Report by Court Commissioner in OA No 481 of 2024 News item titled "Major fire erupts at Delhi's Ghazipur landfill site smoke engulfs region" appearing in the Hindustan Times, April 21, 2024. The report was dated March 29, 2025. The report was in compliance of NGT order, March 7, 2025. …
London: Aviation officials closed airports in northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland on Sunday due to a drifting, dense cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland. All airports in Northern Ireland were shut down along with others in northern England
FLIGHTS to and from Ireland and Scotland faced further disruption on Wednesday because of a cloud of abrasive volcanic ash drifting south from a volcano erupting in Iceland. Two airports serving Glasgow, Scotland
Brussels: In the ageless contest between man and nature, nature reasserted its primacy for an entire week, crippling air travel around the world and sending shudders through the global economy. Man is now studying the lessons of the volcanic eruption to see how to, if not tame it, at least …
SOME natural disasters, like the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, strike out of the blue. Only with hindsight do they come to look like the sort of thing people should have been prepared for. Other events get dress rehearsals. The eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in the south of Iceland was one …
George Monbiot As the bank crisis and now the volcano shows, beyond a certain level, connectivity becomes a hazard. We are seldom more vulnerable than when we feel insulated. The miracle of modern flight protected us from gravity, atmosphere, culture, geography. It made everywhere feel local, interchangeable. Nature interjects, and …
Germany, UK, France To Open Air Space For Limited Flights Paris: As airline losses from the volcanic ash cloud spiraled over $1 billion on Monday, airlines started demanding EU compensation and the aviation industry sharply criticized European governments for not using scientific measures to evaluate the ash and open up …
As the Icelandic volcano continues to spew ash across much of Europe, questions are circulating about whether the fine airborne particles of rock and glass pose health or environmental risks. The consensus of The World Health Organization and British health groups is that, so far, the potential risks are minimal …
Pallavi Aiyar / Brussels April 20, 2010, 1:26 IST Vital talks between Greek officials, the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank were put off due to the havoc wreaked by Eyjafjallajokul
London: A sprawling cloud of volcanic ash paralyzed air travel across much of Europe for a fourth day on Sunday, but test flights with empty airliners showed no sign of damage and offered some hope. KLM, acting on a European Union request, flew a Boeing 737-800 without passengers at the …
Vinson Kurian How are western disturbances, currently busy creating weather over northwest India, positioned relative to the track of the volcanic cloud originating from Iceland? The question assumed importance in the context of reports that a south-southeast-bound
Reykjavik: Eight hundred persons have been evacuated in Iceland because of a flood from a glacier that melted after the country's second volcano eruption in less than a month, the police said. The Iceland's Department of Civil Protection said the immediate area around the eruption in the southeast of the …
Paris: A volcano sneezes, and the whole world gets a major case of paralysis. As the Icelandic eruption closed airspace over Europe, German soldiers wounded in Afghanistan couldn
No Respite From Chaos For Flyers Today, Says Eurocontrol London/Paris: Air travel chaos across the globe deepened on Friday as a vast, high-altitude plume of volcanic ash from Iceland spread further across northern and central Europe, forcing authorities to close airspace and ground planes to forestall potentially catastrophic damage to …
Hasan Suroor LONDON: Airports across Britain looked like ghost towns on Thursday as, in an unprecedented move, British airspace was completely sealed and not a single flight was allowed either to take off or land anywhere, including military airstrips, because of safety fears after a volcanic eruption in Iceland set …
London: A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano turned the skies of northern Europe into a no-fly zone on Thursday, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers. The European air safety organization said the disruption, the biggest seen in the region, could last another two days. The volcano began erupting …
