Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day is projected to occur on September 5th. Each country has its own Plastic Overshoot Day, which is determined by …
Time chart of happenings prior to the filing of the case for relocation 1962: The first master plan is brought out. Talks of creating new industrial areas. Nothing happens. 1977: A letter from the files of a director in Union ministry of works and housing (now urban development) mentions the …
Supreme Court to MCD: "You the MCD are the licensing authority and you don't have the foggiest idea of how many polluting industries are operating in the capital!.' SC to Delhi government: "Mere allotment of land is no answer to the order of the court for the closure of the …
How does the government shut a polluting industry? Vijay Risbud, commissioner planning, DDA says, "Ask Delhi Pollution Control Authority (DP cc)' . This is how it can be done: Supreme Court (SC) orders polluting industries to close. State government, scared not to comply, instructs dpcc to draw a list of …
The latest environmental fix in Delhi, once again under the pressure of the Supreme Court, is the relocation of polluting industries situated in the areas that are in non-conformity with the city's Master Plan. Four years went by without the government taking any serious action and now that the court …
just whom would you vote for as the greatest Gandhian in the Indian sub-continent of the post-Independence era? Our vote will unhesitatingly go to the Pakistani social scientist Akhtar Hameed Khan, in whose memory social activists from all over Pakistan met on October 12, 2000, his first death anniversary in …
Researchers in the us have found out that the nitrate in snow interacts with sunlight and sets off a very rapid series of photochemical reactions, producing oxides of nitrogen (no x ). "We found very high concentrations of no x in the snow of areas which are beyond the reach …
the international focus on vanishing and deformed amphibians like frogs, toads and salamanders has masked the problems of another group of wildlife: reptiles. A new report says that reptiles
it has taken ten years for the government of India to come up with a national agricultural policy. Yet, the document just highlights the challenges of Indian agriculture and does not address the issues and problems that confront the sector. "It is a general statement and does contains any mechanisms …
Broken Hill Proprietary Corporation (BHP), an Australian minerals, energy and steel company, will contest charges of polluting fish habitats near its isolated Ekati diamond mine in the North West Territories in Canada. Certain Canadian government agencies had made the allegations three years ago. According to them BHP committed eight violations …
the increasing level of noise pollution is posing a threat to Charminar, the historic landmark of Hyderabad, according to the National Geophysical Research Institute (ngri). Built with lime and mortar, the plastering of the 400-year-old monument may peel off because of constant increase in pollution levels and the flow of …
Evidence cited by S K Kabra from his field studies allegedly indicates a strong circumstancial correlation between peak usage of chemical pesticides and appearance of ntds suffers from the following shortcomings. - Statistically speaking, the incidence is not higher in the months as alleged by him. - No specific toxic …
With an eye on the drought situation that has gripped India, the United Nations (UN)have issued a warning that drought in Pakistan and Afghanistan could threaten millions of people andlivestock. "We do have a very critical situation,' said Onder Yucer, the UN's resident coordinator for Pakistan. Yucer had earlier approached …
Japan is a country with a long history and an intricate culture. It has done its best to maintain its own cultural identity despite immense economic globalisation and material Westernisation. Even today less than one per cent Japanese speak English. Intrigued by the extraordinary complexity that is Japan, I took …
a tripartite agreement has been drawn between the Delhi government, the ministry of environment and forests and ghk International to conduct a study on Delhi's urban environment and infrastructure under a project called Delhi 2021. Fund for the project
Industrial survey statistics tell you that more than one-third - 36.3 per cent - of the total value added by to the raw materials through manufacture in the factory sector of the country comes from Maharashtra (23.66 per cent) and Gujarat (12.64 per cent). Easily, the two most industrialised states …
polyaromatic hydrocarbons ( pah s) are carcinogenic compounds which are usually found in the urban areas. They are also the key ingredients in smog. pah s are formed due to the incomplete combustion of coal, oil and gas. For the past one year, Dan Golomb, an associate professor in the …
Reducing heavy metal pollution can help improve bird populations, report Finnish researchers. Tapio Eeva and Esa Lehikoinen of the University of Turku, Finland, studied pied flycatchers ( Ficedula hypoleuca ) and great tits ( Parus major ) around the copper smelter at Harjavalta, southwest Finland. A decade ago the plant …
