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 …
- Adityapur units unhappy with substitutes, pollution board awaits orders Jamshedpur, Oct. 28: Auto component manufacturer of Adityapur are on a mission to search for a cleaning agent, as the solvent they have been using for long has been banned for its toxic qualities. Prolonged use of the solvent, Carbon …
- Squat protest by 200 at pollution board public hearing Over 200 villagers voiced their opposition to an integrated steel plant at a public hearing organised by the state pollution control board at a village in adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district today, in yet another indication of local residents
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board's (MPCB) report on the noise and air quality measurements taken on Diwali day of October 17 reveal that the decibel levels were way beyond permissible limits and corroborate the measurements taken by Awaaz foundation on the same day. TOI had reported on Monday that …
New Delhi: The controversy over the allegedly contaminated US ship took a new twist on Wednesday with the Gujarat Pollution Control Board giving it a clean chit, but the Union environment ministry rejecting it has decided to send its own team to the state for investigation. The Indian Platform on …
After Outcry, Env Ministry Orders Probe Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: The shipbreaking yards of Alang have once again been hit by controversy with the anchoring of an allegedly contaminated ship from the US. Civil society has raised an outcry over the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and radioactive …
A STAFF REPORTER Police chief Gautam Mohan Chakrabarti inspects the Bazi Bazar grounds on Monday. (Sanat Kumar Sinha) Police, fire brigade and the pollution control board on Monday gave permission for the inauguration of this year
MUMBAI: From the Ghatkopar-Mankhurd link road, the bio-medical waste treatment plant of the municipal corporation looks like an innocuous small factory with its chimney spewing gentle, white fumes. But a surprise inspection of the plant abutting the Deonar dumping ground recently by Dr Sandip Rane of the high court-appointed committee …
The high court on Wednesday passed an interim order restraining the state government from filling up a cluster of water bodies spread across 2,000 bighas at Chamrail in Howrah. The vacation division bench of Justice A. Basu and Justice S. Banerjee also directed the state pollution control board to file …
A Division Bench of Justice Mr Aniruddha Bose and Justice Mr Sanjib Banerjee of Calcutta High Court today directed the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) to inquire into the possibility of any construction work harming a 2,000-bigha waterbody in Howrah and file a report by 30 October. The matter …
Hazardous Waste generated by the industries can cause environmental pollution and adverse health effects if not handled and managed properly. In order to manage hazardous waste (HW) mainly solids, semisolids, solvents and other industrial wastes not covered by the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and the Air …
Kalawati Eknath Mangela and Parvati Bai Somna do not consider themselves fisherwomen any mo re. Every time they cast nets in the Arabian Sea, off the Tadgam beach in Valsad district of Gujarat, all they catch is garbage.
The iron ore-laden ship that sank off Paradip coast 12 days ago has started discharging oil in small quantities, triggering concern among the environmentalists in the state. Mongolian vessel MV Black Rose, carrying 24,000 tonnes of iron ore, sank 3 km off Paradip on September 10 soon after it anchored …
SAMBALPUR: Not much has changed for the people of Kaliapada, situated opposite Shyam DRI Private Limited. Located in Pondloi village along the State Highway 10 in Rengali block, the company is on an expansion mode but will it deliver what the 40-odd tribal families inhabiting the village have been looking …
CUTTACK: In the very precincts of the biomedical waste disposal and treatment facility of the SCB Medical College and Hospital, the premier medical institution of the State, a disaster is in the making. It is 5.30 in the evening. The scene at the incinerator site near the post-mortem unit of …
The pollution control board has cracked down on three multinational companies. Three Phase-2-based companies have been served with notices for not putting in place scrubber systems. The notices have been sent on the receipt of complaints from the district administration, it is learnt. Two of the companies which have received …
The state pollution control board has pulled up 32 nursing homes in Kolkata, Howrah, North 24-Parganas and South 24-Parganas for flouting pollution norms. Recently, some scientists of the WBPCB visited various nursing homes in and around the city and found that many nursing homes were being run without proper bio-medical …
The proposal on creation of an autonomous National Environment Protection Authority (NEPA) by the Ministry of Environment and Forests. NEPA is envisaged to take over the job of giving environmental clearances from the ministry. The proposal on creation of an autonomous National Environment Protection Authority (NEPA) by the Ministry of …
Belatedly though, the state pollution control board has taken an initiative to ensure cost-effective use of plastic waste for road surfacing to help find a lasting and workable solution to the problem of non-biodegradable waste disposal. It will not only bring down the cost of tarring but also enhance the …
PARADIP/KENDRAPARA: The State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) has swung into action along with Coast Guard and Paradip Port Trust (PPT) today, on the directive of the State Government, to prevent possible oil spill from the sunken Mongolian ship
