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Overexploitation of groundwater in parts of Andhra Pradesh has raised concerns over an emerging imbalance in the water table, with several mandals reporting extraction levels that exceed natural recharge. At least 12 of the State's 679 groundwater assessment mandals, accounting for 1.8%, have been categorised as 'over-exploited', indicating that groundwater withdrawal in these areas has surpassed sustainable recharge limits. The findings are based on the Dynamic Ground Water Resources of India ...Read More >
Replying to a question, Minister of State for Jal Shakti Raj Bhushan Choudhary said that as per data available with the Central Ground Water Authority , of the total groundwater extraction, 71.88 per cent in Delhi was for domestic purposes. The figure was 15.62 per cent in Ghaziabad, 3.21 per cent in Gautam Buddh Nagar, 18.6 per cent in Faridabad, 11.81 per cent in Gurugram and 13.24 per cent in Sonepat. He said the figures represent total groundwater extraction for domestic purposes, includin ...Read More >
Hyderabad: A recent study covering more than 25 years of data by National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Hyderabad, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad, and the JNTU-Hyderaba's department of civil engineering, has raised concerns over increasing groundwater vulnerability in parts of the Musi river basin, highlighting the growing risk of pollution in several sub-basins due to hydrogeological and human factors. While most sub-basins recorded some recovery in groundwate ...Read More >
The interim order came on a petition challenging the July 2, 2024 order issued by the additional chief secretary of the town and country planning department. The order had permitted construction of 'stilt-plus-four floors' on residential plots, raising the earlier cap of 'stilt-plus-three floors'. It had also introduced a composition mechanism even in cases where building plans had not been approved. The order was passed by a division bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry. ...Read More >
Chandigarh: In an order with major implications for the real estate sector in Haryana, Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday restrained state govt from proceeding with its "stilt-plus-4 policy," which allows four-storey houses in residential sectors and colonies.The interim order will remain in effect until HC delivers a final decision on a batch of petitions challenging the policy."Since the arguments are taking a long time to conclude for reasons attributed to the counsel for rival parties ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 2 (PTI) The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday stayed the operation of the Haryana government's 'stilt-plus-four floors' policy for residential plots, observing that the state appears to have put public safety at risk merely to earn more revenue. The interim order came on a petition challenging the July 2, 2024 order issued by the additional chief secretary of the town and country planning department. The order had permitted construction of 'stilt-plus-four floors' on res ...Read More >
Chennai went thirsty in 2019. Bengaluru grappled with water scarcity that affected thousands in 2024. Delhi fights over its share of the Yamuna every summer. From Bengaluru to Delhi to Chennai and to other urban regions across India, water is increasingly becoming a dwindling resource. This crisis is unfolding, city by city, putting stress on households and businesses. But the question of possible solutions still remains. A new study, published in the journal Earth's Future, might offer some h ...Read More >
Assets worth Rs 79.93 crore belonging to a Punjab-based company has been seized by the Enforcement Directorate as part of a money laundering investigation linked to an environmental crime involving large-scale water pollution. The attached properties include land, buildings, and plant and machinery owned by Malbros International Pvt Ltd. The provisional attachment was carried out by the ED's Jalandhar Zonal Office under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. The probe stems from ...Read More >
Jalandhar, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Jalandhar Zonal Office, filed a Prosecution Complaint before the Special Court for PMLA at Jalandhar against Malbros International, Gautam Malhotra and others, in connection with a money laundering investigation related to an environmental crime. The charges were filed on Monday under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, said an official statement. The ED initiated an investigation on the basis of a crimina ...Read More >
Jalandhar: In a money laundering probe related to an environmental crime, the Enforcement Directorate attached properties, including land, building and plant and machinery, worth Rs 79.93 crore belonging to a Punjab-based company involved in water pollution, an official said on Monday. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Jalandhar Zonal Office, provisionally attached the immovable properties of Malbros International Pvt Ltd on Saturday in the money laundering investigation related to environmental ...Read More >
New Delhi: Citing several case studies from India, the World Economic Forum on Friday said seven emerging deep technologies, including generative AI, robotics and satellite-enabled remote sensing, are poised to transform agriculture. These technologies, which also include computer vision, edge Internet of Things (IoT), CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats), and nanotechnology, will boost resilience and productivity, while securing rural livelihoods, the WEF said in ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 30 (PTI) For years, the ground beneath southwest Delhi quietly sank as its aquifers ran dry. Now, satellites show a rare reversal; the land in Dwarka is lifting again, a sign that the city's long-depleted groundwater is slowly bouncing back, a study claimed. The research paper, titled 'InSAR Reveals Recovery of Stressed Aquifer Systems in Parts of Delhi, India', published in the Water Resources Research journal, examined satellite data from October 2014 to October 2023. Land sub ...Read More >
