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 …
Monitoring of ambient air quality and noise pollution was conducted at 'Asselmetta junction' in Visakhapatnam city (Andhra Pradesh), which is heart of the city with an important traffic junction and a well known business center. In this area, monitoring was done for 10 days over RSPM, TSPM, NOx and SO2 …
Nerve-jarring noise is an inextricable part of urban lives. Most of us seem to accept the high decibels of vehicular traffic, deafening car horns, and the bedlam wrought by loudspeakers without complaint. Rabindra Kumar Mallick is amongst the uncomplaining mass. But he has gone ahead and devised a method of …
The ocean is becoming an increasingly noisy environment. With a rise in commercial shipping, resource extraction activities, and military-related activities, the underwater ocean environment is a virtual cacophony of noise. While some sources of underwater noise such as wind, waves, and the mating and communication calls of marine mammals are …
coke unit shut: The Maoist labour union in Nepal has shutdown the country's only Coca-Cola bottling company, Bottlers Nepal, due to an ongoing dispute regarding employment of contract workers. The unit's two bottling plants in Kathmandu and Bharatpur in Chitwan district were forcibly closed to force the management into re-hiring …
Oil India Ltd, a premier petroleum company of India, is planning to conduct seismic survey in total area of 4,500 sq km in eastern Assam consisting mainly of bed of river Brahmaputra and islands in the river. Such surveys are generally the first stage in oil exploration and they deploy …
POLLUTING industrial units in Cuncolim Industrial Estate, located about 10 km from Madgaon town in Goa, are beginning to feel the heat. On September 11, 2006, the Goa State Pollution Control Board (gspcb) issued closure notices to three units. Less than a month later, on October 6, it issued closure …
These Rules amend the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules 2000 by inserting a new sub-rule in rule 4 regarding responsibilities of the Authority and by making minor changes to rule 8.
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 …
