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Ahmedabad is called honk kong !

AHMEDABAD: If a big signboard is put up outside a hospital, school, or old age home that reads 'Silence Zone', Amdavadis will welcome it with a honk! Who says 'Horn is a safety device'?

Publication Date: 
11/01/2018
Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
Tags:
Gujarat, Ahmedabad (T), Noise Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, National Envirnmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research (CSIR), Environment
Air Pollution

Region’s farmers did not pollute Delhi air

CHANDIGARH: Burning of paddy stubble in Punjab and Haryana did not contribute to the alarmingly high levels of air pollution in Delhi on November 10 and onward.

Publication Date: 
12/12/2017
Times of India (Chandigarh)
Tags:
Air Pollution, Punjab, Haryana, Farmers, Agriculture, National Envirnmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Vehicular Pollution, Delhi
Air Pollution

City’s air quality goes poor again

Nagpur: City's air quality has worsened once again with particulate matter PM2.5 being almost five times more than the permissible limit.

Publication Date: 
24/11/2017
Times of India (Nagpur)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Nagpur (T), Air Pollution, Air Quality Index (AQI), National Envirnmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
Environment

NEERI to study environmental impact of Boulevard 4-lanning

The Div Com was speaking at a meeting to discuss various issues related to various water bodies in Srinagar.

Publication Date: 
15/11/2017
Greater Kashmir
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Roads, National Envirnmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Ecology, Environmental Security, Environment
Water Pollution

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding sewage treatment and for bringing Ulhas and Walduni rivers to their natural state, 14/11/2017

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation Vs Vanashakti Public Trust & Others dated 14/11/2017 regarding sewage treatment and for bringing Ulhas and Walduni rivers to their natural state. It has also been brought to our notice that there are more than 500 jeans washing units that are discharging effluents into the rivers. It is stated that show cause notices have been issued to all of them. Court directs an affidavit to be filed in this regard.

Judgement Date: 
14/11/2017
Tags:
River Pollution, Ulhas, Sewage Pollution, Municipal Corporations, Supreme Court, Water Pollution Control, Industrial Pollution, National Envirnmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Maharashtra
Air Pollution

Top 8 main causes for air pollution in Delhi

The toxic levels of air pollution in and around Delhi is creating quite a menace.

Publication Date: 
14/11/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Air Pollution, Crops, Vehicular Pollution, Industrial Pollution, National Envirnmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
Air Pollution

60% of PM 2.5 pollutants in Delhi from outside: Study

Nearly 60 per cent of pollution in Delhi caused by fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) originates from outside, with the neighbouring states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh being major contributors to it

Publication Date: 
06/10/2016
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Air Pollution, Delhi, PM 2.5, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, National Envirnmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research (CSIR), Vehicular Pollution, Green House Gases, Respiratory Diseases, Health Effects

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