The Allahabad High Court has aksed the Union Secretary, Environment and Forest Affairs, Secretary, Environment Affairs, Uttar Pradesh, and the District Magistrate, Allahabad, to file a counter

Realising the immense environmental pollution caused by plastics, Ladakh became a "Polythene Free Region" same two months back. It was effort of several Govenmental and non-Governmental organisations

The Greenpeace Mediterranean Office revealed that the Ministry of Environment and the Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) are secretly planning to build a hospital waste incinerator in

Court : The Delhi high court on Monday gave four weeks time to various central and city govenemnt departments to submit their views to the environment ministry on the use of flyash bricks for

Ballast water is taken on board ship to maintain their stability when laden. When a ship is loaded with cargo it empties its ballast tanks. In this way ballast water sucked up in one open port can be

Phuket International Airport should be allowed to extend its runway despite it damaging two peat swamp forests, says the local administration body.The Mai Khao Tambon Administration Organisation gave

The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has ordered the closure of Larsen & Tourbro's ready mix concrete (RMC) plant at Manapakkam in Chennai as it did not have the mandatory environmental

The Orissa Government riterated its demand for urgent adhoc Central assistance for drought relief work and saw no reason why such interim assistance should not be forthcoming, particularly when the

Citizens Aginst Pollution (CAP), an environmental action group, has asked the Andhra Pradesh State Government to hold an environment public hearing (EPH) over the proposed expansion and conversion of

Insurvery :The bogey of huge investments in terms of finance and human resources has often deterred industries from implementing international environmental standardisation norms. But with global