Deepa H Ramakrishnan

According to a survey conducted by TNPCB

NOISY: Motor vehicles significantly contribute to noise pollution levels. A scene in Velachery.

CHENNAI: Noise pollution levels in residential areas across the city are considerably higher than the prescribed limits, as per a survey conducted by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board.

R. Vimal Kumar

For a clean city: A scientific team constituted by Kongunadu Munnetra Peravai in Tirupur to study the problems of effluent discharge.

Tirupur: A technical committee constituted by the newly-formed political party Kongunadu Munnetra Peravai to study effluent water management in Tirupur, has come out with its report on Monday.

A sample study of the water collected by the Karnataka Pollution Control Board (KPCB) at the Mallathalli Lake on Saturday has revealed low Dissolved Oxygen levels (DO).
Out of the four samples collected by KPCB at different corners of the lake, where a lakh fish had died, two samples were found to contain 2.5- 2.8 milligrams of DO, which is unsuitable for the fish to survive.

CHENNAI: The level of respirable suspended particulate matter (RSPM) in the ambient air at residential area in Adyar and traffic intersection in V. Nagar recently was 30 microgram/cubic metre and 185 microgram/cubic metre respectively. The permissible limit is 100 microgram/cubic metre, according to a press release from Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board.

The Mallathahalli lake, where about a lakh fish were found dead over the last four days, was cleared of the waste on Saturday by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).

The Corporation of City of Panaji has warned the Town and Country Planning Department (TCP) and the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) to shift their vehicles from the EDC complex at Patto or else to pay the required penalty.
The EDC complex has literally turned into dumping ground for various scrapped government vehicles, which are occupying major space.

Pune You are playing with our lives, villagers tell PMC, district officials, MPCB

With the four housing complexes coming under the Goa Pollution Control Board scanner, the Margao Municipal Council on Monday issued strict instructions to the managements of these complexes to immediately stop discharge of sewage into the Xelpem Lake.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has invited applications from the following categories for the State Pollution Control Awards 2009.

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