Jaipur: The pollution control board would keep an eye on pollution level in nine cities of the state on Tuesday.

Among the nine cities are Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bhiwadi, Alwar, Udaipur, Pali, Kota, Bhilwara and Bikaner. The department would send the report on pollution to district collectors, department of environment, ministry of environment and forests, police commissioners and superintendents of police, said an official of Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB).

Bhubaneswar The worst fear of Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC), state government-owned company, has come true. The company has lost iron ore worth R34 crore in rains.

Sources in OMC say iron ore fines dumped at Gandhamardan mines and Kumitar mines have been lost due to rains. A huge stock of iron ore were lost as it could not take adequate storage measures to protect minerals, sources said, adding the company is now trying to recover the washed out fines.

The state government has constituted a committee to look into cases of mining outside the lease area

After taking serious note of illegal mining beyond leasehold area in Odisha, the Shah Commission of enquiry has urged the state government officials and Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) to undertake joint field verification of such cases. "The Shah panel has asked the officials of departments of revenue, forest & environment and mining to take up field visits of such mines jointly with IBM. The panel has also called for submission of a report by the end of this month”, a senior government official told Business Standard.

Faced with the startling data that only 224 out of the estimated 788 packaged drinking water manufacturing units in the State operate with ISI certification, the High Court on Friday directed companies without that seal of quality to apply for licences before the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) within 15 days.

The court also directed the BIS to finish the formalities of application processing and follow-up procedures within four months and after that, take action against those agencies and companies that sell water without ISI certification.

Will be valid for a period of five years

The State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) has granted environment clearance for 11 more sand quarries in the Cauvery-Coleroon river basin. A few days ago, the SEIAA had granted clearance for 10 new sand quarries in Tiruchi, Karur, Ariyalur, Nagapattinam, Thanjavur and Namakkal districts. In the second batch of clearance, 11 quarries have been approved, sources told The Hindu on Friday.

More than seven years after the biannual open air firecracker tests started, have they been reduced to empty theatrics with no impact?

GUWAHATI, Nov 9 – The Pollution Control Board of Assam (PCBA) has issued directives to all the Deputy Commissioners of the State to keep a strict vigil on the bursting of firecrackers during the fe

Mumbai: The state pollution control board has banned four fire-crackers that have been found to have crossed the permissible sound level, with some recording 126.7dB.

One man’s celebration is another man’s poison in revelling Ranchi.

Miners, lawyers and experts in Odisha have termed as “illegal” the .