Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Scientists in the optics and laser technology department of British Aerospace's Sowerby Research Centre at Filton in South UK are planning to develop 'smart' aircraft wings that look after themselves. The new wings have miniature sensors manufactured from optical fibres that change colour when they experience stress or temperature changes. …
THE National Front (NF)the opposition alliance (between the JanataDal (it)) and some regional parties)led by V P Singhcame to power atthe Centre in 1989. The JD'S environmental concernsone of themost 'politically correct' of ourtimesprojects village-friendlygreen image for the party. 1989: era of no consensus The party's 1989 manifesto said: "With …
The multicrore 1,000 MW Cogentrix the power project in Nandikur village air Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka. In the ecologically fragile Western Ghats - has been a centre of environmental brouhaha. Spearheading the agitation against it is the Dakshina Kannada Parisarasaktha Okkuta (Dakshina Kannada Environmental Federation). The movement has also …
Sources say caste politics has a lot to do with the current interest shown by Bihar's Janata Dal (JD) government in getting the 710 MW Koel-Karo hydel project through. Chief minister Laloo Prasad Yadav has close links with bhumilhars (landed gentry), who stand to gain most from the project. The …
Travel and tourism is the world's largest industry, transporting more than 528 million people internationally, employing 211.7 million people, and generating US $322,000 million in receipts in 1994. And it is expanding fast. Its impact on the environment is evident. Lest environmental decline destroy the very resources - landscapes, wildlife, …
A PERSONAL mini radar system, which promises huge mass-marketpotential, has at last been developed. The new radar is named micropower impulse radar (MIR) and it will ultimately be used in almost everything from hand tools to burglar alarms. MIR is cheap, tiny and incredibly accurate at short ranges. It can …
In an order passed on April 9, the Supreme Court of India gave an ultimatum to all 28 industrial areas in the National Capital Territory of Delhi to either chip in their share of the fund for setting up 28 Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETP), or face immediate closure of …
Japan's only cigarette making company is facing its first challenge from five smokers who sued the company recently for trying to make them addicted to a harmful product. The company, Japan Tobacco Inc, holds 80 per cent of the nation's cigarette market. Cigarette makers in Japan have an easier time …
Polluting companies in the US - the country which has often screamed the loudest at the merest hint of environmental negligence - can now rest easy. Protecting them from engendering environmental disruption are several American states. Strange as it may sound, one US state after another is now adopting laws …
Electronic devices are getting smaller and smaller and human workers and conventional robots are finding it increasingly difficult to assemble them. Peter Will of the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California and his collaborators at the California Institute of Technology have designed microrobots modelled on hairlike …
In a significant move, five states in the us agreed last month to end state suits against the LiggettGroup, a tobacco firm. The states had filed a lawsuit against the company to recover some of the millions of dollars in Medicaid expenses that each pays out for treating tobacco-related illnesses. …
IT WAS believed that about 500 million years ago in the Palaeozoic era, there were two major land masses - Gondwana and Laurentia. While the southern supercontinent of Gondwana comprised of present day Africa, Australia, Antarctica, South America and India, North America and most of Europe and Asia, excluding India, …
A polymer coating designed to protect electronic components like microchips has been developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research, Germany. The film -which is about 100 nanometres thick -is produced by electrodeposition in which the amino resins are broken down chemically by an electric current. The polymers are …
ON JANUARY 1, AD 2000, New Year revellers all over the world would wake up too dazed and bleary eyed to comprehend the unprecedented technological fallout that would occur at the turn of this century. That day, countless computers will go haywire, as the date configuration in them would be …
Here is good news for the Russy Modi types -high-powered executives who often pilot their own planes: a parachute for the plane. It will be the main safety feature of Cirrus Design Corporation's SR20. Expected to sell for US $1,30,000 when it is introduced next year, the singIe-engine SR20 aircraft …
Disgruntled with the apathy of manufacturers towards their complaints, a group of frustrated PC users have taken a "PC maker, Leading Edge Products Inc of Westborough, Massachussets, to court. They have filed a case of fraud and breach of warranty contracts in the State Supreme Court, New York, contending that …
It is a dramatic reversal of fortunes. A quarter century ago, cam and aeroplanes seemed to have flown away with the bread of railways in Europe and Japan. But now Europe appears to be on the throes of a second railway revolution. Japan fired the initial salvo with the ' …
HANDMADE paper or recycled paper is in hot demand these days as wood for the paper industry is becoming a scarce resource. IRED-Forum, No 54, brought out by a Geneva-based NGO, Development Innovations and Networks, offers a simple and easy method to make recycled paper at home. For papermaking, one …
A device to aid walking, comprising eight wheels for maximum stability, built-in automatic brakes for security and a seat for resting, has been .developed by the Kingswood Supply Company of UK: to assist the elderly and others suffering from restricted mobility. The aid can also be folded up for easy …
IN FRANCE, We are used to thinking that the sea is infinitely generous. Proof: world fishing catches have multiplied five times over just 25 years. But now the golden stripes are fading. Fish resources have run out, catches tend to be depressed. Since the record production of 1989 - 100 …
