According to a survey done using satellite and drone data, nearly 75% of Delhi's Yamuna floodplains have been encroached upon. Despite the ...

The Delhi High Court has instructed the DDA vice-chairperson to eliminate encroachments and unauthorized constructions on the Yamuna river ...

Floods in Delhi cannot be blamed solely on rainfall, according to a report quoting experts. Experts have highlighted the encroachment of fl...

The forest department said it has conducted a detailed analysis of the land available for plantation in the Yamuna floodplains, considering...

Baijal, who is also the chairman of the Delhi Development Authority, gave the directions while chairing a meeting of the DDA to review the ...

In a detailed judgement, the NGT had held the AoL responsible for causing damage and environmental degradation of the Yamuna floodplains by...

A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to nominate a senior officer and s...

The NGT-appointed expert committee tasked with carrying out fresh demarcation of the Yamuna floodplain zone for construction projects that ...

AoL said that it was imperative that the panel knew the status of the floodplains prior to the event, before concluding that the event caus...

The Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Ministry of Water Resources also told the NGT that they were not responsibile for the damag...

NGT asked the committee to demarcate the floodplain with respect to 2010, which happens to be the year in which the flood level was the max...

The tribunal asked various real estate developers and other parties in the case to file their replies on the local commissioner's report wi...

The signs are already there. In recent monsoon seasons, many areas in southeast Delhi have seen basements of buildings getting submerged un...

DDA seems to have shelved its riverfront development plans for now because of different views on the matter.

National Green Tribunal today issued notice to around 3,000 illegal nurseries and private persons causing pollution on the floodplains of r...

C R Babu has advised the lieutenant governor and the capital's bureaucrats against replicating the Sabarmati project.

The study talks about Delhi’s constant obsession with beautifying and developing Delhi’s riverfront and how this has ironically meant nothi...