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 best way to ascertain whether or not manufacturers are complying with pollution laws related to toxic hazardous metals, is to monitor what comes out of their smokestacks. Till now, scientists have been periodically monitoring emissions by studying samples from these factories in their laboratories. A study at source is …
A radar system on a microchip, costing less than $10.5 has been developed by American scientists. It is so sensitive that it can monitor the breathing of a baby to cut down cotdeaths, pinpoint human heartbeats in collapsed buildings, detect burglars, find landmines, replace the doctor's stethoscope or simply help …
EARTHQUAKES are devastating, but studying them is very fascinating. Specialists say that a major earthquake is often preceded by small signal tremors that mostly go undetected. By taking adequate precautions, damages due to violent rolling and tumbling of the earth can be minimised, according to experts. That is where a …
JOHN Van der Sande, professor of material science at the MIT and his team are using a new technique to compile information on all types of soot. This knowledge will be used to detect the exact sources of pollution. The library of sootprints will be based on the molecular structure …
China is opening its doors to the world in every sense of the phrase. In mid-February, the official Guangming Daily reported that the country had declassified 90 per cent of its scientific and technological secrets under new rules and regulations. The official explanation for the move is that the old …
A COMPREHENSIVE database on legumes, the first of its kind in South Asia is being set up by Sudershan Kumar, a researcher at the National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. The bean family, leguminosae, consists of 18,000 plant species. It is a source of important chemicals like castanospermine, used as an …
INSERT this: you are a scientist who must travel frequently but your presence in a static laboratory is essential every breathing moment. Delete that: you are a cybernetic organism, a brain, almost electronic in its stamina, that must also refer to the scientific information busily accumulated by your research group …
(Attn: No literary liberties have been taken with this piece because techno-slapdash is another lingo altogether). BIT: One bit is the smallest piece of information for a computer and just sufficient to tell the difference between "yes" and "no": 8 bits make 1 byte. MODEM (MOdulator-DEModulator): A device through which …
Rapid advances in computer and communication technology have transformed areas such as banking, railway and air reservation, documentation and entertainment. But the field that stands to gain the most from the information technology revolution is academics. And Poona University seems to have taken the lead among Indian universities in exploiting …
The modest telephone lines -- with their constantly evolving technology -- are going to stay as the backbone of the revolution in information technology. Right now, fibre optics is making a big difference in telecommunications -- sophisticated lasers transform electrical representations of conversations, faxes, or data into light pulses, which …
An abbreviation for "users network", USENET is a collection of electronic bulletin boards or conferences called "newsgroups" -- where users all around the world read and post articles containing news, analysis and opinions. USENET, started in 1979, has around 300,000 users worldwide. The discussions are categorised into different newsgroups according …
