Order of the High Court of Gujarat in the matter of Samsuddin Jainulabiddin Shaikh & Others Vs The State of Gujarat & Others dated 06/05/2025. A petition was filed by 58 people who are residing near Chandola lake, Ahmedabad. The petitioners have constructed hutments along the periphery of Chandola lake. …
Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Finally, the new avatar of Kankaria lakefront is legal. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has given a letter of approval to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) for construction carried at Kankaria Lake Front Development Project (KLFD). Earlier, ASI had questioned AMC for not taking the …
Fisheries department claims that time frame was not indicated More than a lakh dead fish have surfaced in the Jakkur lake in the City over the past two days, thanks to cleaning operation launched by Bangalore Development Authority (BDA). The numbers in the
Human activities have more than doubled the amount of nitrogen(N) circulating in the biosphere. One major pathway of thisanthropogenic N input into ecosystems has been increased regionaldeposition from the atmosphere. Here we show that atmosphericN deposition increased the stoichiometric ratio of N and phosphorus(P) in lakes in Norway, Sweden, and …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor work on the peripheral road of Gottigere in Bangalore City. The apex court has stayed the High Court order in this regard.
The Arctic is currently undergoing dramatic environmental transformations, but it remains largely unknown how these changes compare with long-term natural variability. Here we present a lake sediment sequence from the Canadian Arctic that records warm periods of the past 200,000 years, including the 20th century. This record provides a perspective …
Deep in the Himalayas, the disappearance of glaciers is threatening the kingdom of Bhutan. Anjali Nayar trekked through the mountains to see how the country is adapting to a warming world.
BHUBANESWAR: An integrated management plan of Chilika lagoon is now ready. The Wetland International South Asia (WISA) was commissioned by the Ramsar Convention to prepare a management plan to showcase the brackish water lake which was listed on Montreux Record and used to promote measures to correct changes in ecological …
Three films from North East, including two from Manipur, have been nominated for screening at the prestigious 5th CMS Vatavaran, Environment and Wildlife Film Festival, 2009 to be held at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi from October 27 to 31 under the theme Climate Change and Sustainable Technologies. The two …
Sept. 23: The Kolleru lake restoration plan is in doldrums as the state has no money to pay for compensation and rehabilitation worth Rs 650 crore. The Centre has already clarified to the state they can neither give financial assistance nor reduce the sanctuary area from Cantour 5 to Cantour …
A women's organisation called Maitri has finally decided to take measures to preserve the famous Naini Lake, located in the middle of Nainital in Uttarakhand. The lake, which is ensconced in the centre of the mountains in Nainital, has become highly polluted over the years and is also shrinking. The …
R. Krishnamoorthy Open defecation, dumping of waste have caused hygiene problems Bad condition: A view of Chettiyeri lake, which was a drinking water source for Ariyalur sometime ago. ARIYALUR: Once the main source of drinking water for residents of Ariyalur town, the Chettiyeri lake is in a state of utter …
Thiruvananthapuram: Bacterial contamination poses a serious threat to the water quality in four major lakes in the State, a study conducted by the Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), Kozhikode, has found. Presenting the findings of the study at the Kerala Environment Congress 2009 held here last month, …
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday issued notices to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), the state government and Archeological Survey of India (ASI) over entry fees being charged at the Kankaria lakefront and construction around the ASI-protected inlets to the lake. Acting on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by …
Delhi government makes a lake and a marshland disappear the Delhi government appears to be determined to construct buildings on lakes instead of restoring them. On August 17, the government filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court saying the Mayapuri lake and Jehangirpuri marshland are not waterbodies and can …
food security Ethiopia defends land grab Ethiopia, where 20 per cent of the people are in urgent need of food aid, defended its plan to offer 2.7 million hectares (ha) cultivable land to foreign companies.
Navelim villagers on Sunday demanded the intervention of the government to save the once picturesque Xelpem lake polluted by the discharge of sewage waters from neighbouring Margao city. Agitated villagers sought to know why the government has been going slow in working out a solution to the problem despite the …
Sept 12: A three-member committee appointed by the Andhra Pradesh High Court to assess the removal of encroachments in Kolleru lake informed the apex court that the encroachments are yet to be cleared and water is spread in the lake in 77,000 acres as against 2.5 lakh acres. According to …
