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 …
Bengaluru's only Bird Conservation Reserve getting choked Aflock of Black-headed Ibis seen at the Puttenahalli lake in Yelahanka. The Bird Conservation Reserve is being choked by the untreated sewage entering the lake. The only Bird Conservation Reserve lake of Bengaluru is being polluted by unchecked sewage. Puttenahalli lake in Yelahanka …
The article sheds light on the Adi Ganga, one of the most significant streams of the Ganges in its lower course, and narrates how the stream (later Tolly’s Canal) which was once the life line of Kolkata transformed into a mere sewer and was ruthlessly slaughtered with the changing politicoeconomic …
LIMA – Peru’s government has declared a 90-day water quality emergency in several northern jungle districts where two oil spills occurred due to ruptures of a pipeline operated by state-owned oil company Petroperu. The General Directorate of Environmental Health, or Digesa, in a resolution published Wednesday in the El Peruano …
China needs more powers to crack down on polluting companies and local governments that protect them, the country's environment minister said on Thursday. Beijing has identified pollution as a top priority as it tries to reverse the damage done by decades of untrammelled growth, but the Ministry of Environmental Protection …
Chicago residents have filed a class-action lawsuit against the city over the safety of its drinking water, claiming that “elevated and unsafe” levels of lead have contaminated their water supply for years due to risky construction projects. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday at the circuit court of Cook County, Illinois, …
Noida: A team of doctors led by the district's chief medical officer R K Garg visited Kanchanjunga Apartments in Sector 53 where close to 400 residents have fallen sick after sewage got mixed with supply due to pipeline leakage. The residents have been complaining of diarrhoea and other gastrointestinal diseases. …
DEHRADUN: National Green Tribunal pulled up the state government for giving false information before it in the matter of beach camps still continuing on Ganga and its tributaries. In the hearing , the Tribunal had also asked TOI to be present, regarding the paper's report on beach camps operating on …
The reports on the jaundice outbreak in Shimla and Solan submitted to the state government by the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have again exposed the systemic failure on part of state agencies and lack of testing facility for virus detection …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today issued show cause notice to industries located on the stretch from Haridwar to Kanpur asking why they should not be shut down for polluting river Ganga. The green panel also directed industries like tannery paper and pulp, textile, slaughter houses etc to clear their …
Nashik: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has begun the demonstration project for the online water checking in the Godavari to check the river water pollution. A trial run of the project was to be initiated during the Kumbh Mela, but it was not possible because of scant rainfall. The …
After one and a half years, MPCB yet to to devise a remedial action plan to restore groundwater quality in the Waluj Industrial Area in Aurangabad district he National Green Tribunal has pulled up the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for not complying with its directions for preparing a remedial …
Residents of Flint, Michigan, one of the poorest cities in the United States, paid some of the nation's highest water bills even as the city failed to treat drinking water properly, leading to lead contamination, according to a report released on Tuesday. The annual water bill in Flint as of …
Bijnor: The National Green Tribunal has set off alarm bells for industrialists discharging dirty water and waste into tributaries and nullahs, flowing through Bijnor and Amroha district. Giving thrust to the Clean Ganges programme, the tribunal has summoned all the owners of factory units on Wednesday in Delhi. According to …
At a time when the builders of Noida and Greater Noida are facing the ire of the district administration and Noida authority over dust pollution at construction sites, environmental activists have documented photographs of the Surajpur wetland with massive dust rising out of its grounds. Photographs of trees cut within …
Irrigation and Public Health (IPH) Minister Vidya Stokes today asked the IPH Department to chalk out a strategy for providing clean drinking water to prevent jaundice in the city. Meanwhile, the Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC) too has asked managements of schools and hostels and residents to clean the water tanks …
Report of the field visit by Prof A. K. Gosain (Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi) to the site of Art of Living function. Prof A. K. Gosain says that "the site has been cleared of all the natural vegetation and consolidated with machinery. It appears that the site has …
All is not well with Wular Lake in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, one of the largest fresh water lakes in Asia, which has been identified as one of the 26 Ramsar sites in the country. Over the past many decades, it has suffered heavily due to siltation, conversion of 40 …
Ghaziabad: Forty-two industrial units have been closed down in six districts of UP for polluting the Hindon, according to a report of an inter-departmental committee set up to rejuvenate the river. In fact, a total of 265 polluting industries - primarily dealing in fabrics, tannery, paper, sugar and distillery - …
Overflowing and foul-smelling sewage, hazardous materials, weeds and shrubs, all infested with disease-causing mosquitoes. This is the state of most of the lakes in Greater Hyderabad, causing untold hardships to residents living near them. According to official statistics, there are about 169 lakes under Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits …
