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Nashik Mayor Himgauri Aher-Adke on Thursday said the NMC would present its side, adding that the decision to fell trees as part of the mega event and due to rise in the number of road accidents was not a sudden one but has been taken considering all aspects. Environment-friendly measures in compliance with Supreme Court directives are being taken during this process, Aher-Adke claimed. "In view of the growing traffic congestion, series of accidents and forthcoming Simhastha Kumbh Mela, expansi ...Read More >
Nashik: Environmentalists have united to take a stand against the large-scale tree felling currently being carried out across the city by the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) under the pretext of preparations for the Simhastha Kumbh Mela. Allegations are mounting that centuries-old trees, particularly environmentally significant Banyan trees and other heritage trees, are being cut down indiscriminately. Consequently, efforts are now underway to secure a permanent stay on these activities. Acc ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, April 9: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday said there were no grounds to recall or modify its April 2 order staying the Assam government's order seeking deployment of around 1,600 Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) personnel for the Assembly polls in the north-eastern State. The NGT's eastern zonal bench in Kolkata had granted the stay on a plea filed by advocate Gaurav Bansal, claiming that by diverting the AFPF personnel from their primary duties of protection and co ...Read More >
A DAY before Assam votes in the Assembly polls, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) eastern zone bench on Wednesday ruled that the Assam government's order, which sought to deploy 1,600 personnel from the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) for elections, suffered from "patent illegality" and was violative of the Biological Diversity Act and the AFPF Act, 1986. The NGT also refused to recall or modify its April 2 interim order which directed the Assam government to stay operation of its order se ...Read More >
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): An encroachment removal drive by the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) near the mosque at Bhadbhada Square was halted on Thursday after facing strong resistance from locals and political leaders. The BMC team had reached the site to remove shops built within the Full Tank Level (FTL) zone of the Upper Lake, in compliance with National Green Tribunal (NGT) orders. Officials said one shop had already been vacated when Congress leader P C Sharma arrived at the spot and o ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea challenging the environmental clearance (EC) granted for the Kozhikode-Wayanad tunnel construction in Kerala. The matter came up for hearing before a bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi. Senior advocate Shyam Divan represented the petitioner Wayanad Prakrithi Samarakshana Samithi. The bench granted the petitioner liberty to approach the National Green Tribunal (NGT) if any condit ...Read More >
HYDERABAD Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in-charge of Rajendranagar constituency P. Karthik Reddy has stated that the Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has not dismissed his petition on the Musi Riverfront Project but has disposed it since the State government has submitted that everything about the project is in the initial (application) stage. In a statement, Mr. Karthik Reddy said on Saturday that the State government had submitted to NGT that it would take the project forwa ...Read More >
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stayed an Assam government order directing the deployment of around 1,600 personnel of the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) for election duties, observing that the move raises serious environmental concerns. Invoking the precautionary principle, the tribunal directed the State government to "desist from violating the provisions" of environmental laws and ordered that "operation of the impugned order... is stayed till further orders". In its April 2 ord ...Read More >
Assam elections: The state government had ordered the mobilisation of the forest force personnel to assist the Assam Police for the upcoming polls. Guwahati: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) stayed an order seeking the deployment of around 1,600 Assam Forest Protection Force personnel for the April 9 Assembly polls in Assam. The state government had ordered the mobilisation of the forest force personnel to assist the Assam Police for the upcoming polls. The NGT's eastern zonal bench in Kolka ...Read More >
Guwahati: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) stayed an order seeking the deployment of around 1,600 Assam Forest Protection Force personnel for the April 9 Assembly polls in Assam. The state government had ordered the mobilisation of the forest force personnel to assist the Assam Police for the upcoming polls. The NGT's eastern zonal bench in Kolkata, comprising judicial member Arun Kumar Tyagi and expert member Ishwar Singh, heard the plea filed by advocate Gaurav Bansal had claimed that by di ...Read More >
Guwahati: National Green Tribunal (NGT), in an interim order issued on Saturday, stayed the Assam govt's directive to divert 1,600 Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) personnel to assist the police during the upcoming assembly elections.The govt order, issued by the special chief secretary, had instructed AFPF staff to report to the additional director general of police by April 3.A two-member NGT Eastern Zone bench, comprising judicial member Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and expert member Ishwar S ...Read More >
Guwahati: Even as the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has put an immediate stay on the Assam government's decision to deploy over 1,600 Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) personnel for election duty, the state's forest department appears to be preparing for a legal pushback instead of compliance -- raising serious questions over intent and priorities. A two-member bench of the NGT's Eastern Zone, comprising Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and Expert Member Ishwar Singh, on Thursday stayed the March 19 ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Eastern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stayed an Assam government order proposing the deployment of 1,600 personnel from the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) for election duty, days ahead of the Assembly polls scheduled for April 9. The development follows a report by Northeast Now that first flagged the issue, pointing to the large-scale deployment of frontline forest personnel from core duties such as anti-poaching patrols, prevention of illegal logging, ...Read More >
Speaking after performing 'bhumi puja' for the reconstruction of Omkareshwara and Machileshwara temples on the banks of Musi river at Manchirevula here, he said the state government would do 'Shiva Thandavam' if anyone spreads false information about the project and attributes wrong motives to it. Besides the grand Shiva temple complex, the government would build a mosque near Charminar, a Sikh shrine with the inspiration of golden temple at Gowliguda where Sikhs live in large numbers and a chu ...Read More >
