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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding deterioration of Nayar river, Uttarakhand, 05/06/2025

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 …

IIT-D engineers way to harvest organs

New Delhi: For patients with severely dysfunctional organs, transplant becomes the last option but finding a compatible donor to replace the organ is an uphill task. However, such patients won

India faces threat from rising sea levels

Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS Earth may be warmer by four degree centigrade by the next decade } NATURAL calamities like the tsunami, frequent cyclones and flash floods are indications of climate change due to human interference, according to academicians and environmental engineers from across the globe who gathered at IITMadras …

Bio-energy centre at tech hub

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, is set to launch one of the first bio-energy centres in the country. The P.K. Sinha Centre for Bio-energy will be inaugurated on Tuesday on the institute

Are they sustainable?

Chennai's twin corridors: The poor-rich divide represents the social conflict and the acute water scarcity reflects the environmental degeneration at OMR and ECR, says M G Devasahayam The OMR turned IT Corridor turned Rajiv Gandhi Salai is the Information Technology hub of the city, home to the top multinational IT …

New air pollution norms tough to meet

Mumbai To meet global standards, the Union Environment Ministry, in a move that went largely unnoticed, had reduced permissible air pollution limits last month though the earlier norms were not being met. Now state officials say they are facing a

IIT report slams MMRDA, says Mumbai needs underground metro

Ninad Siddhaye / DNA Mumbai: Mumbai needs an underground metro instead of an elevated one. Advocated by a number of citizen groups, this opinion now has the backing of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Powai. A report of the civil engineering department of the IIT says the elevated metro …

Start-ups turn global warming challenge into thriving biz opportunity

A CLUTCH of small companies is turning the brouhaha over global warming into a hot business proposition. Sidhartha Bhimania

Remote sensing to be used to map actual mining areas

To check illegal mining activities in the State, the State Government maintained that it is contemplating to prepare a map of the actual mining lease area by using remote sensing technology.

Advisory panel minus expert

Prof. C.N.R. Rao left many a scientist slack-jawed with the disclosure at the platinum jubilee meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences India's top-most advisory panel on climate change has no climate change scientists. The Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change comprises half-a-dozen Central ministers, senior bureaucrats, economists and representatives …

GE Edison-spotting

S. RAGHOTHAM Shashikanth, Arnab and Ashim of IIT-Kharagpur have built an earthen pot-in-pot cold storage system -- a refrigerator that uses almost no electricity, except that consumed by a small fan. When a chirpy 20something Punjabi girl in pink tees and blue jeans begins to animatedly talk to you about …

Scientists call Tamil Nadus bluff

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: While the Tamil Nadu Government has pooh-poohed the IIT Roorkee

Eureka! Hands-free bike to green motor boats at IIT fair

41 Students From Across India Display Their Innovations New Delhi: Cars fitted with GSM systems to generate an automatic SOS text message in case of an accident, a hands-free bike for the differently-abled, rugs made of banana peel

Dam not quake-proof

Study done by IIT, Roorkie THIRUVANANATHAPURAM: A structural stability analysis of the Mullaperiyar dam conducted by the Department of Earthquake Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkie, has concluded that the main Mullaperiyar dam and the baby dam are likely to face damage in the event of an earthquake. …

IIT-G project to save lives in avalanche

The dizzy Himalayan heights are far removed from the valley of the Brahmaputra. But close to the river, two experienced designers are developing what will be a lifesaver in the mountains. In the Design Department of IIT Guwahati is being shaped an advanced gear to help people survive an avalanche. …

Rashtrapati Bhawan to use wetlands to treat sewage

The Rashtrapati Bhawan is using a technology that will be introduced in Delhi over the next 8 to 10 months. The President

Vision Cuttack-2030 invites flak from CPM

CUTTACK: The Vision Cuttack-2030 prepared by IIT Kharagpur has come in for sharp criticism from political parties with CPM terming it

24 badly polluted areas under scanner

The 24 areas around the country where water, air and soil pollution have reached critical levels are now being studied by experts from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, to see what can be done about them, Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said on Thursday. The report …

Pedal pushers: IIT-B bikes now take village children to school

Mumbai: Before zooming off to Silicon Valley, IIT-Bombay geeks, in what is virtually a tradition, leave behind one last sign of their presence

States told to identify polluting clusters

THE Centre on Monday warned of strict action against polluting industries and asked states to identify critically polluted clusters in order to prepare an action plan for initiating corrective steps.

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