Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents Welfare Association Savita Vihar Vs Irrigation & Flood Control Department & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant raised the grievance against throwing of construction debris and sewage obstruction in the Ghazipur drain. According to the applicant this drain flows behind …
There is a strong possibility that Delhi's potable water has got contaminated with toxic dyes after the immersion of idols on Durga Puja last week and earlier during the Ganesh festival. "Many idols are immersed upstream in the Wazirabad area, from where Delhi gets its drinking water supply, and water …
New Delhi: After Durga was immersed with festive fervour, devotees bent their heads reverentially for the sprinkling of ‘holy water’. But they were in fact breathing stench and getting sprayed with drain water. The Yamuna seemed like a dirty nullah choked and frothing with filth and scum. And what’s shocking, …
New Delhi: As Durga idols slowly sank into the Yamuna, nostalgia hung heavy and so was an overbearing stench over the ghats. The muddy, smelly waters along the Kalindi Kunj ghat were choked as hundreds of idols were hauled up by cranes and immersed. Plastic bottles, packets, thermocol and ornaments …
New Delhi: Another proposal to usurp a substantial part of the Yamuna floodplain has raised the hackles of environmentalists. An RTI query has revealed Noida Authority is planning to build an embankment on the left bank of the Yamuna, stretching from NH-24 to the Chilla Regulator. While the proposal to …
New Delhi: More projects of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation are meeting with resistance from environmentalists. The Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan has lodged a complaint with the lieutenant-governor against two bridges that DMRC has proposed over the Yamuna. It has alleged that though tenders have been invited for the projects, no formal …
Activists of the Delhi State Council of the Communist Party of India took out a protest march in the Capital on Thursday against the Delhi Government's proposed move to privatise water resources and its distribution. After gathering at Ambedkar Bhawan on Rani Jhansi Road, the activists marched towards the Delhi …
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will build two more bridges across the river Yamuna as part of its Phase- III project, which will be part of the Mukundpur to Yamuna Vihar and Janakpuri to Kalindi Kunj corridors. Bids invited The Delhi Metro has invited bids for construction of the two …
A river regulation zone (RRZ) notification should be top priority for the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to stop annual flooding of rivers in the sub-continent. Manoj Misra, convenor of the Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan, has written to environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan highlighting the devastating floods in Mahanadi river system …
Immersed idols and other pollutants block filters of two water treatment plants A day after idols of Lord Ganesha were immersed in the Yamuna, water production at two of the Capital's water treatment plants had to be scaled down on account of pollutants floating in the waters. According to Delhi …
When the state forest department embarked on a project to make water hyacinth an economic resource, it did not know that with this weed, it was not only sowing seeds of women empowerment and clean ecology but also setting a milestone. Seeing the successful run of Punjab’s project of converting …
Rivers continue to overflow in Uttar Pradesh though rain eases Rainfall eased in most parts of North India on Thursday even as major rivers continued to overflow at several places in Uttar Pradesh where two persons were drowned while an equal number were killed in Rajasthan when their vehicle was …
LUCKNOW: Flood situation on Thursday remained grim in Uttar Pradesh with a majority of the rivers, essentially in east and south-east Uttar Pradesh, flowing above the danger mark. According to the state government as many as 25 districts were declared flood-affected, while thousands of hectares of agricultural land was reported …
National Highways leading to Badrinath, Kedarnath and Gangotri hit by landslips Rains triggered landslips in Uttarakhand and claimed two lives in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday as most parts of the northern region remained under the influence of monsoon. The national highways leading to Badrinath, Kedarnath and Gangotri were hit by …
Fears of a heavy flood are back to haunt the Capital as a large quantum of water released from Haryana is expected to reach the city over the next 40 hours. The water level in the rain-fed Yamuna has been rising over the past 48 hours and has come close …
Many major rivers on the rise; landslides halt Char Dham Yatra Incessant rain continued its killing spree in North and Eastern India on Tuesday claiming 29 more lives even as the threat of floods looms large over the national Capital with the Yamuna on the rise. Twelve people died in …
Delhi Jal Board complains to Upper Yamuna River Board The Delhi Jal Board has shot off a letter to the Upper Yamuna River Board complaining that it is not receiving its full share of water from Haryana. The Jal Board has also sought a meeting on the issue of Haryana …
Greater Noida: With the Noida land acquisition storm nearly blown over, and farmer-Authority talks in Noida Extension limping along towards the August 12 court-given deadline, the focus of the land acquisition crisis has now shifted to Yamuna Expressway. Monday dealt a double blow to Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) …
Greater Noida: The land acquisition fires are spreading from Noida Extension to Noida and now to newer areas in the vicinity. The farmers’ agitation acquired a new dimension on Sunday when residents from villages along the expressway threatened to launch an agitation. The farmers held a panchayat and put forth …
While large-scale construction activities have gone on in its active flood plains, river Yamuna is facing further encroachment as part of the upcoming phase-III projects of Delhi Metro. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will be constructing two train maintenance depots in the flood plains of Yamuna at Mayur Vihar …
Community initiative tackles perennial problem of groundwater salinity In a rare community-driven initiative, the residents of a nondescript village near Deeg in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan have solved the perennial problem of groundwater salinity by laying a one-km cement pipeline to get the Yamuna river waters from a feeder canal …
