WHO, UNDP, UNEP and UNICEF have partnered to create a new compendium of 500 actions aimed at reducing death and diseases driven by environmental risk factors, the first such resource to unite this expertise from across the UN system. Environmental pollution and other environmental risks cause 24 per cent of …
Seeks details from States on system adopted to prevent radiation Concerned over lack of proper facilities for disposal of radioactive substances used in government hospitals, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked States to provide it with information on the disposal of radioactive waste from hospitals. The States have …
In a first for Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad, a Rs 15-crore project has been sanctioned in the 12th five-year plan to predict air quality and rate the intensity level of ultra violet radiation dose on a scale of 1-10. The entire project of setting up such a system to provide accurate …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan high court has given the state government till October 12 to remove all mobile towers from schools. An HC division bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice S S Kothari on Monday started final hearing of arguments on the PIL seeking regulation of mobile towers and …
Now it is official. There is a general perception that birth defects among the population in the high level natural radiation areas of Kerala are more than those in areas of normal background radiation. Scientists from the Departent of Paediatrics, Victoria Hospital, Kollam, Directorate of Health Services, Government of Kerala …
AHMEDABAD: With the harmful effects of mobile tower microwave radiations becoming a concern in major cities, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) over the past week has been feverishly counting the number of cell towers installed in the city-and looking for their proximity to schools, residential areas and hospitals. The AMC …
JAIPUR: The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on August 9 had issued advisory to states including Rajasthan to reduce number of mobile towers functional in eco-sensitive zones. It had suggested that mobile towers should not be permitted within 1 km radius of the existing ones to check impact …
The U.N. atomic agency cut its forecast for nuclear energy growth for a second year as the industry continued to feel the effect of the Fukushima disaster in Japan and said most of the expansion would be in Asia. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said its projection for global …
Atomic Energy Commission chairman R K Sinha said the first unit of 1,000 Mw at the Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu should be operational by the end of the calender year. Fuel loading, deferred after the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) directed upgrade of safety applications, was on and …
M. Appavu writes to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Former MLA of Radhapuram M. Appavu has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop the filling-up of enriched uranium fuel in the first reactor of Kudannkulam Nuclear Power Project until credible arrangements are made to send the nuclear waste to be generated …
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre’s (BARC) nuclear technique for agriculture, particularly in creating new genetic variability in crop plants has been a success. Radiation and chemical-induced mutation and subsequent use in recombination breeding at BARC has, till date, resulted in the release of 39 improved crop varieties in oilseeds and …
Of 17 recommendations of AERB, only six have been complied with, he says The safety measures recommended by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) are crucial and the Kudankulam nuclear power plant should not be allowed to be commissioned without implementing these measures, argued counsel Prashant Bhushan in the Supreme …
The Rajasthan Government has issued notices to all major mobile phone operators asking them to keep radiation from their towers within the newly prescribed limits. Installation of towers at school buildings, playgrounds, hospitals and within 500 metres of the jail premises has been banned. State Principal Urban Development and Housing …
Disposal of refrigeration compressors containing chloro fluoro carbons (CFCs) and hydro chloro fluoro carbons (HCFCs) will now be brought on the radar of the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board. Old and improperly discarded refrigeration and air-conditioning units are an environmental hazard due to the chemicals leading to depletion of the …
The DoT has also directed all operators to carry out a comprehensive exercise to identify tower sites that are non-compliant with the latest radiation norms Piyali Mandal The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Thursday said it had asked seven telecom operators, including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices and Vodafone, …
The new norms to be adopted by the Department of Telecom (DoT) to curb levels of radiation emitted from mobile towers are likely to reduce the health risk to humans by only a fraction. As per the norms which are already in place, the radiation levels have to drop to …
The Pentagon on Wednesday posted a website mapping the amount of radiation to which the tens of thousands of Americans in Japan at the time of last year's earthquake and nuclear disaster were exposed and said none of the doses posed health risks. The 9.0 magnitude March 11, 2011 earthquake …
Regulatory inspections of nuclear power plants and research facilities have revealed there have been deviation from technical specifications and other regulatory stipulations, deficiencies and degradations in safety-related systems and procedural inadequacies. The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), which carried out 47 regulatory inspections, comprising 25 scheduled and 22 special inspections …
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Development Authority is all set to put in place new guidelines for installation of mobile towers in the city. The authority has constituted a committee headed by LDA secretary to come up with new guidelines/regulations within two months. The development coincides with the Centre's move to issue …
Industry and government claim 95% towers compliant with norms Mobile phone users experienced un-disrupted connectivity today even as the telecom tower operators scurried to bring down the emissions by 1/10th from the earlier level, starting today. There were fears the quality of services would deteriorate, as the tower companies would …
India will implement stricter radiation emission norms from September 1 for mobile towers to reduce emission to one-tenth of present levels. Failure to stick to prescribed radiation levels will attract penalties of . 5 lakh per tower. Radiation absorption norms for mobile handsets have been made more stringent, but cellphone …
