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 …
Tightening the screws on hotels and restaurants discharging sewage waste in the creek, the Goa State Pollution Control Board will now carry out random raids on the establishments as many owners denied discharging waste in the water bodies. Pollution Control Board officials told representatives of 12 hotels and restaurants that …
B. Aravind Kumar Air quality in major cities, especially Chennai, is slowly deteriorating with the city topping the State with high levels of particulate matter, both Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM) and Total Suspended Particulate Matter (TSPM). According to the Status Report of Air Quality in Tamil Nadu 2006-08 released …
Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Business of illegal disposal of bio-medical waste has started again. Over 150 kg bio-medical waste containing needles, syringes, blood bags, vials and other material was seized from a godown in Ghatlodia on Tuesday. The material was neatly packed in plastic bags. This proves that a …
Micro plans on table to clean up Dhanbad air - Pollution control board preparing digital map to identify industrial units in district Dhanbad, June 22: Scientists, environmentalists and owners of industrial units today sat together to work out ways to clean up the air of Dhanbad, the most polluted industrial …
BERHAMPUR: The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) was totally unprepared and callous towards emergencies that may emerge due to leakage of hazardous chlorine gas, felt the authorities of the Orissa's State Pollution Control Board (SPCB). It may be noted that on Monday morning around 60 persons were taken ill due …
K. T. Sangameswaran CHENNAI: The State Human Rights Commission on Monday ordered that the Chairman, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), Commissioner, Chennai Corporation, and the Chennai District Collector should file a report to the Commission on a report regarding contamination of groundwater in West Mogappair. Taking suo motu cognisance …
Pune Even as Union Minister for Environment and Forests (MoEF) Jairam Ramesh has told the district administration to ready a river purification plan, a river improvement plan
THE Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Monday launched its centre for assessing real time air quality, a first-of-its-kind initiative in India, at its head office in Guindy here. Named Care Air Centre, it will be able to monitor the emissions at industrial clusters online in real time. In …
WHILE more than 600 families living behind a petrol filling station at Fourth f Block in Mogappair West f complained that gasoline (from the fuel outlet) had seeped into their wells and rendered water unfit for cont sumption, officials of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) strongly denied the allegation, saying …
THE issue of mercury leak in the eco-sensitive Pambar Shola forest in Kodaikanal from Hin dustan Lever's thermometer factory was firs brought to notice in 2001 by factory workers and environmental groups. The company later admitted on record to have discharged more than 1.3 tons of toxic mercury into the …
A tragedy similar to Bhopal gas leak is in the making our own backyard -- Kodaikanal. A series of flawed policies in handling the mercury leak at the Hindustan Lever Limited's failure to p factory there nine years ago has denied justice to the people and resulted in f protect …
VELLORE: Collector C. Rajendran has directed officials of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to immediately visit the places in the Ambur area where there were complaints of tanneries discharging untreated effluents into the Palar, and identify and close such tanneries. He was presiding over a monthly agriculturists' grievance …
The Division Bench of Mr Mohit S Shah, Chief Justice and Mr Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta of Calcutta High Court today directed the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) to take people from other departments to monitor the checking of automobile pollution level during night hours. The action taken report …
Global warming will cast its calamitous effect on India too. The Himalayan glaciers would melt leading to massive flood in rivers, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board chairman A S Sadashivaiah has said. for secure earth Karnataka State Pollution Control Board chairman A S Sadashivaiah watering a plant to inaugurate World …
LUCKNOW: The proposed land fill site near the famous mango belt in Malihabad-Kakori region for the solid waste management project in Lucknow is facing an intense scrutiny by the environment and the horticultural department. But there appears to be an all out support for the site from the top administrative …
Nature might have cleaned up the contaminated Colva creek of the sewage and other waste, but are the authorities geared up to ensure that no further sewage finds its way into the water body? Well, ask the Colva Panchayat and the panchayat secretary says that the local body has issued …
Manas Dasgupta AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti, a voluntary organisation working for environmental protection, has come out with startling facts on how the badly treated industrial effluents are being dumped in the major rivers in the State and in the sea. The rivers include the Narmada, Mahisagar, Sabamarti and …
After taking on cruise boats operating in the Mandovi River for releasing sewage in the river, Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) will now check on barges to verify if they have adequate sewage facilities. About 11 cruise boats operating in the Mandovi basin were slapped with show cause notices …
