Ludhiana: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has included names of four members from the industry in the high-level committee constituted for fixing norms at inlet and outlet of common effluent treatment plants to be set up in Ludhiana.

After successful implementation of the compact fluorescent lamps scheme to save electricity, the Delhi Government is finding it difficult to find an agency for the disposal of the CFL lamps.

The Environment Department of Delhi Government has written to civic bodies-New Delhi Municipal Council and Municipal Corporation of Delhi to make arrangement for disposal of CFL lamps immediately.

Following recent warning by Chief Minister Raman Singh to polluting industries, the State Government has served closure notices to 15 steel making units based at Urla, Siltara and Borjhara industrial areas of Raipur, for allegedly violating pollution control norms.

A central team on Monday began a probe into allegations that a radioactive contaminated US ship has been anchored at the Alang coast in Gujarat even as NGOs demanded a CBI probe.

An inquiry has been ordered into reports that an allegedly radioactive contaminated ship from the US has anchored off the Alang coast in Gujarat, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Thursday.

New Delhi: The controversy over the allegedly contaminated US ship took a new twist on Wednesday with the Gujarat Pollution Control Board giving it a clean chit, but the Union environment ministry rejecting it has decided to send its own team to the state for investigation.

NEW DELHI: The Union government has ordered an inquiry into the anchoring of a United States ship, reportedly laden with radioactive substances, off the Alang coast in Gujarat.

Manas Dasgupta

GANDHINAGAR: The ship-breaking yard at Alang, off the Bhavnagar coast in Gujarat

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has found