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 …
The Sen committee has evolved an effective formula to compensate farmers who will get lower msp. According to it, the difference between the current msps and the lower cost of production-based msps, multiplied by the average of three years' procurement figures, will be ploughed back as direct income support for …
the World Health Organisation (who) recently released the draft tobacco treaty text. This would be the basis for final negotiations on the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (fctc) which, when adopted, will be a significant step towards combating global tobacco menace. Excerpts from the text: The preamble of the text …
exercises and air pollution are a bad combination for those suffering from heart diseases, according to the first study of its kind. Although many researchers have reported an association between pollution and damage to heart, the study is the first to analyse the strain on heart muscles resulting from an …
Over a year ago, Anil Agarwal wrote in this column that science is a political orphan. He was discussing how even as we remain bombastic about our prowess in science, there is so little science in those areas which affect our daily lives. Indeed, there is little to show that …
The ever-swelling numbers of urban consumers who are hitting the (soft-drink) bottle and the increasing ability of the beverage manufacturers to penetrate the rural market have ensured that sales and revenues head north. According to market sources, the soft-drink industry was estimated at 6.5 billion bottles in the year 2000 …
The Supreme Court (sc) has issued show-cause notices to the Delhi government and the Delhi police commissioner for non-implementation of its order banning the entry of trucks which do not comply to Bharat Stage
in a bid to meet carbon dioxide emission targets under the Kyoto Protocol, Japan has taken up a project to repair thermal power plants in Kazakhstan. This is Japan's first agreement under the clean development mechanism (cdm) within the Kyoto Protocol. cdm allows industrialised nations to invest in environment-friendly energy …
Malaria is back with a bang in East Africa. Its latest victim is Kenya, where the epidemic has killed at least 294 people since June 2002. According to estimates, more than 158,000 cases of the disease have been reported in the country's western highlands. The large number of malaria-related deaths …
using genetic code as the recipe and carbon-containing chemicals as the ingredients, researchers have recently recreated the polio virus. The feat is significant, as it is for the first time that a working biological entity has been synthesised. Moreover, the achievement is a step towards creating life in laboratories
Residents of Chajjupur, Shahdara, New Delhi, are very angry. But they are also scared. Although they have been fighting the polluting industries in their area, they refuse to come out in the open with their struggle. "We do not want to take on the industry,' explains a local shopkeeper. Residents …
Every once in a way, one comes across an instance that reestablishes faith in the tools of the establishment. Take the case of the Behala public interest litigation (pil), for example. About a hundred housewives from Behala, situated in the southern part of the city of Kolkata, approached the green …
THE US government is considering charging Imclone Drugs Inc, a biotechnology firm for deluding investors about the status of their cancer drug, Erbitux. Company officials revealed that they have received a 'wells notice' from the Securities and Exchange Commission. This notice is issued when the staff of the panel is …
the California Air Resources Board (carb) has recently approved stricter standards for checking particulate matter (pm) in the state. carb calculations show that realisation of the new standards would reduce 6,500 premature deaths every year. "This is an important step because these particles seriously impact human health, particularly infants, children, …
scientists have discovered the fossilised remains of a marine animal, perhaps a sponge or coral, which they say lived nearly 550 million years ago. The creature's hard, shelly parts are far more complex than anything else found from this time. It gives researchers an insight into a period of Earth …
An environmental data centre will soon come up in the United Arab Emirates (uae). The centre will collect and analyse information on issues, including air pollution and marine ecosystems, from across the globe as an aid to better environmental strategy and policy-making. "It would help a lot of developing countries …
tiny pollutant particles, known as sulphate aerosols, emitted by power stations and industries from the us and Europe have played an important role in causing catastrophic droughts in the Sahel region of Africa. These were the findings of a research conducted by Australia-based Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (csiro), …
Hepatitis B is a communicable disease with a high strike rate the germ: "The Hepatitis B virus kills 20 out of every 100 infected people each day. This works out to 400 times the people who die of AIDS daily,' points out S K Sarin, president, Indian Association for Study …
In a swift move, China has clamped down on toxic electronic waste exports from the US. Environmental groups Basel Action Network (Ban) and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition of the US and Delhi-based Toxics Link had earlier this year jointly brought out a report stating that as much as 80 per …
breathing toxic chemicals exposes all us citizens to a lifetime cancer risk at least 10 times greater than the level considered acceptable under us federal law, shows a recent assessment of the us Environmental Protection Agency (epa). The epa assessment has been based on emissions data from 1996 because inventories …
Beware of prawns, shrimps, herbs and spices. They could be irradiated. Recently, Britain's Food Standards Agency (fsa) found that a large number of dietary supplements in the uk are irradiated. Irradiation, which exposes eatables to controlled radiation to kill micro-organisms, is a scientifically accepted technique. However, many consumer groups have …
