A record 212 people who defend our land and environment were killed last year, reports Global Witness - an international NGO dedicated to preventing extractive industries from infringing on human rights. This is an average of more than four people a week. Shockingly, over half of all reported killings last …
Plastic ban in the state had come into effect from the Marathi new year of Gudi Padwa. The state government had announced the same around six months in advance. Now, as per the Maharashtra Plastic and Thermocol Products (manufacture, usage, sale, transport, handling and storage) notification, manufacture, usage, sale, transport, …
Hazaribag: A four-member team of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has recommended stringent action against the state government and the district administrations of Hazaribag and Koderma for turning a blind eye to illegal mining which has polluted the environment and destroyed the ecology of the adjoining villages in the last …
GHAZIABAD: The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday cracked the whip on governments of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi for their failure to comply with its an earlier order regarding conducting an inspection of brick kilns operating in their respective areas, and threatened to impose a fine on them on …
Hundreds of vehicles caught for several minutes in every signal and traffic bottleneck pollute the air by spewing smoke. Better traffic management and redesigning of road may reduce this air pollution in the city, said experts. If a seamless traffic is ensured, effectively reducing the time taken by a vehicle …
GURUGRAM: The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) finalised and submitted the much-awaited report on the Bandhwari waste-to-energy plant to the office of the additional deputy commissioner on Wednesday. The report was prepared after a public hearing took place at Bandhwari village on March 21. The report will soon be …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to look into the possibility of rolling out the BS-VI fuel in 13 metro cities by April 2019, besides introducing it in the national capital from the beginning of the next month. The Centre had earlier informed the top court it …
Nainital/Dehradun: Google commemorated the 45th anniversary of the Chipko movement with a doodle on Monday even as the leader of the campaign termed tree felling for Char Dham road “devastating” to the state. The doodle portrays women, who were at the forefront of the mission and had kept night-long vigils, …
MUMBAI: A 500-acre sprawl of privately-held land in Goregaon (W) has had no mangroves since 2006, says a state panel tasked to determine if the site was reclaimed and mangroves destroyed. The panel took 2006 as the cut-off date for its study as directives notifying mangroves as ‘protected forests’ came …
DEHRADUN: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday banned further felling of trees in the Rs 12,000 crore all-weather Char Dham road project, a pet initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The felling of trees has been banned till the next hearing of the matter on April 4 although the …
NEW DELHI: The high pollution in Delhi is proving a threat to the capital’s smallest known vertebrate. The new generation of Microhyla ornata — a small yellowish brown frog — is showing physical deformities at birth such as the absence of eyes. These were established by research conducted by the …
A Hindu outfit, Shri Ayutchandi Mahayagna Samiti, is organising the event during which one crore offerings to fire will be made by priests, who have come from Varanasi and Vrindavan. Flames rose from 108 heart-shaped hawan-kunds at Meerut’s Bhaisali Ground on Sunday as more than 350 priests performed a mahayagna …
Although Kerala has been a top rubber grower in India, the plant was first introduced in the Northeast by the regional forest department in the 1960s Rubber plantations, which have been vigorously promoted in north-east India in the name of increasing forest cover and rehabilitation of tribespeople, have got environmentalists …
Under the pretext of environment conservation, some environmental organisations have been trying to extend the ecologically sensitive zone to Kodagu, alleged office-bearers of Save Kodagu Forum. Addressing reporters here on Wednesday, forum member Madhu Bopanna said that some environmentalists are disturbing the peace of people of Kodagu. If the sensitive …
PUNE: The Pune region has the maximum number of industrial units in the state with alarmingly high pollution index (PI). scanner Nearly 4,826 units in the Pune region, including Pune, Satara and Solapur districts, have been kept in the “red category” (highly polluting) of the MPCB, the State Economic Survey …
DEHRADUN: Union environment minister Harsh Vardhan said that he has taken “serious note of concerns regarding violations of environment norm in the construction work for the all-weather Char Dham widening project in Uttarakhand” and will speak with the state government. The minister was in Dehradun on Saturday to inaugurate a …
The environment ministry today told the Supreme Court that a National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to comprehensively deal with the rising air pollution levels across the country would be finalised within four weeks. NCAP is a medium term national level strategy to tackle the increasing air pollution problem in India …
NEW DELHI: The "exorbitant" cost of medical treatment in India on Thursday drew attention of the Supreme Court which told the government to "do something" as the people were unable to get treatment due to the "huge cost". The apex court's remarks assume significance as the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority …
GURUGRAM: The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) directed the government of Haryana on Tuesday to submit a report within 15 days on the action it has taken to safeguard the Aravalis from rising cases of diversion of land for commercial use. “An email… addressed to HMEFCC (state forest …
LUDHIANA: The income-tax department and Times of India’s joint initiative Live Green Campaign is all set to take new colours with its second phase kicking off from Friday. Led by chief income tax commissioner Binay K Jha, representatives of various top industrial houses of Punjab along with people from all …
KOLKATA: BJP workers on Thursday took a pitcherful of Hooghly water to the Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s vandalised statue to “purify” it. Though the cops prevented them from reaching the statue site, the politicians’ aborted act prompted environmentalists and Calcutta’s citizens to focus on the state of the river in the …
