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: In what substantially raises the danger of accidental radiation exposure at the Mayapuri junk market, nuclear experts combing the area on Wednesday detected two new sources of the radioactive material, cobalt-60, at a shop at least one kilometre away from the site where the hazardous metal was found …
PRASHANT PANDEY and SUCHITRA K. MOHANTY The Delhi Municipal Act, which was enact- ed in 1957, has no provision to deal with e-waste and nuclear waste. There is no law on disposal of such waste. `No laws for nuke, e-waste' : After the first ever incident of radiation that occurred …
New Delhi: Just as the scrap market at Mayapuri was returning to normalcy after radioactive cobalt-60 exposed six people to radiation there, the monitoring agencies claimed on Tuesday they had found another source of radiation
Days after a radiation leak at a scrap shop in West Delhi, the Delhi government is preparing to hold a brainstorming session next week to look at how best to recycle the Capital
NEW DELHI: One more suspected source of radiation has been detected in the sprawling scrap market at Mayapuri here in the Capital where two scrap dealers and five workers were taken ill this past week after being exposed to Cobalt-60 radioactive isotope. Confirming this, B. Bhattacharjee, Member of the National …
PREETI KARMYOGI NEW DELHI A team of nuclear April 13: A team of nuclear experts visiting Mayapuri scrap market, where Cobalt 60 radiation was reported on Friday, discovered one more source of radiation on Tuesday. However, they said that intensity of the emission was very low and it may be …
In the wake of the Mayapuri incident where six persons got seriously injured after getting exposed to a radioactive element, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to form a
After being alerted by the DAE, the IAEA will turn to the Nuclear Suppli- er Group. All these agencies will help trace the source from where the Cobalt 60 emanat- ed. RASHME SEHGAL The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the Mayapuri …
NEW DELHI: The six victims undergoing treatment after being accidentally exposed to radioactive material in Mayapuri here this past week are still reported to be in a critical condition, according to Delhi Health Minister Dr. Kiran Walia who visited the patients on Sunday. While Deepak Jain is undergoing treatment at …
Rules to govern medical waste largely ignore radioactive matter; agencies pass the buck Before the radiation leak at a Mayapuri junk market stirred the authorities into action, the dangers posed by radioactive material seems to have been mostly ignored. While several hospitals use machines that include radioactive material
Various facets of energy security would continue to engage the policy makers and other stake holders as energy continues to drive economies, policies and even geo-strategy. The country has come a long way since the Tarapore Nuclear Plant began commercial operation way back in 1969. The progress has been slow …
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) have decided to jointly study the presence of high levels of uranium in ground water in the state, reported the cause of abnormally high incidence of cancer. The study would begin within three months. BS Bajwa, Professor of …
Stark failure on the N-liability issue by Inder Malhotra THE fiasco of the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill, which the United Progressive Alliance government withdrew just before it was scheduled to be introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday, is not the first instance of its kind nor is going to …
LAB FIRE: Cops doubt victims died even before they had a chance to scream Two days after a fire in a chemistry laboratory claimed the lives of two research students in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, investigating officers said none of the eyewitnesses who saw smoke emanating from the third-floor …
An inquiry is being undertaken to investigate the cause of the accident which led to the death of the two research scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc), minister of state for science and technology Prithviraj Chavan said talking exclusively to this paper. "We need to know how the …
Two research scientists were killed after a fire broke out in a photochemistry laboratory in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay, on Tuesday afternoon. They were identified by the police as Umang Singh from Mumbai and Partha Pratim Bag from West Bengal, both PhD students in BARC
Mumbai: A high intensity explosion at a chemical laboratory inside the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) on Tuesday noon claimed the lives of two junior scientists. BARC, however, confirmed that no reactor, radioactivity or radiation was involved in the incident, which took place about a kilometre away from the nuclear …
The major fire that broke out at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre at Trombay on Tuesday afternoon has sparked off fears of a radioactive gas leak, even though Barc has stressed that the explosion happened more than a kilometre away from the two nuclear reactors that are there in the …
