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 …
Police along with officials of the civic body, state pollution control board and CESC sealed 11 illegal tanneries in Tiljala, Topsia, Tangra and Karaya on Monday. The crackdown will continue till all the illegal tanneries have been sealed, said Ajey Ranade, the superintendent of South 24-Parganas police. Last week, the …
Pune With nearly 5,000 tonnes of electronic waste generated in Pune every year and about 23,000 tonnes in Mumbai, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) is preparing fresh guidelines for e-waste management for the two cities that generate maximum e-waste in the state. Environment secretary Valsa Nair, who is also …
Minister for Ecology, Environment and Inland Water Transport J Krishna Palemar warned that strict action would be initiated against industries which violate pollution norms. Speaking at a function organised at the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) office to mark Kannada Rajyotsava celebrations here on Thursday, Palemar said that 46 …
AHMEDABAD: Environment damaged due to global warming can be restored only if industrial units divert part of their profits for conservation. This was the plea made by Sanjiv Tyagi, member secretary of Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to industries while delivering a keynote address at a workshop organised by Gujarat …
SABARIMALA: The water in the Kunnar check-dam, one of the two dams which meet the water needs of Sannidhanam, including pooja purposes inside the Sreekovil and drinking water requirement, is highly polluted owing to lack of cleaning and safe upkeeping. Absence of cleaning for years together and water pollution as …
The five government hospitals coming under Bangalore Medical College are likely to start disinfection of liquid bio- medical waste at the source as done in private hospitals, according to an official in Bangalore Medical College Research Institute. This comes after Lok Adalat order directing the closure of 14 government hospitals …
Coimbatore: The district administration and district engineer of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board have announced that orders have been served on 40 dyeing units for closure and disconnection of power supply connection on the charges of polluting the Noyyal Rajavaikkal and the ground water table in the area. District …
Chairman of the Goa Pollution Control Board, Dr L U Joshi has said it has become a fashion to point fingers at the Board for pollution when implementing agencies created under various Legislations are responsible to curb the same.
Come December 4 and the Margao Municipal Council will kick off an intensive campaign across the Commercial Capital to create awareness amongst the citizens on waste segregation and door-to-door garbage collection. The campaign is intended to bring about awareness on waste segregation as the civic body will start door-to-door garbage …
Chandigarh, November 20 : After receiving a wake-up call from the Punjab and Haryana High Court for not keeping a check on meat industries in Dera Bassi, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) today submitted a draft policy introducing significant changes in its functioning. Instead of a year, now the …
Deepa H Ramakrishnan NOT MANY TAKERS: A computerised vehicle emission checking centre in the city. CHENNAI: The increase in the number of vehicles and the absence of an effective mechanism to make them comply with the mandatory emission checks are contributing to the air pollution levels in the city. Even …
Pune, November 04 The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), while admitting to its shortcomings, has trained guns on the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for not sharing the responsibility for the accident that killed seven at the biomedical waste disposal plant in Kailash crematorium on September 11. The MPCB is the …
MARGAO, NOV 3 The Goa State Pollution Control Board has sought a factual report from the PWD over use of garbage and waste by the contractor for and filling of the Margao ring road. Member Secretary Ashok Daiwajna told Herald that the Board has written a letter to the PWD …
VASCO, NOV 3 In a joint inspection carried by various government bodies, the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) on Monday collected samples from contaminated rivulets which burst into flames on Saturday evening at Shindolim-Jina, Sancoale for examination. GSPCB Consultant Scientist Dr Simon D
By Subhash Chandra N S,DH News Service,Bangalore: The financial slowdown might have reduced conspicuous consumption and dulled cracker sales across town. But now, there is a little twist in the Deepavali tale. The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has now ruled that this year
Deepa H Ramakrishnan and K.Lakshmi Smoky affair: Deepavali celebrations in Triplicane, which was the noisiest and most polluted spot in Chennai on Monday.
Bangalore, DHNS: The High Court has directed the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) to initiate action against a Maharashtra-based agro company which is establishing a distillery unit at a village in Bagalkot. Yellappa and five others had filed a public interest litigation against the construction of a distillery unit …
