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 taken a mega plan of Taka 228 crore to make the four rivers including Buriganga around Dhaka city free from pollution. A source in the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) said here on Thursday that three other rivers to be made pollution free are Turag, Shitalakhya …
GURGAON: The pollution control board of Haryana has issued show-cause notices to the municipal corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), HUDA and HSIIDC, along with 30 other city-based industrial units, for having failed the board's routine pollution check. The effluent samples taken from sewage treatment plants (STPs) maintained by HUDA and MCG, …
As many as 41 of the 49 samples collected by the Haryana Pollution Control Board from industrial establishments in Gurgaon were found to have exceeded permissible limits. These included several government undertakings, including sewage treatment plants (STPs) maintained by the Gurgaon Municipal Corporation and Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), and …
Over a year ago, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) undertook an exercise to assess pollution levels in some of the highly polluted industrial areas of India. It then released a list of 43 most polluted areas, terming them critically polluted, and imposed a moratorium on their expansion. …
After declaring 43 industrial areas in India as critically polluted and imposing a moratorium on their expansion, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests is going easy on them. As many as 23 critically polluted areas have been removed from the moratorium list since last October on the basis of …
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a dyeing factory in Kashimpur under Gazipur Tk 13.44 lakh for releasing untreated chemical effluents into the Turag river. A DoE team, led by director (Enforcement) Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, in a drive on June 16 found the Cotton Club (BD) Ltd's effluent treatment …
Works on setting up of the much-needed central effluent treatment plant in Savar will begin by the next three months as the implementing agency is now at the final stage to this end, said a top official of the ministry. The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation, the implementing agency …
The Department of Environment (DoE) has fined Barnali Fabrics, a dyeing factory on the bank of Dhaleshwari river in Munshiganj, Tk 25 lakh yesterday on charge of polluting the river with toxic liquid industrial waste. DoE Director (Enforcement) Md Munir Chowdhury conducted a drive at the factory on Saturday and …
The Department of Environment yesterday fined four dyeing and textile mills Tk 1.06 crore in Kaliakair upazila of Gazipur for polluting water bodies and arable land and operating without clearance from the authority. It also directed the owners of the factories to fix their effluent treatment plants within the next …
New Delhi: A trial court has slapped a fine of Rs 35,000 on an industrialist, convicted for discharging huge quantity of untreated water from his factory into a drain after he pleaded guilty for the offence. Metropolitan Magistrate Sandeep Garg passed the order on a complaint by Delhi Pollution Control …
During the past four years, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has taken several steps in order to ensure the compliance of the pollution norms by the industries and urban local bodies of the state. While stating this before relinquishing his charge as PPCB chairman on June 16, Rajat Agarwal, …
KARUR: The People's Livelihood Movement has decided to undertake a bicycle campaign covering the district to create awareness among the masses of the ill-effects of industrial pollution choking the river Amaravathy on July 9 and 10. The movement has joined hands with the Amaravathy Ecology Conservation Movement to highlight the …
There was a time when people living along the Noyyal river in Tamil Nadu would freshen up by swimming in the river. Now goatherds chase their flock away if they go near the river. The reason is the river water has turned toxic. The dyes and salts from the industrial …
The Department of Environment on Sunday fined two textile industries Tk 50.84 lakh in the Kalurghat industrial area of the Chittagong city on charge of polluting the River Karnaphuli. A DoE team, led by its director (enforcement) Munir Chowdhury, fined the Sunji Textile Limited Tk 22.84 lakh as it was …
The Department of Environment (DoE) fined four factories over Tk 43 lakh yesterday for dumping untreated wastes into the Bangshai river in Savar. In a special drive, DoE officials found the four factories -- Anlima Yarn Dyeing Ltd, Blue Text Netware Ltd, Abedin Textile Mills and FKN Printing Mills -- …
CHANDIGARH: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has lifted the moratorium for setting up of new projects in Faridabad and Panipat towns on the basis of the
The Department of Environment (DoE) in a drive fined three factories in Tongi Tk 40 lakh yesterday for discharging untreated liquid waste into the Turag River. Paradise Washing Ltd and Surf Knitting and Dyeing do not have any effluent treatment plant (ETP), while Hamid Textile Ltd had set up an …
HC gives another chance to state govt Pollution board told to file list of offending units The court cannot be a silent spectator to a situation where a whole new industrial township is set up without giving the proper infrastructure of common effluent treatment plant (CETP), municipal solid waste plant …
An enforcement team of Department of Environment (DoE) in separate drives in the port city yesterday fined three factories Tk 13 lakh and seized two trucks on charges of polluting environment and cutting hill illegally. The DoE team, led by its Director (enforcement) Munir Chowdhury, conducted a drive in Lake …
