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. …
why do some people kill themselves? Suicides, till recently, were incidents that only a psychologist would look into, and through years of psychological study we now know that unbearable bouts of depression, stress and numerous other psychological factors can force a person to take such an extreme step. Whatever the …
Mothers should breast-feed their babies for at least the first year as it benefits both the baby and the mother, says the American Academy of Paediatrics. In a policy statement issued recently, the academy says that studies have shown that breast-feeding can decrease the incidence or severity of conditions such …
The Ministry of Surface Transport (MoST) has identified 12 major and minor ports in Orissa along the 480 kms of coastline for modernisation and upgradation . Prominent amongst them are the Gopalpur and Dhamra ports.
A Dutch company behind the cloning of two calves announced on Friday that it will cease such experiments in accordance with a ban on cattle-cloning imposed by the agriculture ministry.
planting ryegrasses (awned cereal grasses that resemble barley) accelerates the redemption of soil contaminated with polyaromatic hydrocarbons (pahs) and pentachlorophenol (pcp). This was established by a year-long greenhouse study conducted by Phytokinetics Inc, a company based in Logan, Utah, usa. The study was sponsored by the California-based Environment Pro-tection Agency. …
People working in air-conditioned offices are likely to suffer twice as many respiratory problems as those who work in naturally ventilated buildings. Dan Teuculescu of INSERM, the French national medical research agency, found people working in air-conditioned offices in Britain, Italy and Scandinavia, with the so called "sick building syndrome'. …
each year, thermal features such as hot springs at the Yellowstone national park in the us emit millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (co2), the most important greenhouse gas, according to researchers at Pennsylvania State University (psu), usa. This is more than the emissions from a typical industrial power plant, …
The much delayed 760-km Konkan line is finally ready for commissioning tomorrow (26 January) when through passenger traffic will roll out between Roha (near Mumbai) and Mangalore. To mark the beginning, the Kurla -Ratnagiri Passenger train and to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Bombay V.T.) --Samantwadi Express train will be extended to …
The Narmada Bachao Andolan would resort to indefinite fast from 26 January at the dam site of the 1,500 -crore Maheshwar Hydel Project in Khargone district in western Madhya Pradesh in order to press for a complete review of the project. Mr Alok Agarwal said that the six people would …
Theambitious Indira Gandhi (Rajasthan) Canal Project , designed to meet the water needs of a large part of the desert belt of Rajastha, may well turn out to be an ecological disaster, experts fear. Though the final completion of the project is still awaited even 37 years after the digging …
Studies show that men who lose their cool are twice at the risk of heart attack as compared to more mild-mannered men. Susan Everson and her colleagues at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, USA, reached the conclusion after studying 2,110 middle-aged men, most of them in …
people with visual impairment can now take help of a newly developed cane that would use sonar beams to guide them. Sonar is a system for detecting the position of objects by emmiting sound pulses. Johann Borenstein and Iwan Ulrich, mechanical engineers at the University of Michigan, usa , have …
Today environmental pollution has assumed serious proportions and become a big problem because the built-in balance has been disturbed by the industrialization and the philosophy of conquest of nature through exploration and exploitation of natural resources by man to the advantage of mankind. This report contains the Environmental status of …
The transportation modes in Indian cities are multifarious with varying capacity and widely varying sizes and speeds. The objectives of this study are: to evolve alternative urban transport development policies and strategies at national, sate and city levels covering infrastructure development, traffic management, control and enforcement, public transport development and …
Some cardiac arrests may be all in the mind. Researchers in Canada have discovered a region in the brain that controls the activity of heart and blood vessels. According to them, abnormalities in the region can result in heart attacks. They suspect that many unexplained heart attacks could be due …
A genetically engineered strain of cereal has been developed that is resistant to rice tungro disease. If this viral infection breaks out, it can destroy nearly 90 per cent of a crop. A team of researchers led by Roger Beachy of the International Laboratory for Tropical Agricultural Biotechnology at the …
The BJP government in Gujarat has for the second time cancelled the Narmada pipeline project aimed at supplying drinking water to the people in the arid Saurashtra region. Originally, the scheme was estimated at a cost of Rs 300 crores but paucity of funds and delay in securing approval from …
A group of developed countries led by the US assailed India's automobile policy at the World Trade Oganisation (WTO) and urged New Delhi to relax to restrictive import policy that came into effect in December last year. The US and Japan were particularly severe in criticising India for its failure …
