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Mining turns India's heat-shield hills to dustDizzyingly deep pits from large-scale mining scar India's ancient Aravalli mountains, threatening the future of a forested buffer that New ...- Rajasthan’s White Wonderland: Marble waste dumping yard becomes scenic hotspot despite toxic risksKishangarh's vast white marble waste dumping yard draws thousands daily. Once a pollution hotspot, it now attracts tourists for its unique ...
- Word of the Day: PneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisPneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word famous for its length, describes a lung disease caused by inhaling fine silica dust, ...
- In India's mining belt, women spark hope with solar lampsSantosh Devi is proud to have brought light -- and hope -- to her hamlet in western India, taking up solar engineering through a programme ...
- In Rajasthan's Chambal, wives of ex-dacoits lead revival of water sources and hopeIn Rajasthan's Karauli, women, facing drought-driven despair and men turning to dacoity, spearheaded a water conservation movement. Partner...
- Economic Survey: Adoption of AI in Indian healthcare sector faces several challengesThe National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (2018), developed by NITI Aayog, outlined how AI could tackle issues of quality, accessib...
- 'White lung syndrome' hits children in the US. What it is, symptoms, treatment & moreReferred to as 'White Lung Syndrome Pneumonia' due to its distinctive appearance on scans, this illness predominantly impacts children aged...
- How Noida’s twin towers demolition affects health. Here’s everything you must knowThe health effects of Noida Twin Towers' demolition are now being discussed as the action on Sunday caused a spike in air pollution levels ...
- World Tuberculosis Day: Disease causes infertility, only lungs are at serious danger, and other myths bustedTB is one of the most-misunderstood diseases with many misconceptions surrounding it.
- Vision ahead: National Human Rights Commission hopes to earn more teethThe National Human Rights Commission, since its inception, has impacted human lives and striven for justice, liberty and equality for all, ...
- India's mining state steps up fight to rein in killer silicosisCertification helps patients claim compensation; since October 2013, the state's paid Rs1 lakh relief each to 3,888 of the 5,307 certified ...
- Silicosis deaths: Supreme Court stays bailable warrant against CPCB head"We are allowing the prayer and he is directed to appear before the court on date fixed that is June 30," the court said.
- Silicosis threat looms large in mining area: 10 deaths in 2015He further claimed that no security and or safety measures were in place in the mines which led to the occurrence of the fatal disease in l...
- Trapped in a gold dustbowl: Residents of Kolar Gold Fields hope revival of mining will lead to better daysWhile they wait, the mounds of mining waste that have come up in the area pose a health hazard, a concern that’s low on the priority list o...
- NHRC to discuss list of 13 issues with Haryana bureaucrats in ChandigarhSome Haryana officials have been grumbling about whether all the subjects that will be part of the “discussion” come under the commission’s...
- National Green Tribunal asks DPCC to inspect marble cutting units in DelhiNGT also asked the DPCC to report on the technology being used for marble cutting while stressing on precautions.
- Third-party professionals to check construction firms' compliance with labour safety normsCurrently, around 600 labour safety inspectors appointed by state governments are responsible for ensuring safety at over 3,00,000 construc...
- Silicosis wreaks havoc as illegal stone quarries flurry in RajasthanIn neighbouring Shriji Ka Kheda, which falls in Bhilwara district, more than 70 people from 60 families have died in the past decade of sil...
- Havoc in Aravalis as SC norms are ignoredTOI uncovers a disturbing story of savage exploitation of environment and labour just 36 km from Delhi
- NTPC, HWB sign MoU for air pollution reduction technologyNTPC and HWB signed a Memorandum of Understanding for transfer of Ammonia Fuel Gas Conditioning Technology for implementation in all its po...
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