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 …
Despite the recommendations of the planning commission, the Yamuna was somewhat sidelined in this year's budget. Other than the interceptor sewage system, which will not be in place before 2012, and installing sewerage systems in unauthorised colonies, which has been in the pipeline since last year, no new proposals were …
In a study by the Central Pollution Control Board, the Bharalu and Kolong rivers of Assam have featured among 71 most polluted in the country. In the North-East, the Kharkhala in Meghalaya also figures in the list. While the enlisting does give us a wake-up call, we hardly require a …
The river Bharalu and Kolong are among the 71 most polluted stretch of river in the country, according to a study by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Significantly, the two river stretches in Assam along with Kharkhala in Meghalaya were the only rivers in the North-East identified as the …
World Conservation Union (IUCA) has praised the crisis management efforts undertaken in Madhya Pradesh to check deaths of alligators. The encomiums have been given in a letter to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh through which IUCA has also offered its co-operation in this connection. Meanwhile, death rate of alligators in …
Magsaysay Award winner Rajendra Rana today urged the centre to frame a law to save the country's rivers from disappearing by October 1 next failing which he would launch a water conservation satyagraha on Mahatma Gandhi's birthday. He was addressing mediapersons here after participating in a function. He said real …
Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan (YJE) has raised questions about environmental implications of yesterday's land deal in NOIDA, which is being termed as the biggest land deal in the entire country. On Tuesday , BPTP Builders,a Delhi-based group, had bagged a 95-acre commercial plot in sector 94 of Noida for Rs 5,006 …
The committee to save rivers at a press conference at the Khulna Press Club on Wednesday put forward their 10-point charter of demands to save the River Moyur that flows by the western side of the city. The committee alleged that about nine kilometre stretch of the Moyur has turned …
The shipping adviser, MA Matin, on Wednesday expressed his resentment over the absence of effluent treatment plants in different industries, which continue to pollute the River Turag and Tongi Khal. Rajdhani Unnayan Kartri-pakkha, the city development agency, also came under the wrath of Matin, also the adviser in-charge of the …
In a setback to environmentalists, the Pune Municipal Corporation Court on Monday rejected the plea of voluntary group Parisar opposing the construction of a road on the Mutha riverbed. The PMC had initiated the construction of the 3.2 km road on the riverbed from Mhatre bridge to the PMC bridge …
The most outstanding feature of the River Ganga is that it offers uncommon environmental diversity, impressive scenery, and an outstanding adventurous and wilderness experience. All these attributes contribute towards wild land-based recreation. The objective of this article is to assess the environmental and socio-cultural impacts of camping and white-water rafting …
A plan of Rs 25,000 crore for Maharashtra for the year 2008-09 was on Wednesday approved by the Planning Commission at a meeting in New Delhi. The approval was given during today's meeting of Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh with Planning Commission deputy chairman Dr M S Ahluwalia. This year's plan …
Rivers are facing crisis of their existence. Though trees are being axed but they are not being planted in the same proportion. Small rivers are continuously disappearing and big rivers' water assets is decreasing. Rivers are getting polluted and water animals are decreasing continuously. Tributaries, which are the main source …
Twenty water samples of Chenab, Ramban area were analysed for Ca, Mg, K, Na, Fe, Mn, Cu, Ni, Zn and Pb by Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry. The analysis revealed that all the cations are present within the permissible limits except Fe, Mn and Ni which are slightly present in higher concentrations.
This paper represents the result of chemical characteristics such as Dissolved Oxygen, Biochemical Oxygen Demand and Chemical Oxygen Demand during one year at Nanded (Maharashtra) and Rajahmundry (Andhra Pradesh). It was observed that Godavari River at Nanded was more polluted than Rajahmundry.
on january 11, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation approved a mega pipeline project to dump the city's industrial effluents in the Arabian Sea. Corporation authorities claim the multi-crore project will protect the Sabarmati river from further pollution. Several industrial units have been releasing waste directly into the river that is a …
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This is a message that has both sermons and promises. "Stop polluting the Yamuna now,' it says. We don't have to look far for the target of this admonition. Alongside is a non-descript person washing clothes in a river that is more likely to soil them. The promise then: "We …
The list includes temple, shopping mall, Games Village, road diversions and more Constructions pose a great threat to the city's water security, say activists "Government not adhering to moratorium on further constructions' NEW DELHI: A temple, a shopping mall, a depot, an entire Games Village and now road diversions
Russia's environmental watchdog yesterday said it had filed a Rbs4.35bn ($180m) pollution suit against Norilsk Nickel, the Russian mining group, in its largest ever environmental complaint against a Russian company. Oleg Mitvol, the head of Rosprirodnadzor, who has led campaigns against resource companies in the past that have ended in …
