Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Paramjeet Singh Kalsi V/s MoEF and Ors. dated 15/05/2015 regarding environmental degradation due to illegal sand mining, with the use of heavy machinery in village Rajola, Tq. Kuhi, District Nagpur, Maharashtra. The Applicant claims that the …
The government has asked the Supreme Court for six months to undertake a complete assessment of the feasibility of allowing construction of six new hydropower projects in Uttarakhand. The environment ministry has said that it will file a fresh affidavit at that time. Speaking to ET, the government's lawyer ADN …
Nowadays, aquatic organisms are used as bio-indicators to assess ecological water quality in western regions, but have hardly been used in an Iranian context. We, therefore, evaluated the suitability of several indices to assess the water quality for an Iranian case study. Original Source
The Centre has set up a task force to look into various contentious issues relating to inter-linking of rivers. Role of this panel of experts will be to forge a consensus among states that are not on the same page over the plan to link rivers across the country. The …
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to stress on the need for achieving a balance between development and environmental conservation, companies involved in construction of hydro electricity projects in Uttarakhand continue to flout norms to the detriment of the environment. One such company— the Hindustan Construction company working on the …
At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is stressing on efforts to clean the Ganga river and ensure its free flow, companies involved in hydro power projects in Uttarakhand continue to flout regulations to the detriment of the cleaning project. The Dhauliganga river in Chamoli district is one of …
Goa's fragile and already-stressed environment is under serious threat with the scale of destruction only increasing as time passes by. As events unfolding during the year 2014 have shown, a sizeable part of the damage is being caused by development for housing and some government projects being pursued without proper …
Seeks report from Rohtak Divisional Commissioner, Karnal DC Just a month after the Haryana Government was told to look into land grab and illegal mining along the banks of the Yamuna in Karnal district, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has asserted that collusion between authorities concerned and “affluent persons” …
Call to abandon river linking proposal The Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad has called upon the Centre to abandon the controversial Pampa-Achenkovil-Vaipar Link Project which would spell doom to Central Kerala. The ecological committee of KSSP that met here on Tuesday said that the proposed river linking scheme was totally unscientific …
Government today said it is reviewing some of the hydro power projects in the country to ensure that the country gets enough clean energy without hurting the ecology. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said government was sensitive to the concerns expressed by some states, including Assam, over some of the hydro …
The National Green Tribunal has issued notice to 24 people for carrying out illegal sand mining activities in Uttarakhand's Haridwar district. A bench headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar sought response from all of them after the counsel for Uttarakhand government told the tribunal that certain people were carrying on illegal …
PUNE: NCP MP Supriya Sule's demand to restart riverside road construction work has riled city environmentalists, who have asked the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) not to succumb to the NCP leader's pressure and engage in illegal work. Sule had recently threatened to undertake an agitation if the PMC failed to …
Governments need to re-evaluate existing approaches to environmental norms while improving on delivery of services under existing laws to improve sustainable and inclusive governance, urged the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a not-for-profit organisation and think-tank. Releasing its ‘Environment and Development Agenda’ for the new government, the organisation proposed …
VARANASI: A noted river scientist has requested Union transport & highways and shipping minister Nitin Gadkari to ensure adequate water flow in Ganga before beginning any programme of waterways in the holy river. Gadkari had declared that his department, in coordination with ministries of water resources, urban development, forest and …
One of the initial tasks in hand for the Modi government should be to restore the ecological flow of the Ganga, environmentalists say “Mujhe Ma Ganga ne bulaya hai (Mother Ganga has summoned me)” was a slogan that worked magic for the would-be prime minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi. A …
In a significant development on role of hydropower projects in Uttarakhand flood disaster of June 2013, the Expert Body (EB) headed by Dr Ravi Chopra has recommended that at least 23 hydropower projects should be dropped, that hydropower projects played significant role in the Uttarakhand disaster and that there is …
Environmentalists are irked with the delay in constitution of a biodiversity management board by the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC). The city's green brigade has demanded immediate formation of the board, which aims to map the city's biodiversity. As per the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, local bodies have to constitute a …
Successive state governments in Uttarakhand have pursued economic growth through industrialization without taking into account the fragility of the state’s mountains. A massive rain storm in June 2013 exposed the inherently fragile character of the mountain region. As a battered state began to rehabilitate itself the Supreme Court directed the …
They will hit ecology and biodiversity as far away as Assam A report commissioned by the Central Water Commission has recommended scrapping of 15 of the 44 dams planned across the Siang river in Arunachal Pradesh. It has also suggested stricter regulations for the ones that are to be built …
Way back in 1986, Rajiv Gandhi launched the Ganga Action Plan. But years later, after much water (sewage) and money have flowed down the river, it is as bad as it could get. Why are we failing, and what needs to be done differently to clean this and many other …
