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 …
A panel of experts from agencies including Central Pollution Control Board and National Environmental Engineering Research Institute will scrutinise proposals for new solid waste management plants in the city. The Chennai Corporation has shortlisted 10 proposals for the plants that are to come up on the outskirts. All the shortlisted …
New Delhi: About 19 years ago, the Supreme Court first scrutinized pollution in the Yamuna. Innumerable orders later, Yamuna is dirtier than ever with a mind-numbing Rs 6,500 crore spent to clean the river and the latest plan — interceptor sewers — going nowhere. On Monday, when SC reviews Yamuna’s …
The challenge will only become stiffer as projected sewage generation by 2021 is likely to be about 4,500 mld. This means sewage treatment capacity will have to be augmented by 2,000 mld in less than 10 years, says the central pollution control board. “I agree that our STPs are not …
New Delhi: Children in the national capital are more vulnerable to air pollution than their counterparts in other states and in more ways than one. They are falling victim not only to pulmonary disorders but also hypertension, ADHD and depression. Medical investigators from Kolkata-based Chittaranjan National Cancer Research Institute had …
The main reasons of air pollution in the country are vehicular exhaust emissions, re-suspension of roadside dust, industries, thermal power plants, cement plants, operation of gensets, construction activities, household activities, agricultural practices apart from shipping, aviation and natural sources. The Central Pollution Control Board and State Pollution Control Board / …
This action plan with indicative guidelines for plastics waste management (PWM) prepared by Central Pollution Control Board. A time-bound action points as per the provisions of Rule 6 of Plastic Waste (Management & Handling) (Amendment) Rules. 2011 is mentioned in the guidelines.
This action plan with indicative guidelines for plastics waste management (PWM) prepared by Central Pollution Control Board. A time-bound action points as per the provisions of Rule 6 of Plastic Waste (Management & Handling) (Amendment) Rules. 2011 is mentioned in the guidelines.
Attero Recycling, India’s sole integrated recycling company for e-waste, has hit upon a novel method of teaching the local kabariwallahs how to handle hazardous waste. Attero Recycling, founded by brothers Rohan and Nitin Gupta, has developed its own proprietary technology to extract precious metals, including copper, lead and gold, and …
Five non-government organisations working among the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster on Thursday stated that high levels of Dioxins and Furans were released from the Ramky waste incinerator at Pithampur near Indore during four trial runs between July 2010 and June 2012 and charged the Madhya Pradesh government …
Noida: Acting upon complaints of high levels of industrial pollution in Ghaziabad, the National Green Tribunal has directed for the inspection of NTPC’s power plant in Dadri and the manufacturing plant of Continental Carbon, a US-based company in Ghaziabad. The tribunal has directed the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board and …
A government scientist said on Friday that air quality in New Delhi has worsened this week and is now "very poor," although it should not be compared to China's capital which has been reeling recently under massive pollution. Gurfan Baig of the state-run Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology said that …
Amid West Bengal government's repeated appeal to lift moratorium on environment clearance in highly-polluting industrial regions of Haldia and Asansol, a top Environment ministry official on Tuesday said the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) would take a decision on the same after evaluating the ongoing study in the region. “The …
BHOPAL: Officials of the state have pleaded ignorance about reports that Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had deemed Pithampur incineration facility as suitable for trial burning of the toxic wastes lying at the Union Carbide Bhopal plant. Pithampur is among 21 TSDF sites, being evaluated for incineration of some 350 …
CPCB has assigned an independent agency to study pollution around the 26 industrial areas where the moratorium is still in operation. Kolkata, Jan 29: The Ministry of Environment and Forests may take a decision in March on lifting the ban on expansion of 26 industrial areas across the country, including …
Study Ordered By Noida Authority To Find Causes & Extent Noida: The Noida Authority has sought assistance of IITRoorkee for undertaking a survey to determine the causes and extent of pollution in the city. Following an order of National Green Tribunal on January 15 for the formation of an expert …
Harmful chemicals like lead, arsenic, poly aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), organic carbon and elemental carbon, besides an alarming level of particulate matter (PM) of 2.5 and 10 aerodynamic diameter, have been detected in the industrial hub of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) in a latest study conducted by IIT Kanpur. These findings have been …
ALLAHABAD: Alarmed over the ever increasing level of pollution in the Ganga, especially in the backdrop of ongoing MahaKumbh and TOI publishing news on the deteriorating condition of the river, plus seers threatening to boycott the next major snan (bath), a nine-member Parliamentary Standing Committee of RajyaSabha on Science & …
By going through the factors responsible for the failure of Ganga Action Plan (GAP), the parliamentary standing committee on science and technology, environment and forests has doubts if the Prime Minister's mission of cleaning Ganga by 2020 will be accomplished. After Saturday's stay in Allahabad, the committee was in Varanasi …
The National Green Tribunal constituted an expert body on Tuesday to determine the 'causes' and 'extent' of environmental pollution in Noida, which 'is certainly affecting the life of residents'. The tribunal passed the order on a petition filed by a Noida resident alleging high levels of environmental pollution in the …
NEW DELHI: Time was when the Yamuna was a revered river and people from far and near gathered to take a dip in its waters, in Delhi, on every celestial event and festival. The French traveller, Francois Bernier, who witnessed a solar eclipse here in 1666, notes: "I took my …
