Diatom Examination From Ganga River at Vindhyachal - A Forensic Approach

Status Paper for River Ganga

Chemical Contaminants and Toxicity of Ganga River Sediment from Up and Down Stream Area at Kanpur

The objective of this study was the sediment quality assessment of Ganga River at Kanpur city where effluents from tannery industries are discharged. Sediment samples from upstream and downstream area were collected and analyzed for trace metals and toxicity bioassay. Among various trace metals examined Cr in downstream sediment was 30-fold higher than in upstream sediment and its concentration...

DO-BOD modeling of River Ganga from Devprayag to Roorkee, India using BMKB model

The idea of systems analysis and mathematical modeling for formulating and resolving river pollution issues is of relatively recent vintage and has been applied widely in the last 3 decades. The present study illustrates the utility of Beck-modified Khanna–Bhutiani model (BMKB) to determine the pollution load due to the presence of organic matter in River Ganga from its course from Devprayag to...

Dementia and cognitive disorder identified at a forensic psychiatric examination - a study from Sweden

BACKGROUND Few studies have addressed the relationship between dementia and crime. We conducted a study of persons who got a primary or secondary diagnosis of dementia or cognitive disorder in a forensic psychiatric examination. METHODS In Sweden, annually about 500 forensic psychiatric examinations are carried out. All cases from 2008 to 2010 with the diagnoses dementia or cognitive disorder...

Heavy metal contamination of Ganga river at Varanasi in relation to atmospheric deposition

We investigated the mid stream water quality of Ganga river as influenced by aerially driven heavy metals at Varanasi, India. Twelve sampling stations were selected along a 20 km long stretch of the river. Mid stream sub-surface water samples collected at fortnightly intervals from all the sites were acid digested and analyzed for Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn. The data revealed that the mid-stream...