Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
The debate about best policies for GI has been a long and unfinished one hed one. This article goes into the fundamental issues and provides two complementary perspectives. Firstly, policies about GI in a nation are con are controlled by the very nature of its governance. Secondly, the use of …
Intel Corp. is expanding its line of Xeon chips for server systems with four models that boost computing performance and energy efficiency. The company said the chips
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: The electronic newspaper, a large portable screen that is constantly updated with the latest news, has been a prop in science fiction for ages. It also figures in the dreams of newspaper publishers struggling with rising production and delivery costs, lower circulation and decreased ad revenue from their …
In an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, two leading researchers warn that the entry of big companies like Microsoft and Google into the field of personal health records could drastically alter the practice of clinical research and raise new challenges to the privacy of patient records. The …
When the BJP won a spectacular victory in the assembly elections in Rajasthan three years ago, party leaders didn't hesitate to credit the success to the then state party chief, Vasundhara Raje Scindia. It was only natural that she was unanimously chosen to lead the Government as the state'sfirst woman …
• Japan's environment ministry is drafting a law that would require owners of "potentially dangerous animals, such as crocodiles and pythons,' to have microchips implanted in their pets. The cylindrical chips, about a centimetre-long, would carry information that would enable the authorities to trace the owners if the pets go …
l Most of the spcbs have chairpersons and member secretaries, the most important posts in the board, from the administrative or even forest service. These officers do not have requisite technical knowledge in pollution control. l Presence of members representing the polluting public sector units in the spcbs make enforcement …
poultry just discovered a new feather in its cap: that it can help make this polluted world a little cleaner. It came as a pleasant surprise when us-based scientists recently announced that chicken feather can help clean up those ugly oil slicks quickly, efficiently and - most important of all …
The last time one hit us was around 65 million years ago. It wiped out the entire dinosaur population along with 70 per cent of Earth's other species and left behind a monster crater nearly 200 kilometres in diameter. Thankfully, history will not repeat itself, this time. On December 6, …
More dangerous than all the nuclear weapons of the world put together are these bombs in outer space. Huge rocks which form a crude circle between Mars and Jupiter in a part of the solar system known as the asteroid belt. There are 300,000 asteroids larger than 90 metres wide …
well, here is what you have to do. You have this artillery shell filled with either ordinary explosive or a deadly nerve gas. How do you find out what is inside without endangering lives or a total nervous shutdown? The question is not as hypothetical as it may seem. United …
IN the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the only source of information for environmentalists was the print media. Mark Neuzil and William Kovarik in their book
an exotic heavy particle may have made its first appearance at a particle accelerator in Hamburg in Germany. Scientists say that this could mark the birth of an entirely new physics. If the so-called 'leptoquark' exists, it implies that a previously unknown force is at work, one that may lead …
In what he calls an attempt to convert "default into advantage". Anil Gupta of the Indian Institute of Management,Gujarat, has initiated a project to map the soil microbial diversity in the state. "There is no genetic map of microbial diversity in the world of even a small area," he claims. …
Public understanding of science and technology lags well behind public interest in these fields in most industrialised countries, according to two new studies disclosed at the recently held Symposium on Public Understanding of Science and Technology in Tokyo. It was agreed that the purpose of boosting public understanding is not …
the National Institute of Science Commu nication (niscom), New Delhi, is facing flak. Several scientists working with the institute allege that niscom is virtually serving Indian knowledge on a platter to the West by transferring information from its reference series onto cd-roms. And this, they feel, will hamper the quest …
Equipment stolen or mislaid is a constant cause for heartburn in large organisations. Newmark Tech nology, a UK-based security company, has now designed a radio tagging system to help companies keep track of computers and other valuable equipment. The system automatically tracks the tagged assets at distances up to 100 …
a technique for creating underwater images using hydrophones (a device that detects sound waves transmitted though water) instead of video cameras is being developed by a professor at the University of California ( uoc ), us . The acoustic daylight imaging system ( adis ) may also be able to …
