Its proximity to the Capital might have actually caused more damage to Ghaziabad than good. While it was busy dealing with its own pollution mess, a large part of Delhi

Asserting that the UPA government was committed to cleaning up the Ganga, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said no untreated waste and industrial effluents would flow into the river by 2020.

Sahebganj, May 30: A Rs 800-crore master project to de-pollute the holy Ganga here is hanging in the balance, courtesy the political instability in the state.

Under the project, the Sahebganj district administration had earlier proposed a sewerage system, underground huge drains and electric crematoriums both at Sahebganj and Rajmahal townships located on the banks of Ganga.

Allahabad High Court has directed saree industial units not to discharge coloured water into sewer that ultimately fall into the national river
Binay Singh | TNN

Varanasi: Millions of rupees were already spent in the past and investment of huge funds is currently being made to clean the national river Ganga. But, not much positive change can be seen in the health of the river.

Rakesh Lohumi
Acting swiftly on the complaints of local villagers, the state pollution control board today issued a show-cause notice to the Wildflower Hall hotel of the Oberoi chain on the outskirts of the city for flouting environmental norms and contaminating natural water sources by discharging partially treated sewage effluent into a nearby nullah.

Facing an uphill task to crack a whip against erring hotel establishments, the Colva Panchayat has decided to plug the sewage discharge holes of all establishments releasing waste waters in the Colva creek, storm water drains and fields.

Depleting groundwater forces farmers to use sewerage water laced with industrial pollutants for irrigation
Gurdeep Singh Mann

The Himachal Pradesh Government has issued a notice to Oberoi Group

Will the various government agencies at least now put their act together and get down to the serious business of putting an end to environment degradation with the Goa State Pollution Control Board compiling a damning report on the state of affairs in Colva?

Three cleaners who went into a manhole in a banquet hall at Adarsh Nagar area died from toxic gases on Tuesday afternoon.