National Green Tribunal’s south zone bench at Chennai on Friday issued orders to the Telangana State Pollution Control Board for inspection of all stone crusher units in GO 111 area and other parts of Telangana. NGT directed TSPCB to implement the 2016 order of closure of illegal stone crusher units and to penalize these units under `Polluter pays’…

The National Green Tribunal has rapped the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) for not abiding by its directions on the implementation of a notification on air pollution emission standards and water consumption for coal-based thermal power plants. A bench headed by Justice Jawad Rahim came down heavily on the Environment Ministry for not filing…

“Carved out from Bihar in 2000, Jharkhand made rapid economic progress from 2005-06 to 2015-16, raising its per capita net domestic income by 36.7%. During this period, women’s literacy improved from 37.1% to 59%, the proportion of institutional deliveries increased from 18.3% to 61.9%, infant mortality rate fell from 69 deaths per 1,000 live births to 44, and under-five…

The man who has written a number of letters requesting the top official to clear environment permission for the mining projects in tiger sanctuary areas is giving GYAAN. “The development activities have increased tremendously after Indias Independence and in this process, people destroyed the natural abode of wild animals by cutting down the forest for…