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MUMBAI: The BMC will not allow more than two cellphone towers to be installed on rooftops.

The BMC will set up a special cell to look into cell tower radiation violations in the city, said Additional Municipal Commissioner Aseem Gupta at the civic general body meeting on Friday.

Municipal councillors also demanded that a survey of all mobile towers in the city be undertaken to see if they are complying with the Central government norms.

Putting up cell sites, or mobile phone towers, as they are popularly known, atop residential buildings will now be a tall order.

Environment Minister S Shivanna has said that an experts’ meeting will be convened soon to discuss measures the Environment Department or Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) can take up to contain adverse effects of radiation of cellphone towers.

The Minister, in a statement issued here, said a meeting of officials of the departments of health, medical education, urban development, telecommunications, the KSPCB, Visvesvaraya Technological University and Indian Institute of Science will be held in a week’s time. This would help in preparing a legislation to check the health hazards caused by cellphone tower radiation.

More than five hundred pigeons have dropped dead at a village in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district over the last four days, causing residents, some of them pigeonkeepers, to fear that something was amiss.

More than five hundred pigeons suddenly dropped dead at a village in Bihar's Bhagalpur district over the last four days, causing residents, some of them pigeon-keepers, to fear that something was a

More than five hundred pigeons suddenly dropped dead at a village in Bihar's Bhagalpur district over the last four days, causing residents, some of them pigeon-keepers, to fear that something was a

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan high court on Friday took a strong note of the Union telecom secretary's letter directing the state chief secretary not to order removal of mobile phone towers from hospitals.

As the high court had earlier ordered that the towers be instantly removed from the school and hospital buildings, the division bench headed by chief justice Arun Kumar Mishra said the Union secretary's letter was tantamount to contempt of court.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a public interest litigation seeking stricter radiation norms for cell phone towers, saying the regulatory mechanism framed by the government two

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a public interest litigation petition that sought a directive to the Union government to appoint an independent regulator to monitor radiation from mobile phone towers.

A Bench of Justices H. L. Dattu and C. K. Prasad told Prashant Bhushan, who appeared for the Centre for Public Interest Litigation, that the government had laid down the emission norms only in September and as such it should be given some more time to enforce them — and tighten them, if need be. “For the present, we are not inclined to admit the PIL [petition].”

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