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 …
Conservation, metering, end-use languish under deficit-ridden Board. Delhi gets more water than Paris, according to a report of the Planning Commission. If the national average water supply for cities is 140 litres per capita, Delhiites guzzle 240 litres per capita. But in certain parts of Delhi, like the south, and …
The Union Forest and Environment ministry has given a go ahead for construction of Yamuna Expressway after state government promised to plant and maintain 10,600 trees in next one year along the proposed Expressway. A highly placed source told The Pioneer here on Thursday that the Union Forest ministry has …
Canada has offered eco-friendly technologies to clean and conserve holy Yamuna river in Delhi, that provides drinking water to about 57 million people in the country. River Yamuna. AP"Canada would like an opportunity to demonstrate before 2010 Commonwealth Games begins in Delhi how its technology could change the outlook of …
First 6,000 Litres No Longer Free TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Get ready to pay more for water in the new year. From being the city with the lowest water tariff, Delhi is set to charge the highest (Rs 470) among the four metros for households using up more than …
Vikram Soni et al. explain a scheme for large-scale natural water storage in the Yamuna floodplains near Delhi. If the water is made to percolate in the aquifer by construction of several barrages and tens of kilometres of bunds, then it cannot be called a
In 15 years, only seven bridges constructed over the river. Thames has 33 bridges on a 20-km stretch Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN New Delhi: Every morning Satpal Dogra, an MNC executive, spends 45 minutes to an hour negotiating traffic on the packed ITO bridge to reach his office in …
To facilitate the Rs 334 crore UP link road project between NH-24 and Noida border, another round of deforestation is on the anvil. A total of about 700 trees will be cut down as part of this drive. Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna is reported to have given his green signal …
Cashing on the exchange of words between Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh and Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Yamuna, the Leader of Opposition VK Malhotra lashed out at Delhi government on Friday. Jairam Ramesh, he said, has
NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh on Thursday criticised the Delhi Government for its failure to treat the sewage that has been flowing into the Yamuna and polluting the river. Speaking at a function organised by the Delhi Government to launch
CM WANTS DELHI GOVERNMENT'S SHARE IN NCR TOLL TAX COLLECTION Ms Dikshit said that it was the Delhi government which took the initiative to buy CNG-run buses and set the entire apparatus in place Union minister for forest and environment Jairam Ramesh was on Thursday snubbed by Delhi chief minister …
Ahead of the Commonwealth Games, the Noida Authority officials are planning to clean up the streets and drains to give a completely fresh look to foreign visitors. In its master plan to overhaul the conditions of existing drains which have been the cause for many residents raising complaints of foul …
New Delhi: Not only were the large scale immersions on the occasion of Dashmi on Monday detrimental to the river, they have also ensured that large parts of Delhi do not get water supply for almost five days. Production at the 200 million gallons per day (MGD) Haiderpur water treatment …
Silver papier-mache decorations, bamboo frames and plastic bags rippling on frothing waters. Despite calls from green activists, the scene at the river Yamuna here was that of a toxic harvest after hundreds of idols of goddess Durga were immersed in it at the end of the Durga Puja festival. Over …
As hundreds of idols of Goddess Durga hit the Yamuna river today as part of immersion rituals, green activists had reason to breathe easy. Unlike earlier, many idols were made of natural colours and environment friendly clay! Several organisers of Durga Puja across Delhi and national capital region (NCR) ensured …
The government failed yet again to provide Delhiites with special enclosures for immersions this Dussehra and, consequently, the river was ravaged with hundreds of idols and tonnes of pooja samagri and flowers. Delhi Pollution Control Board had released a list of 13 spots where immersions could be carried out but …
The already highly polluted Yamuna faces a fresh threat of toxic elements during Navaratra festival when religious articles are immersed in the river as the government has not so far earmarked separate enclosures for dumping the materials as directed by the Delhi High Court. In absence of alternative arrangements, people …
Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna plans to develop the 22-kilometre stretch of the riverbanks in Delhi as a biodiversity zone, Newsline has learnt. This puts to rest apprehensions of real estate development on the Yamuna floodplains, especially after the Commonwealth Games Village got a go-ahead from the Supreme Court recently. According …
The already highly polluted Yamuna faces a fresh threat of toxic elements during Navaratra festival when religious articles are immersed in the river. The polluted waters of River YamunaThe government has not so far earmarked separate enclosures for dumping the materials as directed by the Delhi High Court. In absence …
