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. …
Plastics derived from plants may solve waste crisis San Francisco: Researchers at IBM on Tuesday said that they have discovered a way to make an Earth-friendly plastic from plants that could replace petroleum-based products, which are tough on the environment. The breakthrough promises biodegradable plastics made in a way that …
Mumbai: To research on and influence the processes of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the School of Habitat Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has now set up an Urban India Reform Facility, or UIRF. Otherfocus areas will include schemes like Integrated Housing and …
Boosted By Chandrayaan-1 Success, Isro Plans To Launch Manned Mission To Space, Moon & Planetary Expeditions In The Next 25 Yrs Srinivas Laxman | TNN Chandrayaan has made India dream of the universe. The thrust area of the country
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has put a moratorium on Bt brinjal with the Cry1Ac gene. But following fresh discussions on the wisdom of the ban, scientists are betting their hopes on a different Bt brinjal
Water may be the most abused natural resource but for the innovative mind it can be the proverbial spring of money, say Anirvan Ghosh & Ravi Teja Sharma Despite being the most precious commodity, most of us take water for granted, at least until our taps run dry during summers. …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced the establishment of Climate Change Research Centre in the Madhya Pradesh Council for Science and Technology (MPCST) on Monday. He said that this centre would collect data related to the climate change in rich State referring to the forest property, biotechnology and agricultural …
KOCHI: With the Indian Meteorological Department stating that last year was hotter than the previous years, the focus has once again turned to climatic changes due to global warming. One of the most comprehensive papers that looked at the various factors has been from the scientists at the National Institute …
Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) has taken up a project to identify people affected by arsenic contamination in Karimpur area of Nadia. It would tap the contamination in the cells of these people and gauge the extent of damage. The initiative was taken up after it was found that many …
Peatlands juggle with carbon dioxide and methane, global warming wins. The contribution of peatlands to fluctuation in atmospheric content of carbon and methane has long been a matter of debate. How seriously should they be taken in the context of global warming? Several studies dug into the history of peatland …
New Delhi: India is going to map its slums. And for Mumbai, where proliferating slums are a nightmare for civic planners, it should bring hope. The ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation (Hupa) will do satellite mapping of all slums in the country under the slum-free cities initiative of …
A recent report by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has pointed out that 2009 received the third worst rainfall since 1901, behind 1918 when there was a 25 per cent deficiency and 1972 when the deficiency was 24 per cent of the Long Period Average. The report, released in January, …
REINVENTING the wheel was not exactly what Myshkin Ingawale had in mind when he set out from NIT-Bhopal to MIT, with a stopover at IIM Calcutta. But the 27-year-old
Common Bacteria Tweaked To Digest Sugars From Biomass To Churn Out Green Diesel Washington: Researchers have genetically engineered one of the most common bacteria on the planet
Mumbai: In a discovery of stellar proportions, scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Colaba, in partnership with in an international team of astronomers, have found a new class of supernovae. The find uncovers a new means to detect these rare phenomena. When a massive star blows …
A water filter that can withstand a nuclear, biological and chemical attack and slake parched throats despite a mushroom cloud hovering will shortly be available in your neighbourhood mall. If that isn
