Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
As many as 500,000 women and children die in India each year due to indoor air pollution caused by use of solid biomass as cooking fuel, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The poor in India, who form the majority of the population and live in congested, slum-like conditions, …
phosphorous pentoxide: Severe eye and skin injury and chemical burns to the respiratory track, if inhaled aromatic alcohol (also known as phenol): It's a poisonous chemical that is corrosive in nature and readily seeps through the skin and causes burns vinyl alcohol and magnesium hydroxide: Cause eye irritation with nausea, …
the dreaded avian flu has affected millions of birds, but fortunately the h5n1 virus responsible does not easily infect humans. So far, the virus has infected only about 200 people worldwide. Now, two independent studies published in Nature (Vol 440, No 7083, March 23, 2006) and Science (published online, March …
smoke threat: Public health in Meherpur district of Bangladesh is at high risk from heavy vehicular emissions due to the use of adulterated fuel. Cases of respiratory and cardiac diseases have increased in recent years. It is alleged that kerosene is used to adulterated petrol. Consumers complain that their vehicles …
a recent study on the West Nile virus disease throws fresh light on its rapid spread in the us, where it was introduced in 1999. The disease has affected an estimated 215,000 people of whom 770 have died. The infection causes headache, fever and may also result in encephalitis. The …
How long have you practised at Gorai and what has been your experience? mkv: I have been practising at Gorai for the past 10 years. Some years ago, I used to come here from Parel and would commute by bus. A terrible stench, just before the bus approached Gorai, would …
The inferior ambient air quality was observed near highway passing through Jalgaon urban center. Among the pollutants critical level of particulates are observed at the roadside during May 2003 to April 2004. The shopkeepers working at the highway sides are at high risk of exposure to the air pollution caused …
heady odour: US scientists have found how odours generate signals that eventually travel to the brain. As per the current knowledge, our sense of smell converts odours into brain signals, just as our vision converts light into brain signals. But the researchers at the Johns Hopkins' Institute for Basic Biomedical …
micropropagation: Researchers at the Aligarh Muslim University led by M Anis have developed a new tissue culture method to propagate bijasal ( Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb.), an important tree, whose natural stands are fast disappearing. Known for its medicinal properties and also for heartwood, bijasal is overexploited and is in the …
lake on mars: Claims that life exists on Mars were boosted when scientists recently declared they saw the remains of a frozen sea on the planet's surface and speculated the ice may hold preserved organisms. Planetary geologists led by John Murray of Britain's Open University said the evidence comes from …
Tucked along the eastern fringe of Delhi is Karkar Model village of Sahibabad in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district. The village's main fault: it is outside Delhi and in the middle of what has become a major industrial area. In recent years, the village has become the location of choice for …
the paddy crop in Siltara village near Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur has turned black. Farmers are in a fix because neither merchants nor the government are ready to buy it. Even the cattle refuse to eat it. In other villages, like Sandogri, Chholi, Gogaon, Sarora, Urla, Ravanbhata, Chikli, Kumhari, Sonara and …
the paddy crop in Siltara village near Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur has turned black. Farmers are in a fix because neither merchants nor the government are ready to buy it. Even the cattle refuse to eat it. In other villages, like Sandogri, Chholi, Gogaon, Sarora, Urla, Ravanbhata, Chikli, Kumhari, Sonara and …
the strongest acid: The world's strongest acid, at least a million times more potent than concentrated sulphuric acid, has been made in a lab in California. It is also one of the least corrosive. Called carborane acid, is the first
Twisha Lahiri works at the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute in Kolkata. For some years now, she has been busy measuring the impact of air pollution on people in Kolkata and Delhi. Her results should worry us: 56 per cent of people in Kolkata and 46 per cent in Delhi she …
In this study, the authors assessed the relationship between daily changes in respiratory health and particulate levels with diameters of (a) less than 10 μm (PM10) and (b) less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) in Kanpur, India. The subjects (N = 91) were recruited from 3 areas in Kanpur: (1) Indian …
respiratory diseases have been found to be a major cause of death in the uk and experts warn that the British government will have to seriously rework its priorities to be able to fight the menace. Ailments like lung cancer, asthma, pneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (copd) kill 105 …
