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 …
Ahmedabad: Pending environmental clearance for new industrial units and projects might come through soon. The state government on Tuesday assured the Gujarat Chambers of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) of rectifying an
Mumbai The state environment department plans to urge the Centre to regulate the sale of colours next Holi, the move following a report in The Indian Express that such colours contain heavy metals.
Hexavalent chromium released from an ancillary unit of Hero Honda is contaminating the groundwater of Sehraul and nearby villages in Gurgaon, with the Haryana Pollution Control Board doing little to contain spread of the toxic material. The board drew flak after it allowed the unit, Munjal Showa, to reopen in …
Maharashtra’s target is to generate 33,000 MW from 47 new thermal power plants. This is a measure for its power-starved western part; some of it would go to the Nor-thern Grid. Vidarbha, in eastern Maha-rashtra, is power surplus; the region produces 67 per cent of the total power in the …
The West Bengal pollution control board shut down 49 illegally operating brickfields in Nadia district after the high court rapped the government for laxity. Chief law officer of the board Biswajit Mukherjee said the brickfields did not have official consent for operating and were operating without proper pollution control measures. …
The public sector petroleum company, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), is giving environmental norms the short shrift while exploring oil and gas reserves in Tripura. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) found this during inspection of abandoned well sites in West Tripura and South Tripura districts in the first …
SAMBALPUR: Though the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) pulled up the Sambalpur Municipality a few months back on haphazard disposal of garbage in and around the town, there is not much change in the situation till now. The Municipality had acquired 26 acres of land for development of a Municipal …
Asks petitioner to suggest alternative site to authorities CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has declined to interfere with the construction of a sewage storage-cum-treatment plant in a lake land at Ka.Kuppam village in Villupuram taluk. Disposing of a petition seeking a writ to forbear the authorities from putting up the …
MP Pollution Control Board Chairman Dr NP Shukla said that e-waste which includes electrical and electronic products and their parts are now emerging as a serious challenge in all cities and rural areas. According to an estimate by the year 2012 e-waste would be about 80-lakh tons, which has to …
After the biomedical waste treatment plant in Sewree was closed down in 2003 amid complaints of pollution in the nearby areas, the one at Deonar has run afoul of residents, who complain the pollutants and allergens being emitted by the plant is causing a wide range of illness. The Maharashtra …
Satish Shile, Bangalore, Feb 18, DH News Service: The manufacturing unit of a major pharmaceutical company located at Virgonagar in Bangalore has violated the norms for scientific disposal of effluent. The manufacturing unit of Cipla has stored liquid waste in a sump on its premises, close to Yellamma Lake. It …
Due to economic progress production of electrical and electronic items has gone up considerably in the country. These products are being updated frequently and the old products become outdated and replaced by the new technology products. We call these outdated products as e-waste. The e-waste is growing rapidly. According to …
After the administration and Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) drastically failed to meet its dead line of 2008 to preserve the natural water source
The cash-strapped Punjab government may be planning to increase its annual medical budget for the treatment of cancer, and install reverse osmosis systems for clean drinking water in villages, but it does not seem to be making adequate efforts to check the root cause of many other diseases in the …
M. Soundariya Preetha Board contends that the fees were hiked after 13 years and is meagre for SMEs The consent fees were hiked by nearly 500 per cent for some small-scale units The hike is only 300 per cent to 450 per cent for large-scale units COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore District …
The Karnataka Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has found that minor non-compliance by industries in Mangalore had led to the high-level of pollution. KSPCB Member Secretary M S Goudar said:
Jyoti basu, the cpi(m) stalwart who served as West Bengal chief minister for 23 years, never gave long speeches on environment. But his deeds spoke louder than words. Many of the steps he took to protect the environment served as the model. He was given a high ranking among chief …
In the first week of January, the Maharashtra state pollution control board ordered the shutdown of 27 chemicals factories in Khed taluka of Ratnagiri district. The factories from the Lote-Parshuram industrial area were found emptying untreated effluents into a rivulet that contaminated the reservoir downstream. The Boraj dam reservoir is …
