The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The Delhi government has informed the National Green Tribunal that steel pickling units fall under the prohibited list of industrial activity according to the Delhi Master Plan (DMP), 2021 and cannot operate in residential areas. The AAP government told a bench headed by acting NGT Chairperson Justice U D Salvi …
UDAIPUR: In their continuous efforts to keep Dungarpur clean and green, the municipal council has banned the use of plastic and paper cups at tea stalls and selling of gutkha pouches at paan cabins and general stores in the city area. The council chairman KK Gupta held a meeting with …
Industries now share emission-related data. Visakhapatnam: Member Secretary of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) A. Sudhakar called for maintaining good environment systems by industries that would help increase the lifespan and living standards of people. He also advised using technology to measure air quality to control pollution. He made this …
The National Green Tribunal has disposed of a plea challenging the forest clearance granted for construction of the 302-km-long Agra-Lucknow Expressway. A bench headed by acting Chairperson Justice UD Salvi passed the order after it was informed that the final approval under Forest Conservation Act has been granted to the …
Environment ministry bats for real estate exemption Calcutta: The Union environment ministry is planning to move the Supreme Court against a recent National Green Tribunal verdict that quashed its notification allowing exemptions to the real estate sector from environmental laws. "We are contemplating moving the Supreme Court.... After all, the …
Cuttack: A public interest litigation in Orissa High Court has sought its intervention against the mushrooming of illegal brick kilns in areas under Barang and Sadar blocks of Cuttack district. The PIL has expressed concern over unchecked operation of brick kilns close to human habitations and alleged that these posed …
Salem: As the city gears up to celebrate Pongal, the Salem Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Thursday unveiled the plans to set up as many as 25 collection points in each of its four zones where residents can discard old things on the day of Bhogi, the first day of the …
Governor N.N. Vohra, Chairman of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB), presided over an emergent meeting of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board today to, inter alia, particularly discuss the implementation of the directions recently passed by National Green Tribunal (NGT) in regard to the conduct of Shri Amarnathji Yatra and …
In his maiden meeting of Tourism Deptt, vows to make J&K; sustainable tourism destination Tourism Minister Tassaduq Mufti today said that research, surveys and environmental impact assessments are to be incorporated as regular features in tourism policy of the state to raise modern infrastructure coincident with the historical legacies and …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench here on Monday modified its September 27, 2016 judgment to enhance the environmental compensation cost imposed on Goel Ganga Developers India Private Limited from Rs 100 crore to Rs 190 crore in a review proceeding relating to illegal constructions at an integrated housing …
Panaji: The days of the ubiquitous plastic milk bags and plastic bags for fish are numbered with chief minister Manohar Parrikar announcing that all polyvinyl chloride-based (PVC) plastic bags will be banned in the state by December 19, this year. Parrikar promised to come out with a legislation to tackle …
Minister for Forests, Ecology and Environment, Choudhary Lal Singh inspected the State Forest Research Institute (SFRI) at Sidhra and directed to identify the open areas to be developed into green spaces. The Minister instructed the Director, SFRI, B M Sharma, to prepare a comprehensive plan for raising about two crore …
VASCO: Alleging that the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC;) has acted contrary to its mandate of protecting the environment and public health, Goa Against Coal (GAC) members on Tuesday claimed that EAC’s act of recommending clearances in haste is unjust …
Board to conduct survey, take strict action against defaulters Acting under the Prevention and Control of Pollution Act, Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) Chairman Kahan Singh Pannu had directed the units, including Nahar Group of Industries, in Lalru to strictly adhere to the environmental norms and take immediate steps to …
As many as 600 shops in Pimple Saudagar area in Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) will shun the use of plastic bags and switch to bags made of cloth. At the turn of calendar year to 2018, Pimple Saudagar in the twin town will arguably become the first suburban area …
CHENNAI: For the first time ever, India has moved into top-100 of the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business global rankings. But, this jump comes amidst fear of compromised environmental safeguards. 2017 is a tough year for those fighting for environment protection as the Union environment ministry kept changing goalposts …
With the disturbing trend of rowdy picnickers near protected wildlife habitats showing little sign of abatement, conservationists have called for a complete stop to boisterous gatherings inside protected areas, besides strict regulation of such festivities in their peripheral areas.In the city, during the period from December to January, it has …
GURUGRAM: Only eight brick kilns in Gurgaon and neighbouring Mewat district have put in place eco-friendly zig-zag technology so far, after the authorities banned polluting traditional kilns in September. Officials at the regional office of Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) said they had received applications from the owners of …
In wake of damage to the state’s fragile environs, government has imposed a ban on use of polythene bags in Jammu and Kashmir. The step has been taken after High Court directives, while experts are emphasising on strict implementation of the government order. Chairman State Pollution Control Board has directed …
Likely to be headed by a bureaucrat, Punjab’s Directorate of Environment and Climate Change will be a 18-member body that will act as the nodal agency for preparing strategy and policy on environment-related issues. Approved by the Cabinet recently, the proposed directorate will have technical and environmental experts on its …
