Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents Welfare Association Savita Vihar Vs Irrigation & Flood Control Department & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant raised the grievance against throwing of construction debris and sewage obstruction in the Ghazipur drain. According to the applicant this drain flows behind …
PEOPLE from villages along the Yamuna Expressway continued their protest on Friday and held up traffic, demanding interchanges and slip roads. Protesters in Tappal and Greater Noida have been disrupting traffic by throwing bricks and stones on the expressway, where the speed limit for cars is 100 kmph and people …
New Delhi: After years of efforts to save Yamuna from getting choked by pollution, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) about the steps it had taken to reduce pollution in the river. With each of the trifurcated Municipal Corporation of Delhi branches shifting blame …
New Delhi: After years of efforts to save Yamuna from getting choked by pollution, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) about the steps it had taken to reduce pollution in the river. With each of the trifurcated Municipal Corporation of Delhi branches shifting blame …
Few vehicles seen on first day, authorities open slip road after farmers protest. The 165-km Yamuna Expressway was largely empty on Thursday as authorities brought toll charges into effect and police began monitoring the road for traffic violations. “The rush has come down because it is a weekday. Five vehicles …
The 165-km-long Yamuna Expressway, which will reduce commuting time between Greater Noida and Agra to a mere two hours, was inaugurated today by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav from Lucknow. The fast-track road is built at a cost of Rs 12,000 crore. Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha member …
With the colour of Yamuna changing, the city administration must immediately take some steps to tackle the problem of water contamination. In the monsoon season the flow of Yamuna becomes strong with a lot of soil and silt in the water, which comes through soil erosion. This dirty water not …
The Supreme Court on Friday pulled up the governments of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh for failing to stop pollutants from flowing into Yamuna from the national Capital and Noida. The apex court criticised the poor co-operation between the two governments in stepping up measures to clean the Yamuna. It asked …
Final Govt Approval On Toll Tax Expected Today: Developer Greater Noida: Conceived way back in 2001, Yamuna Expressway will finally be thrown open to the public on August 9. The 165km expressway will be inaugurated by chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, the CM’s office told the developer, Jaypee Group, on Wednesday. …
Previous Government attempts to clean up the River Ganga have failed due to political, technical, and scientific reasons, according to Dr Devendra S Bhargava, a former professor of environmental engineering and pollution control at Roorkee University. Bhargava is the author of 450 research papers and recipient of 32 awards including …
‘It Is Expected To Benefit 70% Of Delhi’. New Delhi: Delhi Jal Board has claimed that work on the interceptor sewage system is set to be completed by July 2014. Once the three main drains running through the city — Najafgarh, Shahdara and Supplementary — are intercepted, the biochemical oxygen …
The freak accident recently on Noida Expressway, in which a speeding truck killed one of Delhi’s captive elephants and injured another, has put the focus on the condition of elephants in captivity and whether is it advisable to keep these animals in a place like Delhi, which has extreme weather …
56% of samples highly polluted; filtration not up to mark. The chemical analysis of 124 groundwater samples, picked up by the Central Ground Water Board from all over the capital in May 2010, has revealed that 56% of the samples were not fit for drinking. Taking parameters like alkalinity, total …
Lucknow Maya govt abandoned attempt after pilot project Apprehensive that the now-infamous first-come, first-served policy for allocation of natural resources comes with risks, states are now wiser and embracing the safer option of auctions for these allocations. The newly-elected Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh has introduced an e-tendering system …
TOI Takes A Ride On The Delhi-Agra Yamuna Expressway To Bring You A Sneak Preview. The monsoon is chasing us. We are nearing the third toll plaza on the Yamuna Expressway and the dark clouds hovering above are dancing wildly like dervishes in delight. We have left the Formula One …
Terming the Municipal Corporation of Delhi “the biggest polluter” of the Yamuna, the Supreme Court on Wednesday rebuked the civic body for saying that it has nothing to do with the pollution of the river and warned it that all its three Commissioners will have to appear before the court …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has cleared the ambitious `3,600 crore Renuka Dam project to be constructed on a tributary of the Yamuna river in Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh. The Renuka dam has been in the eye of a storm because water activists are opposed to water being supplied …
Terming Municipal Corporation of Delhi as “the biggest polluter” of Yamuna, the Supreme Court on Wednesday rebuked the civic agency for saying that it has nothing to do with the pollution of the river. The court also warned MCD that its three commissioners would have to appear before the court …
Greater Noida: In a rerun of the uncertainty over Noida Extension projects, which left middle-class homebuyers in the lurch, apartments planned in the Yamuna Expressway belt may now be in trouble. The Yamuna Expressway Authority warned developers on Tuesday that no flat should be booked or construction activities carried out …
New Delhi: Government agencies have failed to stop dumping of construction material on the river bed along Yamuna Pushta Road despite orders from LG Tejinder Khanna and National Green Tribunal. Flimsy barriers and a notice asking people to desist from throwing debris on the river bed have done no good …
Sludge Has Toxins, Should Have Been Dumped At Safe Place, Say Experts New Delhi: The recent dredging exercise at the Okhla barrage to deepen the Okhla pond was welcomed by environmentalists till they figured out that all the silt pulled out was being dumped along the banks and allowed to …
