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 …
New Delhi: The three corporation will soon launch a special drive to crack down on illegal cellphone towers. Officials say that in the past few months, there has been a sharp increase in the number of cellphone towers in the city, especially in residential colonies. There are 5,656 mobile towers …
Jaipur: In a judgment that could have nationwide impact, the Rajasthan high court on Tuesday ordered the relocation of mobile towers from educational institutions, hospitals and playgrounds in the state within two months, citing harmful electromagnetic radiation. The court further ruled that the towers should be shifted at least 500m …
Looking at the agony of a man, who approached the Rajasthan high court seeking action against mobile companies alleging that the radiation from nearby towers caused brain tumor to his two younger brothers, out of which one had passed away, a division bench headed by the Chief Justice has admitted …
Holding mobile towers as a health hazard, the Rajasthan high court on Tuesday directed telecom service providers operating in the state to remove within two months their towers falling in the vicinity of schools, hospitals and play grounds. The division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice N K …
Expressing concern over health hazards posed by mobile towers, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notice to the Centre and seven telecom firms on a plea alleging they are being installed in violation of stipulated guidelines. A bench of the Tribunal comprising acting chairperson Justice A.S. Naidu and expert …
New Delhi: Cellular services are likely to be hit in East Delhi as East Delhi Municipal Corporation will start sealing the illegal towers from next week. As per the findings of the civic body, there are 1470 cellphone towers, of which 588 are illegal. Corporation officials, after a standing committee …
Civic Body’s Draft Proposal Lines Up Stringent Installation Rules Mumbai: Mobile operators may soon have to secure consent from 70% occupants of a housing society to install a cellphone tower. This stringent guideline is among several others that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has lined up in its draft policy …
The UT Administration has formulated a Draft Mobile Tower Policy for UT Chandigarh uploaded on the official site, www.chandigarh.nic.in. Before the finalization of this policy, the Administration has invited public objections/ suggestions on this policy, if any, to be submitted to the office of the Senior Town Planner, Department of …
The BMC is planning to include the radiation levels of cellphone towers in its annual environmental status report (ESR) after concerns surfaced over the impact of emissions on the health and environment. The ESR, which the BMC publishes annually, records the air, water and noise pollution levels in Mumbai. Additional …
Putting up cell sites, or mobile phone towers, as they are popularly known, atop residential buildings will now be a tall order. For, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to put a cap of two such base stations on buildings. The decision was taken at a general body meeting on …
The BMC will set up a special cell to look into cell tower radiation violations in the city, said Additional Municipal Commissioner Aseem Gupta at the civic general body meeting on Friday. Municipal councillors also demanded that a survey of all mobile towers in the city be undertaken to see …
MUMBAI: The BMC will not allow more than two cellphone towers to be installed on rooftops. Currently, the civic body is finalizing a new policy after the Union department of telecommunication (DoT) issued guidelines on installation of the towers. While formulating the policy, the public concern over the health hazards …
Environment Minister S Shivanna has said that an experts’ meeting will be convened soon to discuss measures the Environment Department or Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) can take up to contain adverse effects of radiation of cellphone towers. The Minister, in a statement issued here, said a meeting of …
More than five hundred pigeons suddenly dropped dead at a village in Bihar's Bhagalpur district over the last four days, causing residents, some of them pigeon-keepers, to fear that something was amiss. District officials are still to visit the site and conduct an inquiry. Over 500 pigeons died mysteriously in …
More than five hundred pigeons have dropped dead at a village in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district over the last four days, causing residents, some of them pigeonkeepers, to fear that something was amiss. District officials are still to visit the site and conduct an inquiry. “We were shocked, and we cannot …
More than five hundred pigeons suddenly dropped dead at a village in Bihar's Bhagalpur district over the last four days, causing residents, some of them pigeon-keepers, to fear that something was amiss. District officials are still to visit the site and conduct an inquiry. Over 500 pigeons died mysteriously in …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan high court on Friday took a strong note of the Union telecom secretary's letter directing the state chief secretary not to order removal of mobile phone towers from hospitals. As the high court had earlier ordered that the towers be instantly removed from the school and hospital …
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a public interest litigation petition that sought a directive to the Union government to appoint an independent regulator to monitor radiation from mobile phone towers. A Bench of Justices H. L. Dattu and C. K. Prasad told Prashant Bhushan, who appeared for …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a public interest litigation seeking stricter radiation norms for cell phone towers, saying the regulatory mechanism framed by the government two months ago must be given a chance to prove itself. “For every ill, and for every shortcoming, the courts must not …
The High Court directed the Atomic Energy Commission to measure the intensity and biological effect of radiation emitted from the country's cell phone towers. An HC bench comprising Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice Ashish Ranjan Das passed the directive following a writ of Advocate Asaduzzaman Siddique and Advocate Ekhlas …
