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 …
BP Plc acted with gross negligence in setting off the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a federal judge ruled, handing down a long-awaited decision that may force the energy company to pay billions of dollars more for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier …
Dongguan, the city in Guangdong that has been dubbed the world's workshop, plans to spend 18 billion yuan ($2.92 billion) on controlling water pollution. The industrial hub was last year named by the Ministry of Water Resources as one of 45 pilot cities required to develop sound water-related infrastructure. Dongguan …
After the Allahabad high court's ban on immersing idols in the Yamuna to save it from pollution, the Agra district administration is ensuring that the orders are strictly implemented and temporary ponds are created for 'visarjan'. The Agra municipal corporation has started work of creating artificial ponds at Yamuna's ghats, …
Varanasi: The project of several crores of rupees for supply of potable water is like a white elephant for the Kashi. The people are compelled to drink contaminated water supplied by Jal kal department. "For past four months, we have been consuming contaminated water giving foul smell," said Anjali Nag, …
The water quality of Ganga river at Allahabad and Varanasi, two holy places where millions take a dip, is most unfit for bathing purposes, the Centre informed the Supreme Court. Water becomes unfit for bathing if the biochemical oxygen demand (BoD) level exceeds 3 mg per litre. In fact, in …
Factories In Vicinity Of City Polluting Water Table The state government is tightening the noose around industrial units in the vicinity of the city that are becoming a major source of pollution. For the first time a `rogues list' was prepared of 1,000-odd units located in areas such as Narol, …
Asks govt. to explain how the project will be executed Unhappy with the government’s affidavit setting out its plans to clean the Ganga, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said it wanted to monitor the progress made in efforts to restore the river and asked for a roadmap. It is better …
The Supreme Court said it seems that steps taken so far will not lead to cleaning of Ganga even after 200 years The Narendra Modi government’s ambitious poll promise to depollute river Ganga came under severe scrutiny on Wednesday in the Supreme Court which said it seems that steps taken …
Submit phase-wise action plan, govt told After going through the Centre’s affidavit, the court said it was unable to comprehend the scheme properly as it had been drafted in the typical bureaucratic style The Centre must prepare a time-bound, phase-wise action plan for cleaning the Ganga so that the results …
There are at least five big patches of garbage floating around the planet's oceans and some are as big as the state of Texas, scientists said in a new study, published Tuesday in the journal Chaos. And now, there's an algorithm to track their movements. Researchers from the University of …
The first thing the city govt did after Mr Modi took over was that it sent officials to Gujarat to study the Sabarmati river A series of projects, close to the heart of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is getting implemented in the national capital. Among the projects which are being …
The Centre on Tuesday set up a high-level committee headed by former Cabinet Secretary T.S.R. Subramanian to review environment laws and bring them in line with “current requirements”. The committee was set up in the backdrop of the Centre taking serious steps to hasten the environment clearance process to attain …
With the pilot effort at cleansing the Mithi River using a microbial technology having purified a considerable amount of water and drastically reduced its odour, the city’s development authority has decided to continue the process and is scouting for newer technologies that may have come up in the market. In …
President of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat Asha Thimmappa Gowda on Monday instructed the District Health and Family Welfare Officer (DHO) H.S. Shivakumar to study if the authorities of Durgaparameshwari temple at Kateel and others were polluting the Nandini river by various means and submit a report within a week. She …
A water company has been fined £250,000 for polluting a brook in Newbury. Thames Water was also ordered at Reading Crown Court to pay costs of nearly £7,000 after untreated sewage flowed in to Chase Brook in Berkshire. The Environment Agency brought the case after sewage "severely impacted" wildlife in …
Mexicans are baffled at the sudden death of thousands of fish in a lake in the centre of the country, a dramatic intensification of a problem that no one has yet been able to explain. Nearly 50 tonnes of dead popoche chub fish were removed at the weekend from Lake …
A blaze at a vast rubbish dump made up of six million tonnes of putrefying trash and toxic effluent has kindled fears that poor planning and lax law enforcement are tipping Thailand towards a waste crisis. Locals had long pressed for the closure of the foul-smelling Praeksa landfill site, wedged …
In the last five decades, a total of 4,000 ponds have been filled because of the indiscriminate earth-dumping and unplanned urbanisation As the High Court has given a directive to stop the filling of all kinds of wetland in and around the city Rajshahi, a vested-interested group is using a …
A recent investigation carried out using ground vibration measurement instruments concluded that blasting at the four mine and quarries in Gidaphu are within safe limits, and does not have any damaging consequences on the structures nearby. The investigation was carried out for three days during which six blasts were carried …
The present study deals with the physic-chemical parameters at selected areas of Tuticorin District, Tamil Nadu, India for the year 2014. Seven different samples were collected from different sampling sites and were analyzed for different physic-chemical parameters. The obtained values were compared with the standard values of ISI, ICMR and …
