Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajendra Prasad Gupta Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. Counsel appearing for the state of Uttar Pradesh submitted that the action plan to prevent the discharge of untreated sewage and industrial effluents in river Ganga is ready …
The world's rivers are in crisis including in North America and Europe where governments have invested trillions of dollars to clean up freshwater supplies, a study showed Wednesday. "Threats to human water security and biological diversity are pandemic," Charles Vorosmarty of the City University of New York, co-lead author of …
With the prominent rivers continuing to flow above danger marks at several places, the government claimed to have shifted more than 8000 people to safer places in the last 24 hours. No fresh casulty was reported. However, the the Farrukhabad district administration sought the help of Army in relief and …
Lucknow: People of western UP heaved a sigh of relief as rainfall activity slowed down and water began to recede in some places on Thursday. But their ordeal is far from over as a fresh alert has been sounded for districts along the banks of the Ganga and Yamuna. The …
At least two million people ain northern India have been left homeless as the Ganges and other rivers, swollen by heavy monsoon rains, broke embankments and submerged villages, fields and religious sites. State officials said 500,000 hectares of agriculture land in top cane growing state Uttar Pradesh were flooded and …
Dehradun/Lucknow: Water levels at the Tehri dam rose menacingly, following incessant rain in the hills of Uttarakhand, and the release of waters from its massive reservoir to avoid breaches threatened flooding of nearly 1,200 villages downstream along the Ganga. But a threat of floods in Haridwar passed, with Tehri authorities …
Top BJP leaders L K Advani and Sushma Swaraj on Sunday spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram about the grave flood situation in the BJP-ruled state of Uttarakhand. Sources in the BJP said Uttarakhand CM Ramesh Pokhriyal
MUKESH BHARDWAJ Even AS the three proposed dams on the Upper Yamuna basin are yet to see the light of day, Haryana, an upper basin state, has suggested an umbrella organisation to oversee the proposed structures. It was after water released from the Hathnikund and Tajewala barrages in Haryana flooded …
Setting aside environmental concerns and ignoring the threat to one of the most fertile belts in India, Uttar Pradesh government is set to start work on the eight-lane expressway along the Upper Ganga Canal. The 147.8 km expressway will connect Greater Noida in Gautam Budh Nagar district and the Uttar …
THE three-member Group of Ministers (GoM), reviewing the construction of dams on the Ganga, have scrapped the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project in Uttarakhand. The August 20 decision comes after protests by socio-religious groups and environmentalists against the 600 MW project on the Bhagirathi, a Ganga tributary. They said the river …
This is how they did it THE DEAN PRANAB MUKHERJEE Union Finance Minister HE TOOK the call on scrapping dams across the upper reaches of the Ganga. In March, as head of the Group of Ministers on the project, he had agreed to the dam, as Rs 650 crore had …
Several plans for city sanitation have been prepared in the meeting of Munikireti Nagar Panchayat. These plans are aimed at facilitating civic sanitation in the Munikireti area to prevent solid waste and sewage from being dumped into the Ganga here. Addressing the gathering at the meeting held in the Panchayat …
Piqued over increase in cases of flurosis in Unnao district the state government has ordered a probe into the quality of water drawn from hand-pumps in Ganga Ghat. The decision was taken in a review meeting of the officials of the Urban Development and Environment departments which was presided over …
Ghaziabad: The heavy discharge of industrial effluents has severely affected aquatic fauna at the Ramsar site, set up in River Ganga in 165 km stretch from Bijnore to Narora in Uttar Pradesh. Ramsar sites are a tag for critical water bodies across the globe. Discharge of toxic wastes such as …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: The Central government is attempting to drive the States' fight against pollution with a series of carrot-and-stick measures, many announced on Tuesday at a meeting of Pollution Control Boards. While money will be doled out to States which take environmental concerns seriously, defaulting States could find …
Polluting industries along a 500-km stretch of the Ganga between Kannauj and Varanasi might soon face the axe. Minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday told the chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board and member-secretaries of state pollution control boards to take immediate action to …
The report by Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses is premised on the fact that India is facing a serious water resource problem and is expected to become 'water stressed' by 2025 and 'water scarce' by 2050. It raises fundamental questions about the forces driving water demand and the political …
Kanpur: Days after environment minister Jairam Ramesh expressed unhappiness over its inaction in cleaning the Ganges, the UP Pollution Control Board said it was working towards cleaning the river and had closed down 65 industrial units polluting it. Ramesh, who was here to participate in 'Ganga river basin management workshop' …
