Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
LUCKNOW: It took nearly 22 long years for UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to get a leather industry booked under Water Pollution Control Act, for discharging untreated effluent into a river in Barabanki. On Tuesday, the board announced that a special judicial magistrate court in Lucknow has ordered six months …
Villagers along polluted Turag moving to safer places Indiscriminate discharge of liquid waste by the industries in and around Konabari industrial zone has ruined a large part of the Turag river and Baimail Jheel, causing immense suffering to residents living on the banks. Industrial liquid waste and black smog created …
Indiscriminate discharge of liquid waste by the industries in and around Konabari industrial zone has ruined a large part of the Turag river and Baimail Jheel, causing immense suffering to residents living on the banks. Industrial liquid waste and black smog created by brick kilns have doubled the sufferings and …
The discharge of heavily contaminated domestic and industrial waste into Phuleli Canal in Hyderabad continues unabatedly and no relevant authority has taken notice of the grave threat this situation poses. A large portion of the province, particularly the lower Sindh, has brackish and saline underground water due to the influence …
A case against Industries Secretary Jakir Hossain and Director General of Environmental Department Md Najibur Rahman has been filed with the High Court on the allegation of contempt of court. Advocate Manzil Morshid yesterday filed the case with a High Court's division bench comprising Justice ABM Khairul Haque and Justice …
Industrial pollution goes unabated on docile action Soft attitude of the government towards polluters and lack of awareness among city dwellers have literally left dead all the rivers and other surface waters in and around the capital. Over the years the government agencies conducted small-scale drives against the polluters without …
The tsunami of December 26, 2004, devastated many coastal areas in Sri Lanka. Curiously, the tsunami spared several areas which had mangroves - dense forests of salt-resistant trees and shrubs that grow in brackish, low-lying coastal swamps in the tropics and subtropics. This clearly manifested in Bangladesh, which recorded very …
Moti Jheel, which used to be a pride of Lucknow, seems to have lost its natural glory. The waterbody has been gobbled up by land grabbers, thanks to the ignorance on the part of Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC). Presently, the lake houses several snacks and plastic factories, godown apart from …
Industries based in Punjab are discharging toxic and persistent waste into fertile croplands, rivers, and groundwater sources due non-availability of wastewater treatment facilities. It is obvious that wastewater treatment facilities are too expensive for the most individual units to afford. Keeping in view this difficulty, the Government has tried to …
Hyderabad, April 14: The Rs 300-crore Hussain Sagar Restoration Project aided by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation has made little progress though five years have passed since its launch. This massive project meant to clean sewage, industrial effluents and accumulated toxic wastes in the lake began in March 2004 …
Brown in colour: Effluents from textile processing units have entered bore wells, which supply water to 400-plus houses in Manickampalayam Housing Unit, forcing the residents to fetch water from elsewhere. ERODE: For the over 400 households in Manickampalayam Housing Unit the problem came from deep within the ground. Effluents from …
Koppa, News Service: The waste produced during coffee pulping is very toxic and releasing this waste directly to the environment without processing it was a cause of concern for many planters. Mysore plantation in Koppa has become successful in setting up a coffee waste processing unit with the use of …
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Faridkot, on orders of the Deputy Commissioner, Faridkot, today went to the Baba Farid Centre for Special Children and forcibly cut hair of children who cannot speak. The CMO, along with a team of doctors, was at the centre to take blood and hair samples …
A polythene stratum measuring about ten feet in thickness is said to be embedded under a certain stretch of the Buriganga. The river remains terribly polluted from domestic and industrial wastes disgorging into it, anyway. The polythene comes as an aggravating factor, especially given the shallowness of the river. The …
Mumbai Several people living along the Waldhuni river bordering Kalyan and Ulhasnagar in the Thane district reportedly fell sick on Thursday morning due to invisible noxious fumes emanating from the river. Rukmini Municipal Hospital at Kalyan treated ten people from the slums of Ashok Nagar and Shivaji Nagar after they …
High Court grants injunction against treatment Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore: Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has asked as many as 2,300 registered industries to restrain from transporting waste in view of the injunction granted by the High Court against treatment of hazardous waste at Dobbespet plant. Thousands of …
AHMEDABAD: For many years now, owing to high cost of toxic waste treatment, hundreds of chemical industries surrounding city have been discharging their toxic waste illegally into city drainage system in areas like Vatva, Naroda, Odhav and Narol. Ideally these units should be sending their discharge to central effluent treatment …
