'Insult to science, make a mockery of EIA process': Jairam Ramesh on Great Nicobar projectSenior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has written to the Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupinder Yadav over escal...
10 May, 2026, 10.26 PM IST
Great Nicobar project concerns must be debated in parliamentary forum; govt rattled by Rahul Gandhi's visit: CongressThe Congress party has detailed serious concerns regarding the Great Nicobar project. They highlight ecological damage, tribal rights viola...
03 May, 2026, 05.21 PM IST
Great Nicobar project one of biggest scams, gravest crimes against natural, tribal heritage: Rahul GandhiSenior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has strongly criticized the Great Nicobar project. He described it as a major scam and a grave crime ag...
29 Apr, 2026, 10.26 AM IST
Non-installation of vapour recovery system: NGT dismisses BPCL's appeal against Rs 1 crore fineThe National Green Tribunal has rejected Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited's appeal against a Rs 1 crore environmental fine. BPCL failed...
09 Apr, 2026, 06.27 PM IST
Assam: NGT stays order for deployment of forest guards in upcoming pollsAssam elections: The state government had ordered the mobilisation of the forest force personnel to assist the Assam Police for the upcomin...
04 Apr, 2026, 09.26 AM IST
Yamuna Pollution: SC stays NGT order appointing Delhi LG as panel chairmanThe Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed an order of the National Green Tribunal, appointing the lieutenant governor of Delhi as the chairman of...
12 Jul, 2023, 12.31 AM IST
NGT vested with suo motu power in discharge of functions, says SCA bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar said it must adopt an interpretation which sustains the spirit of public good and not render the e...
07 Oct, 2021, 10.45 PM IST
Can NGT be expected to wait for application when immediate action is required, asks Supreme CourtSupreme Court termed National Green Tribunal as an "umbrella authority" that is created to ensure that concerned authorities under the resp...
08 Sep, 2021, 06.32 PM IST
NGT doesn't have power to take cognisance of matter on its own, Centre tells SCThe Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) told a bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar, which is examining the issu...
02 Sep, 2021, 05.55 PM IST
Benches shut, NGT forcing petitioners to come to DelhiAbhijit Prabhudesai, a Goa-based environmentalist, has travelled to Delhi six times since last December to appear before the National Green...
26 Apr, 2018, 05.36 AM IST
- NGT: Nod only if thermal plants meet '15 norms19 Jan, 2018, 07.03 AM IST
Five ways India went Green in 2016In 2016, when NGT pushed for removal of old, polluting diesel vehicles from roads in the National Capital Region and a few cities, the resi...
28 Dec, 2016, 11.08 AM IST
CIC pulls up Environment Ministry over clearance given to Karnataka solar parkCIC has directed Environment Ministry to explain whether it is revisiting environmental clearance given to a solar park in the habitat of I...
03 Nov, 2015, 03.29 PM IST
- NGT turns down proposal for Nayachar thermal power project
The Kolkata bench of national green tribunal (NGT) headed by Justice Pratap Kumar Roy rejected the proposal to set up a thermal power stati...
16 Sep, 2015, 09.02 PM IST
Power supply to 98 tanneries stopped for polluting GangaIn a high-level meeting held in Lucknow on Saturday, chief secretary Alok Ranjan had cleared the decks for the action.
02 Feb, 2015, 11.27 AM IST
NGT has trappings of a court, has wide powers: Tribunal chiefThe green bench in a order held that the word Tribunal is a word of wide import and the words courts and tribunals embrace within them the ...
18 Jul, 2014, 07.25 PM IST
Rivers, wildlife, industries, sand mining engaged NGT in 2013The Ministry of Environment and Forests came in for NGT rap for its repeated non-representation in the forum.
23 Dec, 2013, 10.14 AM IST