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 …
The Supreme Court of Nepal has issued a mandamus to the government for controlling the quality of the water resources and setting standards for curbing pollution. The court's decision comes a year after a writ petition was filed by Bhoj Raj Ayer of Pro-Public, a grassroots organisation, alleging that the …
For all the people scripting the success stories, there is a warning: history has seen the death of millions of the country's water structures due to government's apathy. Now, for the first time in the last 50 years governments have really shifted their focus to drought proofing from the adhoc …
This is not the only hurdle in making water conservation a long sustained movement. To make it a sustainable social movement and to reap its dividend in the form of poverty eradication, the government needs to put in prolonged efforts. Most of India's poverty eradication programmes have failed because they …
The Kenyan government will soon hand over the management of some forest areas to local communities, under the trusteeship of civic authorities. The move is aimed at curbing illegal logging that is encouraged by civic leaders, said Joseph Nyagah, the country's minister for lands and settlement. "We have realised that …
magnetic fields in space can straighten out any bending of space-time caused by gravity, shows new research. Ever since Einstein formulated his general theory of relativity, almost a century ago, it has been known that gravity bends space-time. But now, a scientist has shown how magnetic fields in space can …
Concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and non- and mono-ortho-substituted polychlorinated biphenyls (dioxin-like PCBs) were measured in tissues of humans, fishes, chicken, lamb, goat, predatory birds, and Ganges River dolphins collected from various locations in India. PCDDs/DFs were found in most of the samples analyzed with the liver of …
Fluoroquinolones (FQs) are among the most important antibacterial agents (synthetic antibiotics) used in human and veterinary medicine. An analytical method based on reversed-phase liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection was developed and validated for the simultaneous determination of nine FQs and the quinolone pipemidic acid in urban wastewater. Aqueous samples were …
l Most of the spcbs have chairpersons and member secretaries, the most important posts in the board, from the administrative or even forest service. These officers do not have requisite technical knowledge in pollution control. l Presence of members representing the polluting public sector units in the spcbs make enforcement …
l We are understaffed, but do not know the criteria to appoint the personnel for spcb l We at the state board headquarters don't have the annual reports of the Central Pollution Control Board after the year 1995. l The same person who gives a secret code to samples from …
Economists have long been advocating the use of market-based instruments (mbis) such as emission taxes to address environmental problems including industrial pollution. The common element among these economic instruments is that they work through the market and alter the behaviour of economic agents such as firms by changing the nature …
the Punjab government has introduced reed-bed system ( rbs ), an ecofriendly way of treating sewage with the help of reed plants in Roorki village of Fatehgarh Sahib district. T he system is a specially engineered simulation of a natural wetland ecosystem for the treatment of sewage, sullage and industrial …
Luxembourg: Supporters gathered at Rue de la Gare, a one-way street with two lanes. This street became car-free in one lane. Ostersund, Sweden: In this city of Central Sweden, people arranged a car-free day by giving free bus rides to those who showed their car keys. Prague, Czech Republic: Banners …
Male crocodiles of the Nile river could face extinction due to an invasive plant. The trifid weed has invaded the shoreline-nesting habitat for the crocodiles at Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, the largest estuarine system in Africa. The fibrous roots of the weed cause some nesting crocodiles to abandon their …
The us navy has decided to stop its military training on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. "The military exercises on Vieques will come to an end within two years and a panel will be asked to find a suitable location for the training,' us president George W Bush said. …
Since independence, India has had strong policies to promote the small-scale industrial sector: it is labor intensive and thus creates more jobs, it contributes to decentralized industrial development and the units are flexible and able to quickly reorient themselves to emerging demands. In these units Western technological systems are getting …
"China has to work hard to deal with its insufficiency of water resources, worsening water pollution and threats of floods and drought.' Thus said Wen Jiabao, vice premier of China. China's limited water resources are located predominantly in its southern parts and do not serve a large part of the …
The Chinese agricultural economy has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. The transition from communal and shared plots to privately managed ones and access to the market economy has provided greater incentives for increasing productivity. This has increased the demand of fertilisers
• China ranks fourth in the world in terms of total water resources, but is second lowest in terms of per capita water resource availability l Nearly half of China's 640 major cities face water shortages; 100 face severe shortages. l By the year 2000, the annual shortage is expected …
China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines are the most polluted countries in Asia, while Singapore, Malaysia and Japan are the cleanest, indicates a recent survey. The Hong-Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Limited (PERC) conducted the survey. In the survey, emigrants living in 12 Asian countries and territories rated …
