In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95 billion. The year 2024 was marked by extreme temperature events in Asia that caused thousands of deaths, severe droughts in Africa affecting over 25 …
Response filed by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee in the matter of Jan Seva Welfare Society Vs Govt of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 19/12/2022. The matter related to telecom towers in DDA parks at 9 locations of Pitampura, Delhi. The Ministry of Communication, Department of Telecommunications vide letter …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Saiful Islam Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 16/08/2021. The matter related to the construction of 400/200 KV gas insulated substation in residential area in Bhangar, Block-II, Kolkata, by using hazardous SF6 gas without …
In today’s day and age, it would be near impossible to find anyone, who doesn’t own a cell phone. Despite the debate around the associated health risks due to electromagnetic radiation from handsets and mobile towers, in India, none of the states have tried to exercise any control on mushrooming …
Ever since the electronic revolution, electronic devices have become an indispensable part of common man’s life. The rapid increase in the usage of such devices as well as instruments dealing with electromagnetic (EM) waves generates a serious issue of EM interference (EMI). Scientists have turned their attention toward EMI as …
The court was hearing four petitions, which alleged that electro-magnetic radiation, generated by mobile towers, adversely affect the health and well being of humans and other living beings. THE BOMBAY High Court on Wednesday said that there is no risk of serious harm on account of non-ionised radiation emanating from …
Justice Jawad Rahim, acting chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), raised the issue of the pollution due to electromagnetic radiations emanating from mobile towers. He was speaking at the Regional Conference on Environment at Panjab University (PU) on Sunday, where he described electromagnetic fields as a form of new …
Insects are continually exposed to Radio-Frequency (RF) electromagnetic fields at different frequencies. The range of frequencies used for wireless telecommunication systems will increase in the near future from below 6 GHz (2 G, 3 G, 4 G, and WiFi) to frequencies up to 120 GHz (5 G). This paper is …
DONA PAULA: Taking a dig at those opposing mobile towers on the issue of radiation, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar countered saying that those opposing towers are moving with the mobile, which in their understanding can be a time bomb, in their pockets. He said he does not find any danger …
Anti-radiation activists fighting a battle against unregulated mushrooming of mobile phone towers in the city say the Supreme Court order to shut down one such tower in Gwalior has given their campaign a boost. The SC has ordered deactivation of the tower within seven days on the grounds that it …
No Consensus On Extent Of Radiation That Can Cause Diseases Is the radiation emitted by a mobile phone tower a health hazard? Telecom operators have long denied the possibility , but the global scientific community now strongly thinks it is -though there is no consensus on the duration and distance …
First In Country To Be Closed On Individual's Plea A 42-year-old domestic help will go down in history as the man who persuaded the Supreme Court to shut down a mobile phone tower on the ground that its electromagnetic radiation afflicted him with cancer. Last year, Harish Chand Tiwari, who …
Leading doctors and telecom expertsdiscussed scientific facts pertaining to electromagnetic radio frequency (EMF) here yesterday. They said there was no relation between mobile phone tower radiation and cancer or other health hazard. They categorically denied that there was any link between EMF emissions and human health. Dr N Eshwar Chandra, …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone Bench, Chennai) in the matter of Dhayalam Charitable Society & Others Vs Ministry of Communication and Information & Others dated 05/02/2016 regarding construction of cell phone towers in residential areas. Applications are dismissed holding that the Tribunal has no jurisdiction to entertain …
There is no exact co-relation between mobile tower radiations and health of wildlife even as there are indications that Electromagnetic Radiations (EMR) affect their biological system, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday. Environment Ministry had constituted an expert committee to study the possible impacts of communication towers on wildlife, …
Numerous recent scientific publications have shown that EMF affects living organisms at levels well below most international and national guidelines. Effects include increased cancer risk, cellular stress, increase in harmful free radicals, genetic damages, structural and functional changes of the reproductive system, learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders, and negative …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Impact of electromagnetic waves on insects and birds, 30/11/2015. The Ministry has issued an advisory on use of Mobile Towers to minimize their impact on wildlife including birds and bees vide Office Memorandum dated 9th August 2012. The contents of the advisory are given …
Various cellular operators on Wednesday questioned the jurisdiction of the National Green Tribunal to decide a bunch of pleas alleging that mobile phone towers were posing health hazards and "norms were flouted brazenly by all companies involved with installation of mobile towers". A bench headed by NGT chairperson Swatanter Kumar …
Concerned over possible health risk posed by cell phone towers, the National Green Tribunal today directed the Centre to inform it whether the construction of these towers in residential areas would be injurious to humans or not. The green panel's direction came while hearing a bunch of petitions claiming that …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Bhupesh Sehgal & Ors. Vs. Delhi Development Authority & Ors. dated 09/09/2015 on whether the construction and operations of mobile towers particularly in densely populated area or in the park of such locality would be injurious …
Non-thermal microwave/lower frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) act via voltage-gated calcium channel (VGCC) activation. Calcium channel blockers block EMF effects and several types of additional evidence confirm this mechanism. Low intensity microwave EMFs have been proposed to produce neuropsychiatric effects, sometimes called microwave syndrome, and the focus of this review is …
