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 …
Although pottery is an age old craft and a rural tradition in India, it continues without any modern technical interventions in tiny segments with outdated and inefficient technologies. This sector has not succeeded in responding to the newer demands of the market as well. Innovative technological inputs are required in …
Rubble from the landslide that occurred 10 months ago on the Varunavat mountain in Uttarkashi threatens to swamp the town during this monsoon. Debris on the slope of the crumbling Varunavat mountain. Uttarkashi town is seen at the foothills. IN the first week of July, the worst fears of the …
A recent issue of India Today laments the tightening of state funds to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technologies ( iit s) and the resulting problems that this is creating for the faculties and student bodies. It invokes the evil influence of the World Bank to say that Indian 'economic …
An Indian Institute of TechnoN Delhi, researcher has devised a, to produce potable water fi impure water using solar ent efficiently. The device, a solar a produces 20 per cent more w than other stills and gives 3 1 litres of clean water per sq metre day, reports Science For …
IT'S TIME you took your neglected stamp collection seriously, for mail may soon become electronic. The familiar sound of the postman's bicycle bell will be replaced by the beep of the computer and the crackle of telephone lines as electronic mail, or E-mail, transforms communications. Already about 15 million people …
EVERY DAY, in all weather conditions, scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) receive data about the earth from spaceborne satellites that use specialised RADAR equipment. But converting these data into high resolution image of the earth is a mindboggling task: To process an image of a 100 km …
THIS IS the centenary year of Physical Review, one of the leading journals on physics. The journal has grown from its humble beginnings in New York in 1893, to become an institution in its own right. And though in the first few decades of its existence it was primarily a …
THE NEXT time you board a bus, don't make a beeline for a seat in the front and avoid the rear seats like the plague. They are the least comfortable. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay say the seats in front, including the driver's seat, and …
DESPITE sex-role conditioning by teachers and traditional attitudes that rule out floor and site jobs for women, the number of Indian women taking to engineering has increased manifold in the period between 1975 and 1990. The percentage of women enrolled in engineering degree courses has increased rapidly from 1.3 per …
Anumita Roychowdhury @ If any other cause was responsible for so many deaths and injuries as we see on our roads it would have been a state of emergency Sunita Narain—our colleague and friend—was seriously injured in an accident while cycling yesterday. A car hit her and fled. This cruel …
Profession: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai-400076 Research Interest: Uncertainty Modeling Applications of • Probability and Statistics • Risk Based Approach • Fuzzy Systems Theory • Imrecise Probability • Possibility Theory Water Resources Systems • Water Quality Management • Reservoir Operation Hydroclimatology • Statistical …
She is working in Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP), Department of Civil engineering, Room MS 808 (Main Building), Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016 Dr. Geetam Tiwari obtained her B. Arch form the IIT Roorkee and Master of Urban Planning and Policy, and Ph.D. in Transport …
Designation: Professor, Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme, Room MS 808 (Main Building), Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016 Specialization: Vehicular Pollution Details: Henry Ford Professor for Biomechanics and Transportation Safety, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi Co-ordinator, Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme and Head, WHO Collaborating …
