
Mumbai: His team is doing great in IPL, for a change. And he is very much top of the tree in the film industry. If there's an Achilles' heel troubling Shah Rukh Khan, it's on the home front. After sending a notice to the Bollywood superstar for environmental violations at his Bandra Bandstand bungalow Mannat in October last year, Mumbai Pollution Control Board (MPCB) claims the actor and his architect...

06:10 PM, May 07, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi Pollution Control board has issued a notice to the Patel Chest Institute for fluting bio-medical waste disposal rules. The hospital has been given 15 days to reply to the notice and explain its stand. This comes after the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) pulled up the hospital following a CNN-IBN expose. On December 1, CNN-IBN had reported how Delhis top tuberculosis hospital had been putting hundreds...

08:36 AM, Dec 10, 2011

Kolkata: West Bengal Pollution Control Board on Wednesday, issued fresh guidelines for political parties, on use of microphones during campaigning for the Assembly polls. A Board spokesman said, the parties should ensure that the area of meeting place is 100 metres from the 'silence zone' and should be covered in such a manner that noise does not travel beyond the covered area. He said that speakers and loudspeakers would be...

07:02 PM, Mar 09, 2011

New Delhi: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), on Sunday, released figures of how fire-cracker triggered pollution has affected the air we breathe post Diwali. Firecrackers burst during Diwali celebrations are major contributors to air pollution and sound pollution. Director, CPCB, Dr Santosh D Makhijani said, "Of the nine locations we monitored in Delhi for noise, (we found that) the noise level has gone up at three locations and come...

08:02 AM, Oct 19, 2009

The ship is being seen as a threat to India's marine ecosystem. ...

03:29 PM, Oct 17, 2009

Pollution control board has issued notice to 17 hospitals. ...

08:44 PM, Jun 19, 2009

India Innings 30th over: India 151 all out, lose the match by 65 runs in the tri-series opener against Australia. Clint McKay is the pick of the Aussie bowlers with the figures of 4/20. The Indian batting failed miserably: Virat Kohli top-scored with 31 while captain MS Dhoni made 29. Matthew Wade bags the Man-of-the-Match award for a solid 67. 26th over: Dhoni out! Holes out to David Warner at...

06:02 PM, Apr 19, 2008

Wellington: Former New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori, the world's top-ranked limited overs bowler, announced Saturday he is taking an indefinite break from the short game to prolong his Test career. The 32-year-old, who is also ranked ninth among the world's leading ODI all-rounders, said he may return in time for the 2015 World Cup but in the meantime he wants to focus on adding to his 105 Tests. My...

08:46 PM, Feb 06, 2008

A study, conducted by traffic police says vehicular pollution levels are way higher than the permissible limit. ...

07:47 PM, Aug 25, 2006