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 …
Debate in Rajya Sabha on Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2014. The Minister of Home Affairs Shri Raj Nath Singh informed Rajya Sabha that " Rajya Sabha had passed the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill on 20th February. The Rajya Sabha had passed the Bill without any amendments. The Bill received …
NASHIK: Around 200 citizens came together on Saturday evening to form a human chain from Tapovan to Ramkund in protest against the concreting of the ghats of the Godavari. The movement was initiated by environmental activist Shekhar Gaikwad. A stretch of the 1.2-km and 20-metre wide ghat from Tapovan to …
The district court on Saturday interrogated Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) regional officer S Fule, while hearing a criminal case related to the pollution of Godavari filed by activist Rajesh Pandit. The case has been filed under section 431 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against former municipal commissioner Sanjay …
Benefits of interlinking of rivers are in the areas of irrigation, drought and flood prevention, hydropower generation, conversion of wastelands to cultivable lands, better groundwater resources and so on. Areas of concern include ecological issues, deforestation, submergence of habitable or reserved lands, displacement of people and their rehabilitation. But, with …
NASHIK: City-based environmental group, 'AplaParyavaran - NashikSamuh', has threatened to organize a human chain agitation if the administration fails to stall the idea of constructing new bathing ghats along the Godavari river for the Kumbhmela. The group has also urged city MP Hemant Godse and district guardian minister Chhagan Bhujbal …
HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh assembly urged the Centre to take steps to complete the Polavaram project in three years and bring about a legislation replacing the ordinance to transfer to AP all villages that are expected to get submerged in the backwaters of the project. Chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu …
PUNE: Maharashtra has missed the bus as far as the proposed national river-linking project is concerned, but the state should throw its weight behind the Ganga-Cauvery link as it may benefit its citizens, said engineering consultant R C Mahulkar here on Sunday. "The river-linking project has been on hold for …
* K Chandrashekar Rao takes oath as maiden CM * 11-member Cabinet inducted After leading the statehood movement for 13 years, Telangana Rashtra Samithi founder president Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (60) was today sworn in as the first Chief Minister of the new state of Telangana amidst massive celebrations. As Telangana …
In a bid to hasten pending irrigation projects in the Krishna and Cauvery river basins, the Karnataka government has decided to hold consultations with legal experts next month. Fali Nariman, Karnataka’s counsel in the Supreme Court in the Cauvery case, will be visiting the city on June 2 and hold …
Vijayawada: Members of the Polavaram Sadhana Samiti and leaders of several farmers’ associations demanded the merger of the entire Bhadrachalam division in the Andhra region to end the dispute between the two states over the Polavaram project. The argument being that rehabilitation would be made easier with the merger. Welcoming …
Farmers in Erode district, where water shortage for cultivation keeps recurring, are pinning their hopes on the sincerity of the new BJP Government at the Centre to implement the river-linking project. A National Perspective Plan for inter basin transfer of water under two components—14 links under Himalayan component and 16 …
The state government has decided to move the Supreme Court (SC), challenging a recent decision of Union cabinet to set up an autonomous Polavaram Project Authority (PPA) for execution of the controversial Polavaram multi-purpose project on the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh. "We are in the process of consulting lawyers. Within …
Hyderabad: Rajendra Singh, the “Water Man of India”, is currently on a parikrama of the Godavari river to make it pollution free. The river that flows through five states, is degrading by the day, and Mr Singh has been protesting against organising any form of gatherings or kumbhs on the …
The high-power committee appointed by the Bombay High Court on March 7 on river pollution conducted a ground survey of the Godavari river from Someshwar to Dasak on Wednesday. Its observations and likely solutions will be discussed on Thursday. The committee was formed during the hearing of public interest litigation …
The Central government must take all steps, including resolving decades old disputes with neighbouring States on water sharing, to improve irrigation facilities and drinking water and supply of water to the industries in north coastal Andhra region, the Forum for Action Research and Policy Studies (FARPA) said. Significance of north …
Hyderabad: While the Krishna-Godavari offshore has already been identified as having shale gas potential, recent geological surveys have shown a larger tract of the Godavari-Pranahita basin to have significant shale gas potential. Scientists say that surveys in pockets of the basin has shown that it is a prospective shale gas …
River Has Only 30% Flow Even In Monsoon A recent scientific study has established the need to maintain at least 50% to 60% of the total monsoon flow into a river throughout the year for transporting river sediment, biodiversity balance and preventing algal choking . The study found that Yamuna’s …
The Musiri taluk unit of the Bharathiya Kisan Sangam has resolved to support the political party which promises to link all southern rivers and waive all crop loans until the project is executed. A resolution adopted at the general body of the Musiri taluk unit of the association held at …
ONGC is turning focus on its deep water block KG-DWN-98/2 in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin, as the state-run explorer reckons there could be more hydrocarbon reserves in about 11 discoveries in the block, than what has already been found. ONGC, sources said, has sought permission to drill more appraisal …
Mumbai: Every Indian has a fundamental right to live in a pollution-fee environment and at the same time every citizen has a fundamental duty to protect and conserve nature, the Bombay high court has said. Hearing a public interest litigation to save Godavari river in Nashik—considered to be sacred, a …
