With an aim to prevent further pollution in the highly industrialized Sambalpur-Jharsuda belt, the Orissa government today allowed the Orissa State Pollution Control Board to implement the interim recommendations of the Nagpur-based National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI).

Bishnu Dash / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar May 06, 2010, 0:16 IST

Bhopal: The novel technical methods for ensuring availability of drinking water in the rural areas and increasing groundwater table should be publicised at the national level so that people of the entire country can take advantage of these methods. This decision was taken at a two-day state level workshop after discussions between the filed officers and administrative officers.

Leslie D'Monte / Mumbai April 04, 2010, 0:19 IST

The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), appointed by the state in 2009 to study and suggest measures for management of e-waste in Mumbai, will submit its report by April 2011.

Move provokes outcry from residents of Kodaikanal

Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) has been nominated by Union Ministry of Shipping to carry out environmental impact assessment (EIA) for new alignment of Sethu Samudram channel joining Southern tip of India and Northern tip of Sri Lanka.

PANAJI: The lawyers of mining company Vedanta on Wednesday assured the High Court of Bombay at Goa that the firm would remove the mining dumps at the edge of its mining lease at Advalpal village in north Goa.

Mumbai Chief Secretary J P Dange reviewed the progress of desilting, deepening and widening of Mithi river on Sunday along with Metropolitan Commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Commissioner Swadhin Kshatriya. Dange said,