Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
just 10 avoidable risk factors, including malnutrition, unsafe sex, smoking and poor sanitation, account for 40 per cent of global deaths each year. This was stated in the latest World Health Report of the World Health Organisation (who). According to the organisation, cheap remedies exist for many ailments and governments …
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH . November . 2002 NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 saw bombing of many factories. The world media covered the campaign extensively. And then suddenly there was a hush. The eerie silence has been broken now by a new report by the Washington-based …
INFORMATION FEUDALISM . Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite . Earthscan Publications Limited . London . 2002 . Rs 920 In the last two decades, the intellectual property standards have changed drastically. Today, these rules are set by the global strategies of a small number of companies and business organisations. The …
this year too, Diwali turned out to be a smoggy affair in Delhi. Pollution monitoring by the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) showed that the level of respirable suspended particulate matter (rspm) doubled from 432 microgrammes per cubic metre (
Keeping tabs: A stiff dose of preventives is set to find its way into the European Union's (EU) prescription for curbing the illegal trade of low-cost antiretroviral drugs. The proposal comes in the face of the recent revelation that shipments of cheaper AIDS drugs intended for Africa were intercepted, flown …
New Delhi, 15 NovemberIn 1998, Delhi witnessed one of the worst winters of the decade. For much of the season, the city was enveloped by a deadly smog. Respiratory illnesses were rising and there was an alarming increase in hospital admissions. As officials were caught up in the all-familiar inertia, …
New Delhi, November 15 With laboriously produced details and a very cautious analysis, the new Auto Fuel Policy knocks out all sense of crisis from the problem of vehicular pollution. The policy was recently mooted by R A Mashelkar, director-general, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi. The …
Air pollution levels are soaring in Hong Kong. Smog drifting from the neighbouring Chinese province of Guangdong is said to be one of the major reasons for the alarming trend. To combat the menace, Hong Kong and Macau have been included in a Chinese pilot project under which strict pollution …
Philippines joins CNG bandwagon: Yet another country attempting to switch its public transport to compressed natural gas (CNG) mode is Philippines. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has announced that a bus company, will undertake a pilot project by 2003, which will include 100 buses to be fully fuelled by CNG. Devious strategy …
the much-hailed Mashelkar committee's final report on the country's auto fuel policy was released recently. While the interim report, released in January 2002 was extremely weak and uncaring about public health objectives, the final draft is only slightly better with mere cosmetic changes. The committee is headed by R A …
The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) was sponsored by research agencies within Europe, India and USA, and was mainly concerned with the haze over south Asia and the adjacent Indian Ocean. It excluded other equally or even more polluted areas in Asia. The Asian Brown Cloud is a follow on international …
In September 1993, Delaware-based company Metalclad bought Mexican firm Coterin. The US company planned to complete a project to build a hazardous waste landfill near the Mexican city of Guadalcazar. Coterin had already acquired a federal permit for such a venture. The site was approximately 70 kilometres from Guadalcazar in …
lungs are immediately damaged when people are exposed to particulate matter, and after an hour of exposure even the heart function gets affected. These are the findings of a study carried out at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, usa. The researchers used rats to analyse the effects of particulate …
after treating it as a grey area for a decade, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) has finally declared in black and white that diesel exhaust is a "likely human carcinogen'. The usepa officially acknowledged this in the final version of its report,
During recent laboratory experiments, researchers have discovered that mice slathered with caffeine develop fewer skin tumours than untreated animals. This suggests that the chemical that adds zip to coffee also provides protection against skin cancer. The researchers from New Jersey-based Rutgers University found that a skin lotion spiked with caffeine …
the recent eu directives, which aim to monitor the quality of traditional herbal medicines entering the European market, have sparked off a lively debate in India. One school of thought fears the order will adversely affect the export potential of banned Indian ayurvedic products as most of them contain ingredients, …
For those immune to the known dangers of vehicular pollution, a new study comes up with a shocker. The study paints an even more scary picture of the losing battle fought by the lung's defence mechanism against air pollution. Genetic disruption and neurobehavioural problems are also part of the package. …
Debates on air pollution have consistently marginalised discourse on indoor air pollution. With research indicating that a very large number of people spend more than 90 per cent of their time indoors, indoor air pollution could mean just as great a risk, if not greater, to health as air pollution …
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