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 …
Jamshedpur, Feb. 15: The green carpet between Domuhani and Mango bridge is what is left of the Subernarekha river in Jamshedpur. Thanks to poor monsoon last year and administrative apathy of many years
JHARSUGUDA: At the first glance, Sanjob, Chuwaliberna, Madhuban Nagar and Ramadera are no different from scores of other villages dotting Jharsuguda district. Try pumping out water from one of the tube-wells and you will see why they stand apart: The water that gushes out of the mouth is black in …
KOLKATA, 14 FEB: The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) receives several complaints against radiations from mobile network towers, but it is unable to act on them as it has not been delegated any power to deal with electro-pollution. The WBPCB officials said that harmful effects of non-ionizing radiation from …
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) that had taken up the task of cleaning the Mumbai shoreline following the oil spill caused by the collision of MSC Chitra and MV Khalijia 3 in August last year, said on Monday that it had completed the process of bioremediation along the Navy …
MUMBAI: The crime branch of the police on Wednesday invoked the stringent Environment Protection Act on six oil mafiosi arrested last month in connection with an adulteration racket. The police had written to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), asking it to inspect illegal godowns in the Kurla-Kalina belt since …
ROURKELA: Development works have brought along heavy pollution in the ever expanding Rourkela city. Currently, three major road widening projects are being carried out in the Steel City at a snail
NEW DELHI: Trying to put an end to the ongoing blame game between Delhi and Haryana over who pollutes the Yamuna waters, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has offered to chair a meeting between the two States to help them iron out differences. Pointing out …
AHMEDABAD: Before you buy your dream home in a posh residential scheme make sure that your builder has an environment clearance certificate. At least nine major developers in the city have been hauled up by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) for not taking the mandatory clearance from them. This …
The Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the six-member committee headed by Justice N K Patil, the Chairman of High Court Legal Service Authority, to submit its report by February 28, 2011. The Authority had been earlier told to chalk out a plan for preservation of lakes in the City. …
With no promising technology available to attain the zero-liquid discharge norms, the 740 dyeing units of Tirupur have mooted a desperate proposal to buy millions of litres of pure water from the municipal corporation of the city to dilute their industrial discharge before releasing into the river. The surprising plan …
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Monday declined to alter its order directing closure of all dyeing and bleaching units in the hosiery town of Tirupur for causing pollution despite its earlier directives. When Tamil Nadu pollution control board and Tirupur dyeing factory owners association made oral submissions seeking alteration …
INDIA will be unveiling its own cap and trade mechanism to deal with air pollution on February 1. The proposed market-based mechanism seeks to introduce a system of self-regulation among industrial units by putting a price on emission of pollutants. A price for emissions, makes it costly to pollute, therefore …
Unlike the cannot-be-allowed stand of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board on the copper smelting unit of Sterlite Industries at Tuticorin, the Central Pollution Control Board seems to take a different view. During a hearing on the issue in the Supreme Court today, the report of the CPCB on the …
Since marine pollution is a major environmental hazard for the coastal districts of Tamil Nadu, which have fishing as a major source of livelihood, Indian Coast Guard personnel are monitoring the threat of pollution at sea covering the exclusive economic zone along Gulf of Mannar and adjoining coastal districts, according …
The Mapusa Municipal Council has been directed by the Goa State Pollution Control Board to stop dumping of unsegregated waste on the Assagao plateau and to prevent such acts put up fencing around the site. In its directions issued as per the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, the Council has been …
People in Erode town have expressed serious concern over the indiscriminate discharge of untreated effluents from the textile processing and tannery units into the Pichakkaran Pallam Odai, a major water carrying canal in the town. Thousands of gallons of untreated effluents that are being let into the canal, finally flow …
This year's Bhogi recorded a slight increase in the pollution level as compared to that last year. The smog due to burning of waste was marked in the early hours of Friday. The average Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM) level in the city, during the 24-hour period ending on 2 …
Aizawl city has witnessed a slight increase in air pollution during this month compared to the same month last year. The Mizoram Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has revealed that the level of Suspended Particulate Matters (SPM) in the state capital has gone up to 78 per cent from last year
DESPITE closure notices several industrial units are operating in Mahad tehsil of Raigad district, polluting a river and wells. As a result fishing and farming in the region have been badly affected. On November 30, Mahad subregional office of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) issued notices to six industrial …
