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World Culture Festival damaged Yamuna floodplains, concludes NGT

In what is considered the worst flood in a decade, the flood in Assam this year has swept over 2,800 villages away and submerged more than two lakh hectares of crop. More than 26 lakh people have been affected in 28 out of 34 districts of the state.

NGT raps UP government over Yamuna's pollution near the Taj Mahal

One of the worst floods in Assam and Bihar

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Champa Devi has been working as a sharecropper on a two-acre farm at Nilothi village in west Delhi. Until a few years ago, the water she used for irrigation came from the Najafgarh drain that empties into the Yamuna river. This form of cultivation using waste water was a norm in the area till sometime ago.

NGT orders CWRA to meet every month for identification of wetlands

India has largest number of stunted children in the world: Study

It is common knowledge that the river Ganga, considered sacred by millions of Hindus, is polluted.  It is so polluted that some stretches of the river are unfit even for bathing, particularly during the lean seasons.

Provide potable water to villages: NGT asks UP government