Over 45,000 small and medium brick kilns in the country face closure due to non-compliance of national emission standards set by the government, the extended deadline for which was June 1999. Most

In Leipzig, Germany delegates had gathered for the Green Party's conference, a conference aimed at modernising party structures after the Green's transition from a position of seemingly eternal

The High court judgement in the controversial Sahara lake Housing project has come as a triumph of sorts for both the petitioning NGOs and the Maharashtra government. In response to three separate

Kalahandi district in Orissa, wracked by periodic drought and starvation in the modern age, seems to have had a glorious past as remains of several fortified settlements from the stone age up to the

Six years after industries were brought to book by the Supreme Court for polluting the Ganga, the situation is back to square one. Several industries have failed to pass muster once again. Rattled by

The Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 are to be amended to allow more time to states and Union territores to set up designated authorites for implementing the rules. The

The West Bengal Pollution Control Board has issued show-cause notices to several big industrial units because the water treatment plants installed in these units are not functioning, on an average,

The Gujarat government has offered 50 per cent concession on the price of land for setting up solid waste disposal facilities in the state's industrial

India has been re-elected to the executive committee of the Montreal Protocol Fund and is set to replace the US as vice-president next year. According to the committee's rules, India would then

China has budgeted 15.26 billion yuan (US$1.8 billion) for construction of water conservation projects this year, with 90 per cent of the funds earmarked for flood-control, particularly construction