Pollutant spewing coal-based thermal power plants, indispensable because they account for 60% of India’s electricity production, will conform to emission standards by 2022, the Centre informed the Supreme
Nabanna: The state government is working on ways to regulate the entry of non-BS IV vehicles into Howrah and Calcutta after being pulled up by the National Green Tribunal for its failure to do so. The
Nagpur: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has sounded the death knell to 94 cities in the country where pollution levels are not meeting the set standards. Topping the chart are Maharashtra with
Ranchi: Jharkhand High Court directed the state pollution control board on Wednesday to ensure that stringent steps are taken to check rising pollution levels in the state and send its officials to conduct
To be jointly developed by the U.S. and Finland to forecast pollution levels India is tying up with the United States and Finland to develop a pollution-forecast system that will help anticipate particulate
Stuggling to contain stubble-burning, Punjab features among the top four states with maximum cities that have failed to meet the national air quality standards in India. The recent report in this regard
KOCHI: With mounting complaints about the use of pirated software by pollution control testing centres in the district to issue Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates to vehicles, the Motor Vehicle
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vardhaman Kaushik Vs. Union of India & Others dated 24/04/2018 regarding Environmental Compensation Charges (ECC) for violation of air pollution
The tribunal, however, said that it wanted to verify the statement and asked the Delhi Pollution Control Committee to file an affidavit within a week NGT seeks details of groundwater use by Delhi Metro
PVR ‘Audit-Air-Iums' will be installed across Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. With the aim to combat indoor air pollution, cinema exhibition company PVR Ltd on Monday rolled out its “clean
Dalhousie: The National Green Tribunal has pulled up the state government for its failure to bring down the city's vehicular pollution level by restricting BS III vehicles and phasing out 15-year-old ones.
Low- and middle-income groups are the worst affected by pollution; 92% of deaths due to pollution occurred in that income group Every third city that failed to meet national air quality standards in
The NCAP draft, however, notes that many international studies often report data on mortality due to air pollution exposure, and "these studies use extrapolation techniques for air quality and health/disease
GURUGRAM: Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki launched the ‘Healthy Lung, Healthy Haryana’ initiative in the city on Saturday, which aims to reduce respiratory diseases in the state. Under the initiative,
Taking a cue from the pillar-based vertical gardens in Singapore and Mexico city, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has asked the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, and the Ministry of Environment
JAGATSINGHPUR: A good number of illegal brick kilns have come up in the district and environmentalists have opined that these brick kilns are responsible for rise in temperature in the region as well as
GURUGRAM: Almost a year after National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed the department of urban local bodies (ULB) to come up with a “green” plan for the city, MCG has started work on it. MCG commissioner
TRICHY: A light-weight satellite built by a 17-year-old aspiring medical student from Trichy will study the effects of air pollution and global warming in various regions including major cities in Tamil
Calcutta: The National Green Tribunal ordered the Bengal government on Thursday to allow the supply of the environment-friendly compressed natural gas to major parts of the Calcutta Metropolitan Area (CMA)
NEW DELHI: Amid green organisations voicing concern over the absence of pollution reduction targets, the Union Environment Ministry on Thursday called for time-bound implementation of the National Clean
