The West Bengal government will soon shift the tanneries in the eastern fringes of the Calcutta city to the Calcutta Leather Complex at Bantala following a Supreme Court directive. The apex court has
The big dump of tannery wastes at Hazaribagh, weighing an estimated 28,000 tons per year, which pollute the city's environment will be processed under a profitable venture aided by a UN agency. Under
Taking strong objection to Pune Municipal Corporation's decision to construct roads and parking lots in the river bed, various environmentalist organisations in the city body did not give up its
Calcutta city is perilously close to choking point. Our lungs are bleeding, more than 40 per cent of children are suffering from respiratory distress syndrome, more than 14 per cent of cancer
The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has proposed a master plan with a 25-year perspective on better management of water supply and sewage disposal in the City.The project
Children of three industrial and its waste dump places of the city have been tremendously exposed to poisonous heavy metals like Lead (Pb) and Cadmium (Cd) and suffering from different degrees of
How a home is decorated speaks volumes about the people who live there. It may also have a say in how much pollution they are exposed to . A study of benzene pollution in six European cities found
Houston, which likes to promote itself as the world's energy cpaital and home of the US manned spaceflight programme, is eager to lose a less flattering title it has recently acquired: smog city,
For one of the most polluted cities of India, the Delhi Government proposes to cut down on the spending on environment and yet promote tourism by spending more. According to the Government's Annual
The Dhaka city dwellers are being slow poisoned by the growing air pollution. According to a survey made by the Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), 50 tons of lead are emitted in the Dhaka air annually
With the Cabinet failing to come clear on the status of the Delhi Plastic and Bon-Biodegradable Garbage Bill, the Goverment's promise to free the city of plastic has been put on the backburner.
The Ullagaram and Puzhuthivakka, Town Panchayat, located on the southern outskirts of Chennai city, has implemented a novel scheme, involving people's participation to keep streets
The outbreak of jaundice in Gurgaon city, has againt exposed the Health Departmetn's lack of preparedness and pro-active measures to meet challenges on the health front. The Civil Surgeon Dr N. Jain
Delhi has one of the poorest records of compliance in treatment and management of hospital waste, a shade better to Calcutta and Ahmedabad, a report card on seven cities by the environmental group
The Dwarka sub-city which has more than 40,000 dwellings, is facing a unique problem. Lying unoccupied for more than two years because of scarcity of water among other things, the foundations of the
It is going to be an uphill task for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to clean up over 20,000 tonnes of solid waste per day from the roads of the city in 2021. The requirement for collection of
Popular perception about Delhi being a concrete jungle might have to undergo a change now. Latest statistics suggest that about one-fifth of the city has been developed into greens - courtesy the
As vigilance squads go around the city closing polluting indutries, sometimes even at night; many are being re-opened by some other agency of the government, a few days later. The result: Yamuna is
The first major step towards the realisation of Chennai Corporation's dream of a "Clean city 2000"got underway with a multi-media awareness drive at the Ice House zone today.After the first day's
The deadline for setting up methods to dispose of bio-medical waste for eight cities was December 31, 1999. And, of course, it has gone by. A seminar was held yesterday to do a post-mortem on what
