Alternative fuels can reduce air and noise pollution levels

Vialle, a company based in the Netherlands, manufactures customised cars using alternative fuels like compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied …

Maharashtra pushes for relaxing norms around Mumbai’s silence zones

Activists accuse government of abdicating fundamental responsibility of ensuring good health of citizens

Talking about pollution

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When homemakers unite

Housewives in Kolkata move the court against the irresponsible and negligent functioning of factories in their area

Defiling the sacred

How the environment --- sacred to Hindus --- is bearing the brunt of pollution in the name of religion

Trespassers allowed

Unregulated tourism around the Corbett Tiger Reserve has restricted animal movement  

Green crackers answer to Diwali pollution but manufacturing limited

Most green crackers do not contain barium nitrate, which is the most dangerous ingredient in conventional crackers

Man beaten to death for protesting noisy firecrackers in West Bengal

Disabled youth on wheelchair severely thrashed in Kolkata; police arrest over 1,600 people for violating noise rules, unruly behaviour

Pune police to crack down on noise on New Year’s Eve

Green tribunal orders confiscation of cars fitted with unauthorised DJ systems to check noise pollution

Simply put: Allahabad HC bans DJ in UP

Haryana has gone deaf

JAPAN

The conductor's bane

New Year celebrations: Kolkata saw spike in most noise monitors at midnight among metros

Surge highest around a city hospital, air quality also worsened since January 1

A hush-hush affair

Noise control

Loudspeakers silenced

Unsound ways

Law made tough for noise makers

Will authorities enforce the rules?  

Simply Put: Taking Earth for a ride

All in the mind

Noise over weapons blowup

Noisy airport

Sound vision

Computer simulations to map noise pollution

Pollution in news on May 14

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on pollution