Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
Siddharth Kelkar Was the Leh cloudburst a result of the global warming? Scientists at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, think it was.
Amit Bhattacharya | TNNNew Delhi: The two cloudbursts that lashed the Leh area of Ladakh with unprecedented fury on Thursday and Friday, could be another sign that rising temperatures in the cold desert were leading to climate change, experts said. The western Himalayan region is warming faster than the rest …
The leit motif of the Bill is to create guidelines and institutional framework in academic and research institutions. This Bill will give rise to number of patents because now every scientist getting public money would be under an obligation by law to patent what is patentable. It will also increase …
London: The world is on course for the hottest year since records began in 1880 after record-breaking temperatures in four of the first six months of the year, according to meteorologists. The first six months of 2010 brought a string of warmest-ever global temperatures
Chennai: Encouraged by the zeal witnessed at the recent world classical Tamil conference, the state government has decided to fund an undersea expedition to excavate remains of a 2,000-year-old town, Poompuhar or Kaveripoompattinam, submerged under the sea off the Nagapattinam coast in Tamil Nadu. Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography
Dhanbad, July 18: After presenting an action plan for pollution control in Dhanbad last week, members of the expert panel are now working overnight to prepare a revised blueprint. The revised plan is being prepared according to the suggestions of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). It will be submitted by …
A suspended Telugu Desam Party legislator shouts slogans after his arrest during a protest against the police firing at Sompeta on Thursday. Fifty-seven Desam legislators were suspended after the Opposition disrupted proceedings in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly demanding the resignation of a minister over the police firing. (PTI) New Delhi/Hyderabad, …
Has the Holy Grail of physics finally been found? The internet is abuzz with rumours that the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, US, has found the Higgs boson
A team of the Government of India, led by Health Secretary Sujata Rao, monitored the progress work at the Central Research Institute, Kasauli, for the upcoming infrastructure to manufacture DPT vaccine according to the norms prescribed by World Health Organsiation (WHO). Rao was at CRI on Saturday to review the …
A BRITISH panel Wednesday exonerated the scientists caught up in the controversy known as Climategate of charges that they had manipulated their research to support preconceived ideas about global warming. But the panel also rebuked the scientists for several aspects of their behaviour, especially their reluctance to release computer files …
Oversight Committee To Monitor Waste Disposal Activities At Union Carbide Factory THE Centre on Wednesday constituted an oversight committee to co-ordinate and monitor activities related to waste disposal, decontamination and remediation at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. Headed by Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh and Madhya Pradesh minister for …
Snowfall in the Himalaya and Tibetan plateau affects monsoon. For two decades snowfall was one of the parameters Indian meteorologists used to predict monsoon in the subcontinent. They believed there was an inverse relation between snowfall in the Himalaya and monsoon; the wider the snow cover, the weaker the rainfall. …
LUCKNOW: Come September and each honk in the city would register itself at the national level. With MoEF keeping its date with the ambitious `national ambient noise monitoring network' project, there are hardly any chances that city's high decibels will be missed. UPPCB has started "procuring equipment" to set up …
