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 …
IN NOT too distant a future, much of the pep and zing may disappear from environmental campaigns. Business may well reduce a concern for the environment into advertisement copy to burnish its own image among the public and in stockmarkets. Business today has its own vision of an approach to …
THE SCRAMBLE for Papua New Guinea's forest wealth has left its forests battered and bruised. Already, as much as one-third of the high priority conservation areas are reeling under timber logging agreements. PNG's environmentalists say that the timber business's modus operandi would put the Italian mafia to shame. But things …
THE FUTURE of the windmill industry in Britain appears bleak now that Taylor Woodrow, the proprietor of the Wind Energy Group (WEG), plans to withdraw. Woodrow, one of the leading players in this sector, is reportedly considering selling the business. The company, which had jointly owned WEG with British Aerospace …
MORE THAN 40 people have died of kala-azar and 120-odd people have been infected in Mahottari district of Nepal, close to the Indo-Nepal border, reports Jan Sarma for Panos Features. A shortage of insecticides has made it difficult to keep the virus at bay. In fact, in 1992-93, supplies were …
LAST YEAR, the smog-covered industrial township of Panipat in Haryana was accorded the status of an "eco-town". However, a still-to-be-released report by the state department of environment that the Down To Earth team was privy to rudely ridicules a district administration campaign that is flaunting this prestige. The report blandly …
WITHIN the international community, few people have cared to study the environmental behaviour of Papua New Guinea. Its traditions provide a very instructive experience: they show the world how to deal with the globalisation process of the 21st century, which is slowly eroding the economic sovereignty of Third World nations …
HIT BY the severe recession in the airline industry, Swissair has turned to Indian software professionals to help cut costs and raise profits. Swissair recently moved its revenue accounting section to Bombay because skilled Indian computer professionals cost a fraction of what they would in Switzerland. Revenue accounting -- the …
TORRENTIAL rains and consequent floods in Sri Lanka have rendered 375,000 people homeless and devastated large tracts of paddy. Among the worst affected areas are the war-torn northern and eastern provinces. Most of the tanks and rivers in the north and east have overflowed, forcing government troops and rebels to …
Changing Villages Consortium on Rural Technology D-320, Laxmi Nagar New Delhi 110 092 Hima-Paryavaran G B Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment & Development Kosi, Almora Uttar Pradesh 263 643 Honey Bee Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Vastrapura 380 015 Phone: 407241 The SASEANEE Circular Centre for Environment Education Thaltej Tekra …
• US computer software companies are in a state of shock over an announcement by Compton's New Media, a small US company, that it has been granted a patent on computer systems that retrieve information from multimedia databases. Several industry groups intend to contest the claim in court and say …
THE GROWING global market for organ transplants is likely to receive a boost. A Japanese government advisory committee has proposed that organs from persons certified as brain dead should be allowed to be removed, according to reports in the country's press. Japan is the only major market in the world …
India's largest optical telescope is likely to be located in the Himalaya at a height of 4,000 metres by the turn of the century. The Union government has cleared Rs 1.5 crore of the Rs 50 crore project -- for design studies to be done by the Indian Institute of …
THE US defence department plans to spend millions of dollars to buy new vaccines to inoculate troops against germ warfare and develop new bombs to incinerate chemical and biological weapon stocks. This is part of a major effort to protect US troops from poison gas, biological agents and nuclear weapons. …
JAPAN'S ministry of international trade and industry, in collaboration with major Japanese firms and universities, has committed $30 million over four years to research "cold fusion". The theory holds that hydrogen atoms can undergo fusion at room temperatures in small rods of palladium saturated with deuterium, the heavy form of …
FORMULATED in 1960, the Community Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Community guaranteed high prices for the main agricultural produce -- cereals, sugar, dairy products, meat and wine of poor quality -- owing to two mechanisms: an intervention price and a tax on imports from non-EC countries. The intervention price …
THE ANUGUL-Talcher industrial belt in Orissa's Dhenkanal district -- one of the few water-rich areas in the state -- is facing an acute crisis: People in more than 400 villages in the region, which is served by the Brahmani river and its tributary Nandira, have been bearing the brunt of …
• Investors have been flocking to timber-based businesses in Malaysia, where timber related stocks are being traded at high prices. This is a result of a combination of strong timber prices and a comparative scarcity of timber-related listings on the Kuala Lumpur stock market. • Japanese electronics firms are looking …
Indian companies need to triple the total investment for in-house research and development (R&D;) to Rs 3,000 crore by the end of the century, according to a document prepared jointly by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the Union government's department of scientific and industrial …
Women farm labourers are more vulnerable to pesticide poisoning -- and they don't even know it. A survey of 13 states conducted by the Consumers Forum, in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Consumer Organisations and the All India Women's Conference, found that pesticide-induced headaches, vomiting and uneasiness were common …
ANY ATTEMPT at promoting awareness of the interdependence of humans and the environment is a welcome step. This is especially true of the need to tell children about the harm that has been done to the once-good earth by generations of Homo sapiens -- the only species that is mentally …
