New Year plea for Indian drivers to silence horns

Indian drivers were asked on Thursday to make a new year’s resolution they seem unlikely to keep: no more endless horn-blowing as they navigate New Delhi’s hectic traffic. January 1 has been designated “No Honking Day” in the capital in the hope of offering some relief from the constant wail of vehicle horns that provide [...]

Pollution solutions for telecom base stations

With the demand for renewable energy solutions going up in the industrial world, Luminous Teleinfra, engaged in manufacturing packaged electrical power and power conditioning products, is offering green solutions for telecom base stations that promises to help operators reduce pollution as well as operating expenses.
The base station subsystem (BSS) is a section of a traditional [...]

Air pollution threats Ranchi city of Jharkhand State

We are already seeing the effects of air pollution in Ranchi city the capital of Jharkhand State of India. It has also affected the climate. From last several years Ranchi is facing extremes of the climate. In year 2005 and 2006 Ranchi had spells of excessive rainfall. In the month of February and March 2007 [...]

CAG’s concern over dumping waste

Concerned over the unchecked practice in Delhi and other states of dumping waste in the open that poses serious health and ecology hazards, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has suggested the “polluter-pay” principle as a deterrent. The recommendation came in the wake of CAG’s finding that authorities (Pollution Control Boards and state governments) hardly pinned responsibility [...]

Clean air, if govt has the will

f Delhi and Bangalore could, why not Kolkata? Why doesn’t the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government act to clean up the city’s air, even when prodded by Calcutta High Court? Why does it keep missing deadlines on auto pollution, ask auto-emission experts and environment activists. The answer: lack of political will. The transition was not easy for either Delhi or [...]

Air pollution forecasting in the offing in India

Air quality forecasting will begin in the country in the near future. Scientists at Pune based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) are working on a model for predicting air pollution levels. This will help the public better manage their health and welfare, the scientists said. ”The model termed as the atmospheric chemical transport’ model will be used [...]

Vedanta refinery pollutes river, sickens people in Orissa.

Vedanta recently invited bureaucrats and glitterati to pat its back on corporate social responsibility activities at its first such meeting. But people living around Vedanta Aluminium Ltd’s one-million-tonne alumina refinery in Lanjigarh in Orissa knew better. They said the refinery was putting their lives and livelihoods at stake; they threatened to launch an agitation.  Read [...]