Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents Welfare Association Savita Vihar Vs Irrigation & Flood Control Department & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant raised the grievance against throwing of construction debris and sewage obstruction in the Ghazipur drain. According to the applicant this drain flows behind …
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Delhi, has developed lien acoustic sounder to facilitate remote sensing facility for measuring meteorological data and forecast pollution dispersion patterns. A series of experiments regarding this were carried out from 1992 to 1994. Also termed 'sodar' (sound and detection ranging), the sounder has been developed …
Following a Delhi High Court decision in 1994 in a civil writ, the ministry of environment and forests has set up a 7- member high power committee to preserve and protect the nation's wildlife. The committee, headed by M F Ahmed, inspector- general of forests in the ministry, will submit …
As a sequel to a Delhi High Court order, a judicial committee has been established to ensure the availability of drinking water to the capital's residents. The mediation of the HC is part of the process of "judicial intervention to ensure human rights". The 2-judge bench had ordered the Municipal …
A hacksaw, a wrench, a couple of metres of 3 cm wide galvanised iron pipe and, Mohanlal Madan's ingenuity did the trick. He became the intellectual property rights holder of the only autorickshaw inspired by the Mitshubishis and Canters. Of the 60,000 three-wheeler autorickshaws in Delhi, vehicle number DL-IR-A 5176 …
The much publicised recent vehicular pollution control drive, which created much more than a stir in the Capital, has come heavily against vehicle owners without conclusively proving any positive gain. The drive has ignored the oil and vehicle producing companies, who could be credited with supplying the paying public ineffecient …
IT WAS darkness at noon for Delhiites on June 6, when a huge blanket of smoke covered the sun as the 3,000 odd shops in Asia's biggest market of poly-vinyl- chloride (PVc) goods in Jwalapuri, west Delhi, was gutted. Initial loss estimates put it at Rs 80 crore. None died, …
With a view to check the smoking menace, the Delhi High Court has issued show-cause notices to the Central and the Delhi governments. They have been asked to explain why a petition seeking the ban of smoking in public places -- filed by Rajesh Chawla, a cardiologist and president of …
Eco-terrorists are for real. All over the world the establishment derisively uses the term to describe zealous environmental activists and groups on the fringe. For much of May, however, the term could easily apply to the establishment itself -- in this case, the Central government and the government of Delhi, …
JUST 6 months ago, Vijay Vihar was a dirty blob on the capital's ever-expanding map. The 5.67 ha of land on the outskirts of north Delhi houses a dusty, unauthorised colony of 40,000 people. But today the residents have at one shot challenged the government and the vested interests in …
Close on the heels of a Supreme Court directive to relocate Delhi's most polluting industries comes a Gujarat High Court judgement ordering the closure of 70 industries in the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation Vapi industrial estate. Delivered on April 18, the order gave the industries 48 hours to comply. Water …
Officials from the ministry of environment and forests and the Delhi government have been issued show cause notices by the Delhi High Court. The reason: their inability to care for the environment and preserve the capital's impressive green cover. The notice was in response to a petition filed by the …
A team of researchers from the Delhi-based Centre for Biochemical Technology (CBT) has recently formulated an Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (Elisa) -- an immune-based test kit -- for the early detection of aspergillosis, a disease caused by the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus, characterised by attacks of asthma and recurrent chest infibrillations. …
ON MARCH 23, serial blasts in Delhi's upmarket Connaught Place area shook the city. However, the "terrorists" this time were non-human: they were the sewage drains of the area which exploded due to pressure, causing quite a stink. At least 40 manhole covers blew off, and the flying pieces of …
ON THE night of March 23 a series of explosions ripped through the sewer drains all the way from Panchkuian Road to Karol Bagh 4 km away. They are 2 of the most crowded commercial areas in New Delhi. At the end of the 30-minute drama, which started arround 11.15 …
The Punjab state government will be constituting a Punjab Gujjar Welfare Advisory Board, says chief minister Beant Singh. The newly-elected Maharashtra government said that it would review Enron's Dabhol power project not to be cleared "at the cost of the people". The National Hydro Power Corp (NHPC) plans to promote …
THE muckiest city in India suddenly stepped into glass slippers and pert ecofriendliness last fortnight. Local NGOs, environmentalists, craftspersons and sundry others with a green bent hung together and tried to inject adrenalin into languid Delhites to turn them into environment buffs. High on the list of programmes was Dilli …
Under the unseeing eyes of the city's civic bodies, over 500 factories in North Delhi are severely polluting the groundwater which is used for domestic purposes. Equally reassuring for the errants is the gross inaction by the local pollution control agencies. According to a recent Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) …
EVEN New Delhi's misty winter cannot obscure the city's muck. Mounds of garbage appear at almost every twist and turn of Delhi's sidelanes because the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD) antiquated trucks and wayward workforce cannot cope. Concerned at the deteriorating situation, some neighbourhoods in south Delhi have picked up …
SCIENTISTS from the Delhi-based National Institute of Immunology (NII) have developed a drug called MUJ-7, which they claim could be a potential weapon against cancer of the colon and rectum. The new drug's modus operandi is to starve the cancer cells of the growth factors that sustain them, explains Rama …
THE 2nd National Children's Science Congress (NCSC) was organised by the National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC)-network, in the last week of December 1994. With a stated objective -- to "clean up India", no less -- the congress, unfortunately, couldn't find a cleaner venue in the capital than …
