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 …
After a Kisan Mandi, UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is all set to gift a non-conventional energy training centre to Kannauj, his wife Dimple Yadav's parliamentary constituency. Proposed to be constructed over an area of around four acre, the centre would essentially provide training to youth in installation of rooftop …
Way back in 1986, Rajiv Gandhi launched the Ganga Action Plan. But years later, after much water (sewage) and money have flowed down the river, it is as bad as it could get. Why are we failing, and what needs to be done differently to clean this and many other …
Rain-related incidents claimed eight lives in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday with moderate to heavy showers lashing most parts of North India. It was a pleasant day in the national Capital with cloud covers keeping the temperatures within the normal level. During the past 24 hours ending at 8-30 a.m. in …
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 …
The cold wave was relentless in most parts of North India on Monday, claiming six more lives to take the death toll in the past three days to eleven. As predicted by the Met department, the mercury remained low and residents of New Delhi, who went to bed on a …
UP government on Monday gave in principle approval to construction of an expressway between Lucknow and Agra. The six-lane expressway that seeks to reduce the distance between the two cities from the existing 350 km to 274 km, will pass through Yadav-dominated belt comprising districts like Etawah, Mainpuri and Kannauj. …
Polluting industries along a 500-km stretch of the Ganga between Kannauj and Varanasi might soon face the axe. Minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday told the chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board and member-secretaries of state pollution control boards to take immediate action to …
Government says enough grain stock, farmers go hungry Budhi Rikisyan sat in her house making leaf plates for the last rites of her granddaughter, Mantawa. Unable to suppress hunger pangs, the 12-year-old girl plucked surbari leaves from the field and ate them in early August. After five days she was …
Eighty-nine people were killed in the high-velocity thunderstorm that ripped across Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday. The deaths came as winds blew at 80 km an hour uprooting trees and triggering wall collapse and lightning ignited fires. The thunderstorm caused a blackout in several parts of the State as power lines …
