Yamuna

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding waste disposal in Ghazipur drain, Delhi, 28/05/2025

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 …

State of pollution in the Yamuna

While the Delhi government had been debating on what needs to be done to clean the river, the pollution levels have only worsened. In its book Sewage Canal: How to Clean the Yamuna, published in 2007, the Centre for Science and Environment reported that the Delhi stretch of the river …

Review of the interceptor plan for the Yamuna

An analytical review of the interceptor plan for cleaning Yamuna. CSE has closely scrutinised the interceptor plan and found this hardware plan to be a complete waste of money. The river will continue to remain dead despite the massive investments planned during 2009-2012. he interceptor project is projected by the …

Mayas mega project irks Noida

Residents File PIL Against Memorial Megha Suri & Neha Lalchandani Noida: When the Mayawati government started building a wall along four adjacent parks next to the Yamuna riverbed opposite Sectors 14-A and 15-A early last year, residents had thought it was just meant to protect the area. The parks, however, …

Biodiversity body plans to park native flora, fauna at four new spots

New Delhi: Delhi is slated to get four new biodiversity parks dedicated solely to the city

Green row over 2010 complex

Members Allege DDA Not Sticking To Plan, Ruining Greenery TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Another Commonwealth Games project is in trouble over environmental concerns. Members of DDA

Potatoes can save the day for Agra

LUCKNOW: It is globally known for being the city where one of the seven wonders of the world, Taj is situated. But what has Agra to do with Aaloo (Potato)? A lot, according to a study conducted by the marketing department of Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L). The tuber, …

State may face shortage of sand, stones

Yamunanagar: People of the state are likely to face a shortage of sand, grit and stones for the next two months as the district administration has ordered the closure of mining in Yamuna and seasonal rivulets and work at 250 stone crushers has also come to a halt in the …

Save Yamuna crusaders write to Delhis L-G

Protest against proposal to create an artificial beach on the riverbed

Massive dam to fill leaking buckets

The city of Delhi gets a lot of rain every year, more than sufficient for its needs, but it does not use that rainwater. The city gets huge quantity of water from dams and rivers from long distances, equal to one of the highest quantity of water in the nation …

Delhi Jal Board missing deadlines

Augmentation of the existing capacity of sewerage networks in the Capital Smriti Kak Ramachandran NEW DELHI: Even as the Delhi Jal Board is gearing up to get its ambitious project to resuscitate the Yamuna by constructing interceptor sewers off the ground, work related to augmentation of the existing capacity of …

Delhi High Court quashes FIR in illegal mining case

Directs police to register a fresh case under Mines and Minerals Act, 1957 Staff Reporter

Farmers warn of stopping work on Yamuna Expressway

At a mahapanchayat held in Ronija village, farmers from about 30 villages have served one-week notice to Yamuna Expressway Authority on their seven-point demands. The farmers said if their demands were not met within a week, they would not allow the construction work on Yamuna Expressway to proceed. The mahapanchayat …

Land degradation mapping in the upper catchment of river Tons

A study on land degradation in the upper catchment of river Tons, a tributary of Yamuna river, in Uttarkashi district of the Uttarakhand state, was carried out using on-screen visual interpretation of IRS LISS-III + PAN merged data. The study area, which is largely mountainous, includes Govind Wildlife Sanctuary and …

Clean Yamuna project draws fire

NEW DELHI: The Rs.1,500-crore project to trap pollutants at 18 major drains falling into the Yamuna that was flagged off in the Capital this past Sunday has failed to impress activists fighting to save the river. Vinod Jain, founder of the non-government organisation Tapas, on whose petitions the Delhi High …

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