Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Bangladesh and India on Saturday reiterated their commitment to finalisation of an interim agreement for sharing the waters of the Teesta and Feni rivers, reports UNB. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj reached the decision at the third meeting of the India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission …
Angola and southern neighbor Namibia signed an accord to manage the Cuvelai river basin whose waters are shared by the two southwest African countries, according to state-controlled Jornal de Angola. Two-thirds of the 150,000-square-kilometer (58,000 square mile) watershed is in Namibia, a land marked by the Kalahari desert that’s one …
Concerned over the pollution from slag produced by iron and steel units, the National Green Tribunal today directed the authorities to prepare a restoration plan for Sigaddi river near Jasodhapur Industrial Area in Kotdwar district of Uttarakhand. The Tribunal's order came after the petitioner, Shiv Prasad Dabral, alleged that slag, …
Matra Sadan founder Swami Shivanand today cornered the Uttarakhand government’s lackadaisical attitude towards quarrying issue by citing a Nainital High Court judgment, wherein the court directed the government to review its policy regarding quarrying and stone-crushing operations in Uttarakhand. Speaking to mediapersons here today at Matra Sadan ashram,5 kms from …
The convenor of Tawi Andolan, Advocate Chander Mohan Sharma, has called for immediate ban on all sorts of construction or repair of the illegally constructed houses and cattle sheds constructed in and on the sides of river Tawi at Bikram Chowk Jammu. While addressing a gathering of Tawi Andolan activists, …
With the rising price of river sand, the illegal sand-mining lobbies have started turning their attention once again to the poorly guarded coastlines in rural Kozhikode. People attached to a coastal vigilance committee from Chombal say that the entire coastline in their region is currently under the hold of illegal …
Over 20k Evacuated As Vishwamitri Continues To Overflow The menacing Vishwamitri brimmed over in Vadodara, leaving several areas of the city in waist-deep water. Over 20,000 persons were evacuated to safer locations across the district due to the flash floods. While the city and district hardly received any rainfall since …
Despite a massive loss of life and property by floods in Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir, people continue to raise structures along the banks of rivers in the state. In Dharamsala, a large number of structures have been raised on the banks of rivulets. These suffer destruction during monsoon. The …
Massive destruction of residential structures along the Tawi, Chenab and Ujj rivers in the Jammu region has once again brought to focus illegal constructions and encroachments on the river banks by people and land mafia in J&K; in the past few decades. Corrupt officials and political pressure have forced the …
Environmentalists and villagers are questioning the operation of a stone crusher on the banks of the Dhauli Ganga river by the company implementing the 520 MW Tapovan Vishnugad hydro electric project in Chamoli district. Activists state that a stone crusher cannot be set up and operated within 200 metres of …
Seventy members of a marriage party were feared dead after the bus in which they were travelling was swept away in a flash flood in Nowshera tehsil of Rajouri district today. Sources said the bus, which was on its way from Bhata village to Lam, overturned after it got stuck …
Thousands of people from 10 villages around Ugamedi village in Bhavnagar district were all smiles on Tuesday. The once parched Sonal river was flowing bank to bank. After almost two years of hard work, the project to link two rivers - Keri and Sonal - taken up by Surat-based diamond …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT), western zone bench in Pune declared any construction within the blue floodline area along the riverbeds, sanctioned under a circular issued by the water resources department, as illegal. On August 8, the water resources department had issued the circular authorizing all regional chief engineers …
The State Pollution Control Board (PCB) will soon launch a probe into the charges that a Kochi metro contractor discharged polymer waste into the Chambakara river. “The PCB office in Kochi has been directed to submit a preliminary inquiry report in the next couple of days,” said K. Sajeevan, PCB …
BSF officer, Army jawan among dead; NH blocked for 8 hours Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain in Jammu & Kashmir killed seven persons, including a BSF officer and an Army jawan, on Wednesday. Over two dozen villages have been flooded in the Jammu region and authorities have …
Sand mining without the state consent is a violation of the MMDR Act, 1957 said Supreme Court in this 71-pages landmark judgement by the bench consisting of Justice M.Y. Eqbal and Pinaki Chandra Ghose. The violations were observed to be criminal under Indian Penal Code (IPC). Judgement of the Supreme …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of George Berretta & Others Vs State of Goa & Others dated 04/09/2014 regarding the construction of a bridge over river Sal connecting Benaulim village and Sinquetim at Navelim village at Salcete undertaken as project of State …
Punjab Agriculture Minister Tota Singh (SAD) and Industries Minister Madan Mohan Mittal (BJP) were reportedly at daggers drawn while the new mining policy was being discussed during the Cabinet meeting today. The verbal duel between the two ministers ended only after the intervention of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who …
City-based environmental activists and experts have said that recommendations of the Madhav Gadgil committee on protecting an area of 60,000 sq km in the Western Ghats are more important than the ones made by the K Kasturirangan panel. Both the committees were formed during the tenure of United Progressive Alliance …
The National Green Tribunal has stated that apparently “the laws were thrown to the winds” for construction of flood protection wall along the Song river in the Motichur range of the Rajaji National Park to protect the Gohri Mafi village from the threat of flood. Hearing on an application filed …
