Under the supervision of Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) Director General Asif Shuja Khan, demolishment of 27 brick kilns at Loi Bher has entered its first phase.

Overall, 95 kilns would be demolished in Rawalpindi and Islamabad for purification of environment.

BHUBHNESWAR: The State government on Thursday constituted a state-level squad to monitor proper implementation of various laws and regulations by new industries coming up in the State.

The squad will be headed by chairman and managing director of Orissa Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO) Priyabrata Patnaik.

The squad will have the authority to examine whether the new in

BERHAMPUR: Are granite bricks an answer to the dust pollution generated by the processing and polishing of granite slabs? If Ganjam Granite Cluster Association (GGCA) is to be believed, the dust can be put to good use. To drive the point home, it has begun the trial production of granite bricks.

An advocate of natural farming methods for more than a decade, Kanchipuram-based Gandhi Gopalakrishnan was shocked to see lush mango farmland turning infertile by the dumping of rice husk ash (RHA). "The farmers are deceived by claims that RHA helps the fertility of the soil, when the contrary is true," he says.

An advocate of natural farming methods for more than a decade, Kanchipuram-based Gandhi Gopalakrishnan was shocked to see lush mango farmland turning infertile by the dumping of rice husk ash (RHA). "The farmers are deceived by claims that RHA helps the fertility of the soil, when the contrary is true," he says.

The environmental committee of the Sasthra Sahitya Parishad district committee has demanded the government to curb the increasing number of brick making units and unscientific granite mining in the district.

Growing industrial activities, especially brick kilns, in the periphery of Pobitora wildlife sanctuary could pose a serious threat to the long

Newark (California): Forget microchips. Silicon Valley sees a profitable future in the humble brick thanks to a low-energy production process that illustrates the greening of the US technology capital.

SMALL and isolated patches of coal reserves will now be offered to fuel starved local industries such as small power plants, cement and steel units, and brick making facilities without going through the lengthy allocation process.