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 …
In 15 years, only seven bridges constructed over the river. Thames has 33 bridges on a 20-km stretch Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN New Delhi: Every morning Satpal Dogra, an MNC executive, spends 45 minutes to an hour negotiating traffic on the packed ITO bridge to reach his office in …
To facilitate the Rs 334 crore UP link road project between NH-24 and Noida border, another round of deforestation is on the anvil. A total of about 700 trees will be cut down as part of this drive. Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna is reported to have given his green signal …
Cashing on the exchange of words between Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh and Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Yamuna, the Leader of Opposition VK Malhotra lashed out at Delhi government on Friday. Jairam Ramesh, he said, has
NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh on Thursday criticised the Delhi Government for its failure to treat the sewage that has been flowing into the Yamuna and polluting the river. Speaking at a function organised by the Delhi Government to launch
CM WANTS DELHI GOVERNMENT'S SHARE IN NCR TOLL TAX COLLECTION Ms Dikshit said that it was the Delhi government which took the initiative to buy CNG-run buses and set the entire apparatus in place Union minister for forest and environment Jairam Ramesh was on Thursday snubbed by Delhi chief minister …
Ahead of the Commonwealth Games, the Noida Authority officials are planning to clean up the streets and drains to give a completely fresh look to foreign visitors. In its master plan to overhaul the conditions of existing drains which have been the cause for many residents raising complaints of foul …
New Delhi: Not only were the large scale immersions on the occasion of Dashmi on Monday detrimental to the river, they have also ensured that large parts of Delhi do not get water supply for almost five days. Production at the 200 million gallons per day (MGD) Haiderpur water treatment …
Silver papier-mache decorations, bamboo frames and plastic bags rippling on frothing waters. Despite calls from green activists, the scene at the river Yamuna here was that of a toxic harvest after hundreds of idols of goddess Durga were immersed in it at the end of the Durga Puja festival. Over …
As hundreds of idols of Goddess Durga hit the Yamuna river today as part of immersion rituals, green activists had reason to breathe easy. Unlike earlier, many idols were made of natural colours and environment friendly clay! Several organisers of Durga Puja across Delhi and national capital region (NCR) ensured …
The government failed yet again to provide Delhiites with special enclosures for immersions this Dussehra and, consequently, the river was ravaged with hundreds of idols and tonnes of pooja samagri and flowers. Delhi Pollution Control Board had released a list of 13 spots where immersions could be carried out but …
The already highly polluted Yamuna faces a fresh threat of toxic elements during Navaratra festival when religious articles are immersed in the river as the government has not so far earmarked separate enclosures for dumping the materials as directed by the Delhi High Court. In absence of alternative arrangements, people …
Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna plans to develop the 22-kilometre stretch of the riverbanks in Delhi as a biodiversity zone, Newsline has learnt. This puts to rest apprehensions of real estate development on the Yamuna floodplains, especially after the Commonwealth Games Village got a go-ahead from the Supreme Court recently. According …
The already highly polluted Yamuna faces a fresh threat of toxic elements during Navaratra festival when religious articles are immersed in the river. The polluted waters of River YamunaThe government has not so far earmarked separate enclosures for dumping the materials as directed by the Delhi High Court. In absence …
New Delhi: Delhi High Court passed the order in 2006 but of the 13 enclosures that were supposed to be made specially for immersions so that the Yamuna can be spared from a religious and cultural onslaught, only one is ready. With Dussehra and Durga Puja only a week away, …
A preliminary report prepared by the district administration has stated that the overflow of the Yamuna river has destroyed crops spread over 11,000 acres and damaged 118 houses in 62 villages of five tehsils of the district. The report comprising details of damages suffered by the farmers from September 10 …
Greater Noida: With the Yamuna water level breaching the danger mark in Delhi, Greater Noida authorities are keeping a hawk eye on the situation. Though no one has been evacuated so far, the administration has identified three villages
New Delhi For the hundreds displaced by the rising levels of Yamuna, the India Meteorological Department has some good news. It will not rain for at least the next three days, which might help the water level drop. It might, however, rain at certain places in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
MANISH ANAND Decks have been cleared for laying of ambitious interceptor sewer project to improve the condition of Yamuna after the fund starved Delhi government made arrangements for Rs 800 crores for the Delhi Jal Board. The Delhi government has arranged a loan from Hudco to partly fund the Rs …
New Delhi: For almost three years, civic agencies in Delhi have not been able to construct 13 enclosures on the Yamuna banks for people to throw in their religious samagri and not pollute the river. On Tuesday, volunteers with Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan (YJA), a Delhi-based NGO, stood vigil at the …
