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 …
The health department found over 70,000 children suffering from diarrhoea in a door-to-door survey of houses conducted in the state. The survey started from July 27 under Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF). Till August 6, the health workers found 70,000 children suffering from diarrhea. The ailing children were provided with …
The U.S. Forest Service has raised hundreds of concerns about a proposed natural gas pipeline that would carve a 30-mile swath through national forests in Virginia and West Virginia. The written comments to federal regulators question why the proposed route of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline has to go through the …
Drainage officials are investigating suspected illegal waste water discharge along the banks of Sha Tin's Shing Mun River - once notorious for its foul odour. A thick, orange-brown sludge was seen seeping out of a storm drainage outlet outside the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and floating several metres downriver on …
A SWISS trimaran on a round-the-world voyage aimed at raising awareness about plastic pollution in the oceans has docked at Shanghai, its only stop in China. Trimaran “Race for Water Odyssey” with her crew of six berthed at the International Cruise Terminal Station in Hongkou District on Wednesday evening, her …
OGONI people in Rivers State have lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for approving creation of necessary institutions for implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Report. In a letter to President Buhari, which was made available to The Guardian, the Ogoni under the auspices of the Movement for the Survival …
Government has asked the pollution control boards to initiate action against industrial units discharging contaminated effluents in river Ganga, Union Minister Uma Bharti informed Lok Sabha on Thursday. She said the government has asked the pollution control boards to initiate action against such industrial units, in a bid to stop …
State Pollution Control Board ignorant of the fact as its office is located in Nizamabad district Though it has not assumed threatening proportions so far, pollution is one factor about which no one seems to be bothered in Adilabad, an environmental haven of a district in Telangana State. In this …
At least 12 residents have taken ill after drinking contaminated water in Sector 20. After Sector 51, this is another sector where sewer water got mixed with fresh water due to damage in the pipeline. "The 12 residents, mostly senior citizens, are sick for the past few days owing to …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Digvijay Singh Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors. dated 07/08/2015 regarding pollution caused by textile units of Balotra, Bithuja and Jasol of Barmer District, Rajasthan. The Tribunal also wanted to know whether all members of the …
Plains All American Pipeline LP's ruptured California oil pipeline may have spilled 41 percent more crude than currently estimated, the company said on Wednesday. In a presentation accompanying Plains' quarterly earnings call with analysts, the company said the May rupture may have released up to 3,400 barrels of crude, about …
Foreign cruise ships unloading wastewater along the Vlora-Saranda seaside line to avoid taxes in European Union countries are the main cause of the pollution on Albanian coast, Albanian minister of environment Lefter Koka said on Wednesday. The minister expressed his concern and warned to undertake measures against foreign cruises. Albania …
Rio's polluted waters where Olympic sailing will take place next year will be in good shape by the time the Games start, IOC President Thomas Bach said on Tuesday (yesterday, Fiji time). "What is important is that we'll have good conditions for the athletes where the competition is taking place," …
NOIDA: At least 11 children have fallen ill after drinking contaminated water that got mixed with fresh water in Sector 51. Five of them had to be admitted hospitalized. The pipeline water reeks of sewage and residents are questioning the Noida Authority's apathy. "A one-and-a-half-year-old girl was discharged from Apollo …
Union minister for drinking water and sanitation Birendra Singh said that Rajasthan is worst affected by water contamination in the country and 22,254 habitations in the state are yet to be provided with safe drinking water. Replying to a question in Rajya Sabha on August 3, the minister presented the …
The National Green Tribunal today directed the Uttar Pradesh government to immediately provide clean drinking water in six western districts of the state. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the state chief secretary to provide potable water to Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad and Saharanpur, through …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on pollution in rivers, 06/08/2015. Subsidiary companies of Coal India Limited (CIL) including Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) and Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) are not polluting the river water. The parameters of mine water discharged are within the prescribed limits. The study/assessment has been included …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on pollution in rivers during Kumbh Mela, 06/08/2015. Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and UP State Pollution Control Board monitor the water quality of river Ganga and Yamuna at identified locations at Sangam, Allahabad during Kumbh Mela to ensure that water quality at Sangam meets …
In a bid to check water contamination, municipal commissioner Ajoy Mehta has now instructed his men to undertake random sampling along the water supply network, in addition to the existing fixed sampling spots. Mehta also told civic officials to test water used by hawkers considering the rise in the number …
Korba in Chhattisgarh is among three newly identified critically polluted areas (CPAs) in the country with the collected sampling of ‘Volatile Organic Compounds” (VOCs), according to the 2014-15 annual report of the Union Ministry of Environment & Forests. The other two locations in the country are Bhiwadi ( Rajasthan) and …
BEIJING - China will build a space-air-ground integrated sensing system to detect and stop pollution, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection Tuesday. China's central authorities decided in July to build a comprehensive ecological environment monitoring system that will have the ability for automatic early warning using surveillance sites across …
