Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Officials of various departments in the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC), along with green activists, on Tuesday visited a stretch of the Godavari to check for sewage from nullahs released into the river. It was observed that at present, sewage from none of the 19 nullahs was being directly released into …
The newly constituted Task Force on Inter-Linking Rivers will look afresh at all the proposed links to evaluate their feasibility, particularly in maintaining a balance between environment and development. Links that are found unfeasible will be abandoned. Speaking exclusively to The Hindu , task force chairman B.N. Navalawala said the …
NASHIK: The National Green Tribunal, Western Zone, Pune on Tuesday gave an ultimatum of May 28 to the Trimbak Municipal Council to separate the Godavari water from sewage and install a biomethanation plant. A bench of Justice VR Kingaonkar and judicial member and expert Ajay Deshpande on Tuesday heard the …
Water In Beed Dams Down To 15% Of Capacity In pitch darkness at 3am, the village of Katchincholi empties out onto the bone-dry bed of the Godavari. Armed with as many pots as they can carry , the women start digging the gravel with their hands.Once a muddy pool of …
The issue of Polavaram - a multi - purpose irrigation project being set up on the Godavari River in Andhra Pradesh and spread across adjoining States - today rocked the Chhattisgarh Assembly, where the Congress members staged a walkout. The main Opposition party MLAs walked out of the House to …
Social activists have raised objections over the multi-crore Damanganga-Pinjal river linking project between the Maharashtra and Gujarat governments. The project recently received the Centre's approval. The acitivists said the state is already facing regional disputes over water sharing. Due to this project, Nashik, Ahmednagar and Marathwada would be losing around …
The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has accepted the action plan of the district collector on the usage of fly ash bricks. The tribunal bench comprising Justices VR Kingaonkar and Ajay Deshpande accepted the plan while hearing the application of Nashik Fly Bricks Association against the ministry …
Irked over high pollution level of Godavari and Shipra rivers, Shankaracharya of Puri Swami Adhokshyanada has shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding a plan for the purification of both rivers and a written assurance in this regard. The next Kumbh would be held on the banks …
Reliance Industries will relinquish its Krishna Godavari basin gas discovery block, KG-D3, mainly because of operational restrictions placed by the defence ministry. RIL, which had made four consecutive gas discoveries with close to 500 billion cubic feet of in-place reserves in block, proposed immediate relinquishment, its minority partner Hardy Oil …
The Panchavati division of the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Thursday collected three tonnes of 'nirmalya' (puja material) from the banks Godavari river after the Chhath Puja celebrations came to an end. "We had engaged 33 sanitary employees on the riverbanks for the clean-up act. The waste we collected will …
In view of the cyclone hurling towards the state, the government evacuated about 1.50 lakh people from 400 villages in 63 mandals from north coastal Andhra and two Godavari districts till late on Saturday night. They were shifted to 250 relief camps. Authorities have identified a total of 500 vulnerable …
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US, the Cabinet on Wednesday cleared five agreements with that country's government.These are for a global telescope project, on education, gas hydrates, clean energy and climate change. In the deal to be signed in gas hydrates, US and Indian scientists will …
Meeting held to review preparedness for Godavari Pushkaram Endowments Commissioner Y.V. Anuradha on Wednesday asked the West Godavari district administration to initiate measures to arrest the pollution of the Godavari river. Speaking at a review meeting, she highlighted the need for upkeep of the ‘holy’ ambience of the river and …
Rajahmundry: Water level in Godavari river is rising alarmingly causing inundation of several low-lying areas located along its course on either side, affecting hundreds of villagers in Godavari districts on Monday. Irrigation head works executive engineer and river conservator P.V. Tirupati Rao said that as the water level in the …
NASHIK: The action plan for a green Kumbh Mela that focuses on eliminating use of plastic, treating nirmalya and other bio-degradable waste, banning washing in the Godavari and an aggressive awareness drive was officially released on Saturday. The city mayor and the revenue commissioner released the plan at a function …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Sukdeo Kolpe & Others Vs M/s Kopargoan Sah. Sakhar Karkhana Ltd. dated 30/07/2014 regarding land pollution caused by sugar factories as a result of discharge of untreated effluents, Taluka Kopargoan, District Ahmednagar, Maharashtra.
Hyderabad: A promising exploration in the Bantumilli south field for hydrocarbons by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in Deyyaladibba, off Krishna Godavari basin, seems to be turning out into a goldmine for the energy major. ONGC has found more gas than what had it initially anticipated. The gas …
Khammam: Adivasis to be affected by the Polavaram irrigation project are planning a long term agitation. They have chalked out a strategy to highlight the issue at the national level by organising human chains, bandhs, rasta rokos, hunger strike and other forms of protests. They want to involve environment and …
Opposition Congress and BJP in Odisha today alleged that BJD government lacked adequate information on the controversial Polavaram project and demanded a white paper on it. "We are totally in the dark as to how the Polavaram project will affect the state. We do not exactly know how much land …
