Plastic overshoot day report 2024
Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day
Pollution
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High Court stay on phone towers
Petition by residents of Nehru Enclave
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Sound pollution acute, law hardly applied
The inhabitants of the capital city Dhaka are living with high risk of being suffering from more than 30 major diseases including blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, insomnia, hearing disability and trouble in concentration, as the level of noise pollution in the city has raised up to 106 decibel, where the tolerance level is maximum 50 decibel.
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Cement bag costs more in state than Punjab
Dharamsala: A bag of cement costs more in Himachal Pradesh than Punjab despite the fact that a number of cement plants have come up in the state and their functioning is allegedly adversely affecting the natural resources of the state, besides causing pollution.
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Rise up Against Pollution!
PETER FERNANDES calls upon the people of Goa to raise their voices to ensure that industrial pollution is curbed
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Guidelines for development of location specific stringent standards
The existing legislation though covers adequate provision empowering the State Boards to prescribe stringent emission/ discharge standards while issuing the consent under the Water Act/Air Act, the judgments presently made by the SPCBs appear to be based on their respective experiences in qualitative terms for specifying stringent standards on a case to case basis.
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Power cut, pollution major reasons for Congress defeat in Salem
R. Ilangovan SALEM: Distressing internecine activities and haunting power cuts are the primary factors that inflicted a string of defeats on Congress in this highly industrialised region of western Tamil Nadu, barring the hill constituency of Nilgiris.
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Bulk drug firms want pollution norms relaxed
B Krishna Mohan / Hyderabad May 19, 2009, 0:38 IST With consumers switching to ever newer drugs, getting licences for changing product lines is an issue.
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Authorities bury their heads in sand
PWD Department
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For farmers, the Palar belt has become a nightmare
TT he prospect of Vellore turn T ing into a desert in the not T so-distant-future haunts the people of the district.
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European Over-Fishing Began 1,000 Years Ago - Report
Europeans started over-exploiting freshwater fish at least 1,000 years ago, according to historical studies that could help manage depleted modern fish stocks worldwide. Whales teemed in waters off New Zealand in the 19th century and a now almost non-existent cod stock in the Gulf of Maine totalled a huge 70,000 tonnes a year in the mid-19th century, according to historical records.