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. …
The plan for introducing electric trolley buses (ETBs) in the Capital is ready and the first bus could begin plying not long after the Cabinet approves the plan, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said today. These non-polluting, energy-efficient buses (each of which costs Rs. 50 crore) would draw power from the …
The National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development has sanctioned Rs 54 crore for the construction of a small hydel plant, five minor irrigation projects, three bridges and eight roads in Madhya Pradesh.
Following the conclusion of the un-sponsored talks on Afghanistan in Bonn, unep executive director Klaus Toepfer rightly said environmental issues should form part of the package being considered for the country's rehabilitation. Afghanistan today is at best a relic of years of war litters. The big challenge before the war-ravaged …
The cleanliness drive undertaken by the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike on Saturday with the participation of students and youth is a welcome step which should not end up as a one-day affair with photo opportunities for the mayor and top officials. The campaign was launched to create awareness among the people, …
Government of India and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations signed an agreement for beginning work on a $365000 water resource development programme, which will benefit a large tract of rural India in ten states.
communicable diseases cause 20-25 per cent of deaths annually worldwide. And poor environmental conditions are the perfect breeding ground for these contagions. This indissoluble link, showing how ecological imbalances can be hazardous to health, has been brought forth in the
Overflowing drains a perennial problem for residents of Guzdar scheme, Santa Cruz may soon be a thing of the past. The Bombay high court has directed the civic administration to remove 1364 hutments that encroach upon the four main nallahs in the area. The presence of the slums had reportedly …
Just days before the international trade regime comes under fresh scrutiny at the forthcoming ministerial meet in Doha, a technical committee of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has sought to somewhat blunt a restrictive provision that has so often been misused as a non-tariff trade barrier. The WTO committee on …
Sanitation in the Capital is about to go hi-tech with the sanitation department of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) deciding to go in for information technology in its functioning. The programme will also look at the listing of safai karamcharis and where they are placed so that they can …
Mayor Shanti Desai on Tuesday said the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will start a month-long sanitation and cleanliness drive in the Capital. The drive has been undertaken in view of the ensuing festival season.
the devotion of millions of people to lord Jagannath may have cleansed their souls, but it has left the Puri city dirty and filthy. Despite the city being the most revenue-fetching tourist centre, the state government has shown little interest in its management. Acknowledging the severe pollution menace, the Supreme …
The Nepalese government has decided to regulate private medical centres all across the country to make health care system more transparent. "Through such measures the government wants to cut down the exorbitant fees charged by these private hospitals and make the health care system more affordable to the general public,' …
to help implement and monitor its sector reform pilot programme more effectively, the Union rural development ministry recently signed an agreement with the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Programme. The Union government's programme, which covers 70 million rural people, has proved ineffective till now. The major drawback has been monitoring …
The amount of solid waste generated in Buenos Aires has increased by 30 per cent in the last 10 years. This was found during the first-ever study on the city's solid waste. In 1991, the average daily production of waste in the city was 3,353 tonnes, which has now increased …
The rash of leptospirosis cases in Mumbai during the current monsoon points towards the gradual breakdown of health services in burgeoning metropolises Another monsoon has crossed Mumbai coast and a second round of leptospirosis among other water-borne diseases has taken its toll. The epidemic has claimed around 40 lives so …
As many as 18,000 toilets will be constructed this year under the "Swaccha Grama Yojane" in Bangalore Rural district, Bangalore Rural Zilla Panchayat President G Narasimhaswamy informed the ninth annual general meeting of the ZP held in the City on Friday.
it's an old debate. Does it take specimens of the same species separated by time and space to speciate out. In a small west African lake, one fish species seems to be proving it does not. It is evolving into two species more because of different tastes. This fission supports …
Researchers at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA and the Martek Biosciences Corporation of Columbia, have devised a way to make one species of single-celled algae grow without light. By inserting a single gene from human red blood cells in one case and another single-celled algae in another, the researchers …
a new process to make diamonds, which are not only the woman's best friend, but also of immense use in industrial processes, could cut the cost of producing the stone drastically. Industries use diamonds as tips of boring bits, among other things, as it is the hardest substance on Earth. …
The world's first solar-powered funicular, a type of cable railway, has started operating between Italy's Livorno town and the Montenero sanctuary. Photovoltaic (PV) panels on buildings bordering the funicular's parking lot supply 90 per cent of the electricity drawn by funicular's year-round operation. The PV panels are connected to an …
