Sounding the blood vessels

Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences has become the country's first hospital to launch a new technique to detect artherosclerosis -- a disease of the blood vessels caused by cholesterol deposition within the arteries.

Research rights

THE board of governors of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has cleared a policy on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), anticipating a steep increase in the scale of industry-sponsored and collaborative research.

Ridge riddle

The Delhi government is in a quandary about declaring the Delhi Ridge a reserved forest. Claims to the area must be settled by the forest settlement officer before the government can issue a final notification under the Indian Forest Act on the status of the Ridge. However, only about 50 of the thousands of claims were filed by the last date of December 12 in response to a government gazette notification.

How green was the Capital

COMMITMENT to the environment is visible in every page of this small book. Gitanjali Singhal doesn't merely take note of the fact that Delhi's green areas are in for trouble from human acts of folly, but also suggests a line of action. This book aims at empowering Delhi's citizens with the information they need to protect the city's embattled greens.

Fun time for fungi

The internal environment of hospitals in Delhi may pose a health threat to patients due to high concentrations of airborne fungi. This was revealed in a recently published report based on a study conducted by the Delhi-based Centre for Biochemical Technology (CBT), a laboratory run by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Fenced out

ENVIRONMENTAL activists and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been shouting themselves hoarse for a more stringent conservation of the Delhi Ridge. Ironically, the Delhi Administration's favourable response to the issue has sparked off widespread resentment among villages in a section of the so-called lung of Delhi.

The night the air turned poisonous

THE residents of Kardampuri colony in East Delhi woke up to a noxious nightmare in the wee hours of November 13. Toxic fumes from a heap set afire by a local junk dealer sent them scurrying out of their beds. The panicky exodus of reeling men, women and children put paid to all India's claims of having created a crisis management system.

Joy of learning can be a pain

THE National Joy of Learning Festival for children opened on November 7, 1994, at New Delhi amidst much fanfare. The festival was jointly organised by the All India People's Science Network and the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti (BGVS). Inaugurating the festival, Yashpal, former chairperson of the University Grants Commission, stressed, "Mazaa (fun) is very important.

Tram trouble

The high-speed trams (HST) project, a pet scheme of the Delhi government and the Union ministry of surface transport, is yet to obtain the mandatory sanction from the Delhi Urban Arts Commission (DUAC).

'I will not say Delhi is an environmental disaster'

Your government inherited a much-polluted Delhi... Interviewee:  Madan Lal Khurana