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 …
over recent years, farmers have come to recognise the advantages of drip irrigation, a type of micro-irrigation (sprinklers, perforated earthenware pipes and mulching). The method which was first used by Israel, is mainly introduced to utilise water efficiently in irrigation. In drip irrigation, water is constantly supplied at the root …
at the second meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee ( inc ), held in Nairobi from January 25-29, delegates from 97 countries discussed measures to tackle the menace caused by the 12 persistent organic pollutants ( pop s), including ddt . pop s are chemical toxins which do not break …
T he best things in life don't come free. Today clean air and clean drinking water all come at a price. For a person living in a Delhi slum 30 litres of water a day is all one can expect. The sole source of water is either a municipal tanker …
INVESTIGATORS from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have found fundamental weaknesses in a major US air pollution control programme that may have allowed many "significant violators" of the federal and state regulations to escape inspections and sanctions for years. According to the EPA's Office of inspector general, these lapses occurred …
Kids who thrive on bubble guru may well be keeping the doctor away. Research just published by Matti Uhari and his team from the University of Oulu in Finland shows that a sweetener commonly used in bubble gum, chewing gwn and some foods may prevent ear infections. The plant sugar …
SCIENTISTS have long been perplexed by a question: how many galaxies are there in the universe? Taking a census of the galaxies is like counting the grains of sand on a beach. But thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, they have now come up with an estimate: 125 billion. Arriving …
A solution to Beijing's air pollution problems will require cooperation from the whole society, as well as the government, said a local environmental official. In an interview with China Daily, Yu Xiaoxuan, deputy director of the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau, said that environmental awareness has spread among the government officials …
Students at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, USA, have devised a more efficient trike, a human-powered vehicle somewhat like a bicycle but with three or four wheels, for disabled people who cannot use their legs to get around. it has a novel up-and-down pump drive mechanism that people work …
IN THE first week of December 1998, about 3,000 tonnes of industrial materials from Taiwan were dumped in Sihanoukville, a village in Cambodia. The villagers, who were unaware of the toxic nature of the dump, were thrilled with the contents. It contained cement-like materials in white plastic sacks which could …
The Lt Governor of Delhi needs, for his own sake, to be immediately airlifted from the polluted environs of the capital. Any concerned citizen who has being paying attention to his statements in the previous six months will realise immediately that he suffers from an extreme case of trauma caused …
The housewives' delight - onions - sells for Rs. 12 per kg now, a big fall from the highly elevated status and inflated price it enjoyed under the previous Bharatiya Janata Party government. Onions then sold for Rs 60 per kg. Mrs Khanna, a housewife who lives in Nizamudin East, …
A s early as 1979, a working group, established by the government of India to review problems related to heavy metal pollution, recommended an Integrated Environmental Programme on Heavy Metals ( iephm) project to be coordinated by the late C R Krishna Murti. The group's report was published in 1991. …
The environmental impact of heavy metals always goes unnoticed and is rarely catastrophic to merit immediate measures. Except for the recent report on arsenic poisoning in West Bengal, no major episode of metal toxicity has been recognised in India (see box: Arsenic poisoning ). It took decades of research to …
Soon after Independence, India stepped into the second half of the 20th century with a spurt in the growth of heavy industries: industries that needed a large amount of heavy metals. Mining operations began on a large scale and mine wastes, sewers and belching chimneys pumped in large amounts of …
In India, very little attention has been given to the accumulation of heavy metals in food products though all edible food products such as vegetables, cereals and fruits are replete with these toxins. A study conducted by cpcb and the department of agriculture, Calcutta University, which was reported in The …
There are clear indications that toxic heavy metals in the environment have increased to harmful levels. But though the extreme toxicity of heavy metals have been scientifically established, there are several who still differ in their opinion on the effects of pollution. S D Makhijani, senior scientist at cpcb, says …
saying brain surgery is a delicate business would be an understatement. Cut a little bit more here and the patient might end up blind, deaf or perhaps even paralysed. So knowing what lies beneath the tissue surface could be a life-saver. But right now, the only way surgeons can do …
The Union for Protection of New Plant Varieties (upov) is a 23-member Geneva-based organisation which regulates plant breeders rights for the industrial nations. Recently, the Union government of India expressed its idesire to become a memberof this international body. There are many in India who oppose this arguing that the …
The Chinese government is taking steps to accelerate the development and use of electric and alternative fuel vehicles. Vice-minister for science and technology Deng Nan said initial results have been achieved in developing automobiles which run on clean fuel. "Developing environment-friendly motor vehicle technology in line with China's resources is …
scientists drilling into sediment off the coast in Antarctica, found evidence of one of the most violent volcanic eruptions ( New Scientist , Vol 160, No 2161). The explosion, occurred some 25 million years ago, blasted 30 cubic kilometres of ash and volcanic debris 50 kilometres or more into the …
