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 …
Bloomberg / Vienna/new Delhi November 12, 2008, 0:05 IST French authorities made headlines last month when they said as many as 500 sets of radioactive buttons had been installed in elevators around the country. It wasn't an isolated case. Improper disposal of industrial equipment and medical scanners containing radioactive materials …
PUDUKOTTAI: Villagers and political parties have opposed the plan to set up a bottling unit by an Indian Made Foreign Liquor firm at Kallakottai in Gandarvakottai taluk, arguing that it would deplete the groundwater table and cause pollution. At a meeting convened here by the district administration to hear the …
CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court today directed the Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) to open the sulphuric feeding plant (SFP) of Paradeep Phosphates Limited (PPL), that had been sealed by the State agency on October 30 despite the former
Rapid pace of urbanization has led to generation of large quantities of solid waste and hazardous waste in many cities of India. The rate of generation of waste has increased beyond the handling capacities of civic agencies responsible for collection and disposal of wastes. In order to assist MOEF in …
The chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), New Delhi, will now look into the alleged non-functioning of the effluent treatment plant (ETP) of the Punjab Meats Limited (PML) Industries, Dera Bassi. The PML is owned by Dr A S Bindra, father of ace shooter Abhinav Bindra. The chairman …
Bangalore, DHNS: The High Court has directed the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) to initiate action against a Maharashtra-based agro company which is establishing a distillery unit at a village in Bagalkot. Yellappa and five others had filed a public interest litigation against the construction of a distillery unit …
Smoke billowing from the roofs of industries in Pasakha have caught the attention of commuters along the Thimphu-Phuentsholing highway, which is now routed through the Pasakha-Manitar road.
To spread awareness about environmental issues, Greenpeace India has set up a stall at the CII Fair being held at Parade Ground in Sector 17. The group is also enlisting volunteers to creating awareness about deforestation, industrial pollution and climate change. The campaign also includes educating people about increasing the …
This is a Rapid EIA for the proposed mini integrated steel plant of M/s NR Ispat & Power Pvt Ltd in village Gourmudi, near Tamnar, District Raigarh, Chhattisgarh. This report helps in identification of environmental impacts and suggesting mitigation measures to be identification of environmental impacts and suggesting mitigation measures …
Tropospheric NO2 concentrations derived from spaceborne measurements of Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) on board ERS 2 and Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography (SCIAMACHY) on board Envisat, respectively, for the time period of 1996
DH News Service, Mangalore: State Pollution Control Board Chairman Dr H C Sharatchandra has indicated that it would be difficult to obtain approval for the second phase of Mangalore Special Economic Zone. He made this observation during an interacting with journalists on the sidelines of a seminar on
M.J. PRABU Safe & secure: The farmer, Subbaian in his lush organic farm in Tamil Nadu. The importance of good soil and clean water for raising any crop can hardly be overemphasised. A soil with low fertility and a contaminated water source can make life very difficult for farmers.
PARADIP: The Orissa High Court has issued a stay order on the directive of State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) for closure of Paradeep Phosphates Ltd (PPL). Recently, the SPCB had slapped a closure notice on PPL for violating pollution control norms. Locals had alleged that PPL plant had been discharging …
ERODE: Farmers affiliated to the Tamizhaga Vivasayeegal Sangam and Kalingarayan Pasana Sabai protested in front of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board office and later locked it. A group of farmers, who entered the complex housing the office, went to the office premises and pulled down the shutter. Officials who …
Erode Action please: Effluents from a yarn-dyeing factory at Vairapalayam in Erode enter Kalingarayan Canal, which irrigates thousands of acres in Erode district. ERODE: Reams of paper have been used in various forums in an attempt to solve pollution problem in Erode. Farmers have moved the court, which is hearing …
They call it the elixir of life but with changing times, water has also become a driving force in economic activities, traditionally in agriculture, and now increasingly in the industry. No wonder, there has been a tendency to take for granted the availability of water and show scant responsibility to …
The effluent generated by cement factory ACC Jamul, near light industrial area, Bhilai Dist. Durg is highly organic in nature. The samples were collected in winter season from different sites near the factory.
DH News Service,Bangalore: The Tungabhadra river basin is getting more polluted. A study done by the Pune based NGO Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), show alarming variations in the pH value and quantity of biochemical oxygen in water samples from the river basin. SOPPECOM took up the study …
