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 …
Leakage of radioactive elements SHILLONG: The current controversy about leakage of radioactive wastes from Delhi University which claimed one life and has affected many should make all other universities using radioactive matter for experiments to sit up and take notice. According to scientists in the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) …
Stricter disposal guidelines planned for infectious wastes, penalties to be imposed for violations The Delhi government will announce new, stricter guidelines for disposal of bio-medical waste by hospitals. The decision came after the recent incident of radioactive waste ending up in Mayapuri scrap market that claimed a life, and a …
On April 10, 2007, a uranium pipeline burst in Jaduguda, causing a spill of the fuel that keeps our nuclear energy schemes running. Further, adds Half Life, a report on radioactivity in India by environmental group Toxic Links, on August 16, 2008, another uranium pipe burst, spewing houses near the …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday asked the University Grants Commission (UGC) to immediately frame guidelines for procurement, transport, storage and disposal or all hazardous material, including chemicals and radioactive substances, used for research in universities. Mr. Sibal took the decision at a meeting …
R. Ramachandran Replying to a calling attention notice on April 19 in the Rajya Sabha on the radiological accident at Mayapuri in Delhi, Minister of State for Atomic Energy Prithviraj Chavan claimed that India had strict rules and regulations to keep track of radiological sources registered with the Atomic Energy …
Urvashi Sarkar NEW DELHI: Two days after the source of radioactive material that killed one and left several others ill was traced to Delhi University's Chemistry Department, Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental on Friday said the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board team had been requested to investigate all claims pertaining to the presence …
New Delhi: Making it clear that research in universities would go on, HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Friday asked the University Grants Commission to immediately frame guidelines on procurement, transport, storage and disposal of radioactive material for research. Sibal will also be writing to his cabinet colleagues in ministries like …
New Delhi: Professor B K Sharma, who had last used the gamma irradiator in Delhi University 25 years back, said the chemistry department should not have disposed of the instrument in the first place. Speaking to Times City on Friday, 82-year-old B K Sharma said,
New Delhi: Even as Delhi University tried to fend off criticism over the way university handled a gamma irradiator that had cobalt-60 in it, scientists familiar with radioactive material questioned how even basic safety norms were not followed at DU for the past two decades. According to nuclear physicists, the …
NEW DELHI: The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has asked the Delhi University authorities to suspend all activities involving use of radiation sources. The directive follows the tracing of a radio-active material that caused the death of a person of a scrap shop and injuries to several others in Mayapuri …
Thirty-five Delhi government doctors are undergoing training in treatment of chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear (CBRN) injuries following Monday
The discovery of radioactive Cobalt 60 sources stored as scrap in New Delhi's Mayapuri locality by the Department of Atomic Energy and the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board is a clear pointer to the need for a stronger mechanism to monitor such dangerous waste. At least one person has received a …
Liability provisions should be revised periodically to ensure they are adequate and aligned with international practice Anshu Bharadwaj / April 22, 2010, 0:09 IST The government has recently drafted the
Days after several persons were hospitalised after exposure to radioactive waste at a West Delhi scrap market, it emerges that the only data available with the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) is almost three years old. And even that is alarming: 5,300 tonnes of hazardous waste was generated in the …
Minister of state for science & technology Prithviraj Chavan was clearly on the backfoot when he admitted in the Rajya Sabha that the Cobalt 60 detected in a west Delhi scrap market had been brought in undetected from abroad. This deadly consignment was found in Delhi
New Delhi: The radioactive waste, identified as cobalt-60, found in the Mayapuri scrap market last week could have come from more than one source, claims the report submitted by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board to Delhi Police. The report, however, did not specify where the radioactive waste might have come …
Was Carrying Cobalt-60 Pin Given To Him By First Victim New Delhi: Eight days after six people landed in hospital with severe health complications following exposure to radioactive radiation in Mayapuri junk market, another scrap dealer has been admitted at Max Hospital in Pitampura with similar symptoms. Ajay Jain, who …
