Poison in your plate: Veggies laced with banned pollutants make their way...
A study has revealed the presence of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), organic compounds resistant to environmental degradation which have been banned throughout the country, in many vegetables grown
View ArticleValidated predictive modelling of the environmental resistome
Multi-drug-resistant bacteria pose a significant threat to public health. The role of the environment in the overall rise in antibiotic-resistant infections and risk to humans is largely unknown. This
View ArticleProject to check Ganga pollution runs into ‘saffron tide’
VARANASI: A project supported by Uma Bharati's water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation ministry and Akhilesh government to check pollution in the river in Prime Minister's constituency
View ArticleWill clean Ganga in 2 years: Uma Bharti
Ganga will be cleaned in a "qualitatively manner" within next two years, Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti said here on Sunday. "The plan for cleaning Ganga was made in 1985 but nothing happened
View ArticleTyphoid cases on rise in Rajouri
Health authorities say contaminated water supply behind sudden spike A sudden rise in typhoid cases has been witnessed in Rajouri and its adjoining areas forcing the district health authorities to take
View ArticleBudget 2015: Ministry of Environment and forests seeks sops for...
The ministry of environment, forests and climate change has put tax breaks and fiscal concessions for instruments that measure and help abate pollution at the top of its wish list for the upcoming Union
View ArticleGovt to change rules to control pollution: Javadekar
Says 17 highly polluted locations detected, and 3,000 industries have been selected for installation of pollution control devices Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said the government is
View ArticleNGOs raise environment related issues with parliamentary panel
Various city-based NGOs and individual stake holders apprised the Parliamentary Committee members about the pollution and environment related issues of the holy city here on Sunday. The standing Committee
View ArticleU.P. officials fined for not replying to NGT notice on river pollution
The district magistrates and five Senior Superintendents of Police in western Uttar Pradesh have been fined by the National Green Tribunal for their repeated failure to reply to its notice on polluted
View ArticleToxic lake: Court asks DDA to provide maps of water body
Irked after civic agencies failed to answer its queries about the history of the “toxic” water body behind Tughlakabad fort, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Development Authority...
View ArticleGroundwater polluted in other areas too, says NGO
City-based NGO Paryavaran Vahini has claimed tests commissioned by it in 2011 had established at least three areas - in both the trans- and sis- Hindon parts of the city - that had alarmingly high amounts
View ArticleRaje leaves Badal ‘red-faced’ over canal pollution
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal faced some embarrassing moments on Thursday when his Rajasthan counterpart Vasundhra Raje flayed his government for being unable to stop discharge of chemical
View ArticleU.P. officials fined for failure to reply to NGT notice on river pollution
The district magistrates and five Senior Superintendents of Police in western Uttar Pradesh have been fined by the National Green Tribunal for their repeated failure to reply to its notice on polluted
View ArticleFresh nuclear leak detected at Fukushima plant
Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant’s operator announced on Sunday, highlighting difficulties in decommissioning the...
View ArticleNBR’s ‘green tax’ collection drive left in the lurch
DHAKA : Although seven months of the current fiscal have elapsed, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) could not yet take any effective step for realising ‘one percent surcharge’ or ‘green tax’ from the
View ArticleExcess arsenic and fluoride in Ghaziabad groundwater: NGO
GHAZIABAD: First it was chromium, now it is arsenic and fluoride that are in excess in groundwater in Ghaziabad, going by an NGO's report. After hexavalent chromium levels were found to be far in excess
View ArticlePollution control board pulls up civic agencies for ignoring lakes
‘Some citizens have threatened to go to court if action is not taken’ The issue of the deteriorating health of lakes is shaping up to be a showdown between civic bodies and the Karnataka State Pollution
View ArticleScottish Water fined after fish killed by chemical leak
Scottish Water has been fined after it accidentally polluted a river, killing nearly 5,000 fish. The body admitted polluting several kilometres of the River Farg with aluminium sulphate after an employee
View ArticleCentre approves water testing lab for Doon
The Central government has given a go ahead to the state’s proposal for setting up of a water testing laboratory in Dehradun. This was informed by Chief Minister Harish Rawat, who yesterday met Union
View ArticleWater samples of 5 sugar mills found polluted
The Uttarakhand Pollution Board has initiated action against five sugar mills of Udham Singh Nagar after water samples taken from their premises by a National Green Tribunal (NGT) team were found to be
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