Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
A study by IIT Delhi reveals that vehicle speeds had increased 11am onwards during the first phase of the odd-even scheme. The maximum increase recorded was 9%. However, the average speed of vehicles reduced marginally between 6am and 11am at some locations when the road-rationing exercise was undertaken from January …
The study found that average speeds decreased by 5 per cent in arterial road segments, 4 per cent in ring road segments, 3 per cent in commercial roads and by 1 per cent in inter-city roads during the first phase of the scheme between January 1 and 15. Average speeds …
In a major boost to Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT), the environmental committee of ministry of environment and forests has approved the expansion of the container terminal project. According to senior VPT officials, the formal order of the proposed Rs 633.11 crore expansion project planned by Visakha Container Terminal Private Limited …
New Delhi: Ahead of a Supreme Court hearing on Thursday, the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) convened an urgent meeting of Delhi government, rest of the NCR states and private cab and app-based cab operators on Wednesday. The EPCA members said that almost all the SC directions to control air …
Levels of air pollution, including harmful particulate matter, are higher in and around the floodplains of the Yamuna, which should ideally be home to rich eco-systems. The Yamuna floodplains are at the centre of an ongoing debate about their use, with environmentalists opposing a massive cultural fest that will be …
In a move that has left green activists worried, the Centre has shrunk the Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) around the meteor-crater Lonar lake in Buldhana district to 100 metres from 500 metres. The one-of-its-kind Lonar crater was created by a meteor impact around 50,000 years ago. Activists fighting for its preservation …
Concerned at the increasing contamination of water bodies by antibiotic sources, 15 universities from eight countries, including IIT Madras, have decided to come together to test water samples as part of the HEARD (Halting Environmental Antibiotic Resistance Dissemination) project. Chennai has been taken up as the sample station in India …
If you go by NDMC's smart city concept note, its goal is to achieve WHO's air quality standard of 10 micrograms per cubic metre for PM 2.5 by 2025. It also aims to reduce per capita automobile count to 0.1 and clear all slums by that year. However, it's not …
CHENNAI: With new projects including smart cities coming into focus, the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras is preparing a blueprint to set up a Centre of Excellence in Construction Engineering with assistance from the State government. The Centre for Urbanisation, Buildings and the Environment (CUBE) being proposed by IIT-Madras would be …
Kolkata: Here's good news for the city where several pockets are contaminated with arsenic-affected water. The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur has developed an ultra-low cost eco-friendly laterite based arsenic filter for providing safe drinking water. The innovation has won Sirshendu De, the head of chemical engineering department, the Innovation Award …
VARANASI: To prevent the majestic ghats from caving in, the experts of Geological Survey of India (GIS) and National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) will assess the measures to check erosion on the left bank of river Ganga induced due to siltation on right bank during their visit to the city …
As we finish using an aesthetically designed tube of toothpaste, face wash or face wash, thousands of microbeads and microplastics would have mixed with the water systems, thereby causing serious environmental damage. More than 455 billion plastic microbe ads and 749 billion microplastics have been released into the Indian ocean …
Luxury Sedans, SUVs Hit Speed-Breaker Harder With FM's New Cess Be prepared to shell out more for cars. Finance minister Arun Jaitley introduced an `infrastructure cess' in the Budget which will see a spike in car prices across categories--right from the entry-level Maruti `Alto' that gets dearer by Rs 3,000 …
In the second International conference on ‘Recent Advances in Bio-energy Research’ at the Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy (SSS-NIBE), an autonomous institution of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India, Kapurthala, the importance of science in bio-energy research for the welfare of the society and …
Despite studies indicating that the Golden Temple was getting damaged due to pollution by coal hearths, among other things, a part of the langar is still being cooked from firewood. A study of the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) had stated that one of the reasons of damage to the …
CHENNAI: With low-cost sensors and pollution monitoring equipment in their backpacks, students of IIT Madras are venturing out to research on pollution triggers in specific locations across the city. Taking a hyper-local approach to study rising levels of air pollution, the students hope to identify areas in the city that …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today issued show cause notice to industries located on the stretch from Haridwar to Kanpur asking why they should not be shut down for polluting river Ganga. The green panel also directed industries like tannery paper and pulp, textile, slaughter houses etc to clear their …
New Delhi: Smoke clouds similar to the recent one at the Deonar landfill that choked Mumbai for days have been slow-poisoning Delhiites for years. Small fires are ablaze nearly all the time in the Delhi landfills and may put the city at the risk of a major fire disaster, said …
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban Development has decided to include 'Implementation of Dust Free Construction with Innovative Technologies in India' as an additional subject for examination. As dust particles continue to contribute to rising pollution levels, a Parliamentary committee has decided to examine the issue of implementation of ‘dust-free’ …
Mounting racks to be constructed with Reinforced Cement Concrete There is no stopping CIAL from scoring innovative firsts. After being the first fully solar energy-powered airport in the world, the airport company will soon roll out an innovative and cost-effective design for its proposed 3.5 km-long canal-top solar project. The …
