Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Raghubir Singh Garia Vs State of Uttarakhand & Others dated 22/04/2025. The matter related to illegal mining of soap stone in village Papon, District Bageshwar, Uttarakhand. The complainant, a resident of the village said that illegal mining of soap stone …
Nourisher of an ancient civilization, the Ganga could be gasping for its survival. Every few kilometres the water of its tributaries will be diverted to produce power. While there may not be enough flow to run the turbines, there
Unfulfilled promises; villagers hanging loose On July 24 this year, a school block near the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project in Sunagarh, Uttarkashi district, gave away as the rocks under it had become unstable. The subsequent landslide kept the highway blocked for the next three days.
Bangalore, DHNS: The tremor on Friday morning in Bangalore has no connection with the earthquakes that hit many parts of the world and geologists believe that it was only a local phenomenon. The last one week saw a series of earthquakes in various parts of the world starting from the …
Ganga is one of the largest rivers of the world which supports millions of population on its banks. It is a tectonically controlled Himalayan river which also creates havoc due to perennial floods every year. Like most large river systems, it also shifts its course in the Gangetic plains in …
The accrued palynological data obtained from the subsurface sediments of South Kerala Sedimentary Basin have been found to be useful for identifying various ecological complexes and their environmental preferences. The occurrence and relative abundance of Cullenia exarillata pollen along with other wet evergreen forest members at certain intervals are of …
Scientists have gained new insights in the exact timeline of events that led to the rise of the Tibet plateau, described as the 'roof of the world'. US scientists who pieced together the geological puzzle say the rise of the plateau, due to collision of India with Asia about 50 …
food Light too affects drinks Conventional methods to test the shelf life of products, say on retail displays, focus on heat and ignore the effect of light. Scientists exposed a soft drink containing saffron to different levels of light at rising temperatures. They found that the beverage grew lighter in …
The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) is mandated to provide the nation with best possible services in forecasting the monsoons and other weather/climate parameters, ocean state, earthquakes, tsunamis and other phenomena related to earth systems through well integrated programmes. The Ministry also deals with science and technology for exploration and …
Geological Survey of India (GSI) -One of the oldest surveys in the World is a premier organisation of Earth Science Studies in the sub-continent with a strength of 2100 geoscientists and technical professionals. GSI has a network of offices located in all the states of India.
The Uttar Pradesh government is now mulling over a bill to check groundwater overuse The Uttar Pradesh government is hard at investigating widespread land subsidence in several districts during the second week of June this year. According to the Geological Survey of India (gsi), Lucknow, cracks appeared in districts Hamirpur, …
Crumbling schools in earthquake-prone Himalayas The afternoon of May 12 will haunt memories of parents of school going children of Sichuan Province in China for years. Thousands of children perished under the collapsed buildings of their schools as an earthquake measuring more than 7.9 on the Richter scale jolted the …
BALASORE: Panic gripped Balasore after news of wide cracks in ward no. 1 of the town spread like wild fire on Wednesday. Thousands of people rushed to the spot to have a glimpse of numerous fissures that were visible in an area of over a km with a width of …
R. PRASAD Changes in river channel steepness were seen in the area where the quake had struck Terrain Tales: The May 12 quake provides compelling evidence that landscapes can encode information about the rates and patterns of tectonic activity. The May 12 earthquake that struck the Sichuan Province in China …
Will help accelerate indigenous research on country's mineral wealth Will avoid re-drilling of already explored areas Fulfil the need to revaluate sub-surface lithological and structural data Jaipur: The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has established a "core library' of minerals at Akwali village in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan to systematically …
while geologists look through sandstone beds on a dried-up river to piece together what happened millions of years ago, volumes of data are generated. A new software may now help geologists with different kinds of data. It caters to special requirements of field-based studies with systematically loaded data on to …
AFTER $10 billion spent, countless papers and a large helping of controversy, are we any closer to knowing whether Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert offers a secure resting place for America's nuclear legacy?
