Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
a canadian study suggests that combined chronic exposure to noise and carbon monoxide in the workplace can induce hearing loss. Based on over 9,000 audiograms, the study by Adriana Lacerda of the
function map() { var popurl="image/20040515/49-map.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=700,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } Letting eyes see what ears hear, a series of maps represent Paris in a fashion never seen before. The cartography is part of European Union's effort to map a long-overlooked, but oft-overheard form of pollution
At one point in the epic Mahabharata, the pandavs and kauravs go to warfare school. Amid thick forests, they train hard. Then, the time comes when they must leave. Yudhister, the eldest pandav, gifts the space as guru dakshina to his guru, Dronacharya. In time, there came up a town …
A part from sizing up goods on the basis of their price tags, the Indian consumer will soon be able to compare them according to the noise they make. The National Committee for Noise Pollution Control, set up by the Central Pollution Control Board, plans to make it compulsory for …
function expert() { var popurl="html/sound_alarm.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=600,height=400,scrollbars=yes") } this Diwali may yet again be an unsafe one, with authorities turning a deaf ear to the pleas of health experts and the masses. A study, conducted by researchers from the New Delhi-based National Physical Laboratory, shows that noise generated by firecrackers (presently …
A federal court in California has barred the US navy from globally installing a new high-intensity sonar system. In contravention of several federal environmental laws, the system was found to be potentially fatal to whales, porpoises and fish. The lawsuit had been filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council and …
“Speedy development comes at a price,” said Prime Minister (pm) Atal Bihari Vajpayee, dedicating the 43-kilometre (km) stretch of the Ahmedabad-Vadodara National Expressway-1 to the nation on January 28, 2003. While the pm was alluding to toll tax collection, experts have pointed out that the Union government’s natio nal highway …
barely six months after laws to check noise and air pollution from generator sets came into force, they have been watered down. It is ironic that one of the implementing agencies - the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (dpcc) - is to blame. Worse still, the dilution will impact the environment …
The Union ministry of environment and forests (mef) has amended the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000. The amendment, quietly passed on October 11, 2002, permits the use of loudspeakers and microphones till midnight for 15 days every year. The earlier time limit for the use of public address …
this was a public hearing with a difference. For, the people succeeded in preventing the establishment of a clinker grinding and cement packing plant in Kerala. The experts panel unanimously recommended at the October 24 meeting that environmental clearance should not be granted for the plant. The unit was to …
this year too, Diwali turned out to be a smoggy affair in Delhi. Pollution monitoring by the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) showed that the level of respirable suspended particulate matter (rspm) doubled from 432 microgrammes per cubic metre (
These Rules amend the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules by inserting a new sub-rule to rule 5 dealing with restrictions on the use of loud speakers.
How big should the bang be? This is the crux of the decibel debate on firecrackers. Not only have manufacturers propounded their own theory on the subject, they are lobbying hard to get the stipulated 125-decibel (db) limit raised or even scrapped. As the next date of hearing (September 30) …
Residents of Chajjupur, Shahdara, New Delhi, are very angry. But they are also scared. Although they have been fighting the polluting industries in their area, they refuse to come out in the open with their struggle. "We do not want to take on the industry,' explains a local shopkeeper. Residents …
Every once in a way, one comes across an instance that reestablishes faith in the tools of the establishment. Take the case of the Behala public interest litigation (pil), for example. About a hundred housewives from Behala, situated in the southern part of the city of Kolkata, approached the green …
The Himachal Pradesh High Court has frowned upon the decibel din in the state. Acting on a petition, the court has issued notices to the state chief secretary and the state pollution control board for strict enforcement of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, to reduce noise pollution caused by excessive …
No loudspeakers are now heard from over 10 Mahim mosques in Mumbai for the 5 am azaan (call for prayers). For the past one month, these mosques have voluntarily stopped using loudspeakers to abide by the Supreme Court (sc) order which bans the use of loudspeakers between 10 pm and …
The persistent honking of a car stuck in a traffic jam. The blaring music playing at a wedding in the nearby community hall. The mind-numbing splutter of gensets every time power breaks down in the neighbourhood, or the noisome grating of gravel at a construction site next to your house. …
The Kanazawa district court in Japan ordered the government to pay about US $6.1 million in compensation to local residents seeking damages over noise from the Air Self-Defence Force (ASDF) Komatsu base in Ishikawa Prefecture. Even though the court rejected the plaintiffs' request for restriction of flights at the base …
