WHO, UNDP, UNEP and UNICEF have partnered to create a new compendium of 500 actions aimed at reducing death and diseases driven by environmental risk factors, the first such resource to unite this expertise from across the UN system. Environmental pollution and other environmental risks cause 24 per cent of …
Holding mobile towers as a health hazard, the Rajasthan high court on Tuesday directed telecom service providers operating in the state to remove within two months their towers falling in the vicinity of schools, hospitals and play grounds. The division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice N K …
Civic Body’s Draft Proposal Lines Up Stringent Installation Rules Mumbai: Mobile operators may soon have to secure consent from 70% occupants of a housing society to install a cellphone tower. This stringent guideline is among several others that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has lined up in its draft policy …
IAEA Officials Found Fault In The Fire-Door Function, Seek Inspection & Maintenance Jaipur: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which inspected the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS) in Rawatbhata in Kota district, has suggested certain recommendations on safety matters. The international nuclear watchdog, however, appreciated the plant for initiating some …
The UT Administration has formulated a Draft Mobile Tower Policy for UT Chandigarh uploaded on the official site, www.chandigarh.nic.in. Before the finalization of this policy, the Administration has invited public objections/ suggestions on this policy, if any, to be submitted to the office of the Senior Town Planner, Department of …
The BMC is planning to include the radiation levels of cellphone towers in its annual environmental status report (ESR) after concerns surfaced over the impact of emissions on the health and environment. The ESR, which the BMC publishes annually, records the air, water and noise pollution levels in Mumbai. Additional …
Several “good practices” too at atomic plant, to be shared with global nuclear industry The safety review of units 3 and 4 of the atomic power station at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has ended with the inspection team identifying certain deficiencies in the operations …
The BMC will set up a special cell to look into cell tower radiation violations in the city, said Additional Municipal Commissioner Aseem Gupta at the civic general body meeting on Friday. Municipal councillors also demanded that a survey of all mobile towers in the city be undertaken to see …
Environment Minister S Shivanna has said that an experts’ meeting will be convened soon to discuss measures the Environment Department or Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) can take up to contain adverse effects of radiation of cellphone towers. The Minister, in a statement issued here, said a meeting of …
More than five hundred pigeons suddenly dropped dead at a village in Bihar's Bhagalpur district over the last four days, causing residents, some of them pigeon-keepers, to fear that something was amiss. District officials are still to visit the site and conduct an inquiry. Over 500 pigeons died mysteriously in …
More than five hundred pigeons have dropped dead at a village in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district over the last four days, causing residents, some of them pigeonkeepers, to fear that something was amiss. District officials are still to visit the site and conduct an inquiry. “We were shocked, and we cannot …
More than five hundred pigeons suddenly dropped dead at a village in Bihar's Bhagalpur district over the last four days, causing residents, some of them pigeon-keepers, to fear that something was amiss. District officials are still to visit the site and conduct an inquiry. Over 500 pigeons died mysteriously in …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan high court on Friday took a strong note of the Union telecom secretary's letter directing the state chief secretary not to order removal of mobile phone towers from hospitals. As the high court had earlier ordered that the towers be instantly removed from the school and hospital …
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a public interest litigation petition that sought a directive to the Union government to appoint an independent regulator to monitor radiation from mobile phone towers. A Bench of Justices H. L. Dattu and C. K. Prasad told Prashant Bhushan, who appeared for …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a public interest litigation seeking stricter radiation norms for cell phone towers, saying the regulatory mechanism framed by the government two months ago must be given a chance to prove itself. “For every ill, and for every shortcoming, the courts must not …
The High Court directed the Atomic Energy Commission to measure the intensity and biological effect of radiation emitted from the country's cell phone towers. An HC bench comprising Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice Ashish Ranjan Das passed the directive following a writ of Advocate Asaduzzaman Siddique and Advocate Ekhlas …
Nuclear power has the potential to continue to play a significant role in the effort to limit future GHG emissions while meeting global energy needs. Nuclear power plants produce virtually no GHG emissions during their operation and only very small amounts on a life cycle basis. This report summarizes nuclear …
Commissioning of first unit of KNPP was scheduled for Dec last yr but has been delayed due to year-long protests Seeking to take their campaign against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant to a global level, anti nuclear activists today sought support of the international community in their efforts to scrap the …
The operator of Japan's quake-struck Fukushima nuclear power plant said on Friday it could not rule out the possibility that it may still be leaking radiation into the sea. A massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 triggered fuelrod meltdowns at the plant, causing radiation leakage, contamination of food and …
Elevated levels of cesium still detected in fish off the Fukushima coast of Japan suggest that radioactive particles from last year’s nuclear disaster have accumulated on the seafloor and could contaminate sea life for decades, according to new research. The findings published in Friday’s issue of the journal Science highlight …
Rice grown by a farmer in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture, returned a radioactive cesium reading of 110 becquerels per kilogram, exceeding the maximum of 100, the prefectural government announced. It is the first time that Fukushima rice has exceeded the current limit introduced in April. The Sukagawa rice did not make …
