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 …
New Delhi: By the time Yamuna reaches Vrindavan-Mathura-Gokul, it is essentially a stream of sludge. A holy dip could leave you sick. A group of s a d h u s from the Mathura-Vrindavan area along with farmers with plots on the river-course started on a march from Allahabad in …
THE Indian Railways will put coal movement on its priority list to ensure timely supply of the fuel to power stations, a senior official said. For this, the Railways has rationalized its freight scheme by specifying dedicated routes linking coal producing areas with power stations. The revised freight scheme, which …
LUCKNOW: With more than 70 out of 802 blocks in the state labelled as over-exploited, the ground water situation is alarming. However, the menace could be checked by resorting to rain water harvesting and river re-charging. "There are 72 out of 802 blocks where water is over-exploited", said KB Biswas, …
Villagers Living In Fear Anindo Dey & Neha Lalchandani | TNN Jaipur/New Delhi: The strayed tiger spotted near Mathura on Monday continued to elude forest officials for the second day. On Tuesday, the animal, identified as a young sub-adult male, was spotted about two to three times at different spots …
A four-member team of the forest department from Jaipur has left for the Uttar Pradesh-Rajasthan border to rescue a tiger which has strayed in a village between Mathura and Agra in UP. The expert team was sent following reports of attack by the tiger. On Monday a tiger had crossed …
Jaipur: Five months after a tiger from Ranthambore National Park strayed towards Dholpur, the animal was spotted at Farah village in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, where it reportedly attacked seven villagers on Monday. As last reports came in, the tiger was said to be surrounded by angry villagers in …
LUCKNOW: Zero rains in Uttaranchal hills on Sunday helped to stabilise the rising water levels of Gang Naher and Kosi rivers which have wreaked havoc in west UP, much to the relief of lakhs of people affected by flood. However, the unrelenting Yamuna continued to swell on Sunday. Meanwhile, the …
Lucknow: People of western UP heaved a sigh of relief as rainfall activity slowed down and water began to recede in some places on Thursday. But their ordeal is far from over as a fresh alert has been sounded for districts along the banks of the Ganga and Yamuna. The …
The Yamuna River, which flows through the heart of India’s capital city, is one of the holiest rivers in Hindu mythology. It’s also one of the most polluted rivers in the world, absorbing more than 200 million gallons of sewage from the city each day. This story takes us to …
The Vrindavan Forest Revival Project, later called the Vrindavan Conservation Project, was launched in 1991 by the World Wide Fund for Nature, to restore ecological order in the region. A study of the project shows certain processes of religious revivalism in environmental politics. The power given to place imagination and …
The agitation over Government move to acquire agricultural land for setting up townships near Yamuna Expressway is all set to gain momentum after farmers in western Uttar Pradesh put Mayawati government on notice. Farmers of Aligarh have decided to go on an indefinite hunger strike from Monday to demand compensation …
Lucknow: On the backfoot ever since the use of force against farmers seeking higher compensation for land being acquired for the Yamuna Expressway in the Aligarh-Mathura belt, the Mayawati government on Tuesday offered to increase the land compensation rate. But the proposal led to sharp divisions among the protesters who …
Debate in Lok Sabha on the situation arising out of acquisition of farmer?s land in Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the country. It was initiated by SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav who demanded amendments to the Land acquisition Act 1894. See Also Report: India infrastructure report 2009: land - …
The work outlined in this paper mainly deals with the monitoring of Yamuna river water from pre and post refinery zone for the periods October 2001 and December 2002. A comparative account of physico-chemical and biological investigations of Yamuna river water in pre and post refinery zone of Mathura during …
LUCKNOW: The agitating farmers of Mathura on Thursday took off their clothes and staged a march, clad in minimum possible clothes, demanding an increase in the compensation of their agricultural land been acquired by the government for the Expressway project. On the other hand, all major commercial segments including city …
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 …
At least 124 persons were killed in various accidents across Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday night when a duststorm, accompanied by a short spell of rain, lashed through several parts of the state, according to official sources. Deaths were reported from various districts including Mathura, Kanpur, Chitrakoot, Ferozabad, Farrukhabad, Sitapur, Etawah, …
