Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
“Round-the-clock monitoring by a network of zonal laboratories and a central laboratory ensures water quality. In Delhi, where people are very vocal, we cannot afford to be lax even for a moment,” claims a dwssdu spokesperson. However, Delhi itself is the Yamuna’s biggest polluter. “The stretch in the vicinity of …
Segment I: Himalayan: From source to Tajewala; 172 km Segment II: Upper: From Tajewala to Wazirabad; 224 km Segment III: Delhi: Wazirabad barrage to Okhla barrage; 22 km Segment IV: Eutrophicated (Eutrophication is the result of astronomical BOD and other micropollutant levels): Okhla barrage to Chambal confluence; 490 km Segment …
in what may be regarded as the first nail in the coffin for persistent organic pollutants (pops), a regional pact negotiated in Geneva recently proposed to ban or restrict the use of some of them. Setting the ball rolling for a wider global negotiation, the pact, under the United Nations …
in its latest report, Animal to Human Transplant: The Ethics of Transplantation , Nuffield council, an influential bioethics advisory group and independent watchdog in the uk, concluded that the risk associated with the possible transmission of infectious diseases as a consequence of xenotransplantation (transplanting organs of one species to another) …
Latest proposals by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to curb air pollution in the US has kicked up a lot of dust. The proposals are aimed at tightening air quality standards and reducing deaths and illnesses resulting from air pollution. But US citizens are not happy. In order to breathe …
"your well-documented account of the circumstances which led to your contracting Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma was moving. It is particularly sad that you should be the one affected as you have been in the forefront of the environment movement and have opened our eyes with reference to the damage we are causing …
Ranitidine hydrochloride (Zantac) is one of the most extensively studied and widely used drugs of all time. This has provided an excellent opportunity to define its safety profile. Original Source
our ancestors seemed to have taken air quality more seriously than we do today; for example, in ancient Indian villages, the location of kilns was compulsorily some distance from human habitation. Formal smoke control regulations in several Indian towns date from as far back as the middle of the 19th …
As per the naaqm data for the year 1992, which covered 290 stations in the country, the annual values (minimum, maximum and annual average) for so2 , no2 (nitrogen dioxide) and spm
in a significant development in the fight against air pollution, a group of 14 Japanese companies have agreed to pay us $27.2 million to 438 people who were suffering from illnesses related to air pollution. The companies accepted an out-of-court settlement, terminating a 14-year-old dispute. The first suit in the …
sparkling green: Now, Americans will be able to wash their dishes clean in a green way, thanks to an eco-friendly dishwasher launched by Bosch-Siemens Hausgerate of Germany. The company will build a factory in North Carolina, US, to produce dishwashers that promise to save water and energy. The plant will …
melatonin, considered a miracle hormone that banishes illness and reverses ageing has attracted the attention of the public health policy makers in the us. A meeting on melatonin at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, called for a multicentre clinical trial to determine melatonin's efficacy and safety ( jama , …
The foreigner came to India to teach us a lesson. The lesson - do not follow the West blindly - was delivered in Delhi a few weeks ago by the environment giant, Greenpeace. Greenpeace has just completed a study of the pollution being caused by the chlorine industry. The study's …
EVERY year, from August 1-7 during the World Breastfeeding Week, there is considerable hype about the usefulness of breast milk over bottle milk. But what if breast milk is full of pesticides
Built around white blood cells and certain molecules in the blood, the immune system helps an organism defend itself against life-threatening foreign invaders. It not only tries to kill external pathogens like bacteria and viruses but also the body's own renegade cells which become cancerous. There are three distinct immunity …
• Young chinook salmon chronically exposed to pesticides in the polluted Duwamish waterway in the US state of Washington have a drastically reduced humoral response (an immunological mechanism). Organophosphate pesticides like trichlorfon and dichlorvos frequently used to ward off ectoparasites and plankton in fish ponds in eastern Europe, have been …
Animals and humans suffering from immunosuppression can also have in some ways a hyperactive immune system. This is because the human body can produce antibodies directed against itself
In the farming regions of central Moldova, pesticides were applied at rates as high as 40 kg per ha from the '60s onwards and through the '80s. This rate of application is almost 20 times the world average. In one survey, researchers detected pesticide residues above accepted standards in 10-15 …
