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 …
New Delhi: The government has decided to install a radioactive material detection system at key airports in the country to avoid any illegal trafficking of radiation sources.
The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board's (AREB) withdrawal of authorising Delhi University (DU) to use radioactive sources in its laboratories has started affecting the research work of post-graduate students and teachers. After repeated written requests from teachers and students, the university has requested the AREB to lift the ban on at …
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai October 15, 2010, 0:20 IST Radioactive releases from the proposed plant of Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) in Maharashtra are expected to be insignificant and their impact would be negligible, according to the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Neeri). The state-run nuclear power major
NEW DELHI: Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Prof. Deepak Pental is going to set up a three-member sub-committee of the Executive Council which will examine the
Even as the semester row continues between the Delhi University administration and teachers' association, the Executive Committee (EC) of the university yesterday decided to institute a three-member panel to fix blame in the case of radiation exposure in April. The move came after the EC discussed the report of a …
This new report released by Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland highlights the top six toxic threats to global health.It ranks pollutants according to the number of people estimated to be at risk from each toxin and describes their physical nature, industries that typically cause their release, common human exposure …
Atomic Energy Regulatory Board has withdrawn the permission given to Delhi University to use any radioactive source in its labs as it failed to submit its final reply on the radiation exposure incident at the Mayapuri scrap market in Delhi within stipulated period, the board said. Rejecting the university's plea …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: With a view to ensuring that the guidelines of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) and the Hazardous Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules are strictly implemented, a UGC expert committee has suggested the setting up of university committees to review safety in handling radioactive and other …
ASIT JOLLY CHANDIGARH Environment minis ter Jairam Ramesh has ordered a comprehensive study to assess the impact of radioactive uranium traces in drinking water on human health across southwestern Punjab.
K V SINGH & SHEPHALI MEHRA BIRDIThe authors are partner and senior associate respectively with Kochhar & Co ALTHOUGH THE CIVIL LIABILITY FOR NUclear Damage Bill, 2010, has been extensively debated, it appears that both the critics and the supporters of the Bill have misunderstood its provisions and have failed …
Moscow: As if things in Russia were not looking sufficiently apocalyptic already, with 100-degree temperatures and noxious fumes rolling in from burning peat bogs and forests, there is growing alarm here that fires in regions coated with fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 24 years ago could now be emitting …
This handbook is a practical aid to legislative drafting that brings together, for the first time, model texts of provisions covering all aspects of nuclear law in a consolidated form. Organized along the same lines as the Handbook on Nuclear Law, published by the IAEA in 2003, and containing updated …
After more than two months of the source of exposure of radioactive substance Cobalt-60 being traced to the Chemistry laboratory of Delhi University (DU), the university authorities have woken up and are now about to come up with a laboratory manual. According to Professor AK Bakhshi, Head of the Department …
LUCKNOW: A team of experts from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) visited Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Thursday and laid to rest the raging controversy over a feared radioactive leak in the campus and the adjacent residential colonies in the town. Rumours about radioactive material stored in the physics …
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Union Government to inform it of what mechanism it had put in place to screen radioactive material, if any, brought into the country along with scrap imported from foreign countries. A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Dipak Misra …
Experts say Govt underplaying dangers of an accident. Nuclear power is expensive and perilous and India does not need it, said Dr Surendra Gadekar, nuclear scientist. The Union Government should give up plans to set up 15 nuclear power plants, including one at Kovvada in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, …
The absence of any systematic study by Indian or foreign scientists has left sufficient room for wide and wild speculation on the probable causes of high incidence of cancer in parts of Punjab The scourge of Malwa It is well known in Punjab that the Malwa region shows a very …
SP Sharma Tribune News Service FARIDKOT: Armed with the report of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) declaring the gamma radiation and radioactivity levels in the soil samples within the permissible levels here, the medical fraternity has put a question mark on the claim of a local NGO that high …
To prevent recurrence of any Mayapuri-type radiation leak, the Delhi Government will soon procure sophisticated equipment to scan vulnerable areas where such exposure may take place. Delhi