Hyderabad, March 28 (RAHNUMA): Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has announced that " Dakshina Kasi" will be developed by constructing the historical Shiva temples under the Musi Rejuvenation Project. Laying foundation stones for Omkareshwara Swamy and Veerabhadra Swamy temples at Manchirevula on Saturday, the Chief Minister said it is a historical occasion that the foundation stone for the historic temple foundation is laid today. " We are developing these temples in a sprawling 8 acres of land ...Read More >
New Delhi: Lieutenant governor (LG) of Delhi, Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Monday directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to address the continuous inflow of fresh and legacy waste into landfills, officials said. The directions came while the LG was inspecting the ongoing bio-mining work at the Bhalswa landfill site. Spread over 70 acres, the Bhalswa landfill had 7,300,000 metric tonnes (MT) of waste in November 2022. While 4,500,000 MT was bio-mined till December 2024, another 3,980,000 ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 17 (PTI) The National Green Tribunal's nod to the Great Nicobar project is disappointing and unfortunate and may have disastrous ecological impacts, according to environment enthusiasts. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday cleared the proposed International Container Transhipment Terminal in the Great Nicobar Island, saying adequate safeguards had been provided in the environmental clearance (EC) conditions. The eastern zonal bench of Kolkata, headed by NGT Chairperson J ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday modified its earlier order restraining Delhi and NCR authorities from taking coercive action against "end-of-life" vehicles - 10-year-old diesel and 15-year-old petrol vehicles - and said the reprieve would apply only to BS 4 or BS 6 emission norm-compliant vehicles.This order will impact over 14.7 lakh BS 1 compliant cars, three-wheelers, two-wheelers, buses and goods carriers; more than 38.7 lakh BS 2 compliant ones; and another 53.7 lakh BS 3 vehicles ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Wednesday modified its August 12 order that had barred coercive action against diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years in the National Capital Region (NCR), clarifying that enforcement action can be taken against such vehicles if they fail to meet BS-IV emission standards. A Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul Pancholi passed the clarification on a plea by t ...Read More >
New Delhi: South Central Railway (SCR) has initiated a sustainable waste management system at its stations through scientific waste management after noticing that the state government agencies were only collecting and managing waste from their lands. Highlighting the need to take this initiative, a senior railway official (on condition of anonymity) told ETV Bharat, "The railways noticed that the state government agencies were not maintaining the waste management in railway lands, including sta ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 27 (ANI): AAP Delhi State President Saurabh Bharadwaj tore apart every lie spoken by BJP Delhi President Virendra Sachdeva, exposing with evidence how it was the BJP itself that systematically stopped Chhath Puja on the Yamuna banks for three consecutive years when AAP was in power, even as it now pretends to champion the festival ahead of the Bihar elections. Saurabh Bharadwaj revealed that after the COVID-19 pandemic, then Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had sought p ...Read More >
Delhi water minister said the equipment, a Watermaster Classic IV, will be used to augment the Yamuna cleaning efforts and enhance the river's water-carrying capacity. Delhi water minister Parvesh Verma on Wednesday said that a state-of-the-art dredging machine from Finland will arrive in the Capital by December to aid in the desilting and dredging of Yamuna and the Najafgarh drain. Sharing a demonstration video on social media, Verma said the equipment, a Watermaster Classic IV, will be used t ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 23 (PTI) The Delhi government has procured an advanced machine from Finland to undertake large-scale dredging, desilting, and cleaning operations in the Yamuna river, Irrigation and Flood Control Minister Parvesh Verma said on Thursday. The machine, called Amphibious Classic 4 Multipurpose Dredger Machine, will arrive in India before December and will be operational from January, he added. According to officials, capable of operating both on land and in water, the machine "combi ...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 >
Kolkata: Bidhannagar police have prohibited residents from accessing terraces and rooftops of high-rises in New Town, Rajarhat, Salt Lake, Lake Town, and areas near Kolkata airport after sundown from Sunday to Thursday. The measure has been taken so that the residents can't release sky lanterns and burst crackers during Diwali.Local police stations have sent letters to residents' welfare associations to ensure no one is allowed on the rooftops from 5 pm onwards between Oct 19 and Oct 23. "Reques ...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 >
Chandigarh: The Chandigarh administration has issued strict guidelines for sale and use of firecrackers during upcoming festivals, including Dussehra, Diwali, and Gurpurb. In an official order released by deputy commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav, only green crackers certified by CSIR-NEERI will be permitted, in accordance with directives of the Supreme Court and National Green Tribunal (NGT).The use of firecrackers on Dussehra will be allowed only during effigy burning. For Diwali, firecrackers c ...Read More >
The Supreme Court on Friday permitted certified manufacturers to produce green firecrackers in Delhi-NCR but upheld the ban on their sale and storage in the region. The apex court clarified that only manufacturers authorised by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) and the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO) would be allowed to produce green firecrackers. The top court further directed the Centre to consult with relevant stakeholders and submit a com ...Read More >
"a prime example of economy and ecology complementing each other," says Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the project Congress on Sunday accused the government of "bulldozing" the Great Nicobar infrastructure project despite pending legal challenges and branded it an "ecological disaster". The party's general secretary and former environment minister Jairam Ramesh Ramesh has said the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation has invited expressions of interest for "enumerati ...Read More >
Ajmer, September 12: The demolition of the Seven Wonders replicas built in the Anasagar Wetland area of Ajmer began on Friday. Acting on the Supreme Court's directive, the Ajmer Development Authority (ADA) started removing the structures that were declared encroachments on the wetland. The Supreme Court had ordered the removal of these constructions six months ago. Initially, only one statue was shifted, but now the administration has begun full-scale demolition. In its affidavit to the court, ...Read More >
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