This brochure offers decision-makers in the real estate and energy industries, as well as urban and municipal developers, a broad overview of the topics of decentralised energy generation and supply, and raises awareness of the goal of decarbonisation by 2050 at the latest. The advancing digitalization in the construction and …
PANJIM: After initially suggesting the auction of iron ore mining leases, NGO Goa Foundation (GF), on Thursday proposed that the government not auction leases to private players as the mining industry is incorrigible and continues to brazenly violate laws leading to illegal trade. The NGO opined that the government assume …
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday asked the Maharashtra government what steps it has taken to bring down prices of sanitary napkins and spread awareness about their use. A division bench of Justices N H Patil and N W Sambre said it was an important issue affecting half the …
The state environment department’s public notice asks district collectors and all the local bodies in the state to create awareness about it and to ensure wider participation of people and non-governmental organisations in its implementation. The state environment department proposes to ban production, use, storage, distribution and sale of plastic …
The project to accomplish the Centre's target of ending the disease by 2025 Assam has decided to follow Tamil Nadu by involving all registered private pharmacies in its fight against tuberculosis for timely diagnosis and treatment. Reach, an NGO working for tuberculosis patients across the country, and Assam tuberculosis cell …
Civic body has already started the work to step up segregated collection of waste by repairing damaged carts and bins As of December 31, 2017, the Coimbatore Corporation is supposed to have completed its Swachh Bharat work as it gets ready for Swachh Sarvekshan 2018 ranking. This means completing segregated …
MUMBAI: Alarmed by excessive unnatural lighting in the city, an activist group has written to the BMC and the state to consider the framing of a suitable policy to regulate light pollution. The Awaaz Foundation recently did the first-of-its-kind recording of lux levels, a unit of illuminance, in the city …
The Maharashtra Transport department has planned to crack a whip on pressure and shrill horns fitted in commercial vehicles as part of its ‘No Honking’ campaign. Speaking to DNA, Principal Secretary, Transport department, Manoj Saunik said that most of these commercial vehicles including trucks, buses, and others visit the Regional …
India is among the deadliest countries for defenders of rights related to land, territory, environment, rights NGO Amnesty International said on Tuesday. In its global report 'Deadly but Preventable Attacks: Killings and Enforced Disappearances of Those who Defend Human Rights', released on Tuesday, the rights watchdog said: "In India, journalists, …
Coimbatore: A concerted effort is on to enforce the ban on use of plastics in wedding halls. Coimbatore corporation imposed the ban in October and enforced segregation of waste in the halls. A group of 'Swachh Bharat' ambassadors and volunteers of the 'No dumping' NGO have got together to ensure …
MUMBAI: The National Green Tribunal, Pune bench, on Thursday ordered a stay on approving construction plans in Coastal Regulation Zones in Thane and Palghar till the state publishes the draft Coastal Zone Management Plan for the two districts. The order was issued in a plea filed by NGO Vanashakti asking …
Mumbai: The popular activist from Awaaz Foundation named Sumaira Abdulali, the woman who identified silence zones in Mumbai and struggled for the last 15 years to protect the city from noise pollution has now raised concern on colourful and flashing lights with context to Juhu beach which is been recently …
The notices were issued by a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta on an interlocutory application filed by an NGO, Goa Foundation. The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notices to the Centre, Goa government and mining companies on a plea seeking that the interim cap on mining …
Cooch Behar: A solar plant that can generate 10 kilowatts of power was commissioned at the Sadar Government High School here on Wednesday. This is the first time that such a facility has been installed at an educational institution in the district. The plant will cut down power bills of …
While the single crackers were found to be within their permissible limits of 125 dB(A), with most measuring between 116 to 119 dB(A), they were still found to be higher than last year's highest reading of 117 dB(A). A firecracker testing conducted by the Awaaz Foundation along with the Maharashtra …
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that raising the height of the peripheral wall around the IGI airport here may not result in reducing noise pollution emanating from aircraft. The IIT experts told a bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar that …
A Ghatkopar-based college is carrying out an in-depth study of the noise levels on one of the major roads outside the college and will propose interventions to reduce the levels in partnership with Awaaz Foundation. Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Sumaira Abdulali, Convenor …
NAVI MUMBAI: The PCMC general body meeting scheduled next week will discuss a complete ban on use of plastic bags. The general body will also debate the issue of creating awareness on the polythene bag issue. The Panvel civic body has been unable to contain the polythene bag use in …
As co-chair of the foundation she started with her husband Bill, Melinda Gates is the world's leading woman philanthropist. In an exclusive interview, she tells Joeanna Rebello Fernandes how tech innovations can save lives and why she remains optimistic about India: Eradication of poverty is one of the UN's Sustainable …
Gurgaon: Civil society members, civic authorities and private sector biggies have joined hands to do "something different" to inculcate better waste management practices among residents to achieve what now seems like a distant dream — a Gurgaon that is free of garbage littered on roadsides and on vacant plots. On …
VARANASI: Varanasi is set to become the first city in UP to use cow dung cakes for cremation despite opposition from a section of wood-sellers. Nagpur-based NGO Eco-Friendly Living Foundation and Kashi Mokshadayini Seva Samiti had attempted to cremate an unclaimed body on Monday using cow dung cakes instead of …
