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. …
DON RICHARDSON on tiny Apo Island, off the southern coast of the Philippines, a sudden squall has chopped a tranquil sea into angry white caps. Though balanced by the outrigger, our small dugout rocks furiously as the waves toss us around. Luckily, Jesus Delmo, president of the Apo Island marine …
On the island of Bonaire in the Dutch Antilles, the local communities declared their entire reef a marine park in the early '80s. Dive shop operators were granted an operating license giving them access to prime dive spots; scuba divers and snorkellers were charged
an unhealthy diet, unfavourable genes, excessive smoking and obesity are factors already known to cause heart ailments. There is now an addition to this list. Researchers say that viruses too can play an role in causing heart problems. A member of the herpes virus family, cmv had long been considered …
odours produced by plants can repel crop pests and invite insects' enemies. Researcher John Pickett of uk 's leading arable crop research centre at Rothamsted in Hertfordshire is developing perfumes that work as insecticides. Picketts' scents are produced by plants themselves to keep off unwanted pests ( New Scientist , …
the island nation had had enough of it. In 1987, New Zealand finally buried its forest service, one of its most enduring symbols of bureaucratic bungling; an unlikely alliance of environmentalists, economists and reformist politicians played the role of executioners. Out of the ashes emerged the department of conservation ( …
In the '70s and the '80s, New Zealand's timber companies and conservation groups were at loggerheads continuously. In 1991, the companies and the groups finally got together and signed the New Zealand forest accord. The accord had the companies agreeing that they would move away from logging native forests in …
biologists were taken aback by the discovery in 1977 that genes came in bits and pieces. It was found that in practically every higher organism, a dna sequence that constituted a gene was made up of two sub-units: exons (working parts of a gene that encoded a protein) and introns …
researchers in the us have shown that a technology called extreme ultraviolet light ( euv ) lithography may illuminate the path to the next generation of semiconductor chips. Chips manufactured with euv technology are likely to be 10 times faster than today's chips and will be able to store 1,000 …
an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation is what it has been all about; proponents of modern transportation and the growing global environmental movement are the protagonists. While the former see personal mobility (read modern means of transport) as an expression of freedom and essential to economic progress, the latter view the same as …
• Rail, as a medium of transport, is often much more energy-efficient and less polluting per tonne- or passenger-km than automobiles. • It can almost always expand its capacity with little further pre-emption of space. Two sets of rail tracks can carry the same number of people as 16 lanes …
With the multiplying numbers of vehicles on European roads, sustainability in road transportation has become the keyword. Participants at the recent annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society in Glasgow, UK, have gone so far as to propose a ban on private cars, suggesting that cars be phased out over …
traffic accidents: Every year, over 500,000 people die in road accidents in the world; 70 per cent of these fatalities occur in developing nations, where the traffic victims are usually pedestrians
Bicycle ownership in Asia, currently more than 400 million, is growing rapidly. In India, bicycles account for 30-50 per cent of traffic on primary urban roads. The advantages of biking are as follows: • It is highly cost-effective and fast. • Bicycles require little parking space, occupying about one sq …
The Indian Ocean is the only place where fish availability has not reduced, unlike all other oceans, which have seen a massive depletion of stocks due to vacuum fishing practices involving factory trawlers. But still, there are several problems. There is the feud between the huge joint-venture trawler operators and …
it is a known fact that smoking is injurious to health, but it is only recently that nicotine, the neuroactive compound in tobacco, has been proved to be addictive. Nicotine was often thought of as a weak reinforcer when compared to other drugs like cocaine and heroin and was therefore …
Nikon recently unveiled the first digital camera in Japan that adds spoken and hand-written captions to photographs. The new camera, about the size of a mobile phone, has a microphone for recording live commentary. Up to 17 minutes of audio information can be stored in it. The sound clips can …
