Bangalore is in a better position compared to other parts of the State when it comes to implementation of an action plan on bio-medical waste management.

People in Erode town have expressed serious concern over the indiscriminate discharge of untreated effluents from the textile processing and tannery units into the Pichakkaran Pallam Odai, a major water carrying canal in the town. Thousands of gallons of untreated effluents that are being let into the canal, finally flow into the Cauvery river, causing irreversible damage to the environment.

Hoshiarpur: Contrary to the claims of the state government for preventing discharge of municipal and industrial wastes into the two main rivers of the Doaba belt, the situation has not shown any improvement.

Though the government has taken up a scheme under the National River Conservation Project (NRCP), phase II, being executed by the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board, defiling of Sutlej

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TWO Common Ef fluent Treatment plants (CETPs), 86 dyeing and washing units attached to these CETPs and an Individual Effluent Treatment Plant (IETP) were closed down by the Tirupur branch of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Wednesday, as the units were found to be discharging effluents into the Noyyal river.

Based on complaints, a team of TNPCB officials, led by District Enviro

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined two more factories Tk 13.36 lakh for environment pollution in Rupganj of Narayanganj under 'Operation Prevent Environment Crime'.

A team of DoE led by Director (Enforcement) Munir Chowdhury penalised Bikrampur Steel Ltd Tk 5.68 lakh for not using fume extraction units and releasing toxic fumes, a press release said.

Munir said the fumes, co