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 …
Ethanol blending with petrol has resumed after more than a year. Last week, sale of blended petrol started in Bangalore, Mathura and parts of Gujarat. While blending will be gradually extended to the other parts of the country, the quantity of ethanol contracted so far is insufficient to continue the …
Tale of a highway. This is what a Rs.11,000 cr road looks like, with the blood of farmers on it THE TAJ Expressway, now known as the Yamuna Expressway, certainly lives up to its first name for its ambition and grandeur. Connecting Delhi with Agra, the 165 km, eight-lane highway …
LAND acquisition protests in Uttar Pradesh refused to die down even though the government claimed to have resolved the issue during the wee hours of Tuesday. The protests over the Yamuna Expressway, being built by the JP group, which started on Saturday and has since claimed four lives in Aligarh …
LUCKNOW: Metered water supply is going to be introduced in seven cities of Uttar Pradesh with the user charges being determined by the quantum of water used by the consumers. The system aims at checking the wastage of water. The seven cities are Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra, Varanasi, Allahabad, Meerut and …
A monitoring investigation has been carried out in selected areas of northern India, viz. Agra, Mathura, Firozabad and Bharatpur. It reveals that Noise Level Standards and Guidelines are notified in the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986 are yet to be compiled at almost all areas, particularly during night hours.
A deep breath, an upward thrust of the head and before you can blink Bali disappears into water, only his feet stick out for a brief moment. As an employee of the Mathura Municipality Bali was involved in cleaning the Yamuna during the 1980s. Out of job, he has now …
A damning SC verdict led to Mathura Refinery putting in place many green measures IN 1984, a writ petition filed in the I SC by environmental lawyer M.C. I Mehta named Mathura Refinery, a psu located in the Taj zone, along with other small industries and foundries for causing "acid …
The concept paper describes the problems of the city of Agra and the anxeityy of the Hon'ble Supreme Court articulated in the various orders passed in connection with the Writ Petition (Civil) No. 13381/84-M.C. Mehta Vs. Union of India & Others. The paper also goes on to describe the various …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India on Taj Mahal dated 30/12/1996 in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others. The judges noted that the Taj is threatened with deterioration and damage not only by the traditional causes of decay, but also by changing social …
To protect the treasured monument - Taj Mahal - from the possible effects of chemicals in air, the Government of India constituted a High Power Committee to oversee the implementation of the necessary air pollution control measures in Agra Mathura Region and an Expert Group to assist the Committee with …
The primary task of the Expert Group is to assist the High Power Committee who is to oversee the implementation of pollution control measures at Agra-Mathura Region, based on scientific and technical findings.
