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 …
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to go through a report by a monitoring committee and submit a timeframe by which it intended to take corrective measures with regard to dyeing units in three villages of Karur town. A Division Bench, comprising …
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.
by G. S. Dhillon After facing an environmental threat from the two thermal plants, the Bathinda area will have to cope with the adverse effects of the proposed oil refinery being set up by HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd. The refinery may start by 2011. The two thermal plants, to be operational …
Industrial waste from the Gwalthai industrial area in Himachal has been polluting the Sutlej in Punjab. The waste has been flowing from the Gwalthai area into the Sutlej 500 m from the national wetland at Nangal for two days. People working near Talwara khud have complained of infection on the …
ANANTAPUR, Sept. 22: Industrial pollutants are contaminating the Penna river in Anantapur district. Many industries located along the banks are indiscriminately releasing effluents into the river at Tadipatri which has constant groundwater levels in the district. There are 200 granite and 1,000 blackstone industries concentrated in and around Tadipatri. Major …
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 …
The 24 areas around the country where water, air and soil pollution have reached critical levels are now being studied by experts from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, to see what can be done about them, Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said on Thursday. The report …
Mushrooming of dyeing units contributes to the high level of pollution Legal cell demands setting up of an SC Bench in Chennai Tirupur: The Tirupur district unit of the All India Congress Committee
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 …
No effluent let out, says TNPL MD Mohammed Nasimuddin Effluents released into the channel on September 14: Associations Plan to gherao TNPL paper mill at Kagithapuram KARUR: Farmers and villagers belonging to areas irrigated by the Pugalur Channel in Karur district have alleged that the Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers …
Sept. 16: A 12-member team representing the environment protection committee of Sompeta would meet the UPA chairperson, Mrs Sonia Gandhi and the President, Mrs Pratibha Patil, on September 20 to seek their intervention to stop setting up of thermal power plant near Sompeta. The 2,640 MW thermal plant is being …
The Environment Protection Department (EPD) has sent challans of 27 industrial units including brick kilns, sugar mills and rice mills to the environment tribunal for legal action, according to an official statement issued on Tuesday. They were challaned under a new drive against polluters, which started on the instruction of …
Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh has invited protests from the victims and activists of the Bhopal gas tragedy as also from the Bharatiya Janshakti, Shiv Sena and Hindu Manch for sound-bytes lasting for less than half-a-minute. Ramesh's remarks that "the truth about (gas tragedy) is uncomfortable" and "I …
Oil waste litters Gujarat seafront in early August, Magodh Dhungri, a fishing village on the southern Gujarat coast was invaded by a smell very different from that of drying fish. When the fishermen came out to investigate, they saw lumps of tar-like substance floating on the sea surface; the coast …
Shut water supply, lock guards people living in village Vadgaon Dadahari in Beed district of Maharashtra have been inhaling flyash-laden air for the past five years. The pollution is caused by the nearby Parli power plant that generates 690 MW power for the Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited. On …
Shimla: The State-level Single Window Clearance and Monitoring Authority cleared 13 new industrial projects and five expansion proposals involving an investment of Rs 330 crore and having a potential to create employment for 2,017 persons. The main projects included second unit of Reddy
KOCHI: It seems that the direction given by the district administration to various agencies to take strict action against those polluting the Periyar has fallen on deaf ears. The Kerala State Pollution Control Board has served show cause notices to four companies for discharging effluents from their units in the …
BHUBANESWAR: The Centre has zeroed in on 24 industrial clusters across the country which have reached the threshold of their environmental carrying capacity and plans to intervene. Besides the burning cauldrons of Angul-Talcher region in Orissa, Singroli in Uttar Pradesh, Wapi and Ankleswar in Gujarat and Korba in Chhattisgarh are …
The extent of noise pollution was assessed in SIPCOT Industrial area in Tamil Nadu. Five industrial sites were chosen randomly. They included : (1) Three textile processing industries, (2) One steel plant and (3) One chemical industry. Noise observations were made in the vicinity of boilers, power house, production area …
