Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Bageshwar town, the headquarters of Bageshwar district, has no sewers. The waste generated by its population of 7,803 people drains into the Sarju and Gomti rivers, at whose confluence the town is located. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union water resources minister Uma Bharti have expressed great keenness in cleaning …
Residents of eight villages near Almora town are protesting against the dumping of garbage by the Almora Nagar Palika Parishad near their homes and cattle grazing grounds. They say the dumped garbage is not only affecting the environment around their villages but also polluting natural water sources being used by …
Union water resources and Ganga rejuvenation minister Uma Bharati on Friday announced that major drains would either be tapped or diverted in the next 45 days to prevent further pollution of Ganga. Following inspection of major drains discharging waste in Ganga in the city , she also ruled out ban …
Passage of the Clean Water Act of 1972 brought many improvements to surface waters by curbing much of the toxic and organic pollution going into waterways. But 42 years later, we have yet to make significant reductions in two major pollutants in our rivers, lakes, and coastal sounds—the nutrients nitrogen …
The scope of the study and the present report covers the detailed characterization of the existing environmental status in the Project area for major environmental components viz. Meteorology, Ambient Air Quality, Water Quality and Noise Levels.
Even as the high level committee formed by Modi government proposes a new Environment Loss Management Act, see this agenda for improving environmental governance submitted by Centre for Science and Environment. This report is based on CSE’s past work and current engagement with such issues. Our findings and recommendations are …
The weekly digest of important reports, research, policy documents, regulations, studies, court cases, protests, conflicts, initiatives, photos, data, statistics, infographics, presentations on the India Environment Portal, 26 October - 01 November 2014.
The Panchavati division of the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Thursday collected three tonnes of 'nirmalya' (puja material) from the banks Godavari river after the Chhath Puja celebrations came to an end. "We had engaged 33 sanitary employees on the riverbanks for the clean-up act. The waste we collected will …
The Kerala high court has sought the views of state government and the Kerala state pollution control board while hearing a petition challenging the setting up of chemical industries in Edayar industrial area. The petitioner alleged that new chemical industries have been given permission to operate in violation of the …
A high level committee, which has been reviewing green laws to suggest appropriate amendments to bring them in sync with the government's development goals, has got another month to finalize its report. The move comes even as the Centre is keen to change couple of key legislations during the winter …
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has made it mandatory to all the industrial units in Jharkhand and other parts of the country to install mechanism for continuous online monitoring system to deal with effluents generated and discharged ill-treated into water bodies by them. The Central pollution watch dog has …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Centre and the Orissa government not to grant any fresh permission for mining and expansion of existing mines in Keonjhar district in the state due to pollution of drinking water. A three-member bench of the NGT, headed by Justice P Jyothimani, issued …
Observing that its “last hope” rests on the National Green Tribunal, the Supreme Court referred to it the responsibility to monitor and inspect industrial units along the Ganga and even cut off water and power connections if the units are found to be polluting the river. A three-judge Bench led …
The Supreme Court's strong words against pollution control bureaucracy for its failure to act against polluters of the river Ganga on Wednesday brought a sense of relief for environmentalists. They now hope that the constant monitoring by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) would stop the government from paying just lip …
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has blamed the industries for polluting river Brahmani. In its report submitted to the Odisha High Court in response to a PIL filed in this connection, the CPCB has stated that the rate of pollution in the Brahmani has become intense due to the …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday entrusted the National Green Tribunal (NGT) with the task of closing down industries polluting the Ganga which fail to install adequate anti-pollution measures to treat industrial effluents by March next year. A bench of Justices T S Thakur, Adarsh Goel and R Banumathi passed this …
With focus on cleaning of theYamuna and its bed, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which is associated with 16 sewerage and water supply projects in India, on Wednesday expressed hope that the Yamuna would be clean by year 2017 and its water fit for consumption and swimming too. “With several …
PUNE: The obesity epidemic is generally attributed to excess caloric intake, diet composition, poor physical activity and genetic susceptibility. However, the near doubling in the prevalence of obesity and overweight children over the last three decades cannot be explained by these traditional factors alone. Experts in the field now suggest …
GURGAON: Forget tap water, if you thought packaged drinking water was safe in the city, think twice. Though only four samples of packaged drinking water were collected by the food safety department from two units in Gurgaon in the last three years, analysis showed that all were unfit for consumption, …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) summoned Bhopal mayor Krishna Gaur and commissioner, Bhopal municipal corporation (BMC) Tejaswi S Naik to be personally present before the tribunal on Tuesday and explain why no works have been carried out by civic body in last three months for improving quality of water in Upper …
