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 17 five-star hotels in Delhi try to do justice to the exotic aqua pura, the drink of dreams. pure and simple, they not only guzzle water that the city can scant afford, they refuse to recycle it as well. At 800 kilolitres (kl) daily per hotel, their water consumption …
TAKE just a tourist's passing measure of the vast leafy expanse that gives New Delhi its crowing distinction as one of the greenest capitals in the world and you'll know exactly where a full 10th of the Capital's water sinks. The 400,000 residents of the tiny 5 per cent area …
WITHOUT these 200 tankers - rusting and leaking ponderously - Delhi would be panting. And these dinosaurs come closest to the prices Delhi's people should actually be paying. While the New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) charges Rs 250 for a tanker of 10 kl capacity, private tankers get anything between …
DELHI'S future -to mix metaphors -is in the hands of three dams. But of Renuka, Kishau and Tehri, only the last is under construction; it should supply the city with 675 million litres daily (mld) feeding the proposed 630 mld treatment plant at Shahdara. But next century. The Tehri Hydel …
UNDER the present dispensation, the three major water treatment plants at Hyderpur, Chandrawal and Wazirabad get 1410 mld from the Bhakra Nangal dam system and the Yamuna river. The Bhakra water is carried from the Bhakra main link canal through the Narwana branch. The branch canal carries about 1,775 mld …
A TECHNOLOGY to treat domestic sewage, in existence since the '60s, has been put to new use: treating and recycling wastewater from public urinals. Mukesh Khare of the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi claims the rotating biological contactor (RBC) process can eliminate foul odour from the urinals, especially in …
Fariburz Sahba, the Iranian architect who designed the, Baha'i Lotus Temple in New Delhi, is a sad man today. Dust and emissions from vehicles and industries around the temple are causing its marble exterior to peel off. Though the architect says the temple, made from the finest marble -from Athens …
INDIAN women, watch out! Think twice before you place that innocent-looking, stick-on vermillion dot on your forehead. Or, before you slip your plastic purse into your blouse. At least that's the message from dermatologist R K Pandhi of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi. Investigations by his …
ARE forests linked with the spread of malaria? Or, for that matter, do terrain, agricultural practices, water-bodies or ground-water have any bearing on the disease? Now, a computer-based analysis technology -- the Geographical Information System (GIS) -- may provide answers to these complex questions. The Malaria Research Centre (MRC) in …
The Delhi Fire Service wants legislation with "more teeth" to bring to book the owners of more than 100 high-rise buildings in the Capital for not installing basic fire safety measures. Noncompliance of minimum fire safety requirements in government-owned buildings has prevented the penalisation of the owners of private buildings. …
How does it feel to be told that if only your car had seat belts fitted, your 26-year-old son and 22-year-old daughter-in-law would be alive today? What would you do if you were told this? Would you bow down in acceptance before the Hindu priest when he said that it …
A CHEMICAL used originally to kill bacteria in drinking water is now proving extremely effective as a male contraceptive. S K Guha, who is a professor at the biomedical engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, both in Delhi, and his …
The state government of Delhi has identified the "real culprit" behind the city's street congestion -- the ubiquitous cycle-rickshaw. Funny, considering that the harmless three-wheeler is the only non-polluting commercial transport vehicle on the streets. A spokesperson for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), the licensing authority for rickshaws, said …
Setting a global precedent, the Eighth Asian Congress of Paediatrics in the Capital refused to accept financial support from infant formula food companies. The congress president, R D Potdar, claimed this was a principled stand taken by the paediatric community to promote breast-feeding. Paediatric conferences all over the world are …
THE WORLD Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) gutsily staged a street play in January this year in enemy territory, Delhi's Sadar Bazar -- the core of animal skin trader Sansar Chand's territory. Chand, who masterminded the biggest poaching network in north and east India, was nabbed by Delhi police in …
ALTHOUGH the threat of AIDS haunts Delhi's brothels, neither the government nor any voluntary organisation has determined the prevalence of the disease among the Capital's sex workers. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), HIV infections among sex workers in Bombay increased from 1 per cent in 1986 to 35 …
The National Literacy Mission (NLM) plans to lead Delhi's 2.48 million illiterates "from darkness into light". Besides reading and writing, the mission will focus on sex education, AIDS awareness, drug and alcohol addiction, greenery, sanitation and hygiene, physical fitness, family planning, first aid, legal education, women's empowerment and immunisation. K …
Delhi is sitting on an unstable pile of sand, warn seismic experts. Earthquake engineering experts thus recommend the micro-zonation (mapping of small areas) of the Capital and other important urban centres of the country. The department of science and technology, the Indian Institute of Technology and the department of earthquake …
Traffic police in Delhi will be granted an allowance for breathing polluted air. The compensation amount will be graded according to rank, ranging from Rs 100 for constables to Rs 200 for inspectors. A study conducted by the capital's Central Road Research Institute and the All India Institute of Medical …
The public sector Delhi Transport Corp (DTC), whose buses have a reputation for being polluting, has received an award by the Indian Oil Corp (IOC) for saving fuel. Presenting the award, instituted by IOC to encourage state transport authorities to conserve petroleum products, secretary to the ministry of surface transport …
