New Delhi: The CBI has booked Nagpur Rakesh Kumar, the former director of CSIR NEERI, and four scientists of the institute in three FIRs of alleged corruption and favours extended to private companies in awarding various projects, including the giant air-purifiers WAYU, officials said Wednesday. They said the agency's action followed allegations of criminal conspiracy and corruption in a complaint …
The principal bench of National Green Tribunal has summoned the Director, NEERI and Member Secretary, Punjab Pollution Control Board to explain the delay in filing the status report and what immediate measures can be taken to resolve the problem of groundwater contamination in Punjab's Sangrur.A bench of Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, Justice Sudhir Agarwal, Dr. A. The principal bench of …
Despite warnings and directions of the National Green Tribunal, 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste stored on the Union Carbide India Limited premises — the site of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy — is yet to be disposed of, according to a report by the Central Pollution Control Board submitted to the green court. At the meeting, Atul Narayan Vaidya, …
New Delhi : As in previous years, a number of states have banned pollution-causing firecrackers ahead of Diwali, allowing only those that have come to be known as green crackers. Green crackers seek to produce the same light-and-sound effect as conventional crackers but emit lower amounts of pollutants. How green is different Green crackers have the same pyrotechnic composition as …