Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
A study carried out by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has revealed that samples of packaged drinking water from the city have been found to contain levels of bromate, chlorite and chlorate higher than the stipulated limits of World Health Organisation (WHO). This poses a risk of cancer on ingestion. …
Dumka: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has come forward to undertake the treatment of the Shivganga (holy pond) at Baidyanath Dham in line with the process adopted at the holy pond of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. The state government had earlier approached BARC. The institute had sent a team …
Kakodkar says he warned the UPA govt about the negative implications of the nuclear liability law but was overruled Former Atomic Energy Commission chief Anil Kakodkar, one of the key negotiators for the Indo-US nuclear deal that has failed to translate into a single dollar of investment or generation of …
In an attempt to reduce the amount of ‘nirmalya’ waste reaching the dumping grounds, the BMC has started a waste segregation and composting project after the Ganpati Visarjan. G/ North ward (Dadar) ward has converted a 2,000-sqm defunct sewerage operation plot at Dharavi for the project. Around 35 metric tonnes …
In an effort to decentralise management of waste in the city, the BMC, with technical support from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), will soon set up a 20-metric tonne biogas plant at Deonar Abattoir by year-end. The new plant will replace the current dysfunctional four-metric tonne plant and will …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Akhil Bharat Krishi Goseva Sanga (Mumbai) Vs MPCB & Others dated 07/08/2014 regarding disposal of wastes in Deonar abattoir.
HYDERABAD: A dip in river Ganga can possibly cause cancer. Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi had declared that cleaning Ganga was his top priority but more needs to be done than expected. The Department of Atomic Energy's National Centre for Compositional Characterisation of Materials (NCCM) in Hyderabad has tested water …
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has started research projects to check the effects of radiation in northern India. The Garhwal Central University here has been made the nodal centre for the research. The research will focus on the effect of radiation from radon, uranium and thorium on the air, …
30 Restaurants To Send Food Waste To Corporation Plant That Will Generate 2MW Of Electricity A Day Food waste will no longer go into the garbage bin in hotels across thecity. The corporation has decided to collect kitchen waste from restaurants to power its biomethanation plant in Pulianthope. Major chains …
BARC official said that the unsafe water sample can be further tested easily, to quantify the fluoride level roughly in order to know how unsafe it is. While taking a technology to the market is considered a difficult process by scientists, four companies have taken up a cost-effective visual detection …
Researchers assessing the pre-mining contamination of the environment at Nalgonda have found high levels of Uranium contamination in the groundwater and fair levels of gamma radiation, which will increase drastically once mining commences. About 41 per cent of the groundwater samples collected from sample sites in Nalgonda were found to …
The president of Indian Association of Nuclear Chemists and Allied Scientists of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), K. L. Ramkumar, on Monday said that the Department of Atomic Energy had taken steps to allay the fears of people over the safety of nuclear power projects across the country, particularly the …
Harnessing nuclear energy for constructive purposes is not without risks but the country has the intelligence required to handle the challenges of using it, said Sharad Kale, Head, Technology Transfer, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). He was speaking to reporters at a meet titled ‘An awareness programme on nuclear energy …
The first pilot biomethanation plant of the Chennai Corporation that uses Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) technology will be launched in Pulianthope soon. The pilot plant, which will be ready in 45 days, will have the capacity to convert two metric tonnes of bio-degradable waste into 40 KV of power …
Construction of Nisargruna biogas plants likely to begin by January Madurai is all set to adopt Nisargruna, a solid waste management technology devised by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), to convert biodegradable waste collected from households in rural areas into methane and organic manure. The District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) …
In the name of ridding Bangalore of its mounting garbage problem, senior officials are planning yet another trip to Salem in Tamil Nadu. This will be their third trip in as many years. As if the lessons learnt in Israel, Mumbai, Delhi, Puducherry, Pune and Salem were not enough, the …
BARC, meanwhile, planned to set up a technology deployment facility named Special Materials Facility. The projects of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and the IISc at Chitradurga have been halted by the National Green Tribunal as they did not have the necessary clearances …
BARC, meanwhile, planned to set up a technology deployment facility named Special Materials Facility The projects of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and the IISc at Chitradurga have been halted by the National Green Tribunal as they did not have the necessary clearances …
The National Green Tribunal (South Zone) on Wednesday ordered status quo on all project activities proposed in the Amrit Mahal Kaval grassland ecosystems of Challakere taluk, Chitradurga, with immediate effect. The directions were issued based on the interim prayers filed by environmentalist groups and the locals, which complained that Defence …
