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 …
WITH increasing patients and many of them in industrialised nations the market for asthma drugs is growing rapidly. It is the eighth largest selling drug market and possibly the most profitable venture for pharmaceutical companies, at par with profits made from cancer and heart diseases related drugs. In the absence …
LIKE A FISH out of water, she chokes and gasps. Writhes. She struggles to snatch a lungful of air, while watching television she suddenly hits a vacuum. She is asthmatic. She is just about anybody. One of the 150 million that are reminded the hard way that life in today's …
What is the latest information on adverse health effects of diesel exhaust? Over 200 epidemiological studies conducted in different geographical locations of the world have shown a significant and consistent association between diesel emissions and increased deaths and cardio-respiratory illnesses such as heart attacks and strokes, allergies, asthma, bronchitis and …
Several reports from large metropolitan cities have indicated significant association between acute morbidity and mortality from cardio-respiratory disorders and daily levels of major pollutants in the ambient air. Despite the wide-spread public concern about the adverse health effects of air pollution, there is substantial uncertainty regarding the effects of these …
for years, scientists have implicated respiratory problems with pollution particles less that 10 microns in diameter, but to what extent they affect the respiratory system was not known. Now, a study proves that these particulate matters penetrate very deep into the lungs of even healthy children. The study was conducted …
it is commonly known that land use changes have negative effects on public health. But till now no scientific verification was available for it. Recently Sprawl Watch, an environmental group, researched and proved the same. In a comprehensive report Creating A Healthy Environment: The Impact of the Built Environment on …
If it was Lucknow which mourned its dead children a few weeks ago, it is Guwahati which is a mute witness to its children literally dropping dead. And no one seems to care. Does life really have no value for us, especially those of our young. In Lucknow, several new-born …
An outbreak of a mysterious flu-like illness recently affected hundreds of students in Manila, forcing three private schools to close down. On October 1, 2001, dozens of students were sent home from the La Salle school in Mandaluyong province of metropolitan Manila. The students were suffering from respiratory problems, fever …
In 1977, S R Kamath, then professor of respiratory medicine at kem hospital, Mumbai, took up a detailed study to find out how people in the city were suffering from air pollution. It was one of the earliest studies to be undertaken in India
Repairing of Phnom Penh's roads and drainage system has led to the doubling of the city's air pollution, recent tests reveal. "Tens of thousands of residents of the Cambodian capital are suffering from respiratory problems because of the renovation activities,' said Veng Thai, the city's municipal health director. But the …
Respiratory problems among children have risen threefold in the city of Bangalore during the last 20 years. The rise has been directly linked with the increase in the pollution levels in the city. The study is based on correlating the respiratory ailments of 20,000 children below the age of 18 …
At present in India more than thirty mines are in operation. It produces 2800 tones of asbestos per month (mainly chrysotile and tremolite) and in recent years substantial quantity (-70%) is imported from Canada. The quality of asbestos produced in India is very poor. The mining and milling and other …
a recent West Bengal pollution control board (wpcb) report states that respirable suspended particulate matter (rspm) is the biggest concern for the city. "Though rspm has come down from 176 microgrammes per cubic metre (
at least 150 people suffering from lung cancer have been admitted in the New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences (aiims) during the past six months. A special type of lung cancer caused due to air pollution accounts for 80 per cent of these cases. "As lungs are always …
How severe is the problem of malnutrition among children in India? Malnutrition is a serious and very common problem. About 50 to 60 per cent of the children, who are below the age of five, suffer from malnutrition. On an average, these children suffer from moderate to severe malnutrition. How …
Acute respiratory infections caused by air pollution are the most prevalent diseases in Bangladesh, says the World Bank (WB). "Bangladesh can avoid 15,000 deaths a year if air pollution in Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi and Khulna is reduced to permissible limits,' said Paul Martin of the WB's Dhaka office. Improving air …
if you suffer from respiratory problems, be cautioned: breathing polluted air could hospitalise you with heart disease and pulmonary disorders much quicker than you believe. A recent study at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, usa, shows that risk of hospital admissions for people suffering with cardiovascular problems …
even small increases in the levels of air pollutant ozone may have an adverse effect on the health of children, causing them to miss school, a new report suggests. "We detected ill health effects in school children because of levels well below the current air quality standard for allowable levels …
a long-running court battle in Japan over air pollution from highway traffic ended in December 2000, with an out of court settlement. The Japanese government and the Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation agreed to cut vehicle exhaust emissions in return for a withdrawal of compensation claims from a group of residents …
chronic bronchitis caused by air pollution affects 24,000 adults and 2.2 lakh children each year, reveals a study by the Nagpur-based National Environment Engineering Research Institute (neeri). The neeri study states that Mumbai suffers from an annual loss of 20 million workdays because of pollution, which is equivalent to nine …
