Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
The simmering feud between panchayati raj minister Mani Shankar Aiyar and rural development minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh is likely to spurt to life with the PMO removing National Water Mission from Aiyar and handing it to the RJD leader. After asking the panchayati raj ministry for a proposal to operationalise …
local ngos have asked G Prakash, district collector of Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari district, to explain his statement on the Koodankulam nuclear plant. The Tamil evening daily, Tamil Murasu, on October 10, 2006, quoted Prakash's denial of a plan to provide water to the Rs 13,000-crore project from the Pechipparai dam. …
COME December and UP may start releasing 180 cusecs of water for the 140 MIllion Gallons Per Day (MGD) Sonia Vihar plant. It will mean that 90 MGD of water will get added to Delhi's bucket. UP, which had started releasing water in phases for the much-awaited plant this summer,had …
The heavy rain brought by the northeast monsoon has increased the groundwater level considerably, which has led to improved water quality in most areas. There has been a steady rise in groundwater levels by an average of 2 metres in the city this month. The change in the water level …
These statistics can startle you. Almost 35 per cent of water supplied to Amdavadis is wasted due to leaks in water supply lines and household taps. Salinity ingress in south Gujarat has increased from nine per cent in 1961 to 23 per cent today. Increasing instances of illegal limestone mining …
With state cabinet decision to float fresh global tenders the consortium of SPAS Norway, Qzaltin of Turkey and Hindustan Construction Company of the contract, the fate of Sawalakote hydroelectric project now hangs afire as consortium has moved the High Court. It may be mentioned here that after consortium cited media …
Almost 81 per cent households in Haryana are still awaiting regular water connection. Though about five lakh public taps supply drinking water to a large chunk of the population in the state, this has routinely resulted in about 70 per cent of water being wasted. With water supply connections being …
The launching of the Indira Gandhi drinking water supply scheme will fulfil the dream of the late Prime minister of uplift of the poor and downtrodden. This was stated by the Transport and Public Health Minister, Mr Randeep Singh Surjewala, while addressing a public meeting at Manas village of the …
The Chief Minister, Haryana, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, laid the foundation stones of projects worth Rs 151 crore to improve civic infrastructure, including a water treatment plant, in Gurgaon. At present two water treatment plants of 20 MGD capacity are functional at water works, Basai. Keeping in view the future …
Bidders for Maynilad Water Services, a troubled Philippine company being auctioned off next week by the government, expressed disappointment at Manila's failure to resolve a dispute with Suez over what some consider to be the French utility's extraordinary rights as minority shareholder. Suez holds only 16 per cent of Maynilad …
In a study that would have seemed like science fiction a decade ago, scientists yesterday published the first results from the "Neanderthal genome project". They show that Neanderthals split from our human ancestors about 500,000 years ago and evolved separately, with little or no interbreeding, until Neanderthals became extinct 28,000 …
Voltas, a Tata group company that offers engineering solutions across a range of industries, hopes to use a major contract it has bagged for a water treatment project in Singapore to expand its activities in that area.Voltas and United Engineers (Singapore) Pte Ltd. have jointly bagged a Singapore $200 million …
Tiny crystals of magnetite, a mineral similar to rust, could provide a simple and inexpensive option for removing hazardous levels of arsenic from drinking water, a breakthrough that could save millions in India and Bangladesh every year. Scientists at Rice University, Houston, adapted nanotechnology
To end the woes of residents living in and around leather tanneries in Pallavaram and Chrompet, the Central Government has in principle agreed to set up a Central Effluent Treatment Plant at Chrompet. According to highly placed sources in the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), this initiative would be …
