Greenpeace [a non-governmental environmental organisation] on Wednesday urged the government not to provide subsidised diesel to profit-making telecom sector for running Mobile Towers, and force them to shift to greener energy solutions like solar-powered towers to check pollution being emitted from generators which are used to run around four lakh towers across the country. Releasing its report – ‘Dirty talking: A case for telecom to shift from diesel to renewable'– the...

Radiation from mobile phones and towers poses serious health risks, including loss of memory, lack of concentration, disturbance in the digestive system and sleep disturbances, according to an inter-ministerial committee formed by the ministry of communications and information technology to study the hazards posed by mobile phones. The committee has also attributed the disappearance of butterflies, bees, insects and sparrows vanishing from big cities to mobile phone-related radiation. The eight-member committee, which...

An ongoing study on radiation from Mobile Towers and mobile phones at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has found that the exposure to radiation from Mobile Towers and mobile phones could have an adverse impact on male fertility and also pose health hazards by depleting the defence mechanism of cells. Though these findings are based on experiments on male rats, Jitendra Behari, a professor in JNU's School of Environmental Sciences and...

Currently, there are more than 50 crore cell phone users and nearly 4.4 lakh cell phone towers to meet the communication demand in the country. And the numbers of cell phones and cell towers are increasing each day without a careful study of major health risks due to radiation from cell phone and cell tower. IIT professor Girish Kumar, who has documented a detailed analysis of disadvantages of cell phone technology in...

Taking a strong view against operators who have failed to self-certify their base transceiver stations mounted on Mobile Towers, Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot on Monday asked the Department of Telecommunications to conduct random checks of all BTS for electromagnetic radiation and impose a fine on those found violating the norms. While talking to The Hindu, Mr. Pilot said there would be no further extension of deadline...