Up in smoke Sir — Where there is a will, there is a way. But for most smokers in India, it seems that their will to quit burns out faster than their cigarettes. What else explains the findings ...

The possibility of CNG (compressed natural gas), the green transport fuel, reaching Kolkata through pipeline has received a jolt. The Bengal government has told the National Green Tribunal that there...

A two-member bench of the National Green Tribunal on Monday asked the Sealdah station authorities to inform it within two weeks about the setting up a of sewage treatment plant and finalise a solar in...

Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board has decided to allow bursting of crackers  only for two hours from 8pm during Diwali a day after the Hemant Soren government eased lockdown curbs for the f...

Credit must be given where it is due. In an innovative move, the Centre’s apex farm research body, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, has devised a scheme to encourage farmers to adopt...

An urban body of Jamshedpur, which was ranked the best among cities in Jharkhand in the Centre’s cleanliness survey in 2020, has taken up the cudgels to spread awareness on river pollution and w...

The principal bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has instructed the Mamata Banerjee government to pay an interim compensation of Rs 2 crore so that the sum can be used to reduce pollution in t...

The National Green Tribunal has slammed the Jharkhand government and the state pollution control board for not submitting an action-taken report on the assessment of compensation for all constructions...

The Bengal urban development and municipal affairs department will improve the waste management system of Siliguri in collaboration with the Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority (SJDA). The anno...

The eastern zonal branch of the National Green Tribunal has asked the state chief secretary and the district magistrate of Howrah to state by August 27 what actions have been taken to evict encroacher...