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 …
Existing regulation Amendments Fallouts Sandal tree exclusive property of the government. News trees grown in private land will not be state property. Standing trees in private lands remain state property Failure on the part of landholder in informing about damage to sndal trees will attract penalty. The provision is done …
Why was Health Effects Institute (HEI) established? hei was founded in 1980 to conduct research on the health effects of air pollution and help policymakers to evolve strategies to tackle this problem. The us Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) and the worldwide motor vehicle industry fund us on the grounds that …
Three years ago (July 28, 1998), the Supreme Court (sc) ruled that the total passenger bus fleet of Delhi be increased from the then figure of about 6,000 to 10,000 by April 1, 2001 and the entire city bus fleet be converted to cng . The objective was to expand …
The cse panel of experts after completing their investigation concluded, "In an international perspective, we consider the safety level of the buses to be acceptable. However, there are still items or manufacturing operations that could be further improved in order to minimise the risk of unwanted incidents.' Based on their …
One-third of all young Chinese men would die due to smoking in the next few decades unless they change their lifestyle, states a new study by a team of international researchers. The prediction was made after researchers studied the case histories of Chinese who died in 1998 in Hong Kong. …
Air pollution in Asia has worsened since 2000, and is responsible for the death of thousands of people in Beijing, Jakarta, Seoul, Bangkok and Manila. This was revealed during a research conducted by the World Bank and the Stockholm Development Institute (sdi). The research states that air pollution in the …
Rejecting the pleas of conservationists, the constitutional tribunal of Ecuador has taken a decision which would cause irreparable damage to the Mindo ecological reserve (see Down To Earth , Vol 10, No 3, June 30, p13). It has permitted multinational consortium ocp Ecuador sa to complete the construction of a …
DEWAN SINGH AGE 95 VILLAGE LATA He remembers accompanying the last expedition to Nanda Devi peak, the country's second highest peak, which falls within the Nanda Devi Biosphere reserve (NDBR). Today, the Union ministry of environment and forests (mef) has to clear all ventures into the core of the reserve. …
the use of compressed natural gas (cng) has brought some respite for Cairo. Experts say that cng has been able to drive out a haze from the city. "V ehicle conversion to the cng mode is a major factor behind a drastic reduction in Cairo's pollution. cng vehicles emit about …
The ministry of petroleum has cleverly reduced air pollution control to a high school debate on compressed natural gas (cng) versus diesel. During the recent meeting with prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, the Union government dismissed the plea for an ordinance to override the Supreme Court orders to convert Delhi's …
Forty three per cent of the children in urban Kolkata suffer from respiratory disorders. In rural Kolkata the figure dips to 14 per cent. A study conducted by analysing the effect of air pollution on lungs of 153 children from urban Kolkata and 116 children from rural areas of the …
A public sector company of the Philippines is setting up the biggest wind power project in Southeast Asia, claims the country's energy secretary Vincent Perez. The first commercial operation of the 40-megawatt power project in the Ilocos Norte province is expected to start by 2004. Philippines National Oil Corporation, the …
IIT Mumbai and the Central Pollution Control Board had conducted a survey of exposure to air pollution and consequent health effects in Mumbai, in 1996. They had clubbed the eight surveyed sites into three groups according to varying levels of pollution
The silicon valley of India might have blue chip companies instead of smoky factories, but this has certainly not helped the local people breathe easy. H Paramesh, at Lakeside Medical Centre, Bangalore, conducted a study on 20,000 children under the age of 18 years admitted to the hospital between 1979-1999. …
Environmentalists in Kenya have urged foreign donors to make protection of dwindling forests a necessary criterion for giving funds to the Kenyan government. According to them,
A lawsuit filed by some residents of Nagoya city against the Japanese government and 10 industrial companies was recently settled after a 12-year-long battle. The lawsuit was filed in the wake of increasing air pollution in the city. Under the settlement, the 10 firms agreed to pay a total compensation …
In 1977, S R Kamath, then professor of respiratory medicine at kem hospital, Mumbai, took up a detailed study to find out how people in the city were suffering from air pollution. It was one of the earliest studies to be undertaken in India
