Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
INDIAN cities are among the most polluted in the world. Delhi has already been slotted among the top-most polluted cities of the world. The main source of the air and noise pollution ailing the metros are petrol-powered two and three wheelers. There are close to 18 million petrol-powered two wheelers …
YERWADA central jail in Pune has witnessed a sudden upsurge of" visitors. Jail employees are not surprised. They know the reason. Noted social worker Ramon Magsaysay awardee Anna Hazare is lodged here. Hazare was sentenced by a Mumbai metropolitan court on September 10 to three months simple imprisonment in connection …
Researchers at the Magan Sangrahalaya in Wardha, Maharashtra, have designed an efficient charkha (spinning wheel). This three-spindle spinning machine is simple, light and reasonably priced. A team led by expert Narayanarao Khallarkar is working further to improve the technique and management of decentralised spinning and weaving system. The traditional charkha …
The Centre of Science for Villages (CSV), Wardha, Maharashtra, has developed a microbiogas plant with a battery of 300 litres clay jars, which is known as Ranjan biogas plant. The biogas plant is a large clay pot churned on the potter's wheel that is utilised for storing water during summers. …
About 150 families in village Velaghat in district Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, have been issued eviction notices to vacate their homes for a five-star hotel to be constructed by the Taj Group. Close to the virgin beaches of Velaghat is the lush green Aravali valley and the Yeshwantgarh fort. The adjoining land …
DANISH FIRM IN INDIA: A S Velfrost, a US $200-million Danish freezer and deep freezer manufacturer, is considering India as a possible manufacturing base, its first outside Denmark. According to executives, a deal is being negotiated with Blue Star India for a joint venture. However, the plans have not taken …
over 6,000 fisherfolk, farmers, tribals and artisans took part in a protest march in coastal Maharashtra recently against the setting up of India's largest industrial port at Vadhwan by Peninsular & Orient ( p&o; ), a multinational company. Campaigners say that Dahanu, where the port will be located is one …
DESPITE opposition from environmentalists, the 84 km Mumbai-Pune express-way has been given clearance by the Union environment ministry. However, the ministry has not given clearance for the Ghat region, which is being studied by the Wild life Institue of Dehradun for impact on rare animal species in the region. Environmentalists …
The Nagpur bench of the Mumbai High Court has refused to stay activities at the Baranj coal mines in the Wardha valley of Maharashtra following a public interest litigation (PIL) alleging that the mining was likely to affect a nearby ordnance factory and prejudice the defence of the country. The …
gopinath Munde, deputy chief minister of Maharashtra wriggled out of a much awaited and thrice-postponed public debate between the state government and opponents of the controversial Enron Power Project. "It was an opportunity for the government to publicly debate a contentious and crucial issue. But Munde has gone back on …
the London-based human rights organisation Amnesty International has charged the Indian government with suppressing protests against the us $1.2-billion Enron power project in Dabhol, Maharashtra. In recent months, villagers and activists protesting against the project - on grounds of corruption, displacement and environmental damage - have been subjected to "harassment, …
Dinosaurs in Maharashtra? Hundreds of dinosaur eggs found buried just below the surface in Pisdura town in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, provide strong evidence for this conjecture. Bone fragments and faecal matter of the reptiles have also been found. This evidence lends strength to the contention that all the dinosaurs …
better late than never seems to be the motto of Enron Corp. The multinational company (mnc) has been struggling for five years to gain a foothold in India, its efforts almost symbolising the challenges faced by foreign investors in India. Enron recently said that it was pursuing additional projects in …
cultivators of rice in India have something to look forward to. Agricultural researchers at the Karjat Research Centre, Maharashtra, have developed the nation's first hybrid rice variety
some day in the near future, airplane wings may flex themselves like fish tails, changing shape to modify, lift or drag by themselves. Bridges and telephone poles could
cost effective, energy efficient and non-polluting electric cycle rickshaws invented by Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (nari), Maharashtra, could substitute petrol-powered two-wheelers and three-wheelers. At present 18 million two wheelers and 1.5 million three wheelers pollute Indian cities, growing at a rate of 15 per cent per annum. The existing cycle …
A new waste disposal technology has been developed by Mumbai-based Excel Industries Ltd, an agricultural and industrial chemicals company. The company'scost-effective strategy involves waste treatment at points of generation, controlled aerobic composting and mechanical screening of digested compost. (Celrich substrate DF-BF-O1', the biological innoculum the company sprayed on solid waste …
jalshakti, a granular, free-flowing, organic product designed to improve plant-water relationship is a novel super absorbent polymer with an amazing ability to absorb and retain water about 150-200 times its weight. It is non-toxic, biodegradable, its properties do not vary between the temperature range of 20-70
