Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Nashik: Once know for its salubrious climate and scenic beauty, the city now frequently has a haze in the air. Burning of waste, large number of private vehicles on the streets spewing toxic air and unkept public transport buses have triggered deterioration of the air quality in the city. Nashik …
Jaipur: Pollution level has spiked in five cities of Rajasthan and air quality has failed to meet National Air Quality Standards as per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) report. Prominent cities from the state, including Alwar, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota and Udaipur, are among the 94 cities in the country …
Thiruvananthapuram: The state government has plans to demarcate selected stretches of roads in the state as ‘no-horn regions’. Sharing the plan, transport minister A K Saseendran said here on Thursday that the pilot project will be tested in the city. “Initially a selected road here will be declared as no-horn …
MUMBAI: Several ENT specialists from the BMC-run hospitals took to the streets on Wednesday to spread awareness about the health hazards of unnecessary honking. Honking remains one of the key causes behind the city’s raging noise pollution levels. The health professionals counselled taxi drivers outside KEM Hospital in Parel —one …
Nabanna: The state government is working on ways to regulate the entry of non-BS IV vehicles into Howrah and Calcutta after being pulled up by the National Green Tribunal for its failure to do so. The transport department has called a meeting on Thursday with the director general of police, …
Nagpur: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has sounded the death knell to 94 cities in the country where pollution levels are not meeting the set standards. Topping the chart are Maharashtra with 17 cities and Uttar Pradesh with 15 cities. The board has pinned the blame on civic bodies …
The average Malayali is well aware of various forms of pollution and the health hazards stemming from them. But it seems many are clueless when it comes to noise pollution. The Indian Medical Association (IMA), in association with the National Initiative for Safe Sound (NISS), is launching an intensive campaign …
KOCHI: With mounting complaints about the use of pirated software by pollution control testing centres in the district to issue Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates to vehicles, the Motor Vehicle Department (MVD) has decided to initiate action against those centres. As a part of this, the department also kick-started a …
The Hon’ble Supreme Court in its order March 23, 2018 has directed EPCA to examine the new parameters that can be introduced in Pollution under Control (PUC) centres. EPCA has reviewed the global practices to assess the potential of adopting testing of additional parameters including nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate …
Dalhousie: The National Green Tribunal has pulled up the state government for its failure to bring down the city's vehicular pollution level by restricting BS III vehicles and phasing out 15-year-old ones. The eastern zonal bench of the tribunal has also observed that the government has tabled an unsatisfactory report …
Calcutta: The National Green Tribunal ordered the Bengal government on Thursday to allow the supply of the environment-friendly compressed natural gas to major parts of the Calcutta Metropolitan Area (CMA) and not just the area under the Calcutta Municipal Corporation. CMA comprises the area under the Calcutta civic body as …
The Modi government has finalised a Rs 637-crore National Clean Air Programme to improve the air quality in India. The 20-point programme shifts the onus of fighting air pollution to the state governments, emphasises on collection of authentic data on pollution sources, introduces monitoring of rural air pollution and a …
Concerned about the rising pollution levels in Siliguri, a voluntary organisation on Tuesday sought measures to be taken against the same. Members of the Green Forum also demanded that authorities concerned find a solution to the problem. “Siliguri, once one of the cleanest and greenest towns in India, has witnessed …
NEW DELHI: Automobile manufacturers on Monday told the SC-mandated Environment Pollution Control Authority that early introduction of BS-VI-compliant cars in the capital was nearly impossible. They said no retrofitment was possible on older vehicles, particularly BS-II and BS-III, either to have a cleaner fleet. One of the leading auto manufacturers …
MUMBAI: The most common complaint for which a Mumbaikar visits the BMC’s 175 dispensaries is acute respiratory illness (ARI). The civic morbidity survey shows that respiratory illnesses, including cold, cough or viral/bacterial infection, account for 20% of the patient load at the dispensaries. The BMC’s executive health officer, Dr Padmaja …
The Environment Ministry came out with a draft national action plan proposing multiple strategies to reduce air pollution. However, a green body claimed that the draft lacked its earlier set target of bringing down air pollution by 50 per cent in five years. The ministry put up the draft of …
The SDMC said that the Rs 120 crore project had hit a roadblock as a company, which was disqualified during the technical bid, had moved the High Court and subsequently the Supreme Court. The green cess imposed on commercial vehicles entering Delhi has failed to act as a “deterrent”, the …
DEHRADUN: District magistrate SA Murugesan held a meeting with Uttarakhand environment protection and pollution control board (UEPPCB) on Thursday and instructed the public works department (PWD) to cover construction sites from all sides to prevent rise in air pollution levels. In another significant decision, the DM said that the administration …
Dehradun: Clean Air Asia (CAA), an organization that is working towards clean air management in around 1,000 cities across Asia, including five in India, will now monitor pollution levels in Dehradun, the first north Indian city where CAA’s projects will be executed. After deliberation on ways to track and reduce …
Estimate that, if ‘business as usual’ continues, CO2 emission from vehicles will increase by nearly 24 times If the air around the city looks hazy now, imagine what it will be like in a little more than a decade, when vehicles will over-run the city, assuming governments continue their cavalier …
