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 …
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) has taken an initiative to develop a proper sewerage system with a view to curbing pollution of Banani-Gulshan and Gulshan-Baridhara lakes. The decision was taken yesterday at a meeting attended by LGRD Adviser Anwarul Iqbal and Public Works Adviser Maj Gen (retd) Ghulam Quader. The meeting …
Availability of potable water under emergency situations like flood will soon be a reality. For researchers of the Geo-Environment Division of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) have come up with a water filter for such purposes. The water filter, called NEERI-ZAR and designed by Mr Subhash Andey, Mr …
Erosion by the River Jamuna continues to wreak havoc at different villages under Islampur and Dewanganj upazila in Jamalpur, rendering at least 800 families homeless in the last two weeks. About 1,200 houses at 13 villages under the two upazilas have been eroded during the period, leaving around 800 families …
Use Of Waste Water For Irrigation Poses Threat Of Epidemic: Study Stockholm: People in developing countries are facing growing health risks caused by the widespread use of raw sewage to irrigate crops, according to a study unveiled on Monday at a global water conference in Sweden. The report, by the …
Mumbai, August 18 To encourage eco-friendly celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi in the city, the IIT Bombay (IIT-B) and Save Powai Lake Committee will launch its annual eco-friendly Ganesh idol-making workshop for schools from Saturday. The workshop
Hyderabad, Aug. 17: The stench from Musi river cannot be ignored. It is unbearable, thanks to the "lackadaisical" attitude of the authorities towards the sewage system which is channelled into the river. The dumping of garbage along the banks of the river is worsening the situation. People new to the …
New Delhi, Aug. 17: A group of 250 spiritual heads representing most of the religious sects and Hindu organisations across India on Sunday launched the "Save the Ganga campaign" in the national capital. The campaign, "Awiral Ganga, Nirmal Ganga: From Gangotri to Ganga Sagar", aims to clean up the river …
Mumbai, August 12 Environment Status Report says unfit water samples up by 37 pc; in peak hours, vehicles move at 5-8 km per hr, holding up ambulances The grades on the city's annual environmental report card are slipping with drinking water getting more contaminated than last year, decibel levels shooting …
NAGAON, August 3: After detection of fluoride and iron in underground water sources in different areas under Hojai subdivision, the PHE Hojai division has implemented different water supply schemes including installation of wells and tube wells, piped water supply scheme, fluoride-free water in fluoride-prone areas, testing of drinking water under …
CHECKOUT - PUSHPA GIRIMAJI Consumers are often victims of poor quality water supplied by civic authorities. Besides water borne diseases, in many districts of the country, consumers suffer the debilitating effects of high levels of toxic heavy metals and even pesticides and other chemicals in water. Now two recent orders …
The Ministry of Environment & Forests is the nodal agency in the administrative structure of the Central Government, for the planning, promotion, co-ordination and overseeing the implementation of environmental and forestry programmes. The Ministry is also the Nodal agency in the country for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The …
The Central Ganga Authority established in 1985 under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister, lays down the policies for works to be taken up under the Ganga Action Plan. With the approval of the National River Conservation Plan (NRCP) in July 1995, the Central Ganga Authority has been redesignated as …
Mumbai, July 31 After successfully encouraging eco-friendly idol immersion during Ganeshotsav for two years, Chembur's Pestom Sagar residents have taken their campaign a step further this year. The Pestom Sagar Citizens' Forum on Thursday organised a pre-festival demonstration where the residents immersed clay idols into artificial wells and described how …
The first monitoring was undertaken on August 22, 2008. When the farmers group visited the CETP for sampling, they observed bypass of untreated effluents and the district administration and the pollution control board was informed of the same. On the complaints of the community, the regional officer, Rajasthan State Pollution …
Coal is abundant and affordable in the Asia Pacific region, and for the foreseeable future could be used to meet the region's growing energy needs, but what becomes of those needs when air is too dirty to breathe; water is too polluted to drink; soil too contaminated to grow crops; …
The present study aims to select the most appropriate aggregation function for estimation of the Ganga River pollution index (GRPI). Following the Delphi technique based on expert opinion, 16 water pollutant variables are selected; the weights of each pollutant variable based on their relative significance are determined, and the average …
Radioactive waste spills over into fields in Jharkhand about 4 hectares of agricultural land in Talsa village near Jamshedpur looks jaundiced. The soil has turned light yellow and villagers fear it might have gone barren. On June 17, radioactive waste from a pond of the Uranium Corporation of India Limited …
