Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Ujjwal Sharma Vs Union of India & Others dated 10/01/2025. An application was registered on the basis of a news item titled "1 Kodo poisoning behind elephant deaths in MPs Bandhavgarh All you need to know" …
Hyderabad, Dec. 3: The discovery of a new species of bacterium that eats away the highly poisonous arsenic from the soil can solve the problem of arsenic poisoning in pollution hotspots, including Patancheru in the city. On Wednesday, Nasa had announced that the new bacterium not only survives on arsenic …
Washington: Lurking in the depths of a California lake, researchers found a bacteria that can thrive on arsenic, an explosive discovery that could expand the search for other life on Earth and beyond. The Nasa-funded findings redefines what science considers the necessary elements for life, currently viewed as: carbon, hydrogen, …
Tezpur: Arsenic and fluoride existing in ground water in Assam's Sonitpur district has claimed five lives and caused several others to suffer from related diseases like stomach disorder, kidney and heart problems. Consumption of water poisoned with arsenic and fluoride regularly was suspected to be the cause of five deaths …
The document endeavoring a vision to "Mitigate and Remedy of Groundwater Arsenic Menace in India" gives a detailed outline emphasizing the gaps, focal areas of research, immediate measures to be taken up to provide arsenic safe potable water to the people in the arsenic vulnerable areas, other activities to be …
This document provides an up-to-date summary of the state of the knowledge regarding the arsenic problem in Bangladesh from health, water supply and agricultural perspectives. It analyses the principal challenges to arsenic mitigation, identifies emerging threats and proposes a set of key actions to accelerate & consolidate progress. The publication …
Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) has taken up a project to identify people affected by arsenic contamination in Karimpur area of Nadia. It would tap the contamination in the cells of these people and gauge the extent of damage. The initiative was taken up after it was found that many …
The state government admitted in Vidhan Sabha on Monday that ground water in three districts had arsenic which was posing health hazards to the people of that region. Rural Development Minister Dadoo Prasad said three districts
Research on to minimise harmful effects Naveen S Garewal Tribune News Service Chandigarh, January 1 Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in identifying reasons for the rapid spread of cancer in the state. Having identified arsenic in water as one of the major causes for abnormal …
Researchers have pinpointed the source of what is probably the worst mass poisoning in history, according to a study published on Sunday. For nearly three decades scientists have struggled to figure out exactly how arsenic was getting into the drinking water of millions of people in rural Bangladesh. The culprit, …
Ground water that people consume in Jahada is laden with the toxic metal. PARASI, NOV 09 - Thirteen new cases of arsenic poisoning have been detected in Nawalparasi district. They are residents of Jahada VDC of the district. Filter for Family, a non-governmental organisation, found 13 people suffering from arsenic …
An attempt has been made to estimate the presence of heavy metal Arsenic in groundwater in the state of Tamil Nadu recently. Now-a-days the heavy metal Arsenic poses a health risk problem throughout the world. Arsenic may be found in water which has flowed through arsenic-rich rocks. Severe health effects …
T.V. Sivanandan KIRADALLI TANDA (GULBARGA DISTRICT): Kiradalli Tanda, a small hamlet in a remote corner in Surpur taluk in Gulbarga district, is shunned by people from neighbouring villages owing to the outbreak of a rare form of skin cancer linked to suspected arsenic poisoning. Four village residents have fallen victim …
Malda, May 25: The public health engineering (PHE) department has shut down its two arsenic treatment plants at Mathurapur and Kahala near Manikchak as fish have started dying in the Phulhar river. The PHE authorities are clueless why the fish are dying in the river. People living close to the …
Ranchi, April 27: The depleting ground water table across the urban landscape of Jharkhand has reached alarming levels, exposing sections of the population to arsenic poisoning and forcing others to contemplate relocating as more and more residential areas slowly turn dry. A survey conducted by the state
More than 60,000,000 Bangladeshis are drinking water with unsafe concentrations of one or more elements. The aim of this study was to evaluate and improve the drinking water testing and treatment plans for western Bangladesh.
