Panaji: Goa

KOLKATA, 1 SEPT: At a time when the state pollution control board has taken up a drive to phase out lead, a toxic-metal, innumerable lead-battery units in the city not only continue to cough out lead aerosols dust, but also ignore the safety of labourers working in these units.

There are about 100 small or medium lead battery units operating on the stretch of APC Road from Manicktala Crossing t

BHUBANESWAR: One of India

Councillor Chander Mukhi Sharma has moved a complaint against the garbage processing plant at Dadumajra to UT Adviser Pradip Mehra.

Ranchi, Aug. 25: A day after the Centre rejected Vedanta’s $1.7 billion project in Orissa, the group’s “illegal” procurement of bauxite — the main raw material for aluminum— from private miners in Jharkhand has come under the scanner of the Union ministry of environment and forests and the concerned department in the state.

Debabrata Mohanty

The Orissa government has appointed a committee to look into cases of excessive mining of iron, chromite, and manganese ore by companies in disregard of existing laws. Headed by the Director of Mines, the six-member committee would submit a report on the companies who dug out the ores in excess of the prescribed limit.

MUMBAI: Mobile service providers will have to submit an annual report of the electro magnetic radiations (EMR) level generated from mobile towers near schools and hospital zones.

THE environment ministry is likely to take a decision on the fate of Vedanta

On the directions issued by the Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCC), two service stations operating from Industrial Area, Phase II, were sealed today for causing water pollution, being operational without a valid license to operate and not complying with various other provisions.