Centre targets to douse stubble fires by half in Punjab, HaryanaThe target action plan will be challenging for Punjab, which has been reporting highest fire counts year after year, contributing significa...
01 May, 2023, 11.40 PM IST
Migrant labourer shot dead, another injured in Jammu and Kashmir's BudgamMilitants fired at two non-local labourers at a brick kiln at Magraypora in Chadoora area of the central Kashmir district, the officials sa...
03 Jun, 2022, 10.44 AM IST
SC directs CPCB to conduct surprise inspections at brick kilns in NCRThe top court directed that those units, located in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, which have the consent to operate and have also declared the...
15 Apr, 2022, 12.41 PM IST
Coal-fired brick kilns cannot be allowed to operate in NCR during severe pollution: NGTUnless there is a change to a cleaner fuel (PNG), brick kilns beyond the number specified cannot be allowed in the NCR, the green panel sai...
18 Feb, 2021, 02.29 PM IST
Delhi government will issue directions for usage of 'green' firecrackers, says Gopal RaiIn 2018, the Supreme Court had banned the use of polluting firecrackers and allowed the sale of "green" firecrackers in a bid to control ai...
10 Oct, 2020, 12.02 PM IST
2 truck drivers killed, 1 injured as militants set apple-laden vehicles on fire in J&K’s ShopianThe killings are seen in context of revocation of special status of the state. Locals fear that the outsiders may buy land and settle in Ka...
25 Oct, 2019, 08.10 AM IST
View: How not to create jobsGadkari has requested Piyush Goyal to make kulhads mandatory at all railway stations in the country.
28 Aug, 2019, 08.57 PM IST
Pee a brick and help save the planetA single bio-brick takes about 25 to 30 liters of urine to grow, according to Randall, which is the equivalent of about 100 bathroom trips ...
03 Nov, 2018, 11.21 PM IST
Centre releases draft action plan to tackle air pollution in capitalThe action plan has been developed after successive meetings of Misra-led panel following “severe” and “very poor” air quality days in Delh...
27 Dec, 2017, 07.48 AM IST
Air pollution at crisis levels in North India,says Niti Aayog; spells out three-year plan"Metro or bus based rapid transit systems connecting suburbs and city centre and a dense in-city transport system will go some distance tow...
24 Aug, 2017, 11.42 PM IST
You aren’t alone Delhi, all 22 NCR districts are choking16 Jan, 2017, 11.50 PM IST
China's most polluted province Hebei cuts coal use by halfHebei Province in northern China which neighbours Beijing is often blamed for the capital city's pollution woes.
08 Apr, 2015, 05.32 PM IST
After two years, no progress on Delhi’s pollution action planThe second-generation action plan for Delhi's pollution—drafted to deal with the deteriorating air quality, doesn't seem to have been final...
12 Feb, 2014, 10.19 AM IST
Growing real estate business linked to child labour in Tamil NaduThe growing real estate business in Tamil Nadu and the simultaneous emergence of Chennai as an industrial hub have an adverse effect.
01 Jun, 2013, 05.00 PM IST
- Brick industry modernisation to boost low carbon growth: Study
Annual savings of Rs 2,500 crore in coal consumption and reduction in CO2 emissions can be effected through modernisation of India's brick ...
03 Feb, 2012, 01.05 PM IST
- Live bombs recovered from Nandigram
As many as twenty-three live bombs were on Wednesday recovered from embattled area even as no untoward incidents were reported on Wednesday...
13 Aug, 2008, 04.27 PM IST
- BPOs turn sweatshops in urban India
Nasscom president Kiran Karnik agreed that some small BPOs pay very low overtime wages.
25 Mar, 2007, 12.00 AM IST