Govt Fails To Save Riverine Ecosystem; Also Unable To Improve Air Quality, Contain Private Vehicle Surge

If the Congress government’s performance were measured on the yardstick of urban ecology, it would fail miserably at least on one count—the Yamuna.
Despite repeated promises of cleaning up, the river’s condition has been deteriorating by the day. However,the issue is not entirely of pollution—the flow of water in the Delhi stretch of the river is not adequate.

Nestled amidst the rapidly urbanising metropolis of Noida is a green paradise that has, in recent years, emerged as an important breeding ground for endangered birds.

Department of Environment (DoE) on Tuesday fined a printing and packaging factory Tk 5 lakh for illegal sand filling and encroaching a river channel in Narayanganj, reports UNB.

Pokhara sub-metropolis has initiated the process of removing water pumps used to supply water from Fewa Lake to different restaurants in the Lakeside area from today, after traders continued to def

Experts on Wednesday blamed the government agencies for influencing water governance, which in turn in adding to water pollution and illegal encroachment of water bodies.

While the eyes of the world are focused on the renowned conductor Zubin Mehta conducting the Bavarian State Orchestra in the backdrop of the terraced Mughal gardens of Srinagar, a small but equally

Nudged by the Supreme Court to act against Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) violations in Vembanad Lake, the Kerala Coastal Zone Management Authority has decided to find out who all have transgressed

Amending the lease rules on Wednesday, the Himachal cabinet decided to provide government land on lease basis only if no alternate private land is available.

The new rules propose that encroached government land will not be leased to anybody except landless locals after ejecting the encroacher. The ruling Congress has been alleging for long that there were many loopholes in the state lease rules and this was misused during the previous BJP government.

Mumbai: Debris is being regularly dumped into mangroves on government land, close to an amusement park, at Manori.

PANJIM: The state cabinet cleared the Mining Dump Policy to regulate dumping of ore rejects in private and government property and to ban creation of additional dumps in the state and encroachments