Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
In exercise of the powers conferred by the Section 4 of the Capital of Punjab (Development and Regulation) Act, 1952 and the rules made thereunder, the Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh is pleased to make a comprehensive mobile tower policy in supersession of the Policy/Guidelines for permission for installation of Tower …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan high court has given the state government till October 12 to remove all mobile towers from schools. An HC division bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice S S Kothari on Monday started final hearing of arguments on the PIL seeking regulation of mobile towers and …
MUMBAI: On Friday, the second day since the inauguration of a helpline and web portal to file complaints against cell towers, the telecom department (DOT) witnessed registration of 125 fresh complaints by Mumbaikars. Nearly 160 complaints had already been registered with the DOT's telecom enforcement and resource monitoring (TERM) cell …
MUMBAI: More than 400 residents from all over the city met at Bandra Gymkhana on Sunday to discuss the ill-effects of mobile tower radiation. A month ago, Bandra residents formed a group, Action Against Cell Towers, under the auspices of the Bandra West Residents' Association (BWRA). The meeting on Sunday …
New Delhi: Radiation from mobile phone towers is no longer a worry for only the educated and upwardly-mobile residents. Even the poorer sections relocated to the fringes of the city are waking up to the potential health hazards of having cellphone towers near their locality. Residents of Savda Ghewra, pitched …
AHMEDABAD: With the harmful effects of mobile tower microwave radiations becoming a concern in major cities, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) over the past week has been feverishly counting the number of cell towers installed in the city-and looking for their proximity to schools, residential areas and hospitals. The AMC …
JAIPUR: The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on August 9 had issued advisory to states including Rajasthan to reduce number of mobile towers functional in eco-sensitive zones. It had suggested that mobile towers should not be permitted within 1 km radius of the existing ones to check impact …
The recent furore in Rajasthan over mobile towers installed near schools and hospitals triggered a similar protest in Jamshedpur, though on a smaller scale, but the district administration remained clueless on what to do, citing lack of clear-cut directions from the state government. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court came …
The Rajasthan Government has issued notices to all major mobile phone operators asking them to keep radiation from their towers within the newly prescribed limits. Installation of towers at school buildings, playgrounds, hospitals and within 500 metres of the jail premises has been banned. State Principal Urban Development and Housing …
The DoT has also directed all operators to carry out a comprehensive exercise to identify tower sites that are non-compliant with the latest radiation norms Piyali Mandal The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Thursday said it had asked seven telecom operators, including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices and Vodafone, …
Jaipur: Telecom operators shut down cell towers situated on school premises in the entire state from 9pm on Monday in compliance with the Rajasthan high court order of August 22. “The shutting down of 199 towers would affect 35 lakh customers across the state. Among the towers which have been …
The new norms to be adopted by the Department of Telecom (DoT) to curb levels of radiation emitted from mobile towers are likely to reduce the health risk to humans by only a fraction. As per the norms which are already in place, the radiation levels have to drop to …
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Development Authority is all set to put in place new guidelines for installation of mobile towers in the city. The authority has constituted a committee headed by LDA secretary to come up with new guidelines/regulations within two months. The development coincides with the Centre's move to issue …
Industry and government claim 95% towers compliant with norms Mobile phone users experienced un-disrupted connectivity today even as the telecom tower operators scurried to bring down the emissions by 1/10th from the earlier level, starting today. There were fears the quality of services would deteriorate, as the tower companies would …
India will implement stricter radiation emission norms from September 1 for mobile towers to reduce emission to one-tenth of present levels. Failure to stick to prescribed radiation levels will attract penalties of . 5 lakh per tower. Radiation absorption norms for mobile handsets have been made more stringent, but cellphone …
With new guidelines coming into force from Saturday, radiation emission from telecom towers will come down to 1/10th of the present level, a development that will address public health concerns. Also, the handsets to be rolled out from domestic manufacturing units or to be imported will have reduced absorption capacity, …
Starting Saturday, Indian mobile radiation standards are set to become more stringent with the department of telecommunications (DoT) cutting down on radiation levels in the interest of public health. To reduce energy absorption while using handsets, consumers will only be allowed to use designs that have a lower energy absorption …
Worried about the ill effects of radiation emitted from mobile phone towers on health, the government on Friday rolled out a new set of regulations that cellular operators would have to adhere to with immediate effect. The government also framed new rules for the mobile handsets to ensure minimum radiation …
The “Report on possible impacts of communication towers on wildlife including birds and bees,” is a textbook example of how not to write scientific reports. An expert committee, also comprising a few scientists from reputed institutions, was constituted in August 2010 by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to study …
A month after the Delhi High Court issued notices to the Delhi government and the Centre in a petition to stop installation of mobile towers near residential areas, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has formed a committee under the environment secretary to investigate radiation hazards. The committee will include members from …
