by Pooja | Oct 8, 2021 | News
A silicosis screening test kit for early detection of the disease was jointly developed by Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), National Institute for Occupational Health, Ahmedabad and ICMR-National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune. Silicosis is a long-term...
by Pooja | Sep 24, 2021 | News
New air quality norms released by the World Health Organization on Wednesday are likely to ignite a fresh round of discussion on air pollution in India. These norms would make India appear worse than it already looked under the existing norms. Considering the current...
by Pooja | Sep 23, 2021 | News
Rivers are fundamental landscape components that provide vital ecosystem services, including drinking water supplies, habitat, biodiversity, and attenuation of downstream fluxes of water, sediment, organic carbon, and nutrients. Extensive research has been devoted to...
by Pooja | Sep 23, 2021 | News
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday released stringent air quality guidelines, lowering the recommended levels of pollutants that can be considered safe for human health. While a PM2.5 concentration of 25 micrograms per cubic metre in a 24-hour period was...
by Pooja | Sep 22, 2021 | News
Over one crore unorganised workers have registered themselves at e-Shram portal, the labour ministry said on Sunday. More than 1 crore unorganised workers registered at e-Shram portal, which is India’s first national database on unorganised workers, the ministry said...
by Pooja | Sep 21, 2021 | News
Electronic waste (e-waste) is the fastest-growing stream of waste globally. The world produced around 53.6 million tonnes of e-waste in 2019, out of which only 17.4 per cent was recycled, a recent report by the United Nations (2020) found. The agency even termed this...
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