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 …
The National Green Tribunal has ordered for examination of 956 industrial units in Uttar Pradesh discharging effluents in the Ganges. They had been served with notices by UP State Pollution Control Board. An expenditure of Rs 838.76 crore has been reported till March, 2014 for implementation of the Ganges cleaning …
A temporary ban on swimming has been placed at Sandymount Strand after water quality there failed to meet the minimum standard for bathing. Dublin City Council announced the temporary prohibition of bathing notice today following the analysis of a bathing water sample taken on Friday. In a statement, the council …
Sheriff's deputies in Utah arrested nearly two dozen environmental protesters who chained themselves to fences and construction equipment on Monday at a tar sands mining project in the remote Book Cliffs mountains, an activist group said. The Tar Sands Resistance group said about 80 activists set up a "blockade" at …
Innovations in recycling, waste management and water purification are to be given the go-ahead this autumn at Sharjah’s Gulf Ecosystem Research Centre. Founded in 2012, the centre was created through a collaboration between Bee’ah, a waste management company, and the American University of Sharjah (AUS), with the company granting Dh30 …
In the backdrop of the Ganga rejuvenation project being undertaken by the Centre, the government Monday said an action plan for the clean-up of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers may be formulated by the year-end after a consultation with the stakeholders. In reply to a question in Parliament, the Ministry …
The treated industrial effluent from the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) to Ulhas and Waldhuni rivers is not discharged into the river at a point decided by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) officials have found. This despite being directed by the board to lay …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Subhas Dutta Vs State of West Bengal & Ors. dated 22/07/2014 regarding environmental pollution caused due to discharge of chemical waste, waste water and air pollutants by some of the industrial units in West Bengal. The …
Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on social, general and economic sectors (non-public sector undertakings). The report has been laid on the table of the Punjab State Legislature Assembly on 22-07-2014.
West Bengal's best-known expert on rivers, Kalyan Rudra, 62, and Babu Bhai, a 32-year-old fisherman, have a common lament-hilsa, the fish that can tingle Bengali taste buds like nothing else on earth, has gone missing from the Ganga. The fisherman, who's plied his little boat from the rusty jetty at …
After the TOI report on a study by Central Ground Water Board which confirmed presence of arsenic above permissible limits in several localities of the city , instead of focusing on ways to remove contamination in water, officials in Jal Nigam and Jal Sansthan are passing the buck on each …
PATNA: Urban development and housing department minister Samrat Chaudhury informed the state assembly on Thursday that due to leakage in water supply pipelines, Patnaites occasionally get polluted drinking water. Replying to a starred question of Nitin Navin (BJP), the minister said the pipelines in the state capital had become worn …
Most in Puri are contributing to water pollution flouting norms, officials of Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) here said. The board has listed 325 hotels for violating the Water (prevention and control of pollution) Act, 1974 and served show cause notices to all of them. The board said the …
The environment ministry has identified 150 polluted stretches of rivers across India which need conservation work but interestingly nearly 1/3rd of those polluted river stretches are in Maharashtra and Gujarat alone. These 150 polluted stretches along various rivers were identified by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), India's apex body …
The National Green Tribunal directed DMRC to explain why they dumped construction waste on Yamuna floodplains and why they shouldn't be fined Rs 5 lakh for it. NGT had issued a show-cause notice to DMRC after petitioner Manoj Misra submitted several photographs of concrete dumped on the riverbed along NH- …
The once perennial Cauvery river is turning into an eyesore with several places polluted completely. Officials say this is largely due to with the increasing number of devotees and the public who wash their clothes and perform their daily chores there. Dead fish, dirty clothes, plastic bags and tea cups …
The government on Wednesday informed Parliament that it had identified 3,266 highly polluting industries and 150 polluted stretches along various rivers across the country in the past couple of years and had taken measures to deal with it. "The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has identified 3,266 highly polluting industries …
In view of the rampant pollution in the rivers of the Kathmandu Valley caused mainly by house owners and large commercial complexes releasing the sewage directly into the Bagmati and other river systems, Kathmandu Valley Development Authority (KDVA) has directed every prospective house owners to compulsorily construct septic tanks. KVDA’s …
