The Maharashtra government today admitted that it had to shut down eight small-scale power generation plants due to the pollution they were causing.

The aggregate power generation capacity of these units was nearly 800 MW.

Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, who holds the energy portfolio, told the legislative assembly in the question hour today that the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MP

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has asked for a report from his Environment and Industries Ministers on the plan to extract gravel and boulders from 36 freshwater streams in the state endangering half of the habitat of the state

From around submerged cargo vessel in Kanyakumari
Nagercoil:

The district administration has woken up to the need of developing an eco-friendly zone around biologically sensitive areas as per the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) guidelines.

The administration has now directed the officials concerned to prepare a zonal masterplan for developing such a zone in the five-km radius of the Sultanpur National Bird Sanctuary.

A monitoring committee,

COIMBATORE: Kongunadu Munnetra Kazhagam (KNMK) has written to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, seeking help to solve the issues that confront the Tirupur knitwear cluster.

The party president Best S.

GUWAHATI, April 11

GUWAHATI, In the lines of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board, the Assam Pollution Control Board has also issued some

KOLKATA, 5 APRIL: A public interest litigation (PIL) seeking an interim order to restrain West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) from giving effect to a notification on 29 December, 2009, which completely prohibited the use of loudspeakers in open areas, was filed in Calcutta High Court today.

Ever heard of bottled cooking gas, green diesel or bio-CNG? And that too produced from waste generated in the city?

The Environment Ministry today lifted moratorium imposed on eight industrial clusters located in critically polluted areas in different parts of the country for considering projects for environmental clearance.