Bhopal, Jan 16: The dilapidated Union Carbide premises would be handed over to the Housing and Environment department for construction of a gas monument after cleaning up of the toxic waste from its vicinity.

Kanchan Vasdev and Jyotika Sood
Tribune News Service

The stretch of nullah that was cleaned by Budda Nullah Development Committee led by senior officer P. Ram in Kum Kalan village.
The stretch of nullah that was cleaned by Budda Nullah Development Committee led by senior officer P. Ram in Kum Kalan village. Photo: InderjeetVerma

Ludhiana, January 16

KOCHI: As the workers

Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, January 8

Awash with untreated sewage, highly toxic chemicals, metals and bacteria, the black waters of Chitti Bein, also known as East Bein, bring diseases and other sufferings to lakhs of people settled in the villages alongside it on about 100-km stretch.

Chandigarh, January 8
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the chairman of the Haryana Pollution Control Board to remain present, with his team of technical experts, on January 9.

The directions follow a public interest litigation filed by Sonepat resident Anil Kumar against the State of Haryana and other respondents.

Engineers believe cement, a vast source of planet-warming carbon dioxide, could be transformed into a means of stripping the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.