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 …
PREETI KARMYOGI NEW DELHI A team of experts scanned over 800 shops in Mayapuri scrap market in West Delhi where 10 sources of Cobalt-60 have been recovered in the recent past, leaving seven exposed to radiation. Member of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and former Bhabha Atomic Research Centre director …
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will form a committee with officials from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) to conduct a feasibility study on desalination as an option to end the city
New Delhi: Just as the scrap market at Mayapuri was returning to normalcy after radioactive cobalt-60 exposed six people to radiation there, the monitoring agencies claimed on Tuesday they had found another source of radiation
NEW DELHI: One more suspected source of radiation has been detected in the sprawling scrap market at Mayapuri here in the Capital where two scrap dealers and five workers were taken ill this past week after being exposed to Cobalt-60 radioactive isotope. Confirming this, B. Bhattacharjee, Member of the National …
PREETI KARMYOGI NEW DELHI A team of nuclear April 13: A team of nuclear experts visiting Mayapuri scrap market, where Cobalt 60 radiation was reported on Friday, discovered one more source of radiation on Tuesday. However, they said that intensity of the emission was very low and it may be …
A scrap dealer in Delhi and five of his em ployees were seriously injured when they came into contact with radioactive waste material. They are now in a critical condition with their bone marrow impaired and blood platelet count dropping to dangerous levels. Only when the dealer is in a …
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) have decided to jointly study the presence of high levels of uranium in ground water in the state, reported the cause of abnormally high incidence of cancer. The study would begin within three months. BS Bajwa, Professor of …
With the Centre slashing funds allocated to the Delhi government by about Rs 1,200 crore this year, the government is now eyeing the Air Ambience Fund, created by the government three years ago, to finance projects of the Environment department. As part of its initiative to curb air pollution in …
New Delhi The fire in BARC, which killed two nuclear scientists, was caused by low intensity explosive energy released from accidental mixing of small quantities of reactive chemicals, the Lok Sabha was told on Wednesday.
THANJAVUR: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay, is involved in solving the water problem in eight Himalayan sites using isotopes said K. Shivanna, Head, Isotope Hydrology Section, Isotope Application division, BARC, here on Monday. Speaking at the national-level workshop on
MUMBAI: After two agencies, Maharashtra Maritime Board (MMB) and Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), failed to start water transport on the eastern and western coasts of the city, the state government is now planning to hand over the development of water transport services to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development …
Non-vegetarian waste, vegetable leftovers and kitchen garbage are all set to become productive. The Delhi government is roping in the Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for three pilot projects under which animal carcass waste matter from the Ghazipur abattoir, canteen waste from the Delhi Secretariat and vegetable leftovers from Azadpur …
LAB FIRE: Cops doubt victims died even before they had a chance to scream Two days after a fire in a chemistry laboratory claimed the lives of two research students in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, investigating officers said none of the eyewitnesses who saw smoke emanating from the third-floor …
Mumbai: A day after two young research scientists died in a massive fire at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, the organisation is investigating if there were any lapses or carelessness on their part. Tuesday
A day after two research scientists in the Radiation and Photochemistry Department of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) were killed in a fire in their laboratory, the postmortem report concluded that the bodies had 100 per cent burns due to a chemical explosion, followed by a fire. The lab …
An inquiry is being undertaken to investigate the cause of the accident which led to the death of the two research scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc), minister of state for science and technology Prithviraj Chavan said talking exclusively to this paper. "We need to know how the …
Two research scientists were killed after a fire broke out in a photochemistry laboratory in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay, on Tuesday afternoon. They were identified by the police as Umang Singh from Mumbai and Partha Pratim Bag from West Bengal, both PhD students in BARC
