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 …
www.nautilus.org The stark, no-nonsense design of the site gets one to the point immediately. This is the website of the us -based Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, which aims "to solve interrelated critical global problems by improving the processes and outcomes of global governance'. Details of programs, projects …
It was the Kursk tragedy revisited as Russia lost another of its nuclear submarines to the Barents Sea. The incident, in which nine servicemen were killed, came just three years after the nuclear submarine Kursk went down with a crew of 118. This time it was the 40-year old nuclear-powered …
• The Public Library of Science, a non-profit, online publisher, will be launching its free online journal in October this year. PLoS Biology, its first journal, is to be a monthly that hopes to compete with prominent subscription-based journals like Nature. • Rock group Rolling Stones' upcoming European Licks tour …
papers of the uk government recently leaked to the press exposed plans to fluoridate drinking water in England and Wales to reduce tooth decay. Experts and green groups allege that the government is proposing mass medication of a toxin. "In the us, where 65 per cent of the population are …
UTTAR Pradesh (UP) chief minister Mayawati has resigned. She's ended, as a newspaper put it, her "third honeymoon' with the Bharatiya Janata Party, a coalition partner. It is being said the Taj corridor stink (see: "Sold down the river", July 31, 2003) is partly responsible for this fresh round of …
Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala was once known as the cleanest city in India. Today, it is littered with garbage. In 1995, the city corporation embarked upon a plan to convert organic waste into biofertiliser with private sector participation. In accordance with the corporation's plans, a plant run by P …
The draft guidelines on ship recycling, finalised at a meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (mepc) of the International Maritime Organisation (imo), have recognised that the prevailing environmental standards in shipyards are often woefully inadequate. The imo is the un agency responsible for the safety of shipping and preventing …
A strain of influenza has left more than 700 people sick in the remote mountainous district of Dadeldhura in Nepal. The disease is believed to be spreading through polluted drinking water and contaminated food. Dadeldhura district public health office authorities reveal that the acute shortage of medicines and health workers …
Bangladesh's national policy on arsenic mitigation is likely to be finalised soon. Officials are deliberating on the draft policy before it is sent to Prime Minister Khaleda Zia for her nod. The plan would lay down guidelines on important issues such as provision of arsenic-free water, treatment and rehabilitation of …
The death toll in the unprecedented heat wave has reached an all-time high of 1,139 in Andhra Pradesh, causing panic among the people of the state. The coastal and Telangana regions in particular are reeling under the impact of the soaring mercury. Temperatures in these areas are hovering between 45 …
toddlers in trouble: A research institute has found high levels of mercury in 60 per cent of newborns at hospitals in Itaituba city, in the Brazilian Amazon. Out of the 1,666 babies born during 2002 in the hospitals, 1,000 were detected with mercury contamination. Some of the kids had 80 …
Ineptly. One word that describes the way Indian industry produces and gobbles energy. And because it is inept, it gobbles more than what is necessary. The end result: more pollution. This, in essence, is the problem with the use of energy in India. Total energy consumption in India is climbing …
The case of India's agro-based pulp and paper mills is representative of most small and medium enterprises (SMEs) operating in the country: low on resources, low on motivation to turn clean, and therefore, low on efficient, non-polluting technology. Numbering about 300, these mills together produce about one-third (2.0 million tonnes) …
India's 2,500 tanneries churn out 1.8 billion square feet of leather every year. They earn the country US $6 billion annually as foreign exchange. They also discharge about 24 million cubic metres of wastewater with high COD, BOD and TDS concentrations, and about 0.4 million tonnes of hazardous solid wastes …
Modern agriculture: the boon and the bane of India’s teeming millions. The boon, because it has ensured that the nation’s crop fields remain fecund. The bane, because it has bred a poison that is seeping into our veins through the food we eat and the water we drink. Every day. …
Based on its environmental performance, Indian industry can be classified into two groups. The first consists of companies where management limits itself to worrying about how to stick to (or use to the full) standards and norms. The second consists of companies that have gone beyond
Ecuadorean Indians have sued oil conglomerate ChevronTexaco for a billion dollars. They have accused ChevronTexaco's unit, Texaco Petroleum Company, of discharging water contaminated with oil and metal salts such as mercury and cadmium into Amazon rivers from 1972 to 1992. They also allege that toxins seeped into the soil because …
Currently, industry guzzles about 22 per cent of the total freshwater used worldwide. By 2025, this figure is expected to go up to 24 per cent, says the World Bank’s World Water Development Report 2001. In India, of all the categories of water use, industrial water use is rising the …
The 1980s and early 1990s were a time, the world over, of increasingly stereotypical confrontations between industry and environmentalists. Ecological considerations formed no part of industrial productive strategies, argued environmentalists. Industry treated the ecosystem as a vast self-replenishing raw material procurement facility, and as a convenient dumping site. Nonsense, thundered …
• There are 3.1 billion letters in the DNA code of each of the 100 trillion cells in the human body • Four nitrogenous bases of the DNA alphabet, represented by the letters A, C, G and T and arranged in pairs, carry the instructions for making all organisms. Each …
