Expressing “anguish” over the fact that Yamuna water in Delhi had become filthy despite thousands of crores being spent to improve its quality, the Supreme Court today said it was perhaps time to i

Regretting that the Yamuna has no fresh water and what’s left in it is only filth, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre and state governments to consider infusing fresh water into the rive

"It is a sorry state of affairs," the Supreme Court remarked today over failure of the project to clean Yamuna despite over Rs.12,000 crore being spent on it and suggested that the routing drainage

New Delhi: Is diesel really dirty? Is slapping a green tax on vehicles that run on the fuel the right way to control air pollution and smog in and around the national capital?

Three months after its move to revoke a closure notices issued against 12 highly polluting pharma companies in the city, the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) has now gone a step ahead

The use and manufacture of endosulfan pesticide (banned by court since May last year) may be permitted for two years to exhaust all stocks of the raw material, the Joint Expert Committee informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

In its report submitted before a Bench of Justices Swatanter Kumar and Madan B. Lokur, the committee said: “India is a signatory to the Stockholm and Rotterdam Conventions and is committed to discontinuing use of endosulfan over the next five years. All countries which have banned endosulfan have a phase-out plan for its use in agriculture over two to six years. Such a plan has ensured that all stocks available in the country are utilised and exhausted completely within a desirable time frame.”

Delhi’s unauthorised colonies and urban villages are proving to be the bane of Yamuna.

Although the concentration of gasses like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide remained within safe limits on the night of Diwali this year, the city noted higher air pollution although the noise po