National Green Tribunal summons mayor, BMC commissioner
National Green Tribunal (NGT) summoned Bhopal mayor Krishna Gaur and commissioner, Bhopal municipal corporation (BMC) Tejaswi S Naik to be personally present before the tribunal on Tuesday and explain
View ArticlePackaged water found unfit to drink, but no action taken
GURGAON: Forget tap water, if you thought packaged drinking water was safe in the city, think twice. Though only four samples of packaged drinking water were collected by the food safety department from
View ArticleAir pollution also to blame
PUNE: The obesity epidemic is generally attributed to excess caloric intake, diet composition, poor physical activity and genetic susceptibility. However, the near doubling in the prevalence of obesity
View ArticleYou can drink Yamuna water and also swim in the river by 2017: JICA...
With focus on cleaning of theYamuna and its bed, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which is associated with 16 sewerage and water supply projects in India, on Wednesday expressed hope that
View ArticleSC asks National Green Tribunal to shut down industries polluting Ganga
The Supreme Court on Wednesday entrusted the National Green Tribunal (NGT) with the task of closing down industries polluting the Ganga which fail to install adequate anti-pollution measures to treat...
View ArticleCPCB blames industries for polluting Brahmani
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has blamed the industries for polluting river Brahmani. In its report submitted to the Odisha High Court in response to a PIL filed in this connection, the
View ArticleEcologists happy with SC decision to hand over Ganga monitoring to green...
The Supreme Court's strong words against pollution control bureaucracy for its failure to act against polluters of the river Ganga on Wednesday brought a sense of relief for environmentalists. They now
View ArticleCut water, power supply to industries polluting Ganga: SC
Observing that its “last hope” rests on the National Green Tribunal, the Supreme Court referred to it the responsibility to monitor and inspect industrial units along the Ganga and even cut off water and
View ArticleNGT restrains Centre, Orissa from granting new mining leases in Keonjhar
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Centre and the Orissa government not to grant any fresh permission for mining and expansion of existing mines in Keonjhar district in the state due to
View ArticleCPCB intervenes to check industrial pollution in Jharkhand
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has made it mandatory to all the industrial units in Jharkhand and other parts of the country to install mechanism for continuous online monitoring system to
View ArticlePanel reviewing green laws gets one-month extension
A high level committee, which has been reviewing green laws to suggest appropriate amendments to bring them in sync with the government's development goals, has got another month to finalize its report.
View ArticleState's views sought on polluting cos
The Kerala high court has sought the views of state government and the Kerala state pollution control board while hearing a petition challenging the setting up of chemical industries in Edayar industrial
View ArticleThree tonnes of nirmalya collected from Godavari
The Panchavati division of the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Thursday collected three tonnes of 'nirmalya' (puja material) from the banks Godavari river after the Chhath Puja celebrations came
View ArticleDrains flowing into Ganga to be diverted'
Union water resources and Ganga rejuvenation minister Uma Bharati on Friday announced that major drains would either be tapped or diverted in the next 45 days to prevent further pollution of Ganga....
View ArticleGarbage dumped by Almora civic body pollutes water, air
Residents of eight villages near Almora town are protesting against the dumping of garbage by the Almora Nagar Palika Parishad near their homes and cattle grazing grounds. They say the dumped garbage is
View ArticleSewage drains into Gomti, Sarju at Bageshwar
Bageshwar town, the headquarters of Bageshwar district, has no sewers. The waste generated by its population of 7,803 people drains into the Sarju and Gomti rivers, at whose confluence the town is...
View ArticleGanga continues to remain polluted
Canal blocking an exercise in futility; no repairs, no cleaning The annual Ganga canal closure being done since the last 100 years from Haridwar in Uttarakhand has now become a routine exercise carried
View ArticleNutrient pollution: A persistent threat to waterways
Passage of the Clean Water Act of 1972 brought many improvements to surface waters by curbing much of the toxic and organic pollution going into waterways. But 42 years later, we have yet to make...
View ArticlePolluted rivers cause havoc in western U.P. villages
Contaminated waters of the Krishna river in Baghpat district of western Uttar Pradesh, barely 55 km from the nation's capital, may be responsible for cancer, bone deformity and paralysis among residents
View ArticleCPCB’s criteria for classifying units polluting Ganga
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board to list on its website the criteria for classifying industries discharging effluents into the Ganga as “seriously polluting”
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