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 …
If you want a widescreen television but do not have enough room or money to squeeze a large set into your living room, Sony has an answer. Its new Glasstron goggles use a virtual reality headset display
speeding trains through forests continue to be the cause of animal deaths in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh. The reserve is home to as many as 75 tigers and a variety of flora and fauna. Last year, the park lost one tigress, two fishing cats, one elephant and one …
wind energy is considered to be the world's fastest growing energy source. And why not. It generated a record 2,100 megawatts (mw) of power in 1998. This was 35 per cent more than the previous year, according to a study conducted by Christopher Flavin of the Worldwatch Institute based in …
for the National Space and Aeronautics Administration (nasa ), 1999 began with a bang. On January 4, the ambitious Mars Polar Lander took off successfully from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Carnival, Florida, usa. It is expected to touch down on Mars on December 3, 1999, after releasing a …
when William Gibson, the then-unknown author of cyber-age science fiction penned Neuromancer in the 1980s he had no way of knowing that many of his ideas, would become reality in this century itself. One of his ideas was to eliminate all visual display units and tv s by projecting images …
eleven years ago, about 4,000 metric tonnes of toxic incinerator ash was dumped from the city of Philadelphia, usa, near the town of Gonaives in Haiti. The waste was to be shipped back to the us in mid-November 1998. But the Caribbean Dredging Excavation, the company entrusted with collecting the …
Iranian authorities ordered elementary schools in Tehran to close on December 14, due to an alarming rise in air pollution levels in the city. For a long time, environmentalists had been warning about the increasing air pollution levels in the city. "I hope parents will advice their children to stay …
Chinese officials are calling for a crackdown on the dumping of medicines by drug manufacturers engaged in price wars. "The practice should be banned,' said a spokesperson for the State Economic and Trade Commission. The root of the problem lies in the current price war caused by a nation-wide overproduction …
japanese researchers are looking towards tiny, long-living animals for some tips on how to make organ transplants work more successfully. Inspired by these ancient life forms, they have even come up with a new technique to store organs for transplants later, they claim. The team, which successfully revived a rat's …
Computers and virtual reality were a huge hit in video game arcades and air force training when gamers and trainee fighter pilots went inside virtual simulators flying virtual fighters and battling virtual enemies. Now the same aerospace simulation technology is being adapted to plan weddings in Japan. NEC, Japan's electronics …
The Delhi High Court has expressed strong displeasure over varying stands taken by authorities on the trade of human hair. The court has directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to carry out an inspection and state within one week whether the trade was going on in certain localities of the …
the European Commission ( ec ) is about to approve plans to clean up air quality. It plans to impose strict limits on benzene and carbon monoxide emissions. The new benchmarks will force European governments to curb benzene and carbon monoxide emissions from vehicles and industrial plants, said a senior …
the newly-appointed chief minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit, soon after assuming office met Union minister for environment and forests Suresh Prabhu to examine the progress in the implementation of the white paper on environmental pollution in Delhi. In what can be said as the first serious effort made by the …
Who do you think was responsible for the tragedy? The responsibility lies with the management which did not adhere to the safety norms. There were no technically qualified personnel to look after safety measures. On the day of the tragedy, not a single safety mechanism was in place. I left …
RADIATION -INDUCED conditions and tumours; other than thyroid cancer have increased significantly in the former Soviet republic of Belarus since the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in 1986, say researchers. Many experts claim that the only significant health effect of the accident was to increase the number of people …
A massive protest was held in Hong Kong demanding -action against the rising air pollution level. People wearing gas masks and holding placards proclaiming "Diesel is deadly" and "Government, act now" marched from central Hong Kong to Causeway Bay, one of the most polluted areas of the city. "We want …
BLOOD donors are usually looked upon as altruists. But what most people, including the donors themselves, do not know is that by donating blood they are only prolonging their lives. Finnish researchers claim that they have discovered striking evidence that blood donors are far less likely to succumb to heart …
A reliable method for detecting soldering errors on circuit boards has been developed by the heavy industries division of Mitsubishi in Japan. Three perpendicular laser beams just five micrometers wide are fired at the solder tracks, sending three-dimensional data to a microprocessor. The shape of each track - especially the …
THE debate on whether earthquakes can be predicted has been revived once again with a series of tremors within a radius of 15 km around Pandhana. A small Madhya Pradesh town with a population of 12,000, Pandhana has been identified as the epicentre of the incessant tremors. From September 11 …
* 1,153 tremors hit Khandwa between September 11 and November 27. * Mega earthquakes are predicted in Khandwa by 2003, and in the Northeast by 2010. * The entire population of Pandhana town and 23 surrounding villages have been insured. * Compensations have been fixed and medical facilities kept ready. …
