Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
New Delhi: Students at IIT-Delhi have been falling ill. The reason, they claim, is the contaminated water in their hostels, which has resulted in many coming down with typhoid. College authorities, however, deny the charge. Surender Prasad, director IIT-D, said that though some cases of typhoid and gastroenteritis have been …
The delay in setting up a permanent campus for IIT Mandi due to land unavailability will be a thing of the past. The Environment Ministry on Friday cleared the diversion of 308 acres of forest land for the IIT, which will specialise in
The State Cabinet took several important decisions pertaining to renovation, strengthening and expansion of canals of Tawa project. It was decided to increase the existing irrigation potential of the Tawa project up to three lakh hectare. Besides, it also decided to exchange the farmers
MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay on Thursday launched a laboratory, set up in association with Applied Materials Inc, a global supplier for manufacturing solutions for semi-conductor and solar industries. The scope of the Applied Materials Chemistry Laboratory for Energy and Nanoelectronics (CLEAN) will include developing materials that could be …
IMAGINE a future when magnetic particles less than 100 nanometers in diameter will target, detect and capture images of cancer cells in your body. A team from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, thinks such a future is possible. Researchers designed nanoparticles that can be used to transport drug …
Authority officials have drawn a blueprint to widen, strengthen and redesign roads so that everyone who wants to be a part of this most desired residential and industrial hub steers clear of any chaos that can be caused by traffic jams The cityscape of Noida is all set to change. …
After acquiring land from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay for the road-widening project for the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR), the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided to install noise barriers along the IIT compound at Powai. MMRDA officials said after the land acquisition and road widening …
Top Indian metros like New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata fall under the country's moderate to highrisk seismic zones, the National Disaster Management Authority says. "Earthquakes are a major concern. Over 58.6 per cent of land in India is highly vulnerable to earthquakes and 38 cities fall under moderate to …
According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health, USA, ‘Homeopathy is a controversial area of alternative medicine involving highly diluted preparations and its con- cepts are not consistent with well-known laws of science.’ http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/10apr2011/977.pdf
CHENNAI: The combination of densely populated areas in the city and the risk of climate-related hazards make Chennai vulnerable to disaster. A study brought out by Chennai Corporation, Kyoto University and the University of Madras only goes to prove this. It shows that northern parts of the city have lower …
With citizens and government bodies looking to promote bicycles, a city-based engineer has claimed to have invented a solar-motor pedi-cab, (a tricycle of sorts) that could potentially replace the traditional auto rickshaw. Chunabhatti-based PK Pillai has now sent the designs to IIT-Bombay for comments are looking for funding to promote …
After scrapping its earlier project of oxygenating a stretch on the Mithi to minimise stench emanating from the severely polluted river, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided to now restart the exercise. While work is still on to clean the river and and revamp its banks and …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF),currently under attack for being allegedly too rigid in providing clearances to projects, has lifted an earlier moratorium in this regard on eight more critically polluted areas. However, the MoEF has indicated that the respective state governments and pollution control boards need to adhere …
Last month, at the IIT-Bombay techfest, Utkarsh, the winners were local, rural and low-cost technologies: Parvin Kumar and Abhishek Ranjan won Rs 50,000 for designing a Rs 32,000 bio-fuel machine that can produce enough gas to cook three meals a day for a family of six. The judges at the …
INSPIRATION for innovation can come from painful experiences. As in the case of infarcSens or iSens, a portable device that in less than 10 minutes can tell if a person has suffered a heart attack. Soumyo Mukherji one of the innovators from IIT-Bombay says he started working on iSens after …
CHENNAI: The Water Resources Department has approached the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT-Madras, to scrutinise its report of the project to control sea erosion along the coastline, including along Ennore High Road. Officials of the WRD said as the project is to be implemented with a new technology, the expertise …
In a round table conference hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, the alumni and directors of the five IITs have decided to address the urgent need to take action against the challenge of climate change. Even as all the IITs are working on environment-related projects, a proposal …
The students work- ing on the project said that they are in the final stage of testing and hope to get the satellite ready for launch within a month. MUMBA ratham -a satel lite made indigenously by over 300 students of the Indian Institute of Technology, Powai