PUNE: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the work on the proposed Indian Law Society (ILS) Hill Road in Pune, part of the Balbharati-Paud Phata Link Road project, can proceed only after obtaining necessary environmental clearance (EC). The case was heard by a bench of Chief Justice Bhushan Gavai and Justice Vinod Chandran. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, along with advocates Abhijit Kulkarni, Rahul Garg, Dhaval Malhotra, and Nisha Chavan, represented the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). "We ...Read More >
PUNE: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the work on the proposed Indian Law Society (ILS) Hill Road in Pune, part of the Balbharati-Paud Phata Link Road project, can proceed only after obtaining necessary environmental clearance (EC). The case was heard by a bench of Chief Justice Bhushan Gavai and Justice Vinod Chandran. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, along with advocates Abhijit Kulkarni, Rahul Garg, Dhaval Malhotra, and Nisha Chavan, represented the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). "We ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday halted the construction of the proposed ILS Hill Road project -- the Balbharati-Paud Phata link road -- planned through the Indian Law Society (ILS) campus and Law College Hill in Pune, pending environmental clearance.The SC also directed the ministry of environment, forest and climate change to expeditiously decide the issue of grant of environmental clearance by the Pune Municipal Corporation.A bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vin ...Read More >
MUMBAI: India is expected to receive above-average rainfall in October, following above-normal precipitation in September, a senior weather department official said on Tuesday. Above-average rainfall in October could damage summer-sown crops such as rice, cotton, soybeans, corn, and pulses, which are nearing harvest. The country is likely to receive above-average rainfall of more than 115 percent of the 50-year average in October, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director-general of the India Meteorologic ...Read More >
MUMBAI -India is expected to receive above-average rainfall in October, following above-normal precipitation in September, a senior weather department official said on Tuesday. Above-average rainfall in October could damage summer-sown crops such as rice, cotton, soybeans, corn, and pulses, which are nearing harvest. The country is likely to receive above-average rainfall of more than 115% of the 50-year average in October, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director-general of the India Meteorological Dep ...Read More >
This roundup of The Conversation's climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. Around the world, rivers and lakes that sustained civilisations for millennia are vanishing before our eyes. The Caspian Sea - the world's largest inland body of water - has shrunk dramatically in just a few decades. The Ganges nourishes hundreds of millions of people across India and Bangladesh, yet is drying at a rate scientists say is unprecedented in the pa ...Read More >
Kolkata: The East-West Metro, projected to exceed the age-old Blue Line in ridership within a year or two, completed its first full run between Salt Lake Sector V and Howrah Maidan across the Hooghly on Friday evening. The metro connection, which was in the works for 16 years, also linked two of India's busiest railway stations -- Howrah and Sealdah.The project, conceived in 2008, came to fruition after overcoming two significant hurdles, both at Bowbazar. The first occurred before the start of ...Read More >
A new study from IIT Roorkee has just flipped the long-standing belief about what keeps the Ganga flowing during the harsh Indian summer. New fingings show that it is in fact not glacier melt but groundwater that keeps the mighty river alive, at least until Patna. Researchers from IIT Roorkee tracked the river right from its Himalayan beginnings to its delta end, using advanced isotopic analysis. Published in Hydrological Processes, the study is the first of its kind to cover such a full-scale ...Read More >
MUMBAI - India is likely to get above-average monsoon rainfall, critical to the economy, in July after receiving 9 per cent above-normal rains in June, a senior weather department official said on June 30. The monsoon is the lifeblood of India's nearly US$4 trillion (S$5.1 trillion) economy, delivering almost 70 per cent of the rainfall needed to water farms and replenishing aquifers and reservoirs. Nearly half of India's farmland is not irrigated and depends on the annual June to September ra ...Read More >
Hyderabad: International Asteroid Day (IAD) is observed on June 30 every year to raise public awareness of asteroids and the importance of defending Earth against potential threats from the asteroid belts. This day has been sanctioned by the United Nations. Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the sun. Even though these rocky remnants are the leftovers from the formation of our solar system that occurred about 4.6 billion years ago, they still orbit around the sun like planets. There a ...Read More >
MUMBAI - India's annual monsoon rains covered the entire country on Sunday, nine days earlier than is typical, the weather department said, bringing forward planting of summer-sown crops. The monsoon is the lifeblood of India's nearly $4 trillion economy, delivering almost 70% of the rainfall needed to water farms and replenishing aquifers and reservoirs. Nearly half of India's farmland is not irrigated and depends on the annual June-September rains for crop growth. The southwest monsoon has ...Read More >
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