JOWAI: Concerned over the illegal killing of fish in rivers in Saipung area, the Jaintia Youth Federation, Saipung Circle in its Circle Executive Council held recently decided to ban the use of dynamites and any other chemicals in the rivers for killing fish.

The JYF-Saipung Circle has also warned any individual or group of persons who failed to abide by the prohibition.

A human chain was formed in the town on Wednesday against the illegal establishments on the banks of the Dakatia river and to save the river, now almost dead.

The human chain was formed beside the river at around 11:00am.

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The illegal sand mining is being carried out unabated in Cauvery river thus polluting the water and affecting the aquatic life.

Though the Department of Geology and Mining has given permission for sand mining in some places, several people are involved in illegal sand mining in the region.

NEW DELHI: While constructing the Yamuna Bank station on the river bed, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation had taken into account all environmental concerns.

Town Administration and Development Department, Government of Madhya Pradesh approved a project of Rs 50 lakh for containing pollution at source spot of Narmada River, Amarkantaka. Under this project, dirty water would be stopped to lay sewage line at Amarkantaka.

Industries got a whacking yesterday as experts and environmentalists maintained that rivers around Dhaka are getting polluted wholesale by industrial waste. Even industries with effluent treatment plants do not run those facilities.

Even as the Corporation of City of Panaji (CCP) feigned complete ignorance over the garbage disposal from the off shore casinos, the corporation

Patiala: The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has confirmed that oil spillage in the Ghanauli drain, which connects to the Satluj, occurred not because of negligence but was an accidental breakdown of metallic pipeline of furnace oil.

Sources in the PSEB said the staff of Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Plant was taking measures to avoid such incidents in future.

Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to establish proper mechanism for treating industrial effluents as only one percent of wastewater is treated, daily, before being discharged directly into rivers and sea.

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