Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hussain Ahamad Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 05/01/2024. In the application, the allegation was in respect of illegal mining of earth from the nearby agricultural field by brick kilns in an area in Muzaffarnagar district. Pits were …
There is some respite at last. Disturbed by the growing popular anger over the manner in which the Bus Rapid Transit corridor has been conceived and is being implemented, CM Sheila Dikshit is learned to have ordered the six other BRT corridors be put on hold until the first phase …
In 2005, road traffic injuries resulted in the death of an estimated 110 000 persons, 2.5 million hospitalizations, 8-9 million minor injuries and economic losses to the tune of 3% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in India.
• Greenpeace's newest ship, Esperanza is out at sea. It will sail from the Azores to Antarctica, informing people on the way about the crisis faced by oceans. The expedition's primary focus is creating a global network of ocean parks, marine reserves. • The US's climate scientists have given An …
According to a who estimate, road accidents are expected to become the third largest killer in the world by 2020. Be it an accident or a terrorist attack or any natural disaster, the need for immediate treatment after an event and before hospitalisation is being increasingly felt to reduce the …
In William Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, Antipholus asks Syracuse, "Will you walk with me about the town, and then go to my inn and dine with me?' The experience is very likely to be a harrowing one if you happen to be in an Indian city
there is a popular saying in Hindi. Loosely translated it means regard the guest as god's incarnate. Most times we do not take such sayings seriously. But sometimes we do, even if there are disastrous consequences. India has played welcome hosts to hazardous wastes of all kind. In the latest …
so far, you've only heard of most accidents taking place on busy roads. But the number of accidents on narrow roads with less traffic can surpass their number on busy streets. In Japan, the ratio of traffic accidents involving the death of infants in the vicinity of their home is …
Bikes are going to be safer. John Shortfall of Dublin, Ireland, has taken the airbag technology out of the car and put it in your average, everyday bike helmets. His new crash helmet contains a high-pressure gas cylinder and airbag shaped to envelop the wearer's neck and shoulders. The helmet …
• The Punjab government has decided to introduce the study of environment, with major stress on bird and wildlife, as a course in the state universities. Informed official sources recently announced that chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has asked the state ministry for forests and wildlife to call a meeting …
The Supreme Court has ordered the removal of "all hoarding by roadsides' in the capital which it said were hazardous and a disturbance to traffic. In its earlier court order, the court had directed the civic agencies to "identify and remove all hoardings which are on road-sides and which are …
A camera primarily built to assist golfers study their swing, is helping traffic police cut the number of accidents in Tokyo. Mitsubishi Electric in Japan has developed the camera. The microphone of the camera picks up the sound when a golfer takes his shot. Instantly, the system activates to keep …
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------MRIDULA GARG indian society, which is on the path of technological development is afflicted by many ills. But we tend to ignore one widespread malady that is a corollary of computer literacy and the facility of computing data. This is the tendency of modern educated Indians to reduce everything to …
A helmet containing an airbag that inflates to cover a motorcyclist's neck and shoulders has been invented by the Ireland-based Airbag Technology Inc. The inside of the helmet has a head shield linked to a sensor that can detect any sudden impact. In a crash, the unit releases a cylinder …
Researchers D A Redelmeier and R J Tibshirani of the University of Toronto, US, say that driving while talking on cellular phones is as dangerous as driving while slightly drunk. A perusal of the telephone records of drivers involved in 699 roadway collisions in Canada showed that the risk of …
when the new century rolls in, it will bring in its wake more mental illnesses and deaths and disabilities due to traffic accidents, according to a World Health Organization ( who ) report released recently in Geneva. The report
RICHARD Grace, a sensor-systems scientist at Carnegie Melon University in Pittsburgh, us, is a busy man. He has been involved in figuring out how to prevent truck drivers from falling asleep during their hectic highway journeys - a cause for nearly 30-40 per cent heavy- truck accidents in the us. …
According to a World Bank report, Bangladesh has the highest rate of accidents in South Asia, with 170 people killed per 10,000 vehicles annually. A shocking 93.7 per cent of driving licenses in Dhaka have been "found to be fake", says A N Hussain, commissioner of the Dhaka metropolitan police. …
INDIAN roads, arguably some of the most treacherous in the world, have always been short cuts to disaster. But 3 major accidents involving the bulk transport of hazardous chemicals in early March are evidence of just how lethal the country's macadam is. On March 7, on the Delhi-Hardwar highway, a …
