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 …
Fixing Delhi's air quality requires a deep understanding of the sources that contribute to air pollution. Despite multiple source apportionment studies specific to Delhi NCR, policymakers can’t design an effective action plan due to varying estimates. This study brings clarity on the existent discrepancies and attempts to understand the gaps …
The practice, common in Punjab and Haryana, is a major threat to environment Paddy fields in Kuttanad, the rice bowl of Kerala, look black these days with some of them emitting plumes of smoke. Relatively a new phenomenon in this part of the region, setting paddy fields on fire after …
NEW DELHI: As Delhi and its neighbours struggled to rein in the monster of pollution for yet another winter, data showed that construction and demolition activity was the biggest source of foul air in the National Capital Region from December 2018 to February 2019. The data was collated from the …
Roads are not only relatively empty of cars. Locals lament the departure of great numbers of young Eritreans who have left over the last 20 years because of hardships brought by regional conflicts and enforced national service under a government that brooks little dissent. As a result of its circumstances, …
As air quality improves, the invisible chemistry happening in the air around us is changing. Skies should clear up as emissions drop, but recent results suggested that declining nitrogen oxides can create an environment where airborne carbon-containing compounds more easily convert into small particles that harm human health. Regulators can …
Coal is everywhere in Mongolia’s frigid capital. It sits beneath the towering smokestacks of power plants in piles as big as football fields. Drivers haul it through town in the open beds of pickup trucks. Vendors stack yellow bags of the stuff along roadsides, and jagged pieces spill from metal …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jaydipsinh M. Chauhan & Others Vs State of Gujarat dated 27/03/2019 regarding pollution caused by the Bhagirath Asphalt Plant in the Seagam, G. Gandhi Nagar Sector, at village of Thakorana Mosampura Tehsil Dehagam, G. Gandhi Nagar. According to the applicant, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Mahendra Saini, President, Moda Pahad Sangharsh Samiti Vs State of Rajasthan dated 27/03/2019 regarding 35 stone crushers illegally operating in Moda Pahad area within the municipal limits of Jhunjhunu Municipal Council, within 1.5 km of the habitation and within the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dhiren Chhikara Vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi dated 27/03/2019 regarding air pollution being caused in Harijan Basti, Rajokri Pahadi, Delhi where garbage is being burnt by the DBC Warehouse. The NGT directs a Joint Committee of the Delhi Pollution …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sanjeet Kumar Vs State of Haryana dated 27/03/2019 regarding chemicals being discharged by the BBC Plant at village Gagseena, Ghauranda, District Karnal causing air pollution and damaging the crops and also affecting the fodder for the animals. The NGT directs …
CHANDIGARH: A team of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) is visited villages in Punjab to take stock of the status of stubble burning and spreading awareness about the alternative methods available for crop residue management. After visiting the villages in Ludhiana, the team interacted with farmers in Barnala on Sunday. …
Noise pollution, better hospitals next two choices of residents Unlike many other states/UTs where better employment is the highest voters’ priority during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, water and air pollution is the topmost priority for Chandigarh voters, as per the report of the Association for Democratic Reforms Voters’ survey. …
Over the past year, the number of patients treated each day in the hospital unit where cardiologist Ade Imasanti Sapardan works in Indonesia's capital has almost doubled to about 100. Sapardan, who sees up to 150 people every week, cites worsening air pollution as a major reason for the rise …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sunil Kumar Vs Delhi Pollution Control Committee & Others dated 26/03/2019 regarding operation of garbage godowns in Ward No. 60E Soniya Vihar, Shahdra, Delhi, without consent to operate causing noise and air pollution beyond the prescribed norms, affecting health of …
Nagpur: During the last general elections, the city’s air was much cleaner. Environmental apathy was neither a major concern, nor an influencing factor in the election discourse. The local political ‘atmosphere’ might have not changed much but the ambient air has got murkier in the last five years. With a …
NEW DELHI: Noting non-compliance of its order on air pollution by six states, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed chief secretaries of Maharashtra, Punjab, Assam, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Nagaland to submit their clean air action plans by next month or pay Rs 1 crore each. All the states/UTs were …
GURUGRAM: A Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) team has recorded 27 violations of air pollution rules in the city in February. While Haryana State Pollution Control Board officials said the civic agencies have been able to keep a strict check, residents termed the figures mere “eyewash”, attributing the dip in …
With India home to seven of the top 10 most polluted cities in the world, Germany-based mobility solutions provider Wunder is pitching carpooling as an effective remedy to the alarming levels of vehicular pollution in the country. Wunder has drawn up an aggressive expansion strategy for India, starting with the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of R.K. Seth Vs State of Chhatisgarh dated 25/03/2019 regarding dangerous and unsafe mining activity generating dust by GTP, a coal transport company in Gevra Kurmunts & Deepika Project of SECL at District Korba, Chhattisgarh. The NGT directs the Chhattisgarh State …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Deepak Vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi dated 25/03/2019 regarding illegal discharge of effluents – industrial and municipal and air pollution in Village Jindpur, Alipur Division, G.T. Road, Delhi. It is further alleged that a pond has been encroached. Resorts …
