Banning manual scavenging in India: A long, complex passage

Union government is set to introduce The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (Amendment) Bill, 2020, in …

Paperworks

Overall environment health of the pulp and paper industry is far from healthy Inefficiency in resource use plagues the industry

The resonance

The Green Rating Project has already had an impact on Indian industry and hopefully will have more

Bottom of the pile

The companies that have figured low on the ratings are characterised by more than one of the following features

The top bracket

The companies that have figured high on the ratings have more than one of the following features

Rivers(e) effect

The Andhra Pradesh government is all set to purify Musi river, which has been given top priority under the National River Conservation plan, by …

Seychelles gets ambitious with its waste

Government unveils master sanitation plan to protect environment

Water ATM

Sarvajal makes clean drinking water accessible to people

Fish and a philosophy

A cooperative in Kolkata shows the way for urban sewage management

Tirupur dyeing units told to close

Madras High Court orders shut down till zero discharge

Field science

Congenital defects

Science & Technology - Briefs

Science & Technology - Briefs

How Chunar, a small town in UP, is combating COVID-19

How awareness drives involving local bodies, distribution of PPEs and other equipment, helped turn the COVID-19 situation around  

World’s coffee shops have emerged as plant milk’s front line

Milk made from plants is entering the public consciousness (and stomachs) in coffee shops across the globe.

EPCA chief pulls up Panipat officials for violating solid waste norms

A large number of illegal industries operate in Panipat; solid waste management is a major environmental concern 

Chance of revival for Bengaluru’s dying lakes

Karnataka pollution control board initiates project to divert sewage that fall into city lakes

A mixed bag

The Bangladesh government sends thin plastic bags packing, but has Dhaka seen the last of them? Pinaki Roy on the ban's efficacy

Can faith heal?

Billed as the largest gathering of humanity in recorded history, Maha Kumbh has commenced in Allahabad. Over the next few weeks, pilgrims will …

COVID-19: Can wastewater help in tracking outbreak in India

Wastewater research can help determine how much the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) occurs in the Indian population

Neela Hauz may turn blue soon

DDA and DJB to restore the south Delhi pond by 2013

The way to clean sewage

Sewage treatment by filtration through a semi-permeable membrane has proved successful

Capital punishment

Shut and dried

Why has private participation in the urban water sector failed to take off?