Wise water use can add 50 MMT grains: ICAR chief
A 10% increase in water use efficiency in irrigation could fetch India a massive 40-50 million tonnes of foodgrains. A leading agriculture scientist holds the view. "If we can enhance the water use
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BATTERING THE ENVIRONMENT
Electric cars, long promoted as a way to reduce vehicular smog, could create additional environmental problems because of the lead- based batteries that power them, say researchers of Carnegie Millon
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Food for thought: issues of food safety
The Ministry of Food Processing Industries, GOI, has declared 2008-09 as Food safety and Quality Year. Food safety implies absence or safe levels of various of kinds of contaminants. Sources of food contamination include harmful chemicals, heavy metals, pesticides, preservatives, colouring agents, additives, adulterants etc.
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2014 Legatum prosperity index
With a rank of 102 India lags behind Sri Lanka and Nepal in this 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index released by Legatum Institute. Now in its eighth year, the Index assesses 142 countries, representing more than 96% of the world’s population and 99% of global GDP.
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In times of bright colours and gloss, ecofriendly clay idols find few takers
Even as denizens of Sangam City joined crores of other Indians in celebrating the festival of lights, few gave a thought to purchasing ecofriendly idols. On Saturday, people made beelines at stalls selling idols of Lord Ganesha and Laxmi. However, while most chose the brightest and most colourful idols, only some gave a thought that many such idols would eventually end up polluting rivers with lethal metals like lead.
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France calls for more EU aaids funding
France will lead a push for European countries to gain more influence over US-led efforts to develop an Aids vaccine when health officials meet in Washington tomorrow to discuss funding for a new
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Ready to Eat: First GM Fish for Dinner
A GM salmon which grows twice as fast as ordinary fish could become the first genetically-modified animal in the world to be declared officially safe to eat, after America's powerful food-safety watchdog
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Urban China: toward efficient, inclusive, and sustainable urbanization
In the last 30 years, China’s record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has
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Rajasthan miners face health hazards
Mine workers in Rajasthan are facing health hazards. According to a study by non-governmental organisation Gravis, illiteracy, lack of awareness and poor economic conditions are leading to health
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Dismantle Thannermukkam barrage: Arundhati Roy
Booker Prize winner and noted environmental activist Arundhati Roy, who is turning to be the leading light in protecting Meenachil river, has called for dismantling the Thannermukkam barrage to save
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EU launches debate on risks posed by PVC
The European Commission launched a debate on the future of PVC yesterday - the start of a process that could lead to restrictions on the production, use and disposal of the controversial but widely
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Health implications from monocrotophos use: a review of the evidence in India
Monocrotophos is a highly hazardous organophosphate insecticide that is widely used and easily available in India. Monocrotophos has been most frequently associated with both accidental and intentional fatal pesticide poisonings. The report therefore focuses on presenting data on the current practices and
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In search of safe water
PEOPLE need clean water and sanitation to maintain their health. Water also sustains ecological systems and provides an input into the production systems that maintain livelihoods. Water security is an integral part of a broader conception of human security. In broad terms, water security means ensuring that every person has access to enough safe water to lead a healthy life, while maintaining the ecological systems that provide water and also depend on water.
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Rajasthan mine workers face health hazards
Mine workers in Rajasthan are facing health hazards. According to a study done by non-governmental organization (NGO) Gravis, illiteracy, lack of awareness and poor economic conditions are leading to
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Vaccine for infant diarrhoea approved
A vaccine that protects against a virus that is the leading cause of early childhood diarrhoea, one that kills hundreds of thousands of infants in developing countries, has received U.S. approval.
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ICMR to come out with cervical cancer treatment guidelines
As part of an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) initiative, new guidelines for the screening, diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer based on Indian socio-economic factors and disease pattern, are likely to be finalised here on June 20. The sub-committee, headed by S.K. Srivatsava, chief radiation oncologist, Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital, will meet here to firm up the guidelines.Oncologists in the country generally follow guidelines issued by the US-based National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), an alliance of 21 of world’s leading cancer centres,
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Specialized mosquitoes may fight tropical disease
Scientists have made a promising advance for controlling dengue fever, a tropical disease spread by mosquito bites. They've rapidly replaced mosquitoes in the wild with skeeters that don't spread the dengue
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Minister tells Centre pollution knows no borders, NCR-wide action needed
While outlining measures to make Delhi’s air more breathable, the Delhi government has, however, told the Centre that the factors leading to alarming pollution levels in the city do not stem from the capital
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India needs to provide its poor affordable drugs to fight AIDS
Gilead Sciences, a leading biopharmaceutical company, has branches in many countries and is mainly involved in developing medicines to treat life threatening infectious diseases. Recently, Gilead,
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Joint committee report on land pollution in village Nangla Bujurg and pollution of Begrajpur drain, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, 13/02/2023
<p>Report of the joint committee and action taken report in compliance of the National Green Tribunal in Original Application No. 744 of 2022 (Moharram Ali Vs State of Uttar Pradesh) and Original Application