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 …
BHUBANESWAR: The Indian Institute of Technology(IIT)-Bhubaneswar has proposed establishment of Innovative Centre for Climate Change (ICCC) here. Director of IIT-Bhubanes w a r M a d h u s u d a n Chakraborty who met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here at the Secretariat today along with a team of …
Kalpana Jain / New Delhi March 30, 2010, 0:59 IST The stink is out of urine, literally and metaphorically, with a growing number of researchers spotting commercial and ecological value in a liquid most people consider waste. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, for instance, is working to harvest …
Seema Sindhu / New Delhi March 12, 2010, 1:13 IST To ensure quality food and safety standards in the food sector besides introducing a better surveillance mechanism, the government plans to tie up with agricultural universities, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and other institutions that have food-testing laboratories. The …
20 Under-35 Honoured For Their Innovations IT TOOK him two years to perfect algorithms that allow rich content to be streamed on low bandwidth. But just twelve weeks into the commercial launch of the product, vMukti, the Ahmedabad-based start-up cofounded by Hardik Sanghvi has raked in eight enterprise customers.
This document contains the presentation by Gokul Iyer, on effect of climate change on energy demand: case study of IIT- Bombay, presented at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010. This paper aims at exploring the relationship between climate change and energy demand. The modeling techniques employed in …
Within four months of starting its operations, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar has begun a battle against power shortage in the state. The institute has already started work in this direction and plans to work extensively to produce power through biogas and other agricultural wastes. Making a significant …
A pledge to start a renewed fight for development of Jharia under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission was taken at a joint meeting of Jharia Coalfield Bachao Samiti, Jharia Chamber of Commerce and Dhanbad Bar Association yesterday. A new organisation, Lok Adhikar Manch, was floated at the meeting, …
Mumbai: How to shield your building from the harmful affects of radiation? Ask Girish Kumar, the IIT Bombay professor, who has invented a shield that can be installed in concrete structures to block radiation. A developer has asked Kumar to install his radiation shield in a 300-m building near the …
The Union government has released a pollution index to help it decide where new industrial units are to be allowed and which areas need cleaning urgently. The Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index ranks 88 areas housing polluting industries in India using a new methodology (seeÀ An index calculated). “The index is …
An environment-friendly public toilet, designed by IIT, Kanpur, is finding support from the Indian Railways and UNICEF,writes SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY The road ahead Of what use is technological progress if basic waste disposal is not taken care of? More than half of India does not have access to toilets, says …
The Centre on Wednesday decided that it would not consider any development project proposed in the country's top 43 identified 'critically-polluted' industrial clusters and pending with it for an environment clearance for the next eight months. In fact, it has even decided to return all such proposals received by it …
In a potential breakthrough for diagnosis of heart disease, the field trial of nano technology-enabled sensors for early diagnosis of myocardial infarction is slated to begin soon and they maybe commercially available in a year. Addressing the Indian Science Congress here, Prof V Ramgopal Rao of Centre for Excellence of …
Mumbai: It could be termed as a payback gesture by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) towards the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B). The authority will construct a motorable bridge connecting the southern and northern sides of the IIT-B campus. The bridge, which will be 35 meter long …
