India, Feb. 21 -- Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal

Hooghly river in Howrah in jeopardy: Six-member committee constituted

The National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) heard the application filed by Subhas Datta regarding the dangers faced by River Hooghly in Howrah, West Bengal.

The allegation of the applicant was that at the Shibpur side of Howrah at Topiwala Ghat, laundry waste of clothes and linen of the Railways is being discharged into the Hooghly and fumes were reported to be coming out from the outlet point of such laundry.

The reputed and historic ghats of the city, namely, Rani Rashmoni Ghat, Mullick Ghat, Bagbazar Ghat, Shovabazar...