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 …
Arvind lal of Delhi's Lal Path Labs has been in the pathological diagnostics business for the past three decades. "Prescriptions instruct what tests should be conducted. If a pathogen is absent, we do not report the presence of another. So, many diseases remain undiagnosed, though they can be easily identified,' …
Following a severe drought, at least 50,000 people in El Salvador may die of starvation in the next six months, report officials of the World Food Programme (wfp). "Some 10,000 families in El Salvador were unable to harvest any crops this year due to the drought that has affected at …
Health officials of Buenos Aires have filed a lawsuit against McDonalds Corporation as Escherichia coli (E coli) bacteria was detected in hamburgers from four outlets. The officials have urged that a fine of us $500,000 should be imposed on the company. "Contamination was confirmed by conducting a series of tests,' …
The growing fear of biological warfare has brought a small manufacturer in Chile a good business opportunity. Masprot, a Santiago-based firm manufacturing gas masks, has received orders from several us companies to supply 10,000 gas masks a month. Masprot is one of the few Latin American makers of gas masks …
to increase the forest cover of the country from 19 per cent to 33 per cent by 2012, the Indian government has decided to combine the Greening India programme with the food-for-work scheme. According to D N Tewari, member of the planning commission and chairperson of the Greening India programme's …
Coal mining is one of the core industries that contribute to the economic development of a country but deteriorate the environment. Being the primary source of energy coal has become essential to meet the energy demand of a country. It is excavated by both opencast and underground mining methods and …
Degradation of soil and water resources is one of the major challenges for global agriculture. Climate change will further alter agricultural systems with substantial consequences for food production. The risk of redu ced food yields is greatest in developing countries, where 790 million people are estimated to be undernourished at …
The health impacts of climate change are difficult to calculate since most human health problems have multiple factors. Demographics, environmental degradation and socioeconomic conditions are major factors in illness and disease. l Climate related shortages in natural resources like fresh water will exacerbate health problems. l According to the World …
Residents of the Cajamarca province of Peru recently blocked a major highway to protest against water supplies contamination by toxic mercury from Latin America's largest gold mine, Yanacocha. The residents demanded that the mining activity be stopped till a probe is conducted into the leakage. "Our protest is against environmental …
Pharmacists and government officials in Nepal have expressed their concern about spurious and poor quality medicines that are doing the rounds in the country. According to officials of the Pharmaceutical Marketing Executive Association of Nepal (PEAN), the situation is particularly worse in the Terai region. "In some areas of Terai, …
Frequent oilslicks and consequent water pollution off the Chittagong coast in Bangladesh have so far killed 160 species of rare fish and aquatic plants, claim marine biologists from the Chittagong University. Research conducted by them indicates that oilspills are not only responsible for the death of the marine animals, but …
This year Orissa suffered one of its worst droughts as well. The drought gripped more than two-thirds of the state's districts. After the great famine of 1866, it was for the first time that drought of such a magnitude hit Orissa. It affected the lives of 11 mil-lion people. After …
The ghost of the 1999 super cyclone still haunts the people of Orissa. On October 18, 1999, a cyclone with a wind velocity of 200 km/hr hit the coastal district of Ganjam. It ripped through the district killing 300 people and destroying all standing crops. And while the state government …
The sales of Thai restaurants serving shark's fin soup have declined significantly after an international environmental organisation released a report stating that the mammal's fins contained mercury. Fifteen restaurants of Bangkok claim they have suffered a loss of about us $2.3 million after the report was released by the us …
A judge of a US superior court has ordered five major oil companies to clean up sites in San Francisco that have been contaminated with the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE). This order was given in response to a lawsuit filed by Communities for a Better Environment (CBE), …
The Delhi high court has reprimanded the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and the Archeological Survey of India as they have failed to identify polluting waterbodies in Delhi. The court called for immediate action and asked the heads of the government agencies concerned to file a status report by October 6, …
at least 500,000 people were affected by waterborne diseases during 1995-2000 in the union territory of Pondicherry due to the lack of coordination among the government agencies. According to a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the quality of ground and surface water in all four regions …
The Supreme Court had specifically asked Environ ment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (epca) to examine if “low sulphur diesel can be regarded as clean fuel” ... “as also to indicate as to which fuel can be regarded as a clean fuel, which does not cause pollution or is otherwise …
What is often missed is that ultra low sulphur diesel (ULSD) with 10 parts per million (ppm) sulphur is not clean fuel per se . But that the low sulphur content at that level allows manufacturers to instal particulate trap to control emissions of tiny and deadly particulates. If the …
