Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The district administration will launch a drive to check the use of polythene bags and plastic around Har-ki-Pauri and Ganga ghats in Haridwar as the National Green Tribunal (NGT) is getting stern over the issue. The drive has been undertaken occasionally in the past from the mela zone of Har-ki-Pauri …
Days after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed Delhi government to clean and restore all natural water bodies in the city, an environment activist has moved the green panel seeking its intervention to revive water bodies in the Dwarka sub-city here. The activist has sought directions for cleaning and reviving …
Bhopal: A proposed survey of the full tank level (FTL) of the Upper Lake that would also zero in on illegal encroachments with 50 metres of the lake is yet to take off. Five days after district collector Nishant Warwade summoned the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) over survey of Upper …
"The government is not planning to hike bus fares as of now. We are also considering to give concession for students up to Class XII in the KSRTC buses," he added. THRISSUR: The National Green Tribunal's (NGT) order banning diesel vehicles which are more than 10 years old in the …
Kochi: The Vadavucode Puthencruz panchayat, where the Brahmapuram waste treatment plant falls, has filed an affidavit before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that the corporation did not intend to operate the solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram. Stating that a wetland and three rivers (Kadambrayar, Chitrapuzha and Kozhichirathodu) were being …
A month after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) passed an order redefining the buffer zones of lakes and the feeder canals (Rajakaluves), the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike council discussed the NGT order and the pathetic state of lakes and their feeder canals on Thursday. Raising the matter in the council, …
GUWAHATI: The ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) has asked the Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) to conduct the study on black-necked crane habitat, located on the site for the proposed 780 MW Nyamjang Chhu hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang district, without any stipulated time frame. …
Jaipur: In absence of environmental clearances (EC) for 25,000 mines operating in Rajasthan, the sector is facing a bleak future. With no respite from the courts, it is unlikely that government would be able to grant EC to all of them even in next one decade. The process of applying …
Union minister for road transport and highways, Nitin Gadkari has promised central assistance to Kerala in developing energy efficient vehicles by exploring the possibilities of Lithium ion battery based research work going on in ISRO in Thiruvananthapuram. Gadkari made the promise and suggested the state to start using alternative energy …
Jaipur: A day after granting permission to 6,600 mines for continuing their activities till July 5, vacation bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) has rolled back its decision on Tuesday. Case will now be taken up by the regular bench of NGT. Fervour that spread among the mine owners proved …
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has set aside a 2014 decision of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Pune, thereby bringing partial relief for developers of an upscale skyscraper at Oshiwara, where several top Bollywood personalities have purchased flats. The Tribunal had held that a challenge by an environmental activist to …
Jaipur: National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday provided relief to more than 6,000 mine owners by giving them relaxation to continue mining till July 5. The benefit is given to those who have been issued 'term of reference' by the state environment impact assessment authority (SEIAA). After instructing all the …
To Issue Notification To Create 500m Shield The Haryana government on Monday announced it would issue a formal notification demarcating Mangar Bani as a no-construction area. The notification will throw a protective shield around the sacred grove in the Aravalis whose preservation environmentalists have waged a long battle for. CM …
The Union government has agreed to form committees to suggest measures to mitigate the environmental fallout of vehicular pollution in the country, according to Transport Minister A.K. Saseendran. The committees will help the States and the Centre strike a balance between their transport and environmental requirements. NGT decision Mr. Saseendran …
The green panel says that the bench has clarified that the new vehicles will solely be used for transportation of waste to dumping sites The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Delhi government to register two new diesel vehicles which are conforming to BS-IV norms and would be used …
The government will explore all legal steps to overcome the situation arising out of the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) Kochi special circuit bench’s curbs on diesel vehicles, Minister for Transport A.K. Saseendran has said. Presiding over a meeting of owners of stage carriers, lorries, trucks, tankers and other vehicles here …
The National Green Tribunal has slammed the Haryana government over illegal sand mining and extraction of minerals on the floodplains of Yamuna in the state and directed it to submit a report on the violations and action it has taken to check them. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice …
Bengaluru: The legislature committee probing lake encroachments has directed civic agencies to temporarily stop construction in the vicinity of waterbodies. The move could rattle site owners, homebuyers and builders whose properties are located near lakes. The panel led by K B Koliwad which met on Wednesday has ordered revenue officials …
Direction came during the hearing of a plea by NGO Friends when it was alleged that Delhi residents were not getting potable water With complaints that potable water was not being supplied to Delhi residents forcing them to install Reverse Osmosis (RO) filters, the National Green Tribunal has directed the …
JAIPUR: Congress state president Sachin Pilot has blamed the Vasundhara Raje-government for closing down of more than 20,000 mines in the state for want of environmental clearances (ECs). Thousands of mines workers have been rendered jobless because of the state government's 'over smartness', Pilot has said. Last year the mine …
