GUWAHATI, April 27

KOCHI: State Pollution Control Board has started collecting samples from the Periyar River to ensure the water quality based on a directive by the Kerala High Court that it should hand over one set of sample to the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST) at Thiruvananthapuram for a period of 60 days beginning from Monday.

Board Chairman K.

Two-wheeler riders, traffic policemen among worst affected by vehicle emission
KOCHI: Automobiles and industries cause the maximum damage to air quality.

Says sewage plant not source of contamination
Asserting that the Margao sewage treatment plant is not responsible for the contamination of the River Sal, the Goa Sewerage Corporation has roped in experts from BITS Pilani to inquire into the causes of river pollution and suggest remedial measures to put a stop to the menace.

If official sources are to be believed, the consultant has been engage

A number of small textile processing units have come up along the banks of the river

RAJESH RANGARAJAN &
The India Pollution Map, a website project at the Centre for Development Finance (CDF), has tracked the government pollution monitoring regime and has mapped aspects of air and water quality through an online mapping tool.

Report prepared by Baba Seechewal based on survey in four dozen villages set along the rivulet

Member of Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) and environmentalist Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal has prepared a startling report about hundreds of cancer cases which have come to light after a survey in the villages located close to the highly polluted Chitti Bein (rivulet) in Doaba region.

The rep

Garbage collection and disposal dominated the gram sabha meeting of the coastal village of Majorda-Utorda-Calata on Sunday.
In fact, the acute problem of waste disposal was deliberated threadbare with members demanded to know the measures undertaken by the Panchayat body to solve the menace.

Jamshedpur, April 15: Vandalism by political workers this morning stalled a public hearing on pollution and green issues organised by Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB), as protesters objected to the venue.

No sooner than the hearing began at Michael John Auditorium around 8.15am, 20 protesters led by BJP worker Vikas Singh demanded that the venue be shifted to an open-air venue in

Ranchi, April 13: Biomedical waste upping the hazard quotient in the capital and elsewhere will soon be a thing of the past, courtesy Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB), which has decided to set up not one, but five new incinerators for quick disposal.

To be christened the Central Bio-waste Treatment Facility (CBWTF), the incinerator plants will come up in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanb