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 …
To make them vehicle-specific hubs Mr P.M. Telang, Executive Director (Commercial Vehicles), Tata Motors (file photo). The country's leading vehicle manufacturer Tata Motors is in the process of re-organising its manufacturing facilities for commercial vehicles, and over time, intends to create hubs for a particular category of vehicle at each …
Ignorant villages beat a male dolphin to death and grievously injured another female dolphin in the Sharda canal in Nagram village, on the outskirts of Lucknow. The dolphins had strayed into the canal and the villagers mistook it for some "killer fish" and beat it with rods. One of the …
Waste-to-energy as a placebo In her petition to the Supreme Court, Patel demanded a stay on the subsidy to wte plants and an independent review of such plants based on the experience in the Lucknow and Hyderabad plants. In 2005, the Supreme Court ordered the creation of a committee to …
if you visit village Amol Kalan Paschim, you are sure to be served highly nutritious water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica), kaseru (Scirpus kysoor), winged beans (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus), guar phali (Cyamopsis tetragonolobus) and sehjan (Moringa oleifera). About 20 kilometers away from Lucknow, it has been adopted by the National Botanical Research Institute …
scientists from Lucknow-based Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (cimap) have isolated a molecule from pods of drumstick (Moringa oleifera) that enhances the absorption of drugs and nutrients by humans. The discovery is yet another addition in the anti-illness armoury of drumsticks. Almost all parts of the plant have …
• Part I: Untapped data • Part II: Lessons learnt How long have you been driving an auto in Ahmedabad? Just about a fortnight now. I came about 25 days ago from Lucknow. You live in Lucknow city? No. Who lives in the cities? People come to the cities to …
The controversy about the high arsenic content in Lucknow's water has taken a new turn. The contention of M C Saxena, director, Environmental Research Laboratory, that the water contains 10,000 parts per billion (PPB) of arsenic has been refuted by an expert. Dipankar Chakraborti, an authority on arsenic and director …
At the height of the dropsy scare, Lucknow-based Industrial Toxicology Research Centre (itrc) came up with a unique device to check for adulteration in mustard oil. Called the colour-detection strip (cd strip), it was promptly placed in the market at a nominal 50 paise with expectations of a deluge of …
If it was Lucknow which mourned its dead children a few weeks ago, it is Guwahati which is a mute witness to its children literally dropping dead. And no one seems to care. Does life really have no value for us, especially those of our young. In Lucknow, several new-born …
There aren't many people around in the streets of Lucknow on an early Sunday morning. But the banks of the Gomti are swarming with people. For over two years, a group of Lucknow's residents gather on Sunday to clean up the river. The group does not have a name, but …
The Lucknow high court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to purchase all the paddy crops grown in the state within the next two and a half months. The state's paddy growers are on the verge of starvation as they have not been able to find buyers for their produce. …
to highlight the health hazards posed by environmental and occupational exposure to pollutants, the Lucknow- based Industrial Toxicology Research Centre ( itrc ) recently organised a five-day
the imambara of Nawab Asif-ud-daula at Lucknow ranks among the greatest architectural achievements of the Muslim period. It is a sacred building in which
Scientists at the Central Institute for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow, have developed a new technology that allows plants to utilise the urea present in fertilisers more efficiently. A substantial part of urea, when added as fertiliser, is lost in the atmosphere. Urea is broken down to ammonia by …
The authorities in Lucknow have taken a step in the right direction by introducing battery-powered three-wheelers to replace the highly polluting diesel-powered Vikram three-wheelers. But they did not undertake this on their own accord
INCREASING power production will have a disastrous effect on the environment, said G P Singh, chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board (upseb) at a seminar on thermal power held in Lucknow recently. He added that this is happening even though environmental appraisal has now become a statutory obligation …
scientists at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany ( bsip ), Lucknow, have discovered a 3.2 billion-year-old fossil of blue-green algae in Singhbhum, north Orissa. They say that this could be the oldest life form in Indian geological history. The search for the oldest biological remains began in 1992. The …
following the death of two tigresses in Lucknow, the Central Zoo Authority (cza) has alerted all zoos in the country to protect tigers and leopards against Feline Pan Leukoenia, a highly contagious viral disease which affects only members of the cat family. The chief wildlife warden of Uttar Pradesh, R …
