Delhi-NCR has entered Stage 1 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) as air quality dropped to the 'poor' category with an AQI of 208. T...

Pakistan bonded labour: A Pakistani family has been freed from nearly 130 years of bonded labour. Humanitarian Aaron Hutchings facilitated ...

A new movement is emerging, with millennials and Gen Z pushing back against constant screen time. These groups are organising offline gathe...

America sees fewer abortion clinics. A recent report shows a two percent drop in physical clinics. This decline impacts access, especially ...

The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has stayed a Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) order banning Catalyst Trustee from prov...

It has also taken action against Catalyst Trustee, on whom it imposed a one-year ban on the grounds that it overlooked compliance violation...

The plant, spread across 10 acre of area, is located near Khapoli at Dolavali in Maharashtra. It will have a capacity of approximately 50 t...

Traditional brick kilns cause air pollution as they use coal in brick-making process. However there are technologies available to produce e...

Dadan, or migrant labour comes from the local word for debt. According to some 1.5 lakh people from western Odisha travel to work in brick ...

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has directed concerned officials for banning 15-year-old diesel vehicles in the state capital among other measu...

Making of bricks may resume in the coming months, which is likely to bring down brick rates, that have shot up due to lack of supply.

National Green Tribunal has banned digging of earth across the country for making bricks and roads without prior environment clearance.

In a blow to brick-kiln industry and road contractors, the National Green Tribunal has banned digging of earth across the country for makin...

Currently there are certain other exogenous factors which are affecting the demand and realisations of cement in northern and southern regi...

The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday did not allow the Punjab government auction of a mining site without proper environmental cl...

The ban was imposed in June, citing high sulphur content in coal mined from Meghalaya which causes pollution but, users prefer it for its l...

Govt is considering to ban exports of soda ash and encourage imports of glass and bricks.