Vishakhapatnam/Hyderabad, Jan 9: Noise levels in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam are touching alarming levels with the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board ignoring the problem. While reports prepared by the Board itself say that residents of Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam are being exposed to high levels of sound, little has been done to tackle this. Authorities, while expressing helplessness, refused to comment on the issue.
Bhubhaneshwar, Jan 8: The Rourkela Steel Plant(RSP) has agreed to close down its more than half a century old power plant and the sinter unit which had been severely po
NEW DELHI, Jan 8: A fine layer of sooty dust covers the cars that line Sukhdev Vihar's roads. Clothes hung out to dry turn black by evening.
VELLORE, Jan 8: The Vellore Citizens Welfare Forum (VCWF) has opposed the proposed move of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to set up zonal offices in five locations across the State, including Vellore. Read More
Mumbai, January 7: Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has sought the intervention of Defence Minister A K Antony in the issue of disposing toxic waste from the erstwhile Union Carbide factory in Bhopal at the incinerator facility of the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) in Nagpur.
Srinagar, Jan 7: Taking cognizance of the reports appearing in Greater Kashmir about the pollution caused by the construction work of Kishan Ganga Power Project, being undertaken by Hindustan Construction Corporation (HCC) in Bandipora district, the J&K State Pollution Control Board has asked the HCC not to damage the environment in the area.
Pazalpora, Jan 6: The Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), which is executing the 330 Megawatt Kishen Ganga Hydroelectric Power Project in this North Kashmir district is dumping muck and debris at the non-designated sites, causing pollution of the water bodies, locals alleged. Read More
Mumbai, Jan 5: In an effort to curb river and ground water pollution in Maharashtra, the state pollution control board increased water quality monitoring stations on January 1. Read More
Ranchi, Jan 5: It may look like the surf’s up in Subernarekha. But environmentalists are anything but enchanted by the extraordinary appearance of the river that has earned its charming name from erstwhile gold deposits near its origin in Piska, Ranchi. Read More
Kolkata, Jan 4: The filling up of Collector Bheri - the 43-bigha waterbody under the East Kolkata Wetlands - finally drew some attention of theMamata Banerjee government
Panaji, Jan 4: More than 30 tonnes of non-recyclable wastes from the city, which may have been dumped in some rapidly rising landfill, have been dispatched in just over two months to a cement factory's furnaces in Karnataka
CHANDIGARH, Jan 4: The Punjab government on Tuesday informed Punjab and Haryana high court that it had found four industrial units causing pollution in and around historical Golden Temple in Amritsar. Read More
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Jharkhand, Jan 3: Desperate to expunge the biomedical blot on cleanliness, the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) may have promptly directed big private hospitals to set up their own incinerators, but what it seems to have conveniently overlooked is the feasibility factor. Read More
MAPUSA, Jan 3: The Goa state pollution control board(GSPCB) has directed the Mapusa municipality to take immediate steps to stop dumping of unsegregated waste at the Assagao plateau by deploying adequate security at the site or by requesting the police to ensure that illegal dumping of un-segregated waste is not carried out at the site.
HYDERABAD, Jan 3: The state Pollution Control Board(PCB) has cracked down on six pharmaceutical companies in and around Hyderabad for not complying with environmenta