Over 3 hundred bigha cultivated land was washed away as the dyke of sugar mill waste pond collapsed in Dashuria of Ishwardi Upazila under the district Saturday.

The authorities have failed to shift most of the dyeing units operating from residential and non-conforming areas to the special industrial zone in HUDA Sector 29 Part-II here.

An exhibition on Ganga was organized at Magh Mela area on Wednesday.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday formed a high-level expert panel to determine whether the Ganga was being polluted by industrial effluents that are discharged into it through the Sim

Agra: Agra’s petha manufacturing industry is in trouble. The sweetmeat producers have been forced to down shutters because of an initiative to save the Taj Mahal.

Even protests by manufacturers and workers failed to grab the district administration and civic body’s attention. Mini petha units using coal or disposing waste in the Yamuna have been ordered to shut shop.

After directions of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has initiated a survey to identify polluting industrial units in Kapurthala’s Phagwara town.

The PPCB authorities swung into action after the NGT had, on January 22, issued directions to the board for conducting a comprehensive survey of Phagwara and identifying industrial units causing pollution.

उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार ने दिल्ली सरकार को चेतावनी दी है कि यदि यमुना का पानी साफ नहीं किया गया तो उसे सप्लाई किया जा रहा गंगा का पानी बंद कर दिया जाएगा। अखिलेश सरकार के सिंचाई, सहकारिता व लोक निर्माण म

Putrid water is being released by drainages

With water from the Yamuna becoming increasingly contaminated and unfit for human consumption in Agra and Mathura, the Uttar Pradesh Government has served notice on the Delhi government to ensure that toxic water is not released into the river by factories.

Gujarat high court on Wednesday asked the state government and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to inspect five units of zero discharge machines installed with gasifiers to reduce polluti

Volunteers removed silt from the tank a few months ago

Discharge of effluents into the Ukkadam Big Tank was polluting the water there and also affecting the groundwater, said Vanitha Mohan, Managing Trustee, Siruthuli. The effluents entered the tank through the two inlet pipes on the northern side of the tank and they were from the dyeing units in Telugupalayam and Selvapuram.