It has issued show cause notice to the plant

VIRUDHUNAGAR: Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has found the chilly oil extract plant here guilty of polluting the environment.

It has issued show cause notice to the plant seeking explanation as to why criminal action should not be initiated against it.

Commissioner General of Motor Traffic Bandula Wijeratna yesterday said that special provision had been made for the convenience of all vehicle owners in the Southern, Central and North -Central Provinces to obtain their emission test certificates in their own provinces from yesterday(22).

New Delhi: For all the green concern voiced by the government, the environment sector has got a paltry Rs 129 crore this year

The high court on Monday directed the government to allow conversion of a two-stroke autorickshaw to battery mode. The private firm doing the switchover would send the three-wheeler to the Automotive Research Association of India to ascertain its feasibility, the court added.

KOLKATA, 22 June: A petition was filed in Calcutta High Court today alleging that the number of artefacts stated in an affidavit filed by the Victoria Memorial Hall authorities on 2 May, 2003 differs from a subsequent affidavit in 2007.

The country's largest manufacturer of passenger vehicles, Maruti Suzuki, today announced plans to offer the CNG fuel option in select modelsby 2010.

"We hope to make available at least one vehicle model in each segment that is CNG-fuelled," Maruti Suzuki's Managing Executive Officer (Engineering) I V Rao said. Maruti also announced that it will stop making LPG-powered vehicles.

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The Southern Central Railways (SCR) came under fire on Monday when it became apparent that it did not take High Court directive about construction of shed at Curchorem Railway Station, to contain dust pollution, seriously.

A group of IIT graduates in Fazilka are celebrating the success of the eco-cab as a environment-friendly public transport service
A group of IIT graduates in the remote south-western Punjab city of Fazilka are celebrating the success of the eco-cab

More than 46,000 people die of Acute Lower Respiratory Infections (ALRI) in Bangladesh each year due to Indoor Air Pollution (IAP), acting country representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Andrew Trevett said Thursday.

His findings and those of others set out at a workshop in Dhaka on 15 June revealed that 70 per cent of IAP victims were children under five.