More than 150 acres of Boro paddy fields in Syedpur of Nilphamari have been badly damaged by the excessive heat, and hot air emitted from the nearby brick kilns. Affected farmers in Kamarpukur union ...

No new permit for brick kilns will be issued to reduce air pollution, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of Water Resources said on ...

Brick kilns are a major contributor to this air pollution crisis. Previous efforts to improve the greenness of the local brick-making industry have resulted in limited success – but if a new ...

Sharing details of the operation against the brick kilns, the ministry official said that five brick kilns operating illegally without environmentally-friendly zigzag technology were sealed.

The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) on Tuesday directed Punjab and Haryana governments to make it mandatory for brick kilns in non-NCR districts to use paddy straw-based biomass ...

A post-Civil War era brick kiln, likely built by freed slaves, has been unearthed in Marshall County, Mississippi. The kiln was discovered by archaeologists surveying land for a planned highway ...

Many Pakistanis work all day in dangerous conditions making and firing bricks in kilns for as little as 200 rupees ($2; £1.30) per day. Despite government assurances that laws are in place to ...

It had been planted to shiraz in '95–96. The majority of the grapes are sold, with a lesser portion contract-made for the partners under the Brick Kiln label, which takes its name from the Brick Kiln ...

A video clip from a CCTV news program on June 10 shows that Chinese police rescue dozens of workers from a brick kiln in Ruicheng, North China's Shanxi Province. The workers were forced to work ...

Police said the accused dumped her body near a brick kiln in Bhateshari village within Jalalpur police station limits after murdering her. A nine-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped and ...

Defying laws, some unscrupulous traders are cutting down trees to fuel a brick kiln in Manpura Island of Bhola, locals alleged.

Very few of the brick kilns in Bangladesh - approximately 7,000, according to government estimates -- have been constructed following proper design and environmental rules, according to experts.