Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: T N Godavarman Thirumalpad Vs Union of India & Others. The Supreme Court said that that the allotment of 11.89 hectare of reserve forest land in Survey No.21 Kondhwa Budruk in district Pune for agriculture purposes on August 28, …
BARASAT: Social workers expressed grave concern over arsenic pollution which has been affecting vegetation in the area. A research conducted by Jadavpur University in the recent past revealed that arsenic from shallow waters was found in crops like paddy, wheat, papaya, cabbage, cauliflower, taro (kachu). Huge tracts of land in …
Manob Chetona, an organisation in Sodepur Natagarh near Kharda in North 24-Parganas, has taken up a programme to spread awareness about conservation of water among the masses. The members of Manob Chetona are apprehensive that the planet might face severe crisis of water in the future if the wastage of …
Aarti Dhar An Anganvadi centre at Deganga village in North 24 Pargana district of West Bengal. KOLKATA: Five years ago it was difficult to enter or walk past the narrow by-lanes of Hadipur Jhikra-I Gram Panchayat of Deganga block in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal because of …
KULPI, July 28: Although soil erosion is an acute problem in Malda and Murshidabad, the situation is not much different at Kulpi in South 24- Parganas. People living in the villages of Hara, Mukundapur, Harinarayanpur and Raytala are haunted by the fear of being deprived of shelter. Major parts of …
- Eleven people die in Midnapores as Met office forecasts more rain in coastal areas The flood killed 11 more people in East and West Midnapore today, taking the toll to 20 and prompting the government to add to its relief purse. Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who will be travelling …
In tune with the CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat's prescription after the panchayat poll debacles to the CPI(M)-led government to put on hold any development project vis-a-vis land acquisition drive, the West Bengal government on Tuesday declared that in face of any protest during land procurement for the Dankuni …
The present communication enumerates 40 taxa of Oscillatoriaceae from the brackish water wetlands of North 24-Parganas district of West Bengal. Out of the reported taxa, 12 are from each of Lyngbya and Oscillatoria, 6 from each of Phormidium and Spirulina, 2 belong to Schizothrix, and Hydrocoleum and Katagnymene are represented …
Natural adsorbent, laterite soil was selected and found to be an effective adsorbent for arsenic removal from arsenic bearing drinking water. The real arsenic bearing groundwater was collected from Nivedita Palli, 24 Paraganas, one of the arsenic affected areas of West Bengal.
bithari village, Swarupnagar block, North 24-Paraganas: the men of Uttarpara hamlet in Bithari are hiding out in the fields every night despite the winter chill in the air. Better brave the cold than the police lock-up, they say. This remote village near the Bangladesh border is one of the many …
Studies on the presence of alpha emitting nuclides in the environment assume importance since they are found to be carcinogenic. Measurement of radioactivity in arsenic contaminated drinking water has already been reported. To perform a detail study the researchers have undertaken a programme to measure radioactivity in drinking water and …
Author describes a success story of implementing a distributed SCADA system first time in India in a rural water supply scheme of PHED, Govt. of West Bengal for arsenic prone areas. The project consists of a 7.5 MGD capacity water treatment plant, two booster stations and fourteen overhead reservoirs, distributed …
This study investigates the impact of climate change on glaciers and glacial lakes in two major glacial hotspots in the Himalayas: the Dudh Koshi sub-basin in the Khumbu-Everest region in Nepal, and the Pho Chu sub-basin in Bhutan. The focus was on changes in the number and size of glacial …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) named the Air Force Command Hospital, Bangalore, as their model hospital in 1999. Their hospital waste management (HWM) is an integrated approach consisting essentially of hydroclaving and incineration. An autoclave and microwave is used in disinfection of certain specific instruments and wastes from laboratory and …
l Trials will be conducted under the aegis of ICAR under different agro-climatic conditions. l Will address field-level integrated pest and varietal management issues. l MAHYCO can conduct field trials on farmers' fields in an area of about 100 hectares under close supervision of GEAC and Monitoring and Evaluation Committee …
Mumbai-based Maridi Ecotherm Systems has signed up with two hospital associations in Bangalore for hospital waste management (HWM) project at a cost of Rs 3.50 per bed. The proposal is currently awaiting the clearance of the state pollution control board. The firm's five-crore plant on about two hectares, about 50 …
What message does the GEAC decision send? The members could not reach a consensus on the commercialisation of Bt cotton. Some members were not convinced with the results of the previous trials. So we decided for another round of field trials. DBT is a supporter of Bt cotton technology. Doesn't …
After the success of the Mundanmudy project, rcss applied to the Union ministry of non-conventional energy for the dealership of Aditya solar shop, a shop that sells solar equipment in Cochin. Without much trouble, the ministry accepted the request and the shop has been running successfully ever since. Of the …
Petroleum minister Ram Naik typifies everything that is wrong with our political system today - a system which formulates public policies not because of public good but because of political lobbies. In the last few days, newspapers have carried articles by Ram Naik praising the use of ethanol as a …
Researchers at the University of Toronto, Canada have been able to predict rises in sea level attributed to global warming. Usually global warming models predict that the poles will warm up quickly, causing sea levels to rise as the ice melts but cannot predict where the rise in sea-level could …
The Cochin-based directorate of cashewnut and cocoa development has asked all cashew corporations in Kerala to stop aerial spraying of the endosulfan pesticide. The directions were given following the publication of data, which proved that the continuous spraying of endosulfan by the Plantation Corporation of Kerala (PCK) at Padre village …
