Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
A PROJECT to develop green patches in the city of Ahmedabad has run into problems. The ambitious urban forestry programme, mooted by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), was started a year ago. Environmentalists say that lack of initiative by the voluntary agencies involved as well as municipal authorities is the …
Since April, more than 500 people in Nepal have died, reportedly due to infectious diseases. This has been happening in the remote villages, particularly in northern Nepal. More than 20,000 people in 35 districts are affected by acute respiratory infections, pneumonia and measles. According to the director general of the …
The Supreme Court (SC) has banned plying of all 15-year-old motor commercial vehicles including buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws in the National Capital Territory (NCR) from October 2 this year. The SC has expressed concern and distress at the apathy of the authorities concerned in implementing various directions issued by it …
FLUSHING excreta is not ecologically viable, says Uno Winblad, coordinator of a Rs 2.5-crore international research and development project "Sanres" (Sanitation and Recycle) which is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and aimed at developing alternative, eco-logical concepts of sanitation for urban areas. "From an ecological point of …
negotiators from the us and 28 other countries are nearing agreement on a treaty to restrict the production and use of toxic chemicals. But reports that Russia still produces and uses polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs), the poisonous chemical that has been banned years ago in the us and other countries, came …
out of a total of 52.2 million deaths around the world in 1997, 17.3 million people died due to infectious and parasitic diseases and 15.3 million, due to circulatory diseases. Another 6.2 million people died due to cancer, 2.9 million due to respiratory diseases, mainly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and …
for the second time, I would like to draw attention to Social Watch , the annual report on social development presented by an informal network of international non-governmental organisations ( ngo s). This "social watchdog' appears to be quite successful in tracing whether governments fulfill promises they so elegantly make …
Consumers groups are up in arms at what they term unregulated import of hazardous chemicals into India from other developing countries and has asked the government to take stern action against those involved in the trade. "The government should make it legally binding on the exporters of toxic chemicals to …
Though Parliament enacted a legislation some time ago banning carrying of night soil by scavengers, the Act is being flagrantly violated in the constituency of Union home minister Indrajit Gupta. The veteral CPI leader has been representing this Lok Sabha seat since 1989.
companies around the world have been vying with each other to come up with the lightest and easiest to carry mobile phone. Thanks to Japan's penchant for miniaturisation, now you can carry a phone around your wrist. The Japanese telecommunications giant, nit , has developed a wristwatch-telephone that could be …
Naval ships have little time to defend against modern missiles that home in on targets at 32.18 km a minute at surface-low height. But scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, are working on a new radar system that promises to detect such threats faster. It could also improve the …
The delivery of a suspicious-looking parcel can cause enormous disruption in the working hours of any organisation, even if it eventually proves to be entirely harmless. Algis, a Derby-based company in the UK, that specialises in blast protection equipment has designed a
A group of researchers at a British firm, Owens Corning, have developed a new coating technology that can prevent water from damaging sensitive optical fibres in telecommunication cables. Water is known to corrode optical fibres, leading to decreased signal strength and complete failure. The new
A new software called Exchange programme has been developed by the US-based Microsoft corporation, which can be used.as a tool for managing corporate mail and will allow groups of workers to share documents and projects. The programme will give direct competition to the popular Notes software of Lotus Development, now …
Less water will now be needed while you use the toilet. The US government has passed a law restricting toilet flushes to a maximum of 1.6 gallons (about 7 .3Iitres} per flush. Eljer Industries Inc has come up with new models that depend on gravity to flow away the wastes. …
The municipal corporation of Delhi (MCD) would have had to shut down the Idgah abattoir on December 31, 1995, if the Supreme Court had not given a month's breather, in a recent order. The 90 years old abattoir is the only legally operated slaughter- house in the city. The MCD …
WHEN everything from paper to refrigerator is going green, can toilets be far behind? Indian railways are introducing eco-friendly toilets on trains. Thanks to the new toilets fitted with a device that induces bio-degradation, railway tracks will be much cleaner. The 'bio-toilets' have been made by the railways' Integral Coach …
The achievements of Habitat I have been limited. This was so because of the economic crisis of the '805. According to official statistics, at least 280 million urban and more than 800 million rural dwellers lacked safe and sufficient drinking water supply till 1994. Besides, at least 590 million of …
