With another victim from Mayapuri being hospitalised with Cobalt-60 exposure, the government has asked the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) to carry out a detailed mapping of all scrap markets in Delhi.

Days after a radiation leak at a scrap shop in West Delhi, the Delhi government is preparing to hold a brainstorming session next week to look at how best to recycle the Capital

Rules to govern medical waste largely ignore radioactive matter; agencies pass the buck

Coal companies, mainly the Central Coalfield Limited (CCL), Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) and Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL), seem to be neglecting the safety directives issued by the Director General Mining Safety (DGMS) resulting in many ecological problems as well as health hazards to the people residing close to the coal mining sites of the State.

The Pollution Control Board has unearthed 37 cases of bogus units which tried to evade authorities to get consent to operate after furnishing erroneous affidavits giving false declarations in various industrial areas of the state.

The attempt to cheat the authorities came to light when officials of the board paid a field visit to inspect the site prior to grant of consent to operate.

The highlight of this year

New Delhi: Violating the ban on the use and distribution of plastic bags in the city can soon lead to spot fines. To make the ban more effective, Delhi government is mulling a change in the Delhi Plastic Bag (Manufacture, Sales and Usage) and Garbage (Control) Act 2000 and the January 2009 notification under which use of plastic bags was prohibited in the city.