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New Delhi: Delhi govt has drawn up a long-term plan to deal with the white froth floating on the Yamuna. It includes a three-pronged strategy involving the relocation of dhobi ghats, action against illegal units on the banks that wash and dye jeans, and the construction of a Rs 100-crore riverfront and Chhath ghat at…
Mamata Banerjee slams PM over Ganga ride, cites polluted Yamuna KOLKATA: “Our Ganga is clean. That is why the PM could enjoy the boat ride. Can he do the same in (Delhi’s) Yamuna?” CM Mamata Banerjee said on Friday, referring to PM Narendra Modi‘s early morning boat ride on the Hooghly.Dubbing it a photo-op, the…
AGRA: Six people, including two couples, were killed and seven others hurt after a speeding sleeper bus from Noida to Gorakhpur rammed into a van carrying 13 passengers on the Yamuna Expressway in Hathras early Tuesday. The victims in the van were travelling on their way home to Rajasthan’s Dholpur district from Delhi to celebrate…
NEW DELHI: Over 9,000 birds across 131 species were spotted along Yamuna floodplains in the capital during the Asian Waterbird Census this weekend.The survey, carried out by a group of nearly 20 birders in collaboration with eBird, an online avian database, flagged several ecological threats to the habitat, including illegal sand mining on the floodplains,…
AGRA: Almost 20 days after a multi-vehicle pile-up on the Yamuna Expressway that claimed 19 lives, the fate of two victims—a woman passenger and a bus conductor—remains unresolved, with no physical remains conclusively traced to either of them despite extensive forensic examination. The Mathura administration has now constituted a five-member committee to probe the circumstances…
GHAZIABAD: A National Green Tribunal-ordered inspection of the Yamuna floodplains lying between Delhi and Ghaziabad has found largescale violations by miners, corroborating a TOI report on Nov 30 last year about an embankment being built across the river to illegally dredge sand.The joint committee report, submitted to NGT after surprise inspections on both Delhi and…
AGRA: When the multi-vehicle collision on the Yamuna Expressway in Mathura turned the crash site into a blazing trap, 42-year-old Parvati Devi found herself inside one of the burning buses with only seconds to act. As flames closed in on her, she broke a window and pushed her two children out, securing their escape. But…
Amit Malviya (ANI file photo) NEW DELHI: The BJP on Tuesday tore into AAP chief and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of “failing miserably” in tackling the national capital’s pollution crisis, from the Yamuna’s toxic waters to Delhi’s choking air.BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya led the charge, taking a swipe at…
NEW DELHI: BJP MLA Ravi Negi slipped and fell into the Yamuna River while shooting a reel on the river-cleaning drive. Negi was quickly rescued by his team and escaped unhurt.Earlier on Saturday, The Delhi government has claimed a significant improvement in the quality of Yamuna river water ahead of the Chhath festival this year….
The aftermath of the monsoon has unveiled troubling pollution levels in Delhi’s Yamuna River, with frothing reemerging alongside a troubling spike in faecal coliform and BOD metrics. In a bid to combat this issue, authorities have made efforts to beautify the ghats for Chhath festivities and orchestrated water releases from Haryana. However, environmentalists emphasize that…
