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 …
Resilience is a dynamic process. City resilience refers to the ability of a city to adapt or adjust to changing situations or recover from economic, social or ecological disturbances. The current high rate of urbanisation in China creates many such disturbances. Urban agriculture plays a role in enhancing the resilience …
Copper is a metal of choice for technologists and is an important engineering metal. It is one of the toxic metals, which causes many health hazards and harmful biochemical effects on living beings. In this review, introduction, chemistry, uses, sources, effects of copper and copper pollution and its removal from …
Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) will launch a campaign tomorrow (Wednesday) to provide free stock solution to every household to purify water in all 46 union councils of Rawal Town, said WASA Managing Director (MD) Islamul Haq in a press statement. He said though the agency was providing chlorinated water …
A case against Industries Secretary Jakir Hossain and Director General of Environmental Department Md Najibur Rahman has been filed with the High Court on the allegation of contempt of court. Advocate Manzil Morshid yesterday filed the case with a High Court's division bench comprising Justice ABM Khairul Haque and Justice …
The Obama administration stepped up efforts to reverse a rule adopted late in the Bush administration that makes it easier for companies to deposit debris from mountaintop coal mining near streams. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, left, said that the rule was legally flawed and that he had asked government lawyers …
The government of Denmark is willing to provide financial assistance in installing water treatment plants in the capital and the adjacent areas to purify drinking water, the Danish ambassador here said yesterday as the government is trying to solve paucity of safe water. Einar H Jensen called on LGRD Minister …
Participants of the recently concluded pollution control exercise experienced some teething problems, including the breaking of an oil containment boom, due to improper handling, Dawn has learnt. According to sources who had attended the exercise
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to add the Gowanus Canal, in Brooklyn, to its list of Superfund sites, a step that advocates hope will revitalize a waterfront hobbled by environmental problems from its industrial past.
A SEMINAR held recently at the Jatiya Press Club has revealed that some 80 per cent of drinking water supplied by WASA in Dhaka city is misused. In other words, water is wasted in some forms. When it has become a familiar sight in different parts of the city that …
The ministry of special initiatives is using expensive and difficult-to-maintain technology in setting up of water filtration plants in the country despite concerns shown by the officials from the ministry of science and technology, sources told Dawn. However, Brig (retired) Sikandar Javed, who is the project director of the multi-billion …
This paper outlines the integrated approach in decentralised planning, designing and execution of master plan 2025 for the treatment and disposal of sewage of Pune city.
Government promises stopping work on dam in Uttarkashi ENVIRONMENTALIST G D Agarwal has managed to stall the controversial Loharinag Pala power project coming up speedily on the Bhagirathi, a tributary of the Ganga. On February 20, the Ministry of Power assured him work on the dam would be suspended immediately. …
Addressing China's Water Scarcity addresses the emerging water crisis and the need for China to reform and strengthen its water resource management framework. It covers key issues including water governance, water rights, water pricing and affordability, watershed ecological compensation, water pollution control, and emergency prevention, and it identifies the measures …
Rapid environmental impact assessment and environmental management plan for the proposed cement plant, captive power plant at village Padhiarka, Taluka Mahuva, District Bhavnagar, Gujarat.
Mumbai, September 15 She may not have found great support from her own party or from the big mandals, but Mayor Dr Shubha Raul says her initiative for an eco-friendly Ganpati fest has been an encouraging start When I first mooted the idea of an eco-friendly Ganeshutsav last year, not …
Pune, August 27 Use soluble clay and vegetable dyes to make 20,000 idols for festival The forthcoming Ganesh festival may be an environment-friendly one, thanks to the efforts of the Directorate of Social Forestry through its National Green Corps (NGC). Over 800 schools across the state have made 20,000 eco-friendly …
BY AMITA VERMA LUCKNOW The fragrance of flowers offered to deities at shrines will now linger on, long after the flowers have wilted away. The Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) in Lucknow has launched a new project called
Mumbai, August 18 To encourage eco-friendly celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi in the city, the IIT Bombay (IIT-B) and Save Powai Lake Committee will launch its annual eco-friendly Ganesh idol-making workshop for schools from Saturday. The workshop
