NOIDA: For the first time ever, the Okhla barrage, situated at the core of the Okhla Bird Sanctury, will not be drained for annual maintenance by the irrigation department in October this year.
NOIDA: The groundwater level in Noida is falling alarmingly by a metre every year, says a recently released report by the ministry of water resources, a consequence of the city's breakneck pace of
As directed by NGT, the Ministry Of Environment and Forests (MoEF) in consultation with Standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) on 18 August 2015, approved 2014 draft notification of eco-sensitive zone around the Okhla Bird Sanctuary. The Union environment ministry announced that a final notification on this will be issued within a week.
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Akash Vashishtha & Anr. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 29/08/2014 requesting for declaring Bil Akbarpur habitat as a protected area as well as quash the Environmental Clearance (EC) granted to the Respondents (Uttam Steels & Associates and Shiv Nadar University) developers of different projects in the region.
NOIDA: Taking a serious note of violations of air and water pollution norms, the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) plans to take strict measures against offenders in Noida, Greater Noid
Between 1999 and 2012, there has been an alarming depletion of Natural Conservation Zones — forests, water bodies and wasteland — in the National Capital Region.
In a move that is likely to bring relief to thousands of home owners along Noida Expressway, a committee constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) has recommended that t
An NGT order declaring that construction within a 10-km radius of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary cannot be given completion certificates has left flat buyers and builders in the lurch.
NOIDA: In an attempt to block the UP government's proposal of reducing the eco-sensitive zone around the Okhla bird sanctuary to just 100 metres, city-based environmentalists and lawyers met in Noi
