Nagar Nigam's scheme for adequate garbage disposal management, evolved as a result of the initiative of Allahabad Mayor Rita Joshi, has generated a stinking controversy revolving around the mayor and

US state governments and major industrial groups are challenging a new Environmental Protection Agency policy intended to insure that minority neighborhoods are not saddled with an unfair share of

The Union environment ministry will soon release a "transparent" policy to speed up environment clearance for various projects. It will consider concerns of environmentalists and efforts will be made

The Delhi government has begun distribution of alternative plots to industries which have been asked to shift out of non-conforming areas by the Supreme

The Punjab government has made it obligatory on the part of industrial units in the state to obtain consent of the Punjab Pollution Control Board to establish/operate to discharge sewage trade

Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said the Tamil Nadu State Government would support the efforts of the bleaching and dyeing units in Tiruppur and Karur to get six months time from the Supreme Court for

The discharge of wastes from the Hazaribagh tanneries into the river Buriganga is seriously affecting the soil and plants and vitiating the air, ground water and causing health hazards. This was

At last, the El Nino of 1997-98 is returning to its cradle, after scarring Latin America with drought and fire, storm and flood. But it is not over yet, and the fall-out, economic, social and

Even as civil works have commenced at Okkiyam Thuraipakkam site for resettling 6,500 families living in "objectionable areas" in Chennai, the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) has proposed a

As rescuers searched for more bodies in the wake of the huge mudslides in Italy that have killed at least 54 people, the nation began to count the cost of the corruption and mismanagement that