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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding dumping of waste in a canal in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 29/05/2025

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 …

15,000 valuable trees to be ‘needlessly’ felled to widen Rishikesh-Uttarkashi road

Questions are being raised over the state government and the forest department sanctioning the felling of over 15,000 trees - like jacaranda, fir and gulmohur -- ostensibly for the widening of the Rishikesh-Uttarkashi road (leading up to Gangotri) which locals say is wide enough and does not really require any …

Ganga Damned

The government has planned 600 dams on the Ganga and its tributaries. So how can it be serious about saving the holy river, asks Brijesh Pandey Once regarded as amrit (nectar), a river that sustained all forms of life, the Ganga is now threated by the very civilisation it once …

Unsung baba

Swami Nigamananda. He had been fasting for almost four months to protest against illegal mining and stone-crushing along the Ganga near Haridwar before he died at Himalayan Hospital in Dehra Dun on June 13. EVEN as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders made a song and dance about Baba Ramdev's “fast …

Captive Ganga

IT is 6 p.m. A couple of Hindu priests and a few men and women wait at the Manikarnika Ghat on the banks of the Bhagirathi, as the Ganga is known in the pilgrim town of Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand. Their heads are turned anxiously in the direction of the river …

Captive Ganga

The Bhagirathi is made to run through a tunnel in Uttarkashi, evoking strong protests from environmentalists. IT is 6 p.m. A couple of Hindu priests and a few men and women wait at the Manikarnika Ghat on the banks of the Bhagirathi, as the Ganga is known in the pilgrim …

Debris danger

Rubble from the landslide that occurred 10 months ago on the Varunavat mountain in Uttarkashi threatens to swamp the town during this monsoon. Debris on the slope of the crumbling Varunavat mountain. Uttarkashi town is seen at the foothills. IN the first week of July, the worst fears of the …

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