Rs.2 lakh each for Tirunelveli and Tuticorin Corporations allotted

MESSAGE: An awareness programme on solid waste management in progress at Palayamkottai on Monday.

TIRUNELVELI: An awareness campaign on solid waste management and segregation of plastic waste at source was inaugurated at Palayamkottai on Monday.

A central team on Monday began a probe into allegations that a radioactive contaminated US ship has been anchored at the Alang coast in Gujarat even as NGOs demanded a CBI probe.

Hyderabad, Oct. 19: The pollution level in the city peaked on the Diwali night (Saturday) with different parts of Hyderabad and Secunderabad recording as much as 39 per cent more pollutants than on ordinary days.

NEW DELHI: The Union government has ordered an inquiry into the anchoring of a United States ship, reportedly laden with radioactive substances, off the Alang coast in Gujarat.

Manas Dasgupta

GANDHINAGAR: The ship-breaking yard at Alang, off the Bhavnagar coast in Gujarat

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has found

Nitin Sethi | TNN

New Delhi: The controversy over the allegedly contaminated US ship took a new twist on Wednesday with Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) giving it a clean chit, but Union environment ministry rejecting it to send its own team to the state for investigation.

K.T. Sangameswaran

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has pulled up the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board for its failure to strictly implement the Central rules with regard to the sale and use of plastic materials.

Widespread pollution by the Vedanta refinery in Orissa raises serious questions about environmental monitoring.

RInfra, which is developing a 4,000 Mw power plant at Shahpur village in the Raigad district, has received a shot in the arm with the National Environmental Appellate Authority (NEAA) rejecting a petition filed by some of the affected villagers challenging the environmental clearance to the project.