The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
MUMBAI: The high level of radiation emitted by three unauthorized mobile towers atop Victor Shelter building poses a health hazard for neighbouring Nilesh society residents at Kandarpada in Dahisar (W), says IIT-Bombay professor Dr Girish Kumar. The radiation level in the New Nilesh society flat was measured by Wilcom Technologies …
MUMBAI: While the global debate over cellphone towers and ill-health will not be settled soon, activists and citizens' organizations are hopeful that the Centre's guidelines for setting up of these towers will set up healthy standards in India. An inter-ministerial committee had, a few months back in the run-up to …
New Delhi: Electromagnetic radiation from mobile towers must be brought down to one tenth of existing levels, an inter-ministerial committee has said, in the run-up to framing the country’s first guidelines in the matter. India has around 4 lakh mobile towers and with 3G mobile telephony, an additional 1 lakh …
The fourth phase of medical camps to enrol endosulfan victims will be held in select localities in the district from December 17 to 21. Thirty-eight doctors from 11 departments of five medical colleges will examine patients. As many as 70 experts drawn under the National Rural Health Mission will be …
Toxic subsoil water causes skin diseases, other ailments. Influx of hazardous chemicals and other effluents in the Ghaggar has reached alarming proportions causing great damage to flora and fauna in the areas irrigated by distributaries originating from Ottu Weir near Rania town of the district. The pollution of Ghaggar is …
Pesticides manufacturer, Excel Crop Care, on Wednesday said that following the Supreme Court order to allow export of unused stock of endosulfan, the company would be able to ship 1,188 kilo litres of the chemical. “The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, by an order passed on December 13, 2011, allowed …
Two chemicals considered harmful to babies remain in Johnson & Johnson’s baby shampoo sold in the US and some other countries, even though the company already makes versions without them, according to an international coalition of health and environmental groups. Now the coalition is urging consumers to boycott Johnson & …
This guide ranks leading mobile phone, TV and PC manufacturers on policies and practices to reduce their impact on the climate, produce greener products and make their operations more sustainable.
The sacred sindoor (vermilion), a symbol of married Hindu women and also liberally used at Hindu shrines, will have to comply with safety standards. The Drug Technical Advisory Board has decided to regulate the sale and quality of sindoor. It is being brought under Schedule S of the Drugs and …
Sri Lanka has moved into regulation of hazardous chemicals and monitoring industries that use them. “I am glad to announce today that my Ministry has commenced the process of designing a Chemical Emergency First Responders’ Plan. What is important about this pioneering plan is the global compliance standard we will …
Health officials are banning the only asthma inhaler sold over the counter in the United States starting from next year to prevent the use of products that harm the environment. The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in metered-dose asthma inhalers that contain the drug epinephrine …
Chinese environment groups have accused Apple suppliers in the country of systemic pollution, underscoring the pressures on one of the world’s biggest companies as opposition is growing in China against environmental degradation as the cost for economic growth. In a report released on Wednesday, five Chinese non-governmental organisations said the …
A Greenpeace investigation has discovered the toxic chemical nonylphenol ethoxylate (NPE) in clothing made by 14 major brands, including Adidas, H&M;, Converse and Abercrombie and Fitch. NPE breaks down to form nonylphenol in water, which disrupts hormone levels and has been known to cause fish to change gender. Due to …
Minister for Environment, Sunil Kumar Manandhar said the government was going to ban the use of plastic bags of less than 20 micron in the country to be effective from the next week. The offenders will be fined between Rs. 500 to Rs. 50,000, according to Minister Manandhar. According to …
A coalition of families has filed a lawsuit demanding that New York City public schools remove aging fluorescent light fixtures it says are leaking a toxic substance that may harm children's health. The city's Department of Education agreed in February to replace the fixtures over 10 years, but the lawsuit …
More than 500 beef cattle that ate feed contaminated by radioactive material from Fukushima have already shipped to other parts of Japan, an initial result of inspections on the area's farms showed Monday. Separately, Yomiuri newspaper said Japan's central government is expected to announce restrictions on shipments of beef cattle …
IN WHAT could prove to be a breakthrough in containing environmental impacts of white asbestos globally, India has agreed to label the mineral hazardous under the UN’s Rotterdam Convention. This is a historic shift in stance, as India has always claimed there was not sufficient data on the health risks …
Chrysotile asbestos will not be listed as a hazardous industrial chemical that can be banned from import after countries including Canada and Ukraine blocked consensus, a United Nations spokesman said Friday. The decision was taken at a meeting of states that have ratified the Rotterdam Convention despite the treaty's scientific …
Continuing manufacture of polythene bags along with lax law enforcement is blamed by environmentalists for the increased use of non-biodegradable polythene bags. Save the Environment Movement president Abu Naser Khan blamed the government authorities for failing to implement the ban on the bags saying that their enforcement operations were very …