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 …
Alexis, last of the four cheetah's brought from Great Britain five years ago, died due to gross negligence in mid-January in the Delhi Zoo. This brings to focus the dismal state of veterinary services in Indian zoos. Alexis' death followed soon after its mate, Charlie, died the same month. Experts …
VIDYAVATI is a happy housewife today. Free cooking gas runs in her kitchen through the day. A 3-inch cement pipe, reaching down 10 feet below her kitchen and into a garbage dump brings gas to her. But her happiness could be short-lived. Recent incidents indicate that she and her friends, …
Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences has become the country's first hospital to launch a new technique to detect artherosclerosis -- a disease of the blood vessels caused by cholesterol deposition within the arteries. Called the Intra Vascular Ultra Sound (IVUS), the new technique is currently being demonstrated by …
THE board of governors of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has cleared a policy on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), anticipating a steep increase in the scale of industry-sponsored and collaborative research. The absence of such a policy had resulted in marked disenchantment among researchers and faculty. The most …
The Delhi government is in a quandary about declaring the Delhi Ridge a reserved forest. Claims to the area must be settled by the forest settlement officer before the government can issue a final notification under the Indian Forest Act on the status of the Ridge. However, only about 50 …
The internal environment of hospitals in Delhi may pose a health threat to patients due to high concentrations of airborne fungi. This was revealed in a recently published report based on a study conducted by the Delhi-based Centre for Biochemical Technology (CBT), a laboratory run by the Council of Scientific …
COMMITMENT to the environment is visible in every page of this small book. Gitanjali Singhal doesn't merely take note of the fact that Delhi's green areas are in for trouble from human acts of folly, but also suggests a line of action. This book aims at empowering Delhi's citizens with …
THE National Joy of Learning Festival for children opened on November 7, 1994, at New Delhi amidst much fanfare. The festival was jointly organised by the All India People's Science Network and the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti (BGVS). Inaugurating the festival, Yashpal, former chairperson of the University Grants Commission, stressed, …
THE residents of Kardampuri colony in East Delhi woke up to a noxious nightmare in the wee hours of November 13. Toxic fumes from a heap set afire by a local junk dealer sent them scurrying out of their beds. The panicky exodus of reeling men, women and children put …
The high-speed trams (HST) project, a pet scheme of the Delhi government and the Union ministry of surface transport, is yet to obtain the mandatory sanction from the Delhi Urban Arts Commission (DUAC). Any project in Delhi that involves construction or building activity has to get DUAC's approval before it …
ENVIRONMENTAL activists and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been shouting themselves hoarse for a more stringent conservation of the Delhi Ridge. Ironically, the Delhi Administration's favourable response to the issue has sparked off widespread resentment among villages in a section of the so-called lung of Delhi. Since the '90s, the inhabitants …
FOR almost an year now, the Bombay-based Cancer Research Institute (CRI) and Delhi's National Institute of Immunology (NII) have been squabbling over credit for the development of an anti-leprosy vaccine. The controversy has taken a fresh twist with the Delhi-based Society for Scientific Values (SSV), an independent watchdog organisation examining …
Your government inherited a much-polluted Delhi... There are many reasons for the pollution. See how much Delhi has grown in the past 2 decades. Its population has grown by 5 lakh every year. Half this growth is due to largescale inflow of people who come here to make a living. …
The New Delhi Municipal Committee (ndmc) proposes to set up its own gas-based power plant and water treatment plant at a cost of Rs 100 crore to ensure uninterrupted supply of electricity and water to the 4,200 hectare vvip area in the capital that come under its jurisdiction. This is …
Garlic is effective in treating tuberculosis, especially the kind which is resistant to antibiotics, claim scientists P Ratnakar, D Srilatha and P S Murthy of the University College of Medical Sciences and the Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital in Delhi. The researchers obtained extracts from fresh garlic cloves, using alcohol as …
THE euphoria among cardiologists at the Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences (aiims) over the country's first heart transplant operation has proved to be shortlived. Plans to perform another such operation in October received a setback when the prospective recipient, 38 year-old Ram Kali, suddenly refused to accept a …
KEROSENE is the cooking flame in the kitchen for a large part of Delhi"s households. This most basic of liquid fuels has for years been provided by the government"s public distribution system (PDS), a classically corrupt and decentralised system, to people who usually turn a blind eye to the bent …
ONCE the parity in the prices of kerosene and high speed diesel oil (HSDO) ceased in 1978-79 and HSDO prices soared to nearly 3 times that of kerosene in 1992-93, there has been a sharp increase in the demand for kerosene in the blackmarket. While the household energy consumption grew …
How often have you sat in an overcrowded bus on a summer day, irritated by the shirt sticking to your body, wet with sweat? Now, thanks to a new absorbent synthetic fibre, shirts may no longer adhere to the skin, and you may breathe free. Developed by Pushpa Bajaj, head …
After years of harping on the Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) -- a Gordian tangle of subways, ring railway and surface transport -- as the best option for an increasingly congested Delhi, the Union ministry of surface transport (MST) has gone back in time for a solution: it is thinking …
