Visakhapatnam, May 31: Stating that the rising levels of pollution in the city was causing severe pro-blems to residents, the state government had responded to the issue by establishing a pollution monitoring and control cell at Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (Vuda).

NEW DELHI: The proposed National Environment Protection Authority (Nepa) may take a while longer to be finalised. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has said that his ministry is prepared to put off the Bill to the winter session for further consultations. Civil society members have raised objections to the proposed authority.

The city will uses geothermal resources for winter heating and summer cooling, as well as employing electric buses and taxis with zero pollutant for public transport
a is Beijing, May 12: China is building its first model environment-friendly low carbon city in Turpan, a small town in the country

Kalpana Jain & Sharmistha Mukherjee / New Delhi May 12, 2010, 0:55 IST

India is finally set to give shape to its futuristic smart cities

Days after several persons were hospitalised after exposure to radioactive waste at a West Delhi scrap market, it emerges that the only data available with the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) is almost three years old.

And even that is alarming: 5,300 tonnes of hazardous waste was generated in the Capital every year, according to the survey last conducted in 2007.