Kuldip Bhatia

Ludhiana, September 6
Making it clear that there will be no compromise on the issue of environmental pollution, Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh today said that the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) would invoke section 5 of the Environment Protection Act (closure notice) if the offenders did not behave.

Addressing a press conference on the con

Polluting industries along a 500-km stretch of the Ganga between Kannauj and Varanasi might soon face the axe.

Kanpur: Days after environment minister Jairam Ramesh expressed unhappiness over its inaction in cleaning the Ganges, the UP Pollution Control Board said it was working towards cleaning the river and had closed down 65 industrial units polluting it.

Ramesh, who was here to participate in 'Ganga river basin management workshop' organised by IIT-Kanpur on August 28, had rued the inaction of the b

Rajahmundry, Aug.

Sukhada Tatke | TNN

These rules may be called the Hazardous Wastes (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Fourth Amendment Rules, 2010. They shall come into force with effect from the 1st day of September, 2010.

Civil society must prevent any attempt to clean up Bhopal without establishing Dow's remediation liability and analysing the contamination fully.

THE endgame has begun.

Responding to Ram Jethmalani

The Coast Guard today plugged the two ruptured tanks of the MSC Chitra which were spilling oil into the sea off the Mumbai coast since the ship collided with another vessel, MV Khalijia III, on Saturday morning.

Kartikeya | TNNMumbai: That the Mithi has been reduced to a filthy nullah is well-known.

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