Move provokes outcry from residents of Kodaikanal

A pusher tug, a small barge that propels a bigger vessel, drowned in the Hooghly near Prinsep Ghat on Friday night, releasing oil into the river.

Attempts to salvage barge Bhagadutta, owned by the Assam government, might start from Monday, Calcutta Port Trust officials said.

S. Ganesan

As a preliminary step all civic bodies will be asked to ban plastic products below a thickness of 20 microns

VIJAYAWADA, March 5: Villagers of Ibrahimpatnam urged the government to distribute sufficient copies of the Environment Impact Asse-ssment (EIA) report prepared by the Andhra Prad-esh Pollution Control Board on the proposed 182 MW Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant in Ibrahimpatnam.

Sandhya Nair, TNN, Mar 5, 2010, 02.29am IST

MUMBAI: Erin Brockovich may not quite be here, but a Thane court order has got greens grinning from ear to ear. Four officials of the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation have been sentenced to two years

Mumbai Most Holi colours sold in the city contain heavy metals like lead, mercury and cadmium, which are hazardous even in traces. A reality check was done by this newspaper on five colours with the help of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) at its Navi Mumbai lab.

* A gulal sample from a store near Bandra station contained 36 mg/kg lead, 0.09 mg/kg mercury and 4.8 mg/kg cadmium.

SHILLONG: The Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board, in its bid to aware the people about impact of coal mining on the environment, is organising a programme on "Coal Mining and Environment" at Khliehriat in Jaintia Hills district on Thursday.

Ahmedabad: Pending environmental clearance for new industrial units and projects might come through soon. The state government on Tuesday assured the Gujarat Chambers of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) of rectifying an

Hexavalent chromium released from an ancillary unit of Hero Honda is contaminating the groundwater of Sehraul and nearby villages in Gurgaon, with the Haryana Pollution Control Board doing little to contain spread of the toxic material.

Barely a month after a study released by the Centre identified at least five industrial clusters in Maharashtra