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 World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has lauded the Punjab Horticulture Authority for taking steps to preserve old trees as part of eco-culture in Lahore. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the WWF praised efforts of PHA director-general Dr Raheel Siddidui for disallowing the cutting of an old maple …
JAYANTA BASU Modern High School has decided to toe the green line drawn by Calcutta High Court and take five old buses off the road from August 1. A notice circulated on Tuesday among girls taking the school bus stated:
ABHIJEEET CHATTERJEE Durgapur, July 26: Deadlines for pollution-control measures in Bengal are meant to be elastic. The time limit for sponge iron factories to plant trees in their areas has been extended from the end of the July 14-21 forest week to the end of monsoon (first week of October). …
Nangal: Avinash Rai Khanna, a member of the Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) and former MP from Hoshiarpur, has taken a serious notice of the sewage water of the Nangal Municipal Council falling into the Nangal national wetland. He expressed distress over the fact that the same water was …
The Obama administration on Tuesday approved California's long-standing bid to set its own tough standards for vehicle emissions, a decision in tune with a national plan to boost fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gases linked to climate change. These standards are immediately effective for California and for 13 other states …
The Indian paper industry has made steady progress since independence and presently has an installed capacity of 9.18 million tons from mere 0.1 million in 1950. The industry in the last few decades has faced a number of challenges, particularly in areas like, obsolescence of technology, non availability of good …
In order to reduce the bleaching cost and problem of organochlorine compound during bleaching of pulp, it has become necessary to reduce the use of chlorine dioxide in existing bleaching sequence without affecting the pulp quality. This study examines the effect of higher dosage of hydrogen peroxide in oxidative extraction …
IMPHAL, June 29: Mass participation for making the state pollution free was sought by various delegates attending the 20th foundation day celebration of the Manipur Pollution Control Board at its office premises at Lamphelpat, Imphal today. The celebration started with the lighting of inaugural lamp by MLA, E Dwijamani Singh, …
The first biofuels produced using new generations of biomass raw materials could be available in commercial volumes from 2010 at the earliest, German junior Environment Michael Mueller said on Monday. But the exact time scale was still unclear, Mueller said at the European Biomass conference in Hamburg. Germany is among …
The climate bill nearing a vote in the U.S. House will reward farmers who plant trees or take other steps to control greenhouse gases and it will remove for five years an obstacle to corn-based ethanol, said the House Agriculture Committee chairman on Wednesday. Chairman Collin Peterson said negotiators hoped …
New Delhi: If you are still using and accepting plastic bags in markets, it is time to switch over to other materials. More than six months after the plastic ban was notified in Delhi, the government has formulated a strategy of penalizing those who are violating the law with a …
With members like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Brown-Forman, Beam Global Spirits and Wine, Carlsberg and Molson Coors Brewing, this group works to define a common framework for assessing water use, improve industry practices and performance and inform public policy in areas such as water conservation. PEPSICO - Gatorade plants are …
A spokeswoman for the parliamentary group of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives said the group will reconsider the carbon capture and storage (CCS) law again in two weeks. In the meantime, the economy and environment ministries will attempt to resolve questions about the bill, which has already given rise to public …
A new initiative of the Ministry of Environment and Forests for cleaning the Ganga DR. MANMOHAN SINGH Hon'ble Prime Minister To meet the formidable challenge of cleaning the Ganga river, the Central Government has launched a new initiative and established the National Ganga River Basin Authority. The river basin will …
Ever wondered what happens to all the waste you generate and where it goes after it is mindlessly dumped? Reports indicate that a good 99 per cent of people have never bothered or even know what happens thereafter. The responsibility of collection of waste obviously has to rest with the …
Leather-making is a processing industry with both socio-economic and environmental implications. Conventional leather processing is associated with the discharges of significant amount of environmental contaminants. Researchers at the Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Chennai have developed a novel green technology for leather processing. It uses enzymes (biocatalysts)and other integrated technological …
CMML, HLL Lifecare and FACT among other winners. The winners of the award for excellence will get certificates and trophies and those ranked as the first three below them will get cash prices of Rs 1 lakh, Rs 50,000 and Rs 25,000, respectively. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), which operates …
