Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
THE governments of the industrialised countries, shaky about meeting their present commitment to roll back their co2 emissions to the 1990 level, launched a 3-pronged attack in the February 17 Climate Change Convention in New York. The strategy was meant to loft the ball for such reductions to newly-industrialised countries …
THE industrialised countries are back to their pre-Rio game of chess. They imposed their narcissistic environmental agenda on the economically atremble South by virtually bamboozling it into signing the treaty on climate change in 1992. Three years later, the North has not only reneged on its commitments, but also seems …
Britain's us $28 billion roads programme will now receive a touch of green. End-January, the government unveiled plans to establish a new unit which will lead in planning, construction and maintenance of the country's 30 trunk roads and motorway schemes. A bulk of the work will involve coordinating the Highway …
A haze of polluted air has dimmed the glitter of the country's financial capital. A study conducted by the Maharashtra government with support from the World Bank revealed that increasing levels of carbon monoxide, suspended particulate matter and oxides of nitrogen had caused a proliferation of heart and respiratory diseases …
ALL White student bodies in the state schools of South Africa are now liberally punctuated with Blacks. Starting January 11-17, these institutions opened their gates to Black children in their vicinity. A bitter controversy had marred the first "registration days" in model-c schools around Johannesburg, set up by the erstwhile …
LAST autumn, the Greenhouse Debate -- one of the objectives of the Greenhouse Tour (Down To Earth, December 31, 1994) -- organised by Friends of the Earth (FOE)-Netherlands, sought to show how Dutch society can contribute towards reducing energy consumption. The stated objective of 50 per cent less carbon dioxide …
Genetically engineered food produced from crops which will not rot will now be savoured by the British. Zeneca Group Plc has just received a green signal from the UK to launch cans of genetically-processed tomato paste in the market. British consumers are familiar with genetically modified yeasts and enzymes used …
ENVIRONMENTALISTS opposing the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) decision permitting South Africa to trade in live white rhinos did not have to wait long to see their worst fears come true. Hardly a month after the proposal was passed at the November 1994 CITES convention held in …
Friday namaz congregations in Pakistan may never be the same again. Alarmed by the rising incidence of AIDS, plans are afoot to have religious leaders deliver sermons on the disease. The government is already preparing a text on AIDS for the devotees. Although official sources claim that the programme has …
The European Commission's (EC) attempt to devise a common carbon energy tax has fallen apart. At a meeting in Brussels in mid-December 1994, European environment ministers gave their assent to the adoption of individual measures by member-states to cut down carbon dioxide emissions. uk environment minister John Gummer said that …
IT WAS as if the sun that had slipped below the horizon less than an hour ago decided to stay up late and have a ball. With bang that could be heard 10 km away, an orange-red flame leapt up into the sky at the Oil and Natural Gas Commission …
Microsoft, the US computer software giant, has firsthand experience of its products being pirated in China. Despite burgeoning demand for personal computers -- China imports between 500,000 and 700,000 a year -- the company's application programmes have bombed in the Chinese market. One pirated compact disk crammed with Microsoft programmes, …
A World Bank environmental strategy plan warns that the Middle East and North Africa are heading for an environmental disaster. The report says that a quarter of the Arab World has no access to safe water supplies, while 1/5th of its population lives in cities with "unacceptable levels" of air …
IN A major diplomatic move for nuclear-armed countries, Ukraine, which became the world's 3rd largest nuclear power after the Soviet Union's constituent states disintegrated into nations, signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (npt) in early December 1994. Ukraine's assent to the treaty crowns 3 years of coaxing by Washington to get …
FOR international environmental technology firms, Asia's colossal environmental problems are a business paradise. The darker side of growing economic prosperity and a burgeoning population are the major invites. Plummeting air quality is just one indicator that Asia has much cleaning up to do. According to the World Health Organisation, 12 …
High mountains and deep gorges may no longer daunt the 3 million Nepalese who have to travel extensively in the trading season. A Swiss organisation, Helvetas, is building bridges there and training engineers. It was all praise for the indigenous bridge builders, especially from Baglung. "We studied the Nepali bridges …
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An international panel of engineers and environmentalists, set up to oversee Bangladesh's Flood Action Plan, has criticised the draft "final report" on the plan. The report says that the total bill for the 162 projects will be US $7 billion, against the $1 billion recommendation of donors, according to New …
Cigarette smoke makes a small but detectable contribution to smog, reveals a study conducted by Glen Class, an environmental engineer at the California Institute of Technology. The study reveals that cigarette smoke comprises 1 to 1.3 per cent of the fine particles polluting the air around Los Angeles. Although Class …
The wolf is quite literally at the Russian door. The wolf population in the country has risen from 22,500 in 1990 to 30,000 last winter. Animal-watchers see a close link between the rise in lupine numbers and the economic crisis in the country. Inflationary trends have made a mockery of …
