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 …
Water supply to parts of Delhi and some districts of Uttar Pradesh, including Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar, is likely to be affected following the closure of Ganga canal for maintenance from October 17 till November first week. With a record rainfall being witnessed this monsoon; the Gang canal has …
NEW DELHI: The Upper Ganga Canal has been shut down for annual cleaning, but the Delhi Jal Board says it does not expect any shortfall of water during the closing period, thanks to ample water in the Yamuna. The cleaning work that is carried out by the Utttar Pradesh Irrigation …
New Delhi: Once again, as Delhi celebrated, the Yamuna bore the brunt. Over 450 puja committees immersed idols of Durga, Saraswati, Laxmi, Ganesh and Kartikeya idols on Sunday and left behind a drain full of wooden debris, plastic bags, metal and other organic and inorganic waste. Though some committees tried …
Ten blackbucks, also known as Krishna Mrigam, died at the Delhi Zoo over this weekend after drinking contaminated water as a result of the backflow from the flooded Yamuna into a zoo drain near the enclosure of the protected species. According to zoo director A K Agnihotri, the deaths were …
LUCKNOW: In one of the most striking fallouts of the farmers' agitation in the Yamuna Expressway case, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has suspended its plan to allow developers to use land along the expressways for commercial development. Instead, NHAI will now stick to its original mandate of …
LUCKNOW: Zero rains in Uttaranchal hills on Sunday helped to stabilise the rising water levels of Gang Naher and Kosi rivers which have wreaked havoc in west UP, much to the relief of lakhs of people affected by flood. However, the unrelenting Yamuna continued to swell on Sunday. Meanwhile, the …
With the prominent rivers continuing to flow above danger marks at several places, the government claimed to have shifted more than 8000 people to safer places in the last 24 hours. No fresh casulty was reported. However, the the Farrukhabad district administration sought the help of Army in relief and …
Lucknow: People of western UP heaved a sigh of relief as rainfall activity slowed down and water began to recede in some places on Thursday. But their ordeal is far from over as a fresh alert has been sounded for districts along the banks of the Ganga and Yamuna. The …
New Delhi: The city witnessed its worst flood since 1978 as the Yamuna touched 207.11 metres late Wednesday night and remained at that level for eight hours. This was only the second instance in city records when the river had crossed the 207m mark and it led to water gushing …
Almost a year after the Supreme Court held that the Commonwealth Games Village was not constructed on Yamuna's riverbed, noted environmentalist and Magsaysay Award winner Rajender Singh has yet again sought a review of the order claiming that the Games Village should be demolished to save Yamuna's ecosystem. While heavy …
With heavy rain lashing northern parts of the country during the last 18 hours, low lying areas on the banks of Yamuna river are facing possibility of flash floods in Haryana even as 1.3 lakh cusecs of water was released from the Hathni Kund Barrage into the Yamuna on Wednesday. …
New Delhi: The Yamuna continued to rise steadily in the city, touching 206.48m by 9pm on Tuesday. The Central Water Commission (CWC) now expects the water to reach its highest point on Wednesday morning by when it should rise another metre to about 207.30m. CWC had to revise its earlier …
New Delhi: As the water level in Yamuna yet again started rising, Monday saw the irrigation and flood department issue warnings and make announcements to evacuate in jhuggi clusters along the river fringes and in low-lying areas. With nearly 7.5 lakh cusecs water discharged from Hathanikund Barrage on Monday, Delhi …
NEW DELHI: The Capital is back to grappling with fears of a possible flood. On Sunday night Haryana began releasing water downstream and by early Monday morning it had released over 7 lakh cusecs, the highest so far. According to State Irrigation and Flood Control Department officials, about 744,000 cusecs …
MUKESH BHARDWAJ Even AS the three proposed dams on the Upper Yamuna basin are yet to see the light of day, Haryana, an upper basin state, has suggested an umbrella organisation to oversee the proposed structures. It was after water released from the Hathnikund and Tajewala barrages in Haryana flooded …
Ravish Tiwari While the severe rainfall deficit in the upper Yamuna basin last year has been handsomely compensated this year, it has come with a rider of its own. The normal rainfall in the basin has brought with it flood threats ahead of the Commonwealth Games in the capital and …
MUKESH BHARDWAJ Even AS the three proposed dams on the Upper Yamuna basin are yet to see the light of day, Haryana, an upper basin state, has suggested an umbrella organisation to oversee the proposed structures. It was after water released from the Hathnikund and Tajewala barrages in Haryana flooded …
The Yamuna still flows over the danger mark and its level may rise by Tuesday on account of more than 2 lakh cusecs of water being released from the Hathnikund barrage since Sunday evening. According to officials of the flood control department, the level of Yamuna was 205.39 m at …
Faced with the challenging task of presenting a "clean Delhi" to visitors during the Commonwealth Games, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is now extending "support" to voluntary groups for undertaking sanitation drives here. The MCD has backed campaigns by various NGOs recently for cleaning the city with the involvement …
