Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pramod Tyagi Vs State of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 21/03/3035. A proposal was initiated by State of National Capital Territory of Delhi, Department of Transport to start a Driving Training Institution at Mukundpur and permission was also granted. …
The digital protest No one could have ever imagined that digital technology would one day prove to be a powerful weapon for protest. But while the hectic World Trade Organisation (WTO) meet in Seattle, USA, was on protests that grabbed the headlines the world over were coordinated on the Net …
pristine coniferous and oak forests have been wantonly destroyed in the Kanasar forest division, about 70 km from Dehradun, in Uttar Pradesh. This was discovered by a team, comprising teachers and postgraduate botany students of the Delhi University (du), which conducted ecological studies in the region. Besides jeopardising the fragile …
horticulture experts from the us have warned apple growers not to apply harmful compounds to trees that can kill aphid parasites and mite predators. These compounds can damage their produce and the production level will automatically drop. Experts visiting the apple-growing areas of Shimla have said that factors like drought …
A passenger preference survey carried out by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has shown that 99 per cent of the people in the city want to travel by the modern transport system, the first phase of which, will be completed by March, 2002.
there was a time when the double-humped Yarkandi camel served as a vital means of transport on the 6,400-km historic 'silk route'. Camel caravans carried tea, silk and porcelain of China to the bazaars in the Middle East and as far as the Byzantine empire and Rome. Traders from Central …
Pakistan federal minister for environment and local government Omar Asghar Khan has said that the sanctity of Kirthar National Park in Sindh province should be preserved while assessing the gas potential in the area. "Any such effort in this area must proceed in a systematic manner with due consideration to …
in all probability, the Delhi government is going to miss the bus. With only five months left for the expiry of the Supreme Court's (sc's) deadline to convert 1,800 diesel buses which are more than eight years old to compressed natural gas (cng), the possibility of its implementation seems very …
For almost eight months the DTC did precious little to implement this Court order March, 1999: First tender for conversion is floated by the DTC April, 1999: DTC files an affidavit for an extension of the Court deadline and permission to procure Euro I compliant diesel buses April 21, 1999: …
• The Himachal Pradesh government has introduced the long-awaited agriculture crop insurance scheme from the coming rabi season. • Joseph Rotblat from UK, social reformers Narayanbhair Desai, Ajoy Kumar Basu and Saraswati Gora has been conferred the Jamanlal Bajaj Awards for 1999 by the Maharashtra governor P C Alexander. • …
air pollution levels in Mumbai is a cause of concern if the latest statistics are anything to go by. The city has the second-highest level of pollution in the country with residents inhaling almost 660 tonnes of pollutants each day. 60 per cent of this, results from vehicular pollution. The …
On TELCO's interpretation of WHO's views of the safe levels of particulate matter (PM) in their affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court The interpretation is certainly not correct. What WHO is trying to say is that there is no threshold for the onset of health effects. Meaning that for each …
Thanks to mismanagement, inefficiency and corruption of the Bhopal Municipal Corporation, residents of many areas in the city are facing a water crisis despite more than adequate rains and sufficient storage of water in reservoirs. Good rainfall in the first week of October saved 12 talukas under the Rajkot district …
The much talked about Metro Rail Project has already completed one year since construction started in October 1, 1998 and officials say the first phase of the 53.3 km-stretch would be completed by the year 2002 when Delhiites will witness the first tube trains in te city. However, some experts …
the Saurashtra-Kachchh region of Gujarat is facing a severe water crisis. The situation is particularly acute in Rajkot, Jamnagar, Surendranagar and Amreli. Rajkot residents get water on alternate days for half an hour and a bucket costs anywhere between Rs 4 to Rs 10. Villagers scour the countryside to tap …
The Supreme Court in its order of 4.10.1999 called for suggestions regarding emissions control from two-wheelers and three-wheelers. The EPCA, in its earlier report of August, 1999, had made a brief recommendation that on scooters, which are high emitters of particulate, suggesting that the norms be tightened further, and the …
