Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Since April this year, about 332 persons have died due to communicable diseases in Humla, Nepal. An investigation committee confirmed the death toll to be 332 after conulting Village Development Committee chairpersons and health workers, says Jeevan Prasad Oli, chief district magistrate of Humla. About 23 villages of Humla district …
About 170 people have been killed due to starvation and epidemics in a remote region of Nepal bordering China. According to reports, people are dying every day in the district of Humla. Most of the deaths are due to infections of the upper respiratory tract, which can become fatal on …
Microscopic particles spewed out by factories and car exhausts may be even more dangerous than previously thought. The airborne particles known as PM10s, which have a diameter of less than 10 micrometres, are known to be linked to deaths from lung disease. Now Harvard University scientists have discovered that the …
it could finally be possible to prevent common cold, say researchers who claim to have figured out the molecular "handshake" that lets the cold viruses sneak into human cells. About 70 per cent of colds are caused by rhinoviruses. These invade cells in the respiratory tract after binding to a …
on february 12, Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma's phone lines were flooded as citizen's of the city called his office continuously and told him clearly that he could not barter their health for votes. They were responding to a call by the Centre for Science and Environment (cse) to …
prescribing drugs according to the will of patients is proving hazardous throughout the world. Private hospitals and clinics on the street are often suspected of adopting such practices. As a result, more and more bacteria are responding to people's overuse of antibiotics by evolving new ways to combat drug effects. …
" delhi roads should display a statutory warning: Breathing here is injurious to health.' This is how Delhi's transport minister Rajinder Gupta described the city's air quality at the public meeting organised by the Centre for Science and Environment ( cse ) in New Delhi on November 1. The meeting …
• Great improvement. But the entire process of planning and notification by the ministry of surface transport (MOST) lacked transparency.• No study to show the new standards' impact on the air quality. • Permitted emission of hydrocarbons (HC) from two-wheelers (2.4 gm/km) is higher than that suggested by the H …
Direct measures are to be implemented by 1997, including exclusive left lane for heavy vehicles, dedicated bicycle tracks, banning of shoulder parking on roads, pedestrian zones and decongestion of traffic. Indirect measures to be implemented by 2000, including public and mass transport systems, construction of bypasses and elevated express carriageway, …
Fuel standards set up for the first time in India that are to be implemented in phases and made fully operational by 1999 • Diesel hydrosulpharisation projects in nine refineries worth Rs 5,568.31 crore for reduction of sulphur in diesel announced. But if we are investing so much, why only …
The Taj Mahal is not the only thing monumental about Agra, so is the rising level of air pollution. Although data published by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (uppcb) shows a decline in spm levels in the city between 1991 and 1994, it has steadily increased thereafter. Emissions from …
Calcutta has the dubious distinction of being placed sixth among the 41 most polluted cities of the world when it comes to spm levels, according to Global Pollution and Health , a report published in 1996 by who and the United Nations Environment Programme (unep). The figures speak for themselves. …
The number of premature deaths due to high levels of spm in Bhopal are estimated to have decreased from 663 in 1991-92 to 623 in 1995. Similarly, the incidence of illnesses have also gone down from 2,77,854 to 2,61,205 over the given period. But despite the data giving happy signs, …
Pune has enjoyed the reputation of being one of the cleanest cities in the country with regard to air quality. The number of premature deaths in Pune is estimated to have decreased from 991 in 1991-92 to 454 in 1995. Similarly, illnesses due to air pollution have decreased from 5,65,372 …
DTE tried hard to get updated data on the total sector-wise emissions in various Indian cities from the CPCB. Unfortunately, our efforts turned out to be futile as the CPCB pollution inventory is far from being updated. For Delhi, such data are available for 1993-94 but the situation is even …
• It is estimated that nearly 52,000 people died prematurely in 36 Indian cities due to high levels of SPM in 1995, a rise of 28 per cent from more than 40,000 in 1991-92 • The number of sicknesses requiring medical assistance and hospital admissions in these cities due to …
More people have died in Delhi between 1991 and 1995 by inhaling small suspended particles laden with toxic chemicals. The levels of spm spiralled dramatically from 367.9 micro gram per cubic metre (
the number of people dying in urban India due to deteriorating air quality is rising every year and very little is being done to deal with pollution in Indian cities. A stupendous 51,779 people are estimated to have died prematurely in 36 Indian cities due to air pollution in 1995 …
