Road to disaster

Fertile land is up for grabs in western Uttar Pradesh. Private developers are acquiring it to build apartments, industries, IT institutes, and …

Centre’s Ganga affidavit ignores pollution realities

Close scrutiny of the plan submitted by National Mission for Clean Ganga shows why Supreme Court found it vague and rejected it

Uma Bharati's river cleaning plan

West Bengal discharges over 50% waste water untreated into Ganga

Report of CPCB calls for making sewage treatment plants functional, tackling waste discharged through drains to reduce pollution load on river

SC order likely to stall only proposed hydel projects in Uttarakhand

What happens to those that are under construction or have already obtained green clearances?

Ganga pollution: Uttar Pradesh issues notices to 956 industries

Green tribunal seeks report on the polluting industries along with photographs by May 21

Did hydel projects have a role in Uttarakhand disaster? asks Supreme Court

Judges express concern over large number of power projects and dams on the Ganga and its tributaries without scientifically assessing their …

Allahabad High Court continues tough stance on construction along Ganga

Development authority fails to give clear answers on fate of development in the river’s inviolate zone

Kanwar lake: birds' paradise lost

Researchers and activists call for urgent revival of Asia’s largest freshwater oxbow lake

Unplanned urbanisation, encroachment blamed for Srinagar flood

Illegal structures had mushroomed on Jhelum’s banks and around lakes, clogging drainage channels

Over Rs 2,000 crore to clean up and conserve Ganga

Government sets aside Rs 100 crore to expedite detailed project reports for its controversial river-linking plan.

What Mr Narendra Modi needs to do for Ganga

Just planning more sewage treatment plants is not going to clean up the river

What Namami Gange has achieved in one year

This animation explains whether the new government's ambitious scheme to clean the Ganga has brought any results

Ganga drowns in endless consultations

Water resources ministry arranges yet another meeting to discuss Ganga cleaning

Proposed new standards on water quality a sheer waste

In absence of proper sewage treatment facilities, the new draft will not be able to ensure quality of both drinking and bathing water

Suggestions on government’s Clean Ganga online platform limited in scope

The Ganga Vichar Manch was launched on January 30 under the National Mission for Clean Ganga

India and Germany sign agreement for cleaning Ganga

Germany will contribute Rs 22.5 crore to the three-year-long project

Can Namami Gange take off after two years of systemic failure?

In last three decades, the project achieved just one-third of the target due to lack of synergy between multiple authorities

CAG exposes financial irregularities in science, environment-related ministries

Setting up of a faulty bio-safety facility resulted in wastage of Rs 1.90 crore

Flood situation in Bihar, UP and Rajasthan critical; Army, Air Force on alert

About 200,000 people have reportedly lost their homes in flood-hit Bihar

Sixty per cent of Indus-Ganga basin groundwater unfit for drinking, irrigation

Up to a depth of 200 metres, 37 per cent of groundwater has high levels of arsenic, finds study

People in Sundarbans most susceptible to climate change

The Indo-Bangladesh deltaic region has been experiencing storm surges and cyclones over the past seven years

Committee to speed up Namami Gange formed a day after NGT questions outcome

The National Green Tribunal, on February 6, said that not even a drop of Ganga was cleaned and public money was wasted under the programme

Ganga's burden of pollutants from Kanpur to Varanasi

A visit to the tanneries in Kanpur and some of the sewage treatment plants and drains along the Ganga reveals the extent of pollution and the …

Uttarakhand: as problems pile up, youths see wisdom in migration

The ecologically-sensitive state is crying for government interventions on several fronts