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 …
Allahabad High Court Saturday relaxed the ban imposed on the immersion of idols in rivers Ganga and Yamuna for this year and refused to extend the time frame any further. It has also sought a detailed plan from authorities for immersion at places other than these rivers. The court allowed …
Even as it pulled up the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) for not making appreciable progress after submitting a preliminary report on the oil pipeline leak in North Chennai, the National Green Tribunal on Friday ordered the Union Petroleum Ministry to convene a meeting and chalk out a plan …
THRISSUR: The controversial Nitta Gelatin India Limited, a company which makes gelatin for medicinal purposes, has stalled its operation in Chalakudy after the water it takes from Chalakudy river got polluted. Employees of the company on Saturday found presence of diesel and chemical in the water drawn from the river. …
NAGPUR: Almost a hundred students from Centre Point School (Wardhaman Nagar) volunteered to do their bit in cleaning up banks of Telangkhedi lake on Friday morning. A part of the global movement called International Coastal Cleanup (ICC), the local initiative focuses on natural water bodies that get polluted due to …
The large state-managed and institutionalised provision of water in Delhi and its nearby environs is not free of social and political biases. In the nearby Trans Hindon area, different sections of the population are increasingly witnessing huge disparities in terms of formal and even informal modes of water access. Both …
The Allahabad High Court would hear the application filed by Bengali Welfare Association on October 11. The association has sought permission to immerse idols of Goddess Durga in Ganga and Yamuna in the city. According to Association, the tradition of immersion should not be hampered, as no alternative arrangement had …
According to the recent reports of Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB), the delayed monsoon showers had increased the pollution in Ganga and the situation would be more grim in winter. The report presented by the UP Pollution Control Board is enough to give a second thought to the idea …
The oil spill on the Uran coast close to Mumbai is larger than what was estimated, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has said. The admission came two days after the leak of crude oil from an ONGC pipeline. It took 12 hours to cap. Initially the MPCB estimated that …
Following the death of one person and 40 others falling critically ill after the outbreak of diarrhoea in Toba village, the health authorities have launched an extensive campaign to curtail the spread of the disease in Indira Awas Colony of the village in Mullana segment of Ambala district. The local …
Six men responsible for an illegal chemical discharge that led to water supplies being cut off to 30,000 residents in suburban Shanghai received jail sentences ranging from two to five years in a Shanghai court on Wednesday. It was the ninth judgment of an environmental pollution case in the municipality …
This document contains the text of the Minamata Convention on Mercury as agreed, in the form of the draft Convention, by the intergovernmental negotiating committee to prepare a global legally binding instrument on mercury at its fifth session, held in Geneva from 13 to18 January 2013.
ONGC, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board say the spill is minor On Monday, Naushad Qureshi returned from the sea with a net full of dead fish. The thick film of black grease that covered his net was the result of an oil spill from the ONGC plant along the Uran coast. …
All the 239 polluting industries on the banks of Mithi river are to be shut down with immediate effect, said the Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday. The tribunal also stayed any further blasting on the Mithi riverbed until an impact assessment report is prepared and submitted …
The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has started putting up fences along the bridges on Pavana, Mula and Indrayani rivers that flow through the municipal limits to prevent people from throwing ‘nirmalya’ (floral offerings) into the water bodies. The corporation has also installed 57 ‘nirmalya’ containers along the river banks …
After several pleas fail to move neighbouring state, PPCB to take it up with central board Unable to check Haryana’s industrial units from releasing their toxic waste into the Saraswati drain in Punjab, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has decided to strongly take up the matter with the Central …
Taking a strict view of the increasing pollution in major rivers, the Allahabad High Court has refused permission for immersion of idols in the Ganga and the Yamuna. In a decision of far reaching significance, a division bench comprising Justice Arun Tandon and Justice Ashok Bhushan yesterday denied permission to …
Around 1,000 packaged drinking water units do not have the mandatory consent from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), as per submissions of counsel before the National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, here on Monday. Only 153 units function with relevant consents, while 200-odd herbal water units without clearances were …
In many regulated markets, private, third-party auditors are chosen and paid by the firms that they audit, potentially creating a conflict of interest. This article reports on a two-year field experiment in the Indian state of Gujarat that sought to curb such a conflict by altering the market structure for …
Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) concerning pollution in river Ganga, the Allahabad high court on Monday did not modify its earlier order by, which it had directed that no idol would be immersed in the river Ganga and Yamuna at Allahabad. While issuing the above directive, the court made …
Presence of E.coli bacteria has reached dangerous levels in ground water According to a survey, faecal intrusion has made ground water in the district unfit for human consumption. A sample survey of well water conducted by the District Suchitwa Mission (DSM) reveals that presence of E.coli bacteria has reached dangerous …
