What is worse is that Rs 900 crore of the Ganga Action Plan have simply gone down the drain. It's also the place where the Ganga is at it's dirtiest. ...
05:03 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Kanpur: At the historic city of Kanpur, a thriving leather industry is central to the crisis facing the Ganga. Rakesh Jaiswal, an eco-crusader, tells us why. "This is the failure of the Ganga Action Plan," says Jaiswal. "The government is responsible since animal wastes from over 200 tanneries nearby are flown straight into the river, when it should in fact reach the treatment plant here." The stench at the tanneries...
02:07 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Experts point out climate change and flowing of sewage into the Ganga is affecting the river adversely. ...
12:07 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Activists and experts talk about what is harming the Ganga, India's sacred river. ...
10:20 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Varanasi: On the World Environment Day, CNN-IBN focuses on 'Saving the Ganga', a 45-day campaign that highlights how the sacred river is dying despite thousands of crores of rupees being spent to save it. CNN-IBN's special report shows how dams and pollution are killing the river in every state it passes through. CNN-IBN reached the ancient city of Varanasi, and found why the river is the most polluted there despite...
07:46 AM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal has the highest number of red category industries causing high pollution, followed by Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, while 43 industrial clusters have been identified as "critically polluted", the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday. Environment and Forest Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said during Question Hour that the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and IIT-Delhi had conducted a survey based on Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) for assessment...
03:58 PM, May 14, 2012
CNN-IBN's Environment Editor Bahar Dutt tracks the river Ganga, from the Himalayas down to the Sunderbans to find out what it will take to revive India's most sacred river. ...
05:30 PM, May 12, 2012
Jajmau: A cocktail of chemicals is being dumped into the river Ganga in Kanpur. What is even worse is that Rs 900 crore of the Ganga Action Plan have simply gone down the drain. In the historic city of Kanpur, a thriving leather industry is central to the crisis facing the Ganga. Rakesh Jaiswal, an eco-crusader, explains, "This is a failure of the Ganga Action Plan. The water that should...
10:53 AM, May 11, 2012
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
CNN-IBN's Environment Editor Bahar Dutt tracks the river Ganga, from the Himalayas down to the Sunderbans to find out what it will take to revive India's most sacred river. ...
05:38 PM, May 05, 2012
Varanasi: For thousands of years, people have been thronging the ghats of the ancient city of Varanasi to offer prayers. It is here that the circle of life and death is completed. Cruising down the river Ganga, one reaches the ancient city of Varanasi... and one NGO has shown that all is not well with the river here. Once a week, volunteers from the Sankatmochan Foundation give the holy waters...
08:59 AM, May 04, 2012
CNN-IBN's Environment Editor Bahar Dutt tracks the river Ganga, from the Himalayas down to the Sunderbans to find out what it will take to revive India's most sacred river. ...
10:23 PM, Apr 28, 2012
CNN-IBN's Environment Editor Bahar Dutt tracks the river Ganga, from the Himalayas down to the Sunderbans to find out what it will take to revive India's most sacred river. ...
10:23 PM, Apr 28, 2012
The Ganga is today one of the five most polluted rivers in the country and large parts of it are dry. ...
01:07 PM, Apr 22, 2012
New Delhi: Deteriorating air quality in the national capital can translate into 3,000 additional "premature deaths" annually due to air pollution related diseases, the Centre for Science and Environment has said in a report. The report, submitted to the Delhi government, estimated that about 55 per cent of Delhi's population is directly affected by air pollution as they live in a radius of 500 metre of "urban roads" where pollution...
12:46 AM, Mar 02, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A drainage burst has been causing intense hardships to shopkeepers and residents on the busy Padmavilasom Road, which is just a stones throne away from the high-profile Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple. On Saturday evening, the drain pipe burst again, plump in the middle of the road, spewing out waste water and a horrible stench. Many shopkeepers even downed shutters early on Saturday owing to this. Repeated complaints have fallen...
11:13 AM, Jan 30, 2012
CHENNAI: Around 2,000 students from various city schools, in association with the Police Makkal Nalluravu Sangam, took out a rally from Mint Street to NSC Bose Road to highlight the need for pollution-free celebrations during Pongal. Students from Manilal N Mithra Girls Higher Secondary School, Moongidai Goenka Girls Higher Secondary School, Ganesh Galada Jain Girls Higher Secondary School, Shri Jawanthrae Tejraj Surana Jain Vidyalaya, Sugundha Suasans Higher Secondary School and...
08:42 AM, Jan 14, 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
HYDERABAD: Despite assurances from the organisers of 10 K Run, Sport 18, to keep the event environment-friendly, the health run was far from it. People's plaza, from where the run began, was a mess by the end of the event. About a 100 GHMC workers worked on the whole of Sunday to clean up the 10 kms track, according to social scientist WG Prasanna Kumar, AP Pollution Control Board. In...
08:55 AM, Nov 29, 2011
CHENNAI: The weather gods may have pulled a wet blanket over the festival of lights this year, but a sharp increase in the rate of calls received by 108 emergency services ensured that their personnel across the State had a busy festival. As per statistics available with 108 GVK-EMRI, though the number of emergency calls received on October 25-26 were marginally lower than those received last year, the number of...
01:39 PM, Oct 28, 2011
