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IIT Guwahati develops new method to mitigate Acid Mine Drainage in coal mines of North-East IndiaResearchers have carried out a study of coal mines on the ‘bioremediation’ of Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) in Constructed Wetlands. This is the...
Possible to clean Yamuna to bathing standards by 2025: ExpertsThe Yamuna can be considered fit for bathing if biological oxygen demand (BOD) is less than 3 milligram per litre and dissolved oxygen (DO)...
EKI Energy Services bags contract as carbon credit service provider from IndoreEKIESL will help ISCDL monetise emission reductions and realise additional revenue which it can use to support and fund its multiple welfar...
PPPs crucial for investment, technology efficiency for waste management in India: Hardeep Singh PuriThe statement also stated that Padmashri Naina Lal Kidwai, Chair, India Sanitation Coalition (ISC), said picking up on the theme of enhanci...
Oil India Ltd loses Rs 148 cr revenue due to well closure around Baghjan fire, AssamA massive fire had broken out at the gas well in May-end after gas that had been leaking for two weeks ignited, sending plumes of smoke and...
OIL assures of safety measures at well siteBiswajit Roy, Director (HR&BD), OIL along with Prasanta Borkakoty, ED (HR&A), interacted with the patients from Baghjan relief camps who we...
Bengaluru landfills to be cleared soonThe Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has started working on clearing the landfill following directions from the Central Poll...
Many states became open defecation free, achieved 100 pc toilet coverage since Swachh Bharat Mission launch: Economic SurveyAs on 14 June 2019, 30 States/UTs are 100 per cent covered with individual household latrine (IHHL).
Centre turns to ‘sewage-eating’ microbes to treat Ganga water at 54 new sitesUnder bioremediation technique, the activated microbes eat up contaminants such as oil and organic matter. The bacteria play a vital role i...
Individuals, private institutions get role in Mission GangaThe tendering process is too being simplified to avoid bureaucratic delays and a committee of officials has been put in place to approve th...
Individuals, private institutions get role in Mission GangaThe tendering process is being simplified to avoid bureaucratic delays and a committee of officials has been formed to approve projects.
Projects worth Rs 700 crore sanctioned for Namami Gange programmeThe National Mission for Clean Ganga has approved a project for pollution abatement of river Ganga at Bally in West Bengal at an estimated ...
Indian-American Rupa Iyer awarded highest teaching award in USAn Indian-American biotechnologist has received University of Houston's highest teaching award for her sustained and significant contributi...
Oil India tastes success in restoring polluted water bodiesThis has made the environment of the pits conducive for the growth of algae and associated aquatic flora and fauna, the PSU claimed.
IIT-Bombay students to get water from sewage in DwarkaThe mechanism, which its inventors call the "soil bio technology", will increase the 4MGD supply to the area to 5.1MGD.
- India's biotech sector to grow 20% in foreseeable future
Mazumdar-Shaw said the size of the country's biotech sector had reached USD 3.5 billion in 2010 and is poised for robust growth in all segm...
- TERI completes first phase of oil spill clean-up operations
TERI on Saturday announced that it has managed to scoop up all the oil sludge, tar balls and oil stained sand from Awas Beach near Alibaug.