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 …
If presence of effluents found in groundwater, governments and pollution control boards of two states will be asked to take action against erring units While alcohol has damaged the health of north Indians, the units manufacturing it have been defiling the groundwater in Punjab and Haryana. The Central Ground Water …
After the failure of the district administration and the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) to stop the flow of polluted untreated industrial and sewage waste into the Kala Sanghia drain, natural water source, villagers from Doaba region and Rajasthan on Wednesday decided to take matters into their own hands. Led …
THE Mizoram State Pollution Control Board has asked the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to suspend exploratory drilling for flouting environmental norms. The state-owned oil giant ONGC started drilling operations at a place about two kilometres from Meidum village in Kolasib district in February though it did not have …
Whereas, the draft rules, namely the e-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2010 were published by the Government of India in the Ministry of Environment and Forests vide number S. O. 1125 (E), dated 14th May, 2010 in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) dated 14th …
The multi-crore Renuka Dam project is on hold, and 800 MW Kol Dam is also under the scanner of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. Hul (4.5 M), a private sector project in Chamba, is witnessing daily protests by locals seeking scrapping of all the clearances given to it. …
- Plans to build a single system to check multi-gas harmful emissions Ranchi, May 6: Mecon has developed a system that monitors noxious nitrogen oxides in air, a breakthrough it achieved after two years of painstaking research. In the presence of senior company officials, including CMD A.K. Ghosh and a …
Ranchi, May 4: For all its efforts to gift five new incinerators to the state, the pollution control board is undoing the good work by sitting on hundreds of applications from hospitals and nursing homes, seeking permission to handle and dispose of medical waste on their own. According to the …
Maharashtra's promise to get rid of load-shedding in the state by 2012 may remain only on paper in the absence of proper planning to tide over the 5000 MW power deficit, the government auditor has said. Moreover, the electricity generated by a number of its thermal power plants also falls …
The ministry of environment and forests, for the first time has chalked out comprehensive effluent standard norms for the rubber industry across all product categories. According to official sources this measure will check the pollution problem arising from rubber parks coming up in the country. While one was situated only …
The Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) has selected a Delhi-based agency to set up five new incinerators for quick disposal of biomedical wastes although another firm had quoted the lowest price. The former chairman of JSPCB, C.R. Sahay, assigned the Central Bio-waste Treatment Facility project to Synergy Waste Pvt …
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government, on Saturday, approved the closure of 5 out of 21 blacklisted tanneries that have been polluting the Ganga in the state. Closure notices, UP Pollution Control Board officials confirmed, were served to the errant tanneries after informing them about the need to set up primary treatment …
Independent India’s first hill city has jeopardised the ecology of the Sahyadri Hills. Its developer and political patrons bent rules and circumvented environmental law while building it. Resultant landslides could endanger the city. Read this special report published in DownTo Earth. Independent India’s first hill city has jeopardised the ecology …
Lavasa is a destination for the well-heeled, upwardly mobile, aspiring for quality life. The streets bear names like Thicket and Celosia (an ornamental plant); the village that the town replaces—Dasve—has become the Dasve boulevard. The town centre boasts a town hall that does not resemble any municipal office but a …
Sitting near her dilapidated hut in Mugaon village, 70 kilometres from Pune, Thumabai Walhekar (50) was furious. I had asked her a simple question—did she want township Lavasa? Mugaon is one of the 18 villages where Independent India’s first hill city is being developed. Thumabai spoke breathlessly in Marathi, her …
Consideration of projects for environmental clearance based on Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI)- Extension of Moratorium up to 30-09-2011.
Shri Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests launched the Real time Ambient Noise Monitoring Network here today. In its first phase, it will cover 35 stations in Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. MoEF has also received Rs 200 crores under bioremediation for the first time …
