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 …
NEW DELHI: The Green Chemistry Network Centre (GCNC) of Delhi University has claimed to have developed a solution for chromium pollution from tanneries. In a recently concluded workshop on sustainability and water quality, the DU team presented a polymer (chemical compound made of many interlinked molecules) that can absorb chromium, …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court on Monday issued notices to the Centre and the state government over the issue of coal gasifiers being used in ceramic industry situated in and around Morbi. As the issue of inspection of modified gasifiers has come up, the court has thought it fit to make …
Its inspection team finds high concentration of industrial, domestic waste in the river An inspection team of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) today identified the high concentration of industrial and domestic waste being discharged into the Yamuna in an untreated form as the major source of pollution in the river. …
A day after production at two of Delhi’s major water treatment plants had to be curtailed by 50 per cent after raw water from Haryana came laden with industrial pollutants, the water utility announced resumption of normal production on Tuesday as the pollutants were diluted. “The matter of rise in …
Haryana, UP Industries Release Untreated Waste; City Water Plants Not Fully Equipped New Delhi: The Delhi Jal Board had to reduce production in two major water treatment plants by half after ammonia levels in raw water spiked on Monday. This is not the first time DJB has been forced to …
New Delhi: Delhi Jal Board started full production at its Wazirabad and Chandrawal water treatment plants on Tuesday after the pollution load in the raw water started reducing. Both plants had worked to only half their capacity on Monday after levels of ammonia in the Yamuna had gone up drastically. …
Chandrawal and Wazirabad water treatment plants were forced to curtail production by 50 per cent due to high levels of pollution in the Yamuna, with ammonia levels rising to 1.2 ppm, against the permissible limit of 0.2 ppm. According to the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), the release of untreated waste …
NDMC areas and parts of south and north Delhi may get less water on Tuesday as a spike in the level of dissolved ammonia forced Delhi Jal Board to cut back on water production at its Wazirabad and Chandrawal plants on Monday. The contamination occurred upstream in Haryana due to …
A study by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has found air quality ‘very unhealthy’ in parts of Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Raigad and Chandrapur districts. The study analysed ambient air quality data from 2008 to 2011 to reach at its conclusion. The study found that the ambient air quality …
Delhi Pollution Control Committee has issued a show cause notice to the Okhla waste-to-energy plant for violating the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act. It has given plant operators 15 days time to revert on why air pollution levels were beyond the standard around the plant. Residents of Sukhdev …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sanjay Agnihotri Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 13/01/2014 regarding pollution caused by an electroplating industry in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. In this case NGT has concluded that it is an apt case where the polluter pay principles shall be …
Hauz Khas Village, which is generally teeming with visitors, seemed rather quiet on Thursday. But most of the 12 restaurants, which were issued a closure order by National Green Tribunal (NGT) for not having ‘consent to operate’ (CTO), stayed open and attended to customers throughout the day. Some that remained …
NGT Panel Sets Pollution Limits, Guidelines For Cutting Waste, Water Reuse New Delhi: Only 300 restaurants and hotels in Delhi have taken clearance from Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), while thousands of others may be operating without its consent, violating the norms under water and air acts along with other …
Local activists in Pithampur, have expressed serious concern over state government's move to incinerate toxic waste from Union Carbide factory, Bhopal at the Pithampur-based TSDF facility of Ramky Enviro group. They have threatened to intensify their stir against the government decision. Lok Maitri, a local NGO, that had been opposing …
The Vidarbha Environmental Action Group (VEAG) has hailed Supreme Court judgment directing the Union government to set up the national environment regulator and its offices in all the states by March 31. Sudhir Paliwal, convener of VEAG, said justice AK Patnaik, justice SS Nijjar and justice Ibrahim Kalifullah also directed …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding Bank Guarantee system in respect of defaulting industries within the purview of State Pollution Control Board, Orissa 09/01/2014 in the matter of State Pollution Control Board Odisha Vs M/s Swastik Ispat Pvt. Ltd. Anr.
Madhya Pradesh government has on Monday agreed to conduct trial run to dispose toxic wastes dumped at Union Carbide factory premises, Bhopal at the TSDF facility operated by Ramky Enviro Engineers at Pithampur. Union government presented a schedule in the Supreme Court and the state government would submit a timeline …
Vested with the Herculean task of fast-tracking decisions on scores of large projects, environment minister M Veerappa Moily has embarked on a drive to reassign jobs to the key officials in his ministry, reports Kirtika Suneja in New Delhi. Moily has also reconstituted the various expert appraisal committees (EAC) of …
New Delhi: The Union environment ministry has indicted ONGC for the oil spill that was reported off the Uran coast near Mumbai in October. It has asked the petroleum ministry to take action against those responsible for not adhering to crucial monitoring norms in the public sector oil major despite …
The city municipal corporation has decided to impose a higher penalty on those who manufacture or use plastic material less than 40 microns of size as prescribed by the government. The corporation has opted for a hefty increase in the penalty with maximum thrust on manufacturers. The scope of the …
