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 …
Entire City To Be Covered in Later Phases Lucknow:UP Jal Nigam is planning to take steps to regularise water consumption and prevent its wastage by people. The corporation would soon be setting up water meters in all private houses across the city which get water supply from Jal Sansthan. In …
Downstream Portion Of River Highly Polluted Lucknow: Hinting at the dangerous level of pollutants dissolved in the Gomti riverbed, UP Jal Nigam on Tuesday informed the Parliamentary Committee that around 37 million litres per day of untreated sewage is flowing into the river. Even though the official figures don’t ring …
LUCKNOW: The coveted Gomti riverfront project, which entails utilisation of the unused lands and beautification of the riverbank, finally got a consultant on Thursday. The German firm, Urban Aqua, which has formed a consortium with ANB Consultant of Lucknow, has won the bid for the riverfront project. There were 12 …
Lucknow With the Uttar Pradesh cabinet giving its nod to the Agra-Lucknow greenfield eco-friendly expressway last week, work on the ambitious project has started picking pace. A public-private partnership monitoring committee (PPPMC), headed by Infrastructure & Industrial Development Commissioner (IIDC) Anil K Gupta, on Wednesday accepted and approved the concept …
Will cut travel time to three hours from the present seven The Samajwadi Party government’s first major road project — the 270-kilometre Agra-Lucknow Greenfield Expressway — will be built through the PPP (public-private participation) mode. The green signal for the ambitious project was given at a Cabinet meeting chaired by …
Vehicular density, construction activity, use of diesel generator sets and loudspeakers blamed Bangalore, long considered the garden city, now has a dubious distinction. It has been ranked the country’s seventh noisiest city and the tag is bound to worry the citizens, long concerned about rising levels of air pollution and …
The Union Urban Development Ministry wants cities to do more than just express intent to have a metro railway system. The Ministry is annoyed that cities have been limiting their role to submitting a detailed project report and attaching an application for the Centre to approve and fund their metro …
The six-lane expressway will cost Rs.9,500 crore Within a week of the 165-km Noida-Agra Yamuna expressway becoming operational, another expressway, from Agra to Lucknow, has been proposed by the Samajwadi Party Government here. A presentation of the proposed 274-km Agra-Lucknow Greenfield Expressway was made before Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on …
LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday said it was not responsible for last week's grid failure that resulted in 22 states going without power. During a meeting of the Union power ministry and states drawing power from the Northern Grid, senior UP officials said the two-day blackout was not …
The study was carried out during the months of March-May, 2012 to see the status of air quality by monitoring and assessment of some selected air pollutants namely Respirable Particulate Matter (RSPM or PM10), Fine Particulates (PM2.5), Sulphur dioxide(SO2), Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and Trace metals- Iron (Fe ), Nickel (Ni), …
This report containing the observations arising out of performance audit on "compliance with environmental laws in Lucknow city" has been prepared for the submission to the Governor of Uttar Pradesh under Article 151 (2) of the Constitution. The cases mentioned in the report are among those which came to notice …
Following Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s directive to speed up the process of tranquilising the tiger roaming in Rehmankheda forest of Lucknow for the past three months, the forest department has now roped in the Assistant Director of Nandankanan Zoological Park in Orissa, Kamal Lochan Purohit, for the operation. Before Purohit, …
AFTER GUNNING for American seed major Monsanto and its Indian subsidiary Mahyco for violating the Biological Diversity Act in the Bt Brinjal case, the Karnataka State Bio-diversity Board has decided not to prosecute the violators. The decision was taken on 20 January while reviewing the complaint of Bengaluru based Environment …
From traditional means of palanquins to modern means of transportation, the face of Indian transportation system has progressed at a rapid pace since the inception of economic liberalization of the 1990s. India's public transports systems which is rising by almost 10% a year are among the most heavily used in …
Several studies have raised the suspicion that the body mass index (BMI) cut-off for overweight as defined by the WHO may not adequately reflect the actual overweight status. The present study looked at the relationship between BMI and body fat per cent (BF %) / health risks (hypertension and type …
Nowadays, power crisis term is very common to make us realize that we have deficit amount of electrical energy. On the other hand, ‘misuse of power’ and ‘electricity theft’ are also being heard by everyone. Various articles have been published dealing with electricity theft and how to minimize it. ‘Misuse …
The Delhi government has invested over Rs 5,000 crore to develop three state-of-the-art industrial parks to promote non-polluting industries in the city. The move follows concerns expressed by a section of the government that Delhi was losing out on industries to satelite townships in the vicinity.
Urban revolution: 20 new trendsetters to redifine India by 2030India is on the threshold of an urban revolution, the scale and speed of which is unprecedented. It took nearly 40 years for the urban population to rise by 230 million but it will take only half this time to add …
When it originates from a lake called Fulhaar Jheel near Madho Tanda east of Pilibhit, the Gomti is a stream. Gradually, it starts growing. Around 100 km away from the point of its origin, this stream is joined by tributaries like Sukheta, Choha and Andhra Choha near Mohammadi Kheri, a …
This paper mainly deals with the measurement of air quality by observing the concentration of pollutants in the atmosphere namely suspended particulate matter, NOx and SO2 at five different selected locations in Lucknow city. The locations for the study have been chosen on the basis of land use pattern. Each …
