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 …
London has reached its annual air pollution limit just one month into the year, for the eighth year in a row. Under EU rules, any single location in the UK can only break the hourly air pollution limit 18 times in a year, and Brixton Road in Lambeth reached that …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vardhaman Kaushik Vs. Union of India & Others dated 31/01/2018 regarding registration of BS-IV compliant vehicles. The application have been moved by the purchasers of BS-IV compliant new diesel vehicles to be used as Ambulance/Medical Emergency Van for registration of …
The survey noted that some 35 million tonnes of rice paddy in three adjoining states (Punjab, Haryana and Western UP) are burnt in late October. Heavy penalties should be imposed for burning agricultural waste, and more incentive for farmers is needed to prevent alarmingly poor air quality in Delhi-NCR and …
MUMBAI: In a bid to reduce noise pollution on roads, the RTO has decided to crack down on honkers by suspending their driving licence for 15 days, along with imposing a hefty fine, and even suspend the registration of their vehicles temporarily. But this action will come only after a …
GURUGRAM: After carrying out 'Do Not Honk' campaigns in Gurugram and other cities of NCR, over 100 Gurugrammers are going to Mumbai to participate in a similar campaign there. The campaign, which will be held at Bandra toll gate on February 3, has been inspired from the Gurugram model. The …
The NGO has evaluated the data by the Central Board of Pollution Control (CPCB) and Environment Ministry. Mumbai: With the recent World Envi-ronment Performance Index report stating that India needs to provide urgent attention to its air quality crisis, experts have stated that number of cities with critical levels of …
Moderate annual air quality was recorded at 29 cities, while 13 cities recorded poor annual air quality. Mumbai: India ranked the fourth lowest out of 180 nations in terms of environment as per the Environmen-tal Performance Index (EPI), according to the latest report by Yale and Columbia universities. The report …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Subhash Datta Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 25/01/2018 regarding air pollution in the cities of Kolkata and Howrah. NGT directs that a comprehensive study of the ambient air quality should be undertaken by a Committee which shall …
KOLKATA: The city can expect a replacement for the most polluting of fuels — diesel — in the next three months, thanks to a Bengal government decision to enter into a joint venture with GAIL (India) Ltd. The state government on Tuesday told the National Green Tribunal of its decision …
Pune: Constable Satish (name changed) flinches every time a car horn blares at him at one of the junctions in the city where he mans traffic. Often, he has a hard time sleeping as the sound of horns keeps echoing in his ears. To gauge the effect of constant honking …
Calcutta: Calcutta's air is unbreathable in the current season, figures thrown up by the measuring stations of the state pollution control board reveal. Metro has accessed the pollution data generated by the 16 manual stations of the board across the city in the second week of January and found that …
As Rwandans usher into the new year of 2018, the ministry of environment through Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) has devised new measures while strengthen the existing ones to ensure Rwandans breath clean air. REMA commissioned a new baseline air quality study that was carried out between August and December …
NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has asked the Pune-based Automotive Research Association of India to explain the details about the tests carried out on diesel cars produced by German auto major Volkswagen. A bench headed by acting Chairperson Justice U D Salvi summoned ARAI Director Rashmi Urdhwareshe to appear …
Better technology may not end the pollution crisis. Rather, it would allow one to monitor even finer particles which would become new health threats. While currently particle effluents in air -- PM10 and PM2.5, or particles with diameter less than 10 and 2.5 micrometers -- are the cause of major …
NEW DELHI: A recent study has found that Delhi needs to take very aggressive steps to reduce emissions, including a complete prohibition on crop residue burning in neighboring states, to even bring down people's average PM2.5 exposure closer to the national safe standard by 2050. According to 'Burden of Disease …
Coimbatore: Many of us romanticise the city weather by calling the haze in early morning and night hours mist or fog. But, the right word for it is smog—a mix of fog and a layer of polluted air—said researchers at the the Forest College and Research Institute at Mettupalayam, who …
GURUGRAM: Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has launched a campaign with a city-based private bus aggregator to raise awareness about the impact of shared mobility on air pollution. As many as 25 buses, owned by Shuttl, set up with info-graphical messages urging people to shift from private vehicles to …
Ford Motor Co will significantly increase its planned investments in electric vehicles to $11bn by 2022 and have 40 hybrid and fully electric vehicles in its model line-up, the company’s chairman, Bill Ford, said on Sunday at the Detroit auto show. The investment figure is sharply higher than a previously …
In a relief to public sector oil companies, the National Green Tribunal has allowed registration of new diesel vehicles conforming to BS-IV norms to be used for transporting petrol or petroleum products. A bench headed by acting Chairperson Justice U D Salvi directed the Commissioner of Transport Department of Delhi …
Citing the latest data released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday claimed that there is a sharp fall in pollution levels in the national Capital in 2017. CPCB data has proved that people of the national Capital are serious on the issue …
