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 …
Mumbai: Six months after the British Medical Association rubbished homeopathy as witchcraft with no scientific basis, IIT scientists have said the sweet white pills work on the principle of nanotechnology. Homeopathic pills containing naturally occurring metals such as gold, copper and iron retain their potency even when diluted to a …
A complete session will be dedicated to the Brahmaputra at an international workshop on river management being held at NASC Complex, DPS Marg, New Delhi with a 3-day programme from December 14. The Indian Water Resources Society, Roorkee and the Department of Water Resources Development and Management, IIT, Roorkee are …
IIT Guwahati has developed an emergency management information system for Assam, a web-based tool to aid the disaster management authorities at the block level by equipping them with all kinds of information for rescue and relief. This was revealed today by the head of the Centre for Environment, IIT Guwahati, …
Chennai: Imagine a Chennai city where well-known, low-lying residential areas Velachery, Madipakkam and Kotturpuram may permanently be submerged by sea water. The Napier bridge may be seen rising directly out of the sea, while the mouth of the river Cooum is pushed inland to open into the sea before the …
UDAIPUR: This is yet another test for the 400-year-old Fathesagar lake in Udaipur. The safety and stability of this lake is said to be uncertain due to the unscientific construction of Vibhuti Park' in the "toe" portion of the dam. Fatehsagar is the largest of the lake system of Udaipur …
Greater Noida: The closing session of Pan IIT 2010 Conclave on 'Building a sustainable future: The Green Society' saw global leaders speak on the way forward to build a green global society that could further sustain the transformational growth, at Expo Mart in Greater Noida on Sunday. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will release the conservation and action plan for Ganga river dolphins at the second meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) in New Delhi tomorrow. NGRBA expert member R.K. Sinha told The Telegraph today:
New Delhi: The Ganga will be pure and free of pollutants by 2020, the Centre promised before the SC on Friday. Without dwelling on the past when nearly 1,000 crore was spent under the failed Ganga Action Plan initiated in the late 1980s, attorney general G E Vahanvati assured a …
The World Bank has agreed to provide $1 billion for the Mission Clean Ganga being implemented by the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for restoring the
Renowned earthquake engineer Prof D K Paul, Dean of Faculty Affairs, Roorkee IIT, said on Friday that the NE dam projects were faultless. As, he said, these projects have been cleared by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). Moreover, it is because of the intervention of the MoEF …
Is radiation from cellphone towers proving to be harmful for residents living around them? Whether the assumption that such radiation affects the health of human beings is hypothetical or has a concrete base is still a point of debate. To ensure that there is some clarity on the issue, Napean …
Bharat Yagnik | TNN Ahmedabad: The new campus of IITGandhinagar (IIT-G) is going to have a green footprint. Authorities of the institute have decided to make the building design different than the conventional style of the other, older IITs. IIT-Gandhinagar is among the new IITs set up in 2008-09. Recently, …
For his outstanding contribution in the field of drug design, Professor Sandeep Verma of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) has been named for the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology 2010 in Chemical Sciences. The major achievement of Verma, 44, includes developing of artificial chemicals to …
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa already among top investment destinations, the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) has chalked out plans which will give industries a regulatory frame-work that is responsive, efficient, equipped with a sound enforcement mechanism and scientific at the same time. The pollution watchdog of the State has already stitched up …
