With some Central industries discharging their effluents into major rivers of the State, the Odisha Government has asked them to develop their wastewater treatment facilities.

Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday directed Tata Steel to prepare an action plan to remove slag from Kharkai and Subernarekha, the rap coming three days before the founder’s day celebrations and aft

A team of Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board personnel on Wednesday removed nine illegal dyeing units that were polluting River Cauvery near Pallipalayam in Tiruchengode Taluk.

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has asked some of the Central public sector undertakings (PSUs) to develop waste water treatment facilities as they were discharging their effluents into major riv

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a textile dyeing industry Tk 65 lakh and sealed off it for releasing untreated chemical and waste into the river Shitalakkha at Shiddhirganj in N

Handling auto waste is emerging as a big issue and the automotive industry should create a ‘disposal chain', similar to supply chain, so that vehicles that ultimately turn into scrap bundles can be effectively disposed of, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, R. Chidambaram, said on Monday.

Delivering the inaugural address at the fourth edition of ‘Automotive R&D trends 2015: automotive technology – mobility as a system', organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), he said that the issue could not be ignored any longer.

The quality of potable water is going down constantly due to biological contamination from human waste and effluent from industries and agricultural inputs, reveals a PCRWR report.

The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has demolished a total of 11 textile processing units operated illegally in different parts of the Erode block during the last seven days.

The board, along with the Revenue Department, re-launched the drive against the polluting textile processing and tannery units in the district following widespread complaints from the farmers and residents on the increasing levels of pollution in water sources.

Canals in Erode district not maintained properly

Farmers in the district have appealed to the district administration to initiate criminal action against the owners of polluting textile processing and tannery units in the district.