Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
on december 2, 2001, prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee inaugurated a Rs 296-crore project to beautify Andhra Pradesh's Musi river. Top priority was to be accorded to cleaning the water body under the National River Conservation Plan. The state government, however, seems to have set its own agenda. In compliance …
even as the controversy generated by Gujarat's highly polluting Alang shipbreaking yard refuses to die down, Andhra Pradesh is clearing the decks for a similar unit to be located in its fragile coastal belt. The proposal for the yard at Vodarevu near Chirala of Prakasam district was given the technical …
sakhi, the thirteen-month-old Bengal tigress of the Nehru Zoological Park ( nzp ) in Hyderabad was recently killed due to the careless attitude of the zoo authorities. Poachers intruded into the npz with the help of the zoo staff and killed Sakhi. They then skinned her and dumped the carcass …
In the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, neeru (water) is scarce. Like so many other Indian cities, water supply from government facilities through pipes has been extremely poor
MUMBAI Death for Hire Diesel taxis are raising hell. Their drivers are lodged in a pitched battle with the civil society If you live in the business capital of India, it is not difficult to see the byproducts of the industrial boom. A constantly rising number of vehicles has sent …
Bangalore is a relatively green city. There are no big industrial units in the immediate vicinity. As with most other metros of India, vehicular emissions are the most important cause of air pollution. According to B Shivalingaiah, chairperson of the Karnataka Pollution Control Board (kpcb), there are about 1.4 million …
Hyderabad is at crossroads. A city rooted in history, it is raring to attain the title of being India's information technology capital. From being a congested old city with very high population density, it wants to become an industrial monolith with a surging economy. If only things were this simple. …
the increasing level of noise pollution is posing a threat to Charminar, the historic landmark of Hyderabad, according to the National Geophysical Research Institute (ngri). Built with lime and mortar, the plastering of the 400-year-old monument may peel off because of constant increase in pollution levels and the flow of …
In yet another instance of animal-human conflict, wild elephants in Meghalaya's West Garo hills are giving the farmers in the area sleepless nights. The pachyderms are descending on the village in hordes and trampling the crops that are ready for harvesting. The Bishnoi community protested against the killing of 25 …
while a large population in South Asia is at serious health risk from air pollution, the governments and government-run institutions are still struggling to get their act together to deal with the problem. This was felt by most participants at an international workshop on Air Pollution and Health Issues in …
THE Centre For Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad will adopt cloning techniques to preserve endangered species like lions and tigers. A centre comprising scientifically designed enclosures will house lions and tigers, to begin with. It will be set up near the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad. The Andhra …
VIAGRA IN INDIA: The much hyped wonder pill Viagra will be launched by the Delhi-based Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited. Clinical trials will be held across the country, including the historical King Georges Medical College (KGMC) in Lucknow. The company is awaiting clearance from the Drug Controller of India. Viagra will be …
A division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court has issued a notice to the State Pollution Board on a public interest writ petition complaining that the common effluent plant, located at Patancheru and Bollaram, instead of treating the pollutants was creating serious pollution. The petitioner, A Krishna Rao a …
A project to culture human skin for grafting in cases of severe burns has been undertaken at the Deccan Medical College in association with the Owasi Medical Research Centre, Hyderabad, and the Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai. The project aims at culturing one sq metre of skin from one sq …
BY TREATING acute liver failure through hepatocyte transplantation (transplantation of the liver cells of a foetus), a team of doctors in Hyderabad claimed a major breakthrough. The team headed by C M Habeebullah, prominent gastroenterologist and liver expert, has developed a new technique to treat people suffering from chronic and …
On August 28, the district collector of Karnataka's Ranga Reddy district issued an order to release water from the Saroornagar lake in Hyderabad. But the High Court stayed the order which was also opposed by the city's environmental activists. The public interest litiga- Sorrow tion (PIL)-based stay order was issued …
Designed to preserve essential and vaccines in remote villalps I ing electrical power, a solar rdri ator has been developed by research and development wim Bharat Heavy Electricals Lisni Hyderabad, under the World Hs Organization specifications. The solar refrigerator is di ent from a conventional refriger in that it is …
Rising above their despair, oppressed and abandoned women have taken to street-theatre, staging shows in the slums of Hyderabad. Under the guidance of Puran Chandra Rao, writer-director of the play Aurat, these women are educating their friends in the slums about the evils of dowry, malnutrition and the benefits of …
Different estimates of the extent of the country's wastelands area has forced the ministry of rural development to call for a remapping of such areas. The ministry's wasteland development department has asked the National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) in Hyderabad to prepare a detailed map of the wastelands by the …
Metropolitan municipalities can now heave a collective sigh of relief. The Centrally-sponsored scheme for infrastructural development of megacities has brought them a welcome respite, burdened as they were by huge fiscal deficits. Infrastructural development in Calcutta, Bangalore, Bombay, Madras and Hyderabad is to take place through innovative institutional and financial …
