste. The Ghazipur slaughterhouse, which processes over 5,000 livestocks in a four-hour batch, …
NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel on Monday directed the housing urban affairs ministry to talk to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on how soon the mount of garbage piled up at Ghazipur can be utilised for building roads. The panel has asked the ministry to submit its response. The …
'BHEL is trying to rectify the fault but the fate of the project is still uncertain.' The first unit of 500×2 MW Anpara D thermal power project in Uttar Pradesh, commissioned a few months ago, has failed to take off, owing to technical glitches. BHEL, which has erected the plant …
Over 17 lakh people have been hit by the floods in Uttar Pradesh, where the situation continued to remain grim with the swollen rivers inundating thousands of villages and the death toll in the deluge and other rain-related mishaps climbing to 280. Two persons died Sunday in Auraiya district in …
LUCKNOW: Rain-related incidents claimed 13 more lives in the state on Tuesday, taking the toll to 264 this monsoon. More than 3.5 lakh people have been affected by the floods in 112 villages and localities in 10 districts, specially those situated on the banks of the Ganga and the Yamuna. …
Even as major rivers in the state continued to rise on Friday, 13 more people reportedly died in rain-related incidents during the past 24 hours, taking the toll to 63 since June 15. Six people died in Ghazipur, three in Sultanpur and two each in Badaun and Pratapgarh districts in …
The mercury remained at sub-zero levels in at least five districts of Uttar Pradesh claiming 16 more lives over the past 24 hours taking the death toll due to the bitter cold to 249. According to reports from the metrological office, Gorakhpur and Ghazipur clocked -1°C and remained the coldest …
34 more deaths in Uttar Pradesh; season’s toll goes up to 233 At least 34 more deaths were reported from Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday as cold wave conditions continued unabated in North, East and Central parts of the country even as temperatures went up slightly at some places. The Capital …
Plummeting mercury, coupled with a thick fog cover, threw normal life out of gear in the entire North India on Monday, with 24 more people succumbing to the chill in various parts of the region. While 20 more people died in Uttar Pradesh, four persons lost their lives in Uttarakhand, …
New Delhi: There was no respite from the cold wave across north India on Monday as the mercury dipped close to the freezing point at several places in the region and killed 29 more people, mounting the toll from it this season to around 200. Officials said six people died …
Bihar has set out to match Mumbai with its own version of the Marine Drive. The 21.5km Ganga Path, coming up in Patna by June 2015, will be one of the country’s biggest public-private-partnership projects at an estimated cost of Rs 2,234.46 crore. The Bihar State Road Development Corporation will …
Okhla residents accuse BJP and Congress of trying to poison people by promoting waste incineration to generate electricity. The plant is being put through trial runs. Even as candidates contesting municipal seats in the national capital make their rounds of residential colonies to seek votes, citizens and waste-pickers' associations are …
Say studies have shown that Indian waste is unfit for the purpose. With the fear of losing their means of living looming over them, waste pickers from across the country have opposed Delhi government’s plan to install three waste to energy plants in the city. “How can the proposed energy …
Heavy rains have wreaked havoc in eastern Uttar Pradesh leaving 28 people dead, while the water level in major rivers is rising. While 18 people were killed in incidents of wall and house collapse in Jaupur district, 10 deaths were reported from Mirzapur district which received 120 mm and 150 …
Major U.P. rivers continue to overflow, inundate villages The monsoon remained subdued in parts of North India on Monday, including Punjab and Haryana, even as the flood fury was unabated in Uttar Pradesh. Major rivers continued to overflow, inundating a number of villages in Uttar Pradesh and disrupting the transmission …
LUCKNOW: The fact that Gomti's flow and level have reduced drastically has caught the attention of the government which is now mulling to constitute a river conservation unit for its restoration and conservation. The river, reeling under the bane of pollution and encroachment, has its flow reduced to one-third and …
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 …
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 …
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has adversely affected harvesting of Rabi crop in the Gangetic belt as labourers are busy digging ponds, leaving farmers high and dry. In some places the labourers have even jacked up their rates, saying they will work in fields only if they …
Though meat traders have called of their strike and agreed to work at the Ghazipur slaughterhouse, illegal slaughtering is on the rise in various areas of the Capital, say sources. According to them, most of the illegal slaughtering is being done in Seelampur, Jafrabad, Okhla, Khureji and some other areas. …
