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 …
Nearly 2,500 ha of forests have been devastated following fires in Lampung in the last two months. Last year, fires destroyed nearly 1,439 ha of forest's area, which accounted for about 13.92 per cent of the forests destroyed throughout the country. During 1994, nearly 7,401 ha of Lampung's 1.2 million …
Torrential rains have caused destruction in many cities in Pakistan's central Punjab province, claiming 61 lives and rendering nearly 15,000 homeless. Nearly 1,000 houses have collapsed and about 16,000 partially damaged in the rain. According to Chaudhry Mohammad Azam, relief commissioner, several relief camps have been set up in the …
scientists in Scotland have created a lamb that has a human gene in every cell of its body. Now animals with human genes could be used, in theory, to produce hormones or other biological products for treating human diseases, say cloning experts. By inserting human genetic diseases in the animals, …
Singapore has tightened up its anti-smoking laws by banning smoking in colleges, schools, private clubs and air-conditioned shops from August 15. Although schools and junior colleges are totally smoke free, the ban applies only to covered structures in the universities. Earlier, the ban applied only to air conditioned offices and …
> Hepatitis B has affected nearly 200,000 people in Nepal. The disease is taking its toll on more number of people than AIDS in the world. According to an estimated figure, out of 40 per cent of the world's population infected by hepatitis 'B', of which nearly 80 per cent …
The supply of drinking water contaminated with arsenic could lead to a major health problem in Bangladesh. Babar Kabir, a World Bank water expert says that people are reverting to the use surface water thus being exposed to diarrhoea. The figures available indicate that every year, diarrhoea claims about thousand …
bangladesh's main nuclear reactor in Savar district has been shut down after one of the waste water cooling tanks leaked radioactive water at a rate of 0.3 gallons per minute. This is for the first time a leakage has taken place since it started operation in 1986. The tank has …
A division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court has issued a notice to the State Pollution Board on a public interest writ petition complaining that the common effluent plant, located at Patancheru and Bollaram, instead of treating the pollutants was creating serious pollution. The petitioner, A Krishna Rao a …
four villages affected by pollution emanating from the Hindustan Zinc Limited ( hzl ) in Gujuwaka in Visakhapatnam, will be shifted to a safer place if the government implements the recommendations made by the assembly committee on petitions, headed by deputy speaker N M Farooq. The villagers suffered from innumerable …
According to the International Centre for Application of Solar Energy (CASE), the most economical energy system to meet rural energy needs is hybrid energy consisting of solar power, wind power and diesel. Five centres in India, four in Thailand and two in Malaysia have been identified by CASE to set …
According to Canadian researchers, flooded wetlands emit greenhouse gases in large quantities. Worse, their studies have confirmed that the creation of reservoirs in wetlands unleash poisons into the human food supply. Several studies of reservoirs have suggested that they release large quantities of carbon dioxide and methane. But in the …
Recently, owing to contamination from the textile dye waste generated by factories that are situated along the Kelani river, the water supply to the city of Colombo got seriously disrupted. According to reports, there are several such factories along the river's banks which have been discharging toxic chemicals in absence …
in Delhi, it is estimated that everyday nearly 2,160 million litre of wastewater flows out of residences, educational establishments, offices, hospitals, hostels, hotels, industries, and other sources. Nearly 50 per cent of this wastewater carries food leftovers, excreta water, urine and other human and organic wastes. A new low-cost wastewater …
recently, a team of experts from India and Bangladesh met at the South East Asia Regional Office of the World Health Organization (who) at New Delhi, from April 29 to May 1, to deliberate on arsenic contamination of groundwater in West Bengal (wb). The government of India, feel experts, have …
After months of political wrangling, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (AP) are heading for a major legal showdown to assert their rights on Alamatti dam. Both have filed separate lawsuits in the Supreme Court (SC). The move came after an expert committee endorsed the arguments of the AP government opposing Karnataka's …
the accident-prone nuclear industry of Japan received yet another jolt when a fire and explosion hit a nuclear-waste reprocessing plant resulting in a low-level radiation leak. Inadequate action by the government to contain the fire, which was not extinguished properly, led to an explosion 10 hours later at the Tokaimura …
It was a victory for environmentalists when the European Court in Brussels recently ruled that the European Community (EC) should not have refused the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) access to documents relating to a building project in Burren National Park in Ireland in 1995. Earlier, WWF had complained …
In the coming months, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, Netherlands, will be the centre of the world's, and particularly Europe's, attention. It is the scene of the first environmental lawsuit in the history of the court, which began on March 3 between Hungary and Slovakia. The …
a novel method of managing food waste from school meals has not only generated economic and environmental dividends, but also established a kinship between urban and rural people. The food waste is recycled into compost for use in agricultural fertilisers. The compost is used by farmers in rural areas to …
