CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to go through a report by a monitoring committee and submit a timeframe by which it intended to take corrective measures with regard to dyeing units in three villages of Karur town.

Twenty-eight mines in Goa are found to be without the necessary

The 12 students of Sonshi Government Primary School in Sattari have nothing, but mining dust for company during their school hours. There is no playground or any open space in front of the school. No sooner the students step out of their classrooms they are catapulted into the thick of mining activities.

Two out of the 13 mines that were asked to suspend operations have obtained the necessary forest clearances as laid down by the Goa State Pollution Control Board, which will issue revocation orders to these firms soon.

All the dead sheep would be buried at a common place in the village after conducting autopsy }
A HERD of over 170 sheep died after allegedly drinking polluted water stagnated on the roadside near a company at Ganesapuram here on Monday.

After its campaign against the illegal mine owners recently, the Goa State Pollution Control Board turned its ire towards the hospitals for absence of proper equipment to treat medical waste.
The GSPCB has issued notices to around 125 medical facilities including top government hospitals for absence of proper equipment to treat medical waste.

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The Goa State Pollution Control Board is assessing replies received from some of the 74 mines that were asked to furnish requisite forest and wildlife clearances required to operate their businesses.