Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
Despite the increasing pollution levels, the city is yet to implement the Euro IV fuel deadline that was set for October last year. Petrol bunks in the city have not received the fuels conforming to Euro IV till date and most of them are unaware of the existence of such …
The state government has decided to deposit Rs 500 crore with the courts to acquire 100 acres of land in Miyapur for the Hyderabad Metro Rail project to avoid paying penalties to the project executer L&T.; Land ownership disputes have been delaying the acquisition of land for the project for …
There are environmentally sound and cheaper methods of cleaning up water bodies than the conventional methods, and environmentalists are urging the State government and industries to use these phytoremediation techniques to clean up contaminated lakes like Hussainsagar, wetlands like Kolleru and contaminated sites of power and mining projects. A report …
The final approval of the proposed development master plan of HMDA extended jurisdiction, has been put on hold by the Chief Minister, Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy. At the HMDA board meeting, which was held on May 9, the CM made certain changes in the HMDA development master plan, including enhancing …
The germ that has been causing regular outbreaks of cholera in the city is a new mutant of cholera bacterium, and if not check-ed, it will further spread in the environment posing a severe health threat. A team of researchers from Defence Research and Development Establishment in Gwalior, collected contaminated …
The Chief Minister, Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy, has put the final approval of the HMDA Master Plan on hold as he wanted certain changes made including enhancing the green cover in the Master Plan. During the third HMDA board meeting chaired by the Chief Minister, various issues were discussed including …
The state government is contemplating a comprehensive solar power policy as a large of solar power projects are in the pipeline in Andhra Pradesh. A study team that recently toured Gujarat, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, said that consultants will now be appointed to give recommendations for the policy. Officials from …
No plastic carry bags will be seen in the city from July with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation imposing a complete ban on the use of plastic carry bags in the city. A decision to this effect was taken on Monday by the Mayor, Ms B. Karthika Reddy, after detailed …
“Don’t teach us what is sanitation and hygiene.” This quote from Maqbul, a middle-aged male resident in Modher Bosti, a slum in Dhaka city, summed up the frustration of many people living in urban poverty to ongoing sanitation and hygiene programmes. In the light of their experiences, such programmes provide …
Shri Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests launched the Real time Ambient Noise Monitoring Network here today. In its first phase, it will cover 35 stations in Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. MoEF has also received Rs 200 crores under bioremediation for the first time …
TO IDENTIFY illegal water connections, the Hyderabad water department has decided to offer reward to informers. The Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) serves 750,000 connections; officials estimate 40,000 are ghost customers illegally tapping the network. The department will introduce the scheme in 2011 and give a reward …
Dec. 27: This year we realised that blaming the rain gods for water scarcity is unfair. It is human inefficiency that creates scarcity in many parts of the city. For the first time in 10 years, all the reservoirs were filled to the brim. The flood gates of the Osmansagar …
Hyderabad, Dec. 3: The discovery of a new species of bacterium that eats away the highly poisonous arsenic from the soil can solve the problem of arsenic poisoning in pollution hotspots, including Patancheru in the city. On Wednesday, Nasa had announced that the new bacterium not only survives on arsenic …
A full-grown Royal Bengal Tiger trapped by forest officials of the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve (STR) has become a cause for concern for the latter as the tiger weighed much less than any other tiger trapped in the mangrove forest in the past 20 years. The tiger trapped on 23 October …
Oct. 6: Particulate matter pollution at Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam is much above the standard levels and this is an increasing trend, stated a report released by the Centre for Science and Environment as part of Right to Clean Air campaign. PM10 (particulate matter of less than 10 micron size) levels …
Oct. 5: The minister for forests and environment, Mr P. Ramachandra Reddy, said that the state government has earmarked Rs 1,500 crore for the development of three zoos at Hyderabad, Tirupati and Visakhapatnam and a new zoo at Warangal. Addressing a meeting in the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park with animal …
Biomonitoring of exposure in workplaces has gained importance in evaluation of human health hazards. Since occupational exposure to petroleum hydrocarbons may have deleterious effects, genotoxicity risk among 200 fuel filling station attendants (FFSAs) and 200 matched controls was investigated. http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/8/944.abstract
