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 …
Parliamentary panel asks Environment Ministry to evolve a mechanism Observing that electro-magnetic radiation from cell towers is a matter of “great concern”, a parliamentary panel has asked the Environment Ministry to address the issue “comprehensively” and evolve a mechanism to create awareness among the people. The committee on Demands for …
MUMBAI: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and National Green Tribunal (NGT) have said that cell-tower radiations are not a "pollutant" or a health hazard if cell towers strictly adhere to the norms that have been laid down by World Health Organization (WHO) and the department of telecommunication (DoT). Activists, …
AIIMS, IIT-D Among 17 Top Bodies Asked By Centre To Probe Its Health Impact At least 17 top scientific institutions in the country, including AIIMS and IIT Delhi, have been commissioned by the Union government to address concerns about radiation emitted from mobile phones and phone towers causing illnesses. Sources …
The Central Information Commission has pulled up the environment ministry for providing "false and misleading" information that it had conducted no study on the harmful effects of mobile radiations. It has also asked the ministry to explain why it has allowed unrestricted installation of mobile towers and not formulated any …
A latest study by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said there is no conclusive data or evidence so far to show that radiations from mobile phone or towers have adverse health effects. However, doctors, mainly leading oncologists, maintain that in the absence of enough scientific evidence there is need …
Hyderabad: The Chief Information Commissioner has taken a serious note of the ministry of environment and forests providing “false and misleading” information to an RTI query on the harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation emitted by cellphone towers on human beings. The ministry had said that no study had been undertaken …
A day after BMC commissioner ordered a probe into the issue of telecom towers coming up in gardens across the city, Bandra corporator Asif Zakaria has given notice of motion for raising the issue in the floor of the house of the corporation. He has asked that the proposal, that …
After Cellular Operators Association of India, scientists have come out refuting Swadeshi Science Movement’s study on radiation threat for Kochi and Trivandrum from cell towers. “If the green, yellow and red ranges of readings are based on recommendation of Bio-Initiative 2007 report and further underscored by the Bio-Initiative 2012 report, …
There are 615 mobile phone towers in the city, according to the Ghaziabad Development Authority. A GDA official told TOI that the figure has been arrived at following a survey by the Authority across all the eight zones of the city. "All these mobile phone towers have been installed without …
Study Estimates 7.5 Billion Litres Of Diesel Being Consumed A day without your smartphone can be demanding. But a new study has thrown up some interesting finds about how energy-guzzling the telecom industry is.Scientists at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology and Forschungszentrum Julich in Germany have revealed that the Indian …
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy who inaugurated the discussion via conference call, said that people did have doubts about the safety of emissions. Kochi: There is no independent, reliable data on the safety of electro magnetic emissions from your mobile phone. And if you insist on it, you would rather wait …
A weeklong protest by residents of Sushant Lok I against an unauthorized mobile tower in the colony's community park has been successful in getting the tower removed, as Reliance, which erected the tower, ceded to the demands on Thursday. According to the residents, the 20-metre tower was erected overnight in …
Activists Warn Against Clusters Of Antennae On High-Rises The city needs 670 more mobile towers to cater to the growing number of smartphone users, but just a sixth of applications from cell tower companies have been cleared by the BMC so far. Cellular operators say if the new towers are …
PHD Chamber senior vice-president A. B. Shriram gifts sapling to Juhi Chawla during discussion on Mobile Tower An average Indian is exposed to 5-10 times higher levels of electromagnetic radiation, emitted from cellular towers and mobile phones compared to the United States, which could lead to serious heath hazards, including …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Vasundhara Vikas Samiti & Others Vs. Reliance telecom Pvt. Ltd. & Others dated 29/09/2014 regarding erection of mobile tower in close proximity with a school under operation, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
Gated Community Worried About Radiation-Emitting Installation That's Cropped Up In Their Vicinity The mushrooming telecommunication towers in the city are setting off alarm bells, literally.Residents living near such radiationemitting installations are wary of the health hazards they pose. Shobha Amethyst, a gated community in Kannamangala village, Hoskote, East Bangalore, is …
6,650 And Counting, Masts Throw DoT Guidelines To Winds The number of cell phone towers in the city is going up, and so is public awareness on the debated ill effects of electromagnetic radiation they emit. Data obtained by TOI from telecom enforcement and resource monitoring (TERM) cell of department …
A group of Motithang residents are concerned that the radiation being emitted by a cell phone tower located in their neighbourhood is causing them ill health. Information and communications minister DN Dhungyel confirmed that residents living near the Druk Holding and Investments office in Motithang had submitted such a complaint. …
No Coercive Action For Now, Accept Applications For New Towers' In an interim order on Monday , the Bombay high court prohibited the state government and local authorities from taking any coercive action against cellphone towers atop schools, colleges and hospitals across Maharashtra.The HC also directed the authorities to accept …
Telecom Enforcement, Resource and Monitoring cells are part of the vigilance and monitoring wing of the DoT Random testing of more than 10,500 mobile towers across Gujarat did not find a single case of violation of radiation norms by the towers, said a senior official of Telecom Enforcement, Resource and …
