Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
In the most tangible demonstration so far of collaboration between public and private genome researchers, the U.S. National Institutes of Health has awarded $58 million in grants to Baylor College of Medicine and Celera Genomics Group to sequence the genetic code of the laboratory rat.
For the past three or four years, environmental groups have been highlighting conditions in ship demolition yards, primarily in the Indian subcontinent and China. So the code's call for all ships to be delivered to the recycling yards with their tanks (except, of course, some bunker tanks) cleaned and certified …
The campaign against child labour, disputing claims by fireworks manufacturers, estimates that about 45,000 children are still employed in the fireworks units in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, in hazardous conditions.
Activists of Narmada Bachao Andolan(NBA) will hold a protest rally at Badwani on October 23, against the Supreme Court order giving green signal to the controversial Sardar Sarovar project(SSP) on the river Narmada.
Last year before Diwali, the Tamil Nadu Fireworks and Amorces Manufacturers' Association (TFAA) put out advertisements proclaiming that there was no child labour involved in the firecracker industry. Five days later, Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL), visited Sivakasi and its surrounding regions. Its findings: Over 50,000 children were still slaving …
Once the centre of attraction for tourists in Kashmir, the Dal Lake has shrunk by half from its previous size in the last few decades. About 20 per cent of its total area of 11 sq km has passed into private lands for cultivation on the artificially-created pieces of land …
Fire burned out of control on Tuesday at the scene of pipleline explosion in southern Nigeria that killed about 250 villagers who had been scooping up gasoline with buckets, witnesses said.
Students from various schools of Delhi gathered at the India Gate lawns this evening to express their solidarity with children who work in the firecracker industry and other similar hazardous occupations all over the country.
The World Wide Fund for Nature ( wwf ) launched a year-long campaign to put an end to the rampant ivory trade in Thailand. Citing a recent report, wwf -Thailand said ivory trade has contributed to a rapid decline in the elephant population in Thailand and in neighbouring Myanmar and …
Torrential rains in central Korea have killed 42 people and injured 94 in the Kaesong area alone, according to official figures. Also, 581 houses were submerged or destroyed, leaving 2,905 people homeless, according to figures released by the representative office of the International Federation of Red Cross and Crescent Societies …
A rule notified in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (viii) of Sub Section (2) of Section 3 read with Section 25 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986) with the objective to regulate the manufacture and use of recycled plastics, carry bags and containers.
pollution control fabrics: Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (bhel), in collaboration with a German firm, is manufacturing state-of-the-art pollution control equipment called Fabric Filters. The filters help reduce environmental pollution from industries and power stations. They have a simple design, low space requirement and high separation efficiency over the entire particle …
Authorities in Singapore have said that they are satisfied with efforts by Malaysian vegetable growers to cut down on the use of pesticides. Quoting Singapore's Primary Production Department ( ppd ), the Malaysian Vegetable Growers Association president Liew Chow said the quality of Malaysian vegetables had improved considerably over the …
A Cambodian court convicted two Taiwan men in absentia over the dumping of about 3,000 tonnes of mercury-tainted waste last year. The court in the southern port city of Sihanoukville sentenced Chang Ku Fung and Kao Chee Song to five years in jail and ordered them to pay more than …
it is estimated that of the 2.5 billion people at risk of contracting malaria today, there are one billion people who are actually carrying malarial parasites. Two million to three million of them die each year. The death toll could rise to eight million a year due to the spread …
Five residents of Dichau Kalan village, in southwest Delhi, were killed on Saturday by piosonous gas in a well being dug further for water. The gas was said to be a combination of methane and carbon monoxide.
Humans suffer from an inherent disadvantage in using a computer: both hands are occupied with the keyboards and a person is unable to operate a mouse at the same time. So Sun Microsystems of California, USA, has filed several lengthy patents on a system in which the user's eye controls …
