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 …
If you have been won over by these lines in the tourism brochure, Srinagar should top your list of places to visit. If you are in Srinagar, you will hire a shikara (boat) to take in the beauty of the lake and the majestic mountains surrounding it. The road on …
There are numerous ways to get to the lake colony. But there is no way to avoid getting the weeds entangled with the oars. The weeds are something the people have learnt to live with, and have also found a couple of uses for them, such as fertilisers. They complain …
The people of Kashmir have only the Dal to offer to tourists. Brochures are full of life on the Dal lake. Pictures of houseboats used to attract hordes of tourists to the Dal year after year. The Dal was virtually the economic lifeline of Kashmir. One of the large lakes …
Existence of Lake Nainital has been a matter of debate in the last two decades, because it is the only source of drinking water to Nainital city, a famous tourist resort in northern India. In the tectonically active lake basin, naturally occurring landslides have genered sediments in huge amount. In …
JAMNAGAR is one of three cities in Gujarat which boasts of a large lake: the Ranmal lake. Once the pride of the residents of this historic city, also known as the Paris of Saurashtra, the lake has now become a dump site for urban effluents and hospitals wastes. According to …
environmentalists are targeting duck shooters and anglers in New Zealand. They say that heavy loads of lead are contaminating some New Zealand lake beds and wetlands. The Forest and Bird Protection Society has launched a campaign to end the use of lead in shotgun ammunition. The society has written to …
water hyacinths (Eichhornia crassipes) have never had it so good, and Lake Victoria in Africa has seldom had it so bad. The lake has been infested by the weed that has caused numerous problems to fisherfolk, tangling the fishing nets, clogging up the motors of the boats and destroying the …
the Udhagamandalam and Kodaikanal lakes in Tamil Nadu have been chosen for eco-restoration as part of the National Lake Conservation Programme ( nlcp ). An outlay of Rs 40 crores has been approved by the Centre and of this, nearly Rs 25 crores will be earmarked for the Udhagamandalam lake. …
austrian scientists might help clean the Dal Lake in Srinagar. The Austrian Deputy Chief of Mission in Delhi, Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal has said that a scientist from the Austrian ministry of agriculture has conducted a study on the Lake to determine whether Austrian technology could be used in the cleaning up …
colour is all when it comes to mating. The cichlid species of fish depend on the ability to distinguish colours for mate selection. But eutrophication of the Great Lakes in Africa
environmentalists have warned that Nepal's Phewa lake could disappear within 20 years time if mindless pollution of its waters and unplanned tilling of the land around it continue. The lake, which attracts 40 per cent of Nepal's tourists, is situated some 200 km west of Kathmandu in the Pokhara valley. …
One of the case studies of this year's Stockholm Water Symposium is Lake Victoria, an important natural resource in east Africa, which is under stress. The rapidly growing populations in the three riparian states of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania creates a heavy pressure on natural resources and environment conditions. Lake …
MAYAK, a nuclear energy facility in the former Soviet Union that remained shrouded in secrecy for over 40 years now, has been identified as perhaps the most disastrous, according to a recent research report. Though not as well- known as the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, the Mayak complex is …
UDAIPURDefiled Udaipur's five lakes depict the saga of degradation and the apathy of the state government and citizens P L AGARWAL udaipur is a beautiful city surrounded by the Aravalli hills and five lakes - Pichola, Fatehsagar, Rangsagar, Swaroopsagar and the smaller Dudh Talai. Though outwardly Udaipur looks serene with …
• Finalisation of master plan of Udaipur city, setting apart adequate areas for construction of hotels and prohibiting new construction within 200m of the lakes. • Diversion of all sewage and waste water from the lakes to a fully functional sewage system, which has one or more sewage treatment plants. …
Lake Pichola was constructed first between 1382 and 1418 by a Banjara chief and later an embankment was constructed by Maharana Udai Singh in 1560. While its original depth was 18 m, it is now reduced to between 4.5 and 8 m. Pichola has two beautiful island buildings
R SRIKKANTH The stinking stretch of polluted water that separates the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh is the historic Hussain Sagar lake situated in the heart of the 400 year old Hyderabad city. The lake which once received unpolluted water from upper reaches of river Musi, …
