Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
NHPC EERS: An Assam-based NGO, River Basin's Friends, has filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC). The petition claims that while implementing the Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project in Arunachal Pradesh, NHPC violated an earlier order. It also claimed NHPC was dumping debris in …
work is underway to create a gis database for 170 flood, earthquake and hazard prone districts as the Indian Space Research Organisation (isro) puts together information provided by Survey of India and the Central Water Commission. The data bank will contain spatial data with maps and non-spatial data or details …
Cryosat, a sattelite of the European Space Agency (esa), plumetted north of Greenland close to the region of the Lincoln Sea near North Pole, with no consequences to populated areas. The us $168 million worth satellite took off from Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome, aboard a modified intercontinental ballistic missile, Rockot. It …
india's participation in a European navigation satellite system and eu backing for India's entry into a consortium of countries that put up an experimental nuclear fusion reactor are major highlights of the recently concluded sixth eu -India summit in New Delhi. The eu-India pact about India joining the Galileo navigation …
Harvest order: The Supreme Court recently issued notices to the Union and the state governments, urging them to conserve rainwater. The move came in response to a petition filed by Tap-Rejuvenate Earth's Ecology and Environment, a non-governmental organisation. The petition sought rooftop rainwater harvesting structures over 200 square metres in …
function geo() { var popurl="image/20050630/22.pdf" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=550,height=350,scrollbars=yes") } For India, space is not the final frontier to be conquered. The country's performance in solving mundane problems such as poverty, illiteracy and malnutrition may be dismal, but its space programme is soaring high. Its latest achievement: the May 5, 2005, launch of …
harnessing Space for rural enlightenment was an avowed goal of the Indian space programme. It was crystal clear to Vikram Sarabhai, the chief architect of the Space programme: conquering Space was not fancy science, but one aligned with the national goal of improving the lot of millions. In the ensuing …
Benefits not remote H igh quality three-dimensional terrain maps of India will now be available at affordable prices, as the Indian Space Resaerch Organisation (isro) successfully put in orbit a satellite specifically for cartographic purposes. Remote sensing satellite, Cartosat-1, was placed in a sun-synchronous orbit on May 5, 2005 from …
a recent study mapping the municipal solid waste (msw) produced and dumped in Guwahati, the chaotic capital of Assam, has shown its waste disposal system is getting choked and the city needs to quickly find a scientifically determined alternative to get out of the mess. The study used geographic information …
barely a year after the country witnessed how wrong meteorological data can hamper reliable weather forecasting, the Indian Space Research Organisation (isro) has claimed a major feat in the field. On March 18, 2005, it announced that it had designed and developed the prototype of an automatic weather station (aws) …
function illus() { var popurl="image/20050131/38-chart.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=600,height=400,scrollbars=yes") } After a 20-year lull, scientists are once again setting their sight on the moon. With past cruises to the moon throwing up new and perplexing questions rather than satisfactory answers, lunar scientists have an onerous task ahead. Among the questions to which they …
On the future of lunar exploration The future of lunar exploration is to witness a healthy competition, though a rat race cannot be ruled out completely. I think it should be more like an Olympic race where everyone gets the best from themselves. But it should not be a race …
On the future of lunar exploration The future of lunar exploration is to witness a healthy competition, though a rat race cannot be ruled out completely. I think it should be more like an Olympic race where everyone gets the best from themselves. But it should not be a race …
On changes in the manner space technology is evolving, and its effect on lunar explorations One of the major changes currently happening in lunar exploration is that space technology is no longer a prerogative of large organisations. It is being evolved at the level of individuals. Smart-I is a good …
using cotton gin residue: US researchers have found the waste generated when cotton is ginned (seeds separated from fibre) can yield valuable products. They have developed manufacturing processes to extract specific chemicals and make two products
it's an annual pattern in Bangladesh. 10,117 hectares of land are washed away each year in devastating floods (Disaster Management Bureau report, 2003). The Jamuna erodes vast tracts along its course; the pattern of erosion along the banks of the Padma, Meghna and Teesta are equally destructive. If such points …
Hilltop to desktop Technology advances have transformed the way maps are made When the Survey of India (SoI) was set up 237 years ago, in Dehradun, map making was akin to pure art. It required steady hands and a keen eye, and demanded months, at times years, of painstaking labour. …
function info() { var popurl="html/20041215_geo_info.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=650,height=350,scrollbars=yes") } India is not alone in restricting access to maps, but is perhaps the only country to have encouraged an irrational regime that guards even basic information. The armed forces of any nation would obviously want to restrict the ability of an adversary to …
function arbitrary() { var popurl="html/20041215_arbitrary.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=650,height=450,scrollbars=yes") } Almost half of India is inaccessible to its citizens
