Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Resident captures truck dumping waste into Beas Norms laid down by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) are being flouted here. A resident captured a truck dumping waste directly into the Beas near Pirdi village, 3 km from Kullu town, today. A picture released on a social networking website shows a …
The ecologically fragile tribal areas of Kinnaur are facing disaster with hydropower projects coming up in the area, posing a threat to the environment, rivers, security and ethnic identity and culture of tribals. Fear and anxiety is writ large on the faces of Kinnauris who rue that the issue has …
Orchardists say the move will ruin apple economy Residents, mainly apple and vegetable growers in the Chopal-Nerwa-Tharoach apple belt, are against the proposed move to set up a 1-million tonne capacity cement plant near Nerwa here. They plead that the plant will ruin the apple and vegetable economy and spell …
Tribals in three polling stations of Jasrath in the Pattan valley, Karpat and Challing in the Miyar valley have announced boycott of elections tomorrow in protest against the failure of successive governments to provide teachers, a bridge and a link road to their respective villages in the snow-bound Miyar and …
With there being few employment avenues in this border industrial belt of Paonta Sahib, illegal mining has emerged as an employment avenue for hundreds of jobless youth. Officials admit this fact and, according to an estimate, there are hundreds of families which thrive on this illegal trade along the Yamuna …
The previous BJP government’s much-hyped “Har Ghar Ko Nal” ended as a political slogan with its term in 2012. The present Congress government has not come out with a pragmatic drinking water policy for as many as 23,693 habitations. About 45 per cent habitations in the state have yet to …
Residents of Sakoh village near Dharamsala are up in arms against the supply of contaminated water. They alleged they were getting water infested with pests in taps. Kanta Devi, a local resident, said the village was without water supply for the past three days. Today, when the water finally came …
Mining, despite a ban, in the Chakki rivulet in this subdivision bordering Punjab has been posing a threat to 12 gram panchayats, leaving local residents and environmentalists worried. Once farmers of Khanni, Maira, Baduee, Baranda, Lodwan, Kandwal and Mohtli gram panchayats used to produce around 5,000 tonnes of foodgrain in …
The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday sought status of the sand mining from the river banks on affidavit within four weeks from all state governments, warning that no further time will be granted to report. Listing the next hearing on July 8, the 5-member principal bench headed by Justice Swatanter …
Reckitt Benckiser, the household goods manufacturer, has cut its relative water use by nine per cent in 2013, and brought about a seven per cent reduction in its carbon footprint across all its units. The UK-based company that sells Durex, Dettol antiseptic and Harpic toilet cleaners in India, among several …
New Delhi:Amid concerns of deficient rains this monsoon, a new study has shown that since 1980, all El Nino years have not resulted in a drought, although all droughts have happened in years of El Nino. In the last 34 years, there were six droughts in El Nino years, while …
Concept to help raise population of the scavenger birds. Conservationists stand by “Vulture Restaurants”, a new concept that aims to augment the population of the scavenging birds, which help keep the environment clean by feeding on carrion. According to noted conservationist T.K. Roy, the vultures are provided safe supplementary food. …
TABO (LAHAUL-SPITI): "At last they entered a world - a valley of leagues where the high hills were fashioned of the mere rubble and refuse from off the knees of the mountains... Surely the Gods live here. Beaten down by the silence and the appalling sweep of dispersal of the …
Palampur, April 23: The sale and use of polythene is banned in the state, but shopkeepers are openly flouting norms and selling vegetables and fruits in poly bags. It seems the ban on the use and sale of polythene is only confined to papers and there is no one to …
Palampur, April 23: Increase in cases of renal failure, gastric ulcer, hepatic, cancer and tuberculosis in the state has become a matter of serious concern. Every seventh person here suffers from either of these ailments. Excessive dose of painkillers given to patients for long periods is said to be one …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Karam Chand & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/04/2014 regarding forest clearance granted to the GMR Bajoli Holi Hydropower Limited for setting up of 180 MW Bajoli-Holi Hydroelectric project on the basin of …
The Swan river, which originates in Marwari village of Una district and travels 65 km before entering Ropar district of Punjab, is teeming with all kinds of garbage, including the banned plastic polybags. The river, referred to as Sombhadra in the ancient Indian scriptures, along with its 73 tributaries in …
The easy availability of food, especially feral animals like dogs, pigs and goats found near urban garbage dumps, is the main reason that attracts leopards to venture into human territory leading to a conflict situation with disastrous results for both. Leopards, like many other wild species, adapt well to human-dominated …
State govt fails to deposit Rs 1.6 crore with authorities Residents of Khaniara are likely to lose their right on slate mining in Dhauladhar hills. The state government has failed to deposit about Rs 1.6 crore as the net present value (NPV) of 25 hectare forest land that was to …
The state Pollution Control Board is finally devising a strategy to deal with the situation in the state's industrial hub of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN). The move comes in the aftermath of flak from NGOs citing lack of timely action to contain air pollution emanating from BBN. Various NGOs, including Him Dhara, …
