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 …
TWO marine bacteria, isolated by biotechnologists of the Central Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andamans, could prove to be a boon in managi 'ng oil spills. The two bacteria proved to be highly efficient in degrading oil almost completely in less than a month. More than 90 per cent of …
When oil seeps into water supplies, it is more of a problem than a solution. But a group of American scientists think otherwise. John Hunter and John Cary of the US Department of Agriculture at Fort Collins, Colorado, intend using vegetable oil to help remove nitrate pollution from wells, usually …
The US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, has recruited an army of microorganisms to clean soils and underground water tainted with nitrate and carbon tetrachloride - an industrial solvent that is a suspected carcinogen. In this bioremediation process, native bacteria which can be coaxed into degrading contaminants …
THE Supreme Court of India has ordered the Ganga Project Directorate (gpd) and the state governments concerned not to disburse funds for the Rs 421-crore 2nd phase of the Ganga Action Plan (gap) and has also called for a fresh evaluation of the first phase. On September 30, the Court …
THE BOOM over houses not only set windows rattling but made insomniacs out of deep snorers. That was a couple of decades ago, at least abroad. So the airlines tried to go in for whispering engines. After all this hullaballoo and court cases against erring airports, a definition of acceptable …
Drinking water in Delhi may soon be safer and more potable. For the first time in India, the Delhi Water Supply and Sewage Disposal Undertaking (DWSSDU) expects to introduce, in May, the ozonisation process at the Okhla water treatment plant. This project is being undertaken with French technology as part …
For the purposes of measuring and recording the quantity of water reconsumed, every consumer shall affix water meters, venturi meters or orifice meters with integrators and recorders in conformity with the standards laid down by the Indian Standards Institution and where no standards have been laid down by that institution …
An Act to provide for the levy and collection of a cess on water consumed by persons carrying on certain industries and by local authorities, with a view to augment the resources of the Central Board and the State Boards for the prevention and control of water pollution constituted under …
These Rules are enacted in exercise of the powers conferred by section 63 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of 1974) by the Central Government after consultation with Central Board for the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution.
An Act to provide for the prevention and control of water pollution and the maintaining or restoring of wholesomeness of water, for the establishment, with a view to carrying out the purposes aforesaid, of Boards for the prevention and control of water pollution, for conferring on and assigning to such …
Nirbhai Singh, an undertrial, wrote a letter from Ludhiana’s Central Jail five years ago and stirred industry and government into action. Addressed to the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, the letter expressed concern over pollution in the city. The court then began to look into the state of environment, …
The Dakshin palli Durga puja Samiti of Chittranjan Park, Pocket 52, New Delhi decided to go green this year and took a decision not to immerse the idol in Yamuna. This video shows immersion of Goddess Durga in large tank made of galvanized iron sheets. Courtesy: India Environment Portal Courtesy: …
The main objective of this High powered Committee is to keep Bagmati River and its tributaries clean by preventing the direct discharge of solid and liquid wastes to the river and to conserve the river system within the Kathmandu.
Veer Bhadra Mishra was the founding president of the Sankat Mochan Foundation. He was a former professor of Hydraulic engineering and former Head of the Civil Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi. He was also the Mahant (High Priest) of the Sankat Mochan Hanuman temple, Varanasi …
