Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pramod Tyagi Vs State of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 21/03/3035. A proposal was initiated by State of National Capital Territory of Delhi, Department of Transport to start a Driving Training Institution at Mukundpur and permission was also granted. …
protestors adopt 'wait & watch' policy: Even though the Government has announced that it would carry out a re-survey of the region ear-marked for the dam across the Nethravathi river and for the hydel power project at Sarapadi in Dakshina Kannada, anti-dam protestors have now adopted a 'wait and watch' …
It is possible that traffic congestion will keep on getting worse so that road rage, missed appointments and late deliveries become the norm. But there is an equally plausible alternative scenario. The latest study of commuting by America's transportation department suggests that some of the forces that made for the …
The Hubble Space Telescope of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has discovered a spectacular fireworks show of stellar birth at the heart of a pair of colliding galaxies. The recent findings may provide astronomers a unique opportunity to study the stellar formation produced by a catastrophic event in …
scientists are employing various techniques to develop metal foams that are sound and heat absorbent, lightweight and fireproof. These unique properties of the foams could soon attract wide-ranging applications in manufacturing cars, ships and aeroplanes. Metal foams are made up of metals such as aluminium and require less material to …
Sao Paulo, the largest city in South America is to introduce permanent restrictions on the use of cars in an attempt to alleviate the city's growing transport problems and curb pollution. Residents have been banned from using their cars during peak hours in the morning and early evening once a …
the launch of Cassini, which will visit Saturn, is another major event in space exploration in this decade. The probe, part of a project that began almost 13 years ago, took off on October 13, 1997, and will reach Saturn in about seven years. Its mission: getting detailed information about …
manufacturing accurately shaped metal components has always been a difficult task for industry. Now, a technique called laser-engineered net shaping (lens) has been developed by a team of researchers led by Clinton L Atwood at Sandia National Laboratories, usa that would help fabricate precise and complex parts such as tools …
On the major problems besieging the Himalaya: Mountain regions the world over have been neglected. The Himalaya face a major water crisis. In spite of housing the source of three major river systems, the resource is scarce in the hills. The other issue is irrigation. Less than 10 per cent …
the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Borivli, a bustling industrial suburb of Mumbai, is under threat. An unholy nexus of builders, slum lords, bureaucrats, and their political patrons is responsible for organised destruction of the park. The deteriorating condition of the park
scientists have devised various methods to recycle old tyres into new ones. Now Kirk Manfredi, a chemist at the University of Northern Iowa, usa , has developed a technique to produce lemon oil from discarded tyres. He produces limonene, which is the main ingredient in the oil of lemons and …
donen , Japan's state-run nuclear agency, admitted that corrosion had caused leakage of radiation from about 2,000 underground drums storing radioactive waste from a fast-breeder nuclear reactor before February in Tokai, a village north of Tokyo. Government officials said that water was surrounding the dumping site was safe, even as …
the Norwegian Public Roads Administration plans to construct a 1,400-metre long tunnel that would float 25 metres below the surface of the 155-metre deep Hogsfjord near the western city of Stavanger. The proposed tunnel is first of its kind in the world which will have a two-lane automobile conduit and …
one of the largest proposed infrastructure projects in South America - the Hidrovia Paraguay-Parana river navigation project - has received a setback with an independent panel of experts concluding that its current designs and evaluations are fundamentally flawed. A press release signed by Aleta Brown, campaign associate for the California-based …
On why he is interested in Calcutta's transport problems: I have been interested in transport and the environment for the past 25 years and have worked in Europe, Australia and North America. Three years ago, I decided to work in a situation where there was rapid growth in population and …
The bacteria which infiltrate the pocket between the gums and the base of the teeth, making gums bleed, ultimately resulting in the falling of teeth may well be making hearts fail as well. According to a recent study conducted in a group of 1,372 Puma Indians in Arizona, those with …
when Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the detection of an extr-asolar planet about a year ago, there was a lot of excitement in the field of planetary sciences. Soon, the discovery was confirmed by others, and more than that some seven other planets were supposed to have been discovered. …
THE Oxford dictionary defines mood as the 'state of one's feelings or mind at a particular time'. For researchers looking at brain and behaviour, the relationship between change of moods to other physiological changes has always been a challenge, since any clue or significant association between them can help find …
the biggest hindrance in quantum computing - the possibility that it would be irreparably error prone - will soon be overcome, claims Raymond Laflamme of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, us . In a quantum computer, data would be encoded as quantum states, like a spin of …
an enigmatic protein extracted from the urine of pregnant women can slow the progression of an aids -like disease in laboratory animals. It can also destroy cells from tumours that afflict some aids patients and boost the production of immune cells, according to Robert Gallo of the University of Maryland …
