Mohamed Imranullah S.

MADURAI: The Madras High Court Bench here on Thursday restrained the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) and the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests from granting environmental clearance to a proposed distillery at Vadaseri in Orathanadu taluk of Thanjavur district.

The Goa State Pollution Control Board hopes to keep in check pollution caused by mining transportation at seven crucial junctions in the State, even as bitterly-complaining people from these places, appearing skeptical, expressed the measure would hardly help.

BERHAMPUR/PARADIP: With the operation to remove the spilled oil in full swing at Gopalpur, the apprehension of an environmental disaster has been minimised to a great extent.

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The Gopalpur Port authorities on Wednes- day engaged 200 local peo- ple to clean the oil-silts from the local beach that was inundated by a thick layer of petroleum fuel leaking out of a cargo ship docked in the port.

Pune Civic bodies in the district will prepare a proposal for curbing river pollution of the Bhima river by April 20 and hand it over to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board. A meeting headed by district collector Chandrakant Dalvi on Tuesday saw the representatives agree on readying the proposal in eight days

GOLAGHAT: The Deopahar Reserved Forest near Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) in Golaghat district is presently reeling under heavy pollution due to dumping of plastic garbage.

It was recently observed that huge quantities of plastic garbage transported by several trucks had been dumped in the area. This move has threatened the conservation of flora and fauna in the reserve forest.

Mumbai The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) will conduct a second round of inspection at the Wankhede Stadium, days after it issued a show cause notice to the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) for pollution of air and ground water in the area due to the on-going stadium renovation work.

KOLKATA 6 April: The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) is going to provide technical assistance to farmers in the Aila-affected regions where they could not sow seeds due to high salinity.

The initiative was taken after it was found that 80 per cent of the farmers of that area are moving to other regions as they failed to sow seeds in the Sunderbans after the storm.

Chandigarh: The adverse impact of air pollution on health are well known but the fact that about 200 people die prematurely every year in a city like Ludhiana - Punjab