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The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Amendment Bill, 2024, replaces provisions in the act for imprisonment from three months up to seven years with amended text specifying fines up to Rs 15 lakh and, under certain conditions, Rs 10,000 per day for violations

This initiative outlines a roadmap to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and enhance community climate resilience, aiming to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. The project focuses on utilising bamboo for the sustainable development of the city. ​

Jairam Ramesh says bill passed by Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha had rejected all but one of the recommendations of the JCP

India wants 40% of its electricity to come from renewable sources, which will require vast amounts of land.

India wants 40% of its electricity to come from renewable sources, which will require vast amounts of land.

GREEN campaigners called for an official inquiry into how the Campo refinery let off dangerous chemical fumes for nearly three hours in the evening of

"The Mekedatu will create a disaster," said T V Ramachandra, a professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science at a Bengaluru 2040 panel discussion about protecting and restoring the biodiversity of Bengaluru. "The project will submerge 5,000 acres of forest. Instead, we should look at local solutions like rainwater harvesting." The forests

Activists have started an online petition to save a grove in the All Saints’ Church compound from being axed for the Gottigere-Nagavara metro line.  Addressed to the chief minister, the petition by members of the Environmental Support Group (ESG) has clocked over 4,500 signatures. The church is located at the junction of Richmond Road and Hosur Road. 

Days after Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai's public comment on moral policing, cries of outrage are being heard all over the state.  On Thursday, a coalition of women, Dalit and other citizen organisations as well as students gathered at Mysore Bank Circle here to protest the comment.  Asked about incidents of moral policing, Bommai had appeared to defend it, saying "action