Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The government has not been able to ensure enough finance to revive the polluted Buriganga river by connecting it with the Jamuna despite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s high sounding political commitment, resulting in an abysmal 5-6 percent progress of the project in the last two years. Officials say only Tk …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Mr. Pradeep More & Others Vs State of Maharashtra & Others dated 27/08/2013 on conducting survey of all the industrial units as well as existing sugar factories which are within 10 K.M. radius from Pandharpur found discharging effluents in the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Baldev Singh & Others Vs State of Punjab & Others And Brig. H.S. Brar Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 27/08/2013 regarding pollution caused by the tannery and other industry situated in Punjab and Haryana thereby polluting the major …
THE Executive Committee of the National Economic Council on last Tuesday approved Tk 1079 crore, almost double the amount sanctioned earlier to adjust the increased cost of a project for the relocation of tanneries to Savar from the outskirts of the city. The government had earlier set aside Tk 545 …
The Bombay high Court on Tuesday said that it was the statutory duty of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) to set up chemical effluent treatment plants in the industrial areas managed by it. A division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Guatam Patel directed the MIDC to initiate …
Nandesari Industrial Estate in Vadodara will commission two treatment facilities for highly concentrated industrial effluents for the first time in the state. The technologies will meet the parameters set by pollution watchdog, which their predecessors were not capable of, claimed the planners. The Rs 15 crore Electro Oxidation technology used …
The National Green Tribunal on Monday asked the UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to produce an exhaustive list of polluting industries in Noida so that liabilities can be fixed on them for damaging the environment. A period of two weeks has been granted to the pollution board to prepare and …
Tannery relocation by 2016, Barua saysThe government intends to complete the relocation of the hazardous tanneries from Hazaribagh to Savar by 2016, now that the dispute over who would bear the lion’s share of the project cost has finally been resolved. “I hope the tanneries will now speed up the …
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved "Ashrayan-II" project with a view to alleviating poverty through providing residential facilities and creating employment for landless distressed people. The approval came at its meeting held at the NEC conference room in city's Shere-e- Bangla Nagar with Prime Minister …
The VSS Medical College and Hospital, Burla, is yet to have an effluent treatment plant though the Orissa Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has served a show cause notice on it seeking personal appearance of the medical superintendent. In the absence of the plant, the waste water generated from operation theatres, …
Chittagong Directorate of Environment has set August 18 for further hearing on oil leakage that occurred on July 30 at Kalurghat area adjacent to Karnaphuli river from derailed wagons carrying furnace oil for Dohajari power plant. General Manager from both Railway east and Dohajari Power plant appeared today’s hearing but …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board to shut down all polluting industries in Noida based on the report of a high-level technical expert committee constituted by it. This is the third time since the submission of the report that the NGT has asked the …
Twelve scheduled banks and one non-bank financial institution are yet to disburse any loan under a Tk 200-crore refinancing scheme for green products after signing participant agreements with Bangladesh Bank three to four years before. Twenty-eight banks and one NBFI have so far signed the agreements with the BB under …
All’s not well with the Goa Meat Complex effluent treatment plant (ETP), bringing in more trouble for the government-owned slaughter house. Despite treatment, the levels of pollutants in the treated effluents are found to be dangerously high, which in turn is causing damage to the area surrounding the complex. The …
The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) on Monday directed the Goa Meat Complex to repair the existing effluent treatment plant (ETP), which treats the waste water generated by the meat complex while slaughtering animals. The board also said that failure to comply with the directions will force the GSPCB …
Following a series of complaints about discharge of untreated effluents and sewage into a fresh water nullah at Curti-Ponda by industries, the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has decided to propose to State government to set up a common effluent treatment plant at the Bethora Industrial Estate. The decision …
An overwhelming majority of residents of the city are consuming water mixed with industrial effluents though a combined effluent treatment plant has been installed at a cost of over Rs667 million and is ready to be operational but remains idle owing to the non-cooperation of the industrialists and lethargy of …
The Bangladesh Bank on Monday incorporated a number of new green products in its Tk 200-crore revolving fund in a bid to build an environment-friendly economy. The BB issued a circular to the managing directors and chief executive officers of banks saying that it included solar mini grid, solar irrigation …
Environment and Forest Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud informed the House on Tuesday that Taka 53.79 crore was realized as fines from 423 mills and factories during the four and a half years of the present government for polluting environment. "There was no such example for realizing compensation during any past …
Directorate of Environment (DoE) on Wednesday realised a fine of Tk. 11 lakh from Jara composite textile mills at Surabari, Kashimpur, Gazipur and Ema Syntax Ltd for operating their factories without clearance certificate from the directorate and going into operation at the stage of setting up of effluent treatment plant …
