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 …
Response affidavit on behalf of Kumaon Commissioner, Nainital in the matter of Hemant Singh Gonia Vs State of Uttarakhand & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to contamination of Naini lake from the side of Naina temple. The Nainital Urban Sewerage Scheme under Nainital district is under Uttarakhand Jal Sansthan, …
The Uttarakhand High Court directed the Nagarpalika, Nainital to survey the stray dogs within the town and to identify and remove only the aggressive dogs within the pack and remove them and place them in dog pound. "A balance has to struck between the rights of the stray dogs on …
NAINITAL: In yet another effort to preserve the ecological integrity of Naini Lake and Nainital town, National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday directed local authorities to submit a factual and action taken report within two months on the deteriorating water body, and the town concerning landslides, water scarcity and breach …
Mussoorie/Nainital: As Shimla grapples with extreme water woes leading to a situation where residents are telling tourists to stay away, locals in Mussoorie and Nainital say their towns, too, could be heading for a Shimla-like condition if steps are not taken soon. According to Jal Sansthan officials in Mussoorie, the …
NAINITAL: A water rationing system implemented in January to save Naini lake – the main source of water for Nainital – has left around 600 families in the lake town almost without water. Ever since the measure was implemented after a drastic dip was registered in Naini lake’s levels, the …
NAINITAL: A forest fire engulfed 10 acres of Tirachhakhet in Bhowali, 7 km from Nainital town, on Tuesday, triggering panic as flames reached dangerously close to about a dozen houses in the area. With buckets in hand and water pipes in place, men, women and even children struggled for six …
Nainital: The Supreme Court has stayed Uttarakhand high court’s order banning any construction within a radius of 2 km from major lakes in Nainital, including Naini lake. The apex court’s order on Monday drew mixed reactions from various quarters. While environmentalists said that the stay would allow illegal construction near …
NAINITAL: As the sun moves through the panoramic hills that surround the Naini lake each morning, a fleet of boats in all shades of colour with excited tourists crouching in tiny spaces becomes a common sight. Not much has changed in the scene since 1970s except that today, much to …
Nainital: As the sun moves through the panoramic hills that surround the Naini lake each morning, a fleet of boats in all shades of colour with excited tourists crouching in tiny spaces becomes a common sight. Not much has changed in the scene since 1970s except that today, much to …
NAINITAL: Ajay Singh Rawat (68), a noted environmentalist, shares most of the credit in his crusade to save Naini lake from human activities, as he continues his legal battle. Reminiscing about the beginning of the struggle, he says, "It was the Supreme Court's intervention in 1995, followed by that of …
The use of reflective surfaces offers one low-cost solution for reducing solar loading to urban environments and the Earth that should be considered as part of sustainable urban design. Here, we characterize the radiative benefits, i.e. the additional shortwave radiation leaving the atmosphere, from the installation of highly reflective 'cool' …
On February 26, 2013, a division bench of the Uttarakhand High Court in Nainital ordered the removal of structures built illegally within 200 metres of the Ganga embankment. Although pertaining only to a small section of the river controlled by the Haridwar Development Authority, Chief Justice Barin Ghosh and Justice …
The Union Government on Thursday signed an agreement for a $100-million loan with Asian Development Bank (ADB) as the second tranche of Uttarakhand’s urban sector development investment programme. According to an official release here, the loan assistance will support rehabilitation and expansion of basic urban infrastructure in five major urban …
After a series of review meetings, the government has found the performance of these companies to be ‘not satisfactory’ The solid waste management (SWM) projects in Uttarakhand under the public private partnership (PPP) are not yielding satisfactory results despite a series of review meetings by top government officials. Under the …
Trophic State Index (TSI) of Nainital Lake has been determined using secchi disk transparency as well as using Landsat 7 ETM bands. Various interpolation techniques have been tested and the best one has been applied to prepare the water quality images of Nainital Lake.
Three lakes (Nainital, Sattal and Naukuchiatal) in the Kumaun Himalayan region were investigated for total organic carbon and nitrogen, their atomic ratios and isotopic composition in their sediments. These geochemical proxies measured in 34-45 cm long cores indicate that organic matter preserved in the lake sediments is primarily derived from …
Existence of Lake Nainital has been a matter of debate in the last two decades, because it is the only source of drinking water to Nainital city, a famous tourist resort in northern India. In the tectonically active lake basin, naturally occurring landslides have genered sediments in huge amount. In …
