Pune Pune

The Goa State Pollution Control Board has issued notices to 35 of the 104 mining leases registered with it, even as a senior official mentioned that more than 25 per cent of the mines were operating without clearances from the Forest Department.

Kakinada, Sept.

A three-year-old case related to garbage disposal in village panchayats will come for final hearing on November 29 before the Division Bench of Bombay High Court at Goa.
The double bench comprising of Justices D G Karnik and F M Reis directed all the VPs to file a compliance report over the garbage disposal site by October 31.

ALUVA: The presence of an enormous number of worms in the Periyar near the Sivarathri Manalpuram has spread panic among the people since Wednesday evening. The earthworm-like reddish worm is 10 centimetres long.

Lakhs of worms are seen at the bathing ghat near the Siva temple here.

The Goa State Pollution Control Board on Wednesday picked up tar ball samples from three beaches in South Goa and handed the same to the National Institute of Oceanography in Dona Paula for a thorough analysis.
Officials at the GSPCB said tar ball samples were picked up from Velsao, Colva and Betalbatim shores today and handed over to Dr Sanil Kumar at NIO.

Priscilla Jebaraj

NEW DELHI: The Central government is attempting to drive the States' fight against pollution with a series of carrot-and-stick measures, many announced on Tuesday at a meeting of Pollution Control Boards.