Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
FIVE persons, including three brothers, were asphyxiated to death after poisonous gas emanated from a chemical tank which they were cleaning at a leather factory at Vaniyambadi on Friday. Vaniyambadi DSP Gurusamy said that on Friday morning, a group of five contract labourers were cleaning the chemical tanks in a …
V NarayanaMurthi | ENS A PROPOSAL to reclaim the tannery polluted lands of the Vellore district using the process of bio-remediation through bamboo cultivation is being advocated by the fulltime member of the State Planning Commission Dr G Kumaravelu. A retired IFS officer who has served in Vellore earlier, Kumaravelu …
V Narayana Murthi | ENS They were accused of dumping untreated effluents in Palar river THE tanneries in Ambur and Vaniyambadi regions have been given a deadline up to this month end to complete the installation of the reverse osmosis system for treating effluents through individual and common treatment plants. …
TANNERIES in and around Chennai are dumping about 3,000 kilolitres of waste per day into the city's water- ways and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board is working out strate- gies to make the units adhere to zero discharge, according to R Ramachan- dran, member secretary, TNPCB. At a seminar …
After the administration and Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) drastically failed to meet its dead line of 2008 to preserve the natural water source
ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad High Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh Government to ensure that the tanneries in Kanpur are shifted to localities from where discharge of effluents into the Ganga can be effectively checked. Hearing a public interest litigation drawing attention to the pollution in the river, a Division Bench …
LUCKNOW: Several teams constituted by the UP Pollution Control Board inspected 44 tanneries in Kanpur district on Wednesday. The teams were constituted by the UPPCB as a follow-up to an order passed by the Allahabad High Court early in November. The bench comprising justice Ashok Bhushan and justice Arun Tandon …
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh could boast of owning the country's biggest leather complex, if plans of UP State Industrial Development Corporation (UPSIDC) actualise. In a significant move, the corporation is planning to set up a Leather Park sprawling over an area of 1,500 acre in Unnao, bordering Kanpur district. "The UPSIDC …
Most shoes and leather goods sold in rich countries come from factories in developing and newly industrialising countries, where production costs are low. At first sight, this arrangement serves all parties involved: consumers in the wealthy nations get cheap products, and jobs are created in poor countries. However, there is …
An ecofriendly method, involving mild organic acids to hydrolyse delimed tannery fleshings (TF), has been developed. Combination of formic acid and propionic acid (1:1) was employed to obtain hydrolysates with higher degree of hydrolysis (DH). Better antioxidant properties were obtained by response surface method (RSM) using a factorial design. Effect …
In a heartening follow-up to the release of Rs 50 crore each by the Centre and the state government for the cleaning of the Buddha Nullah, a team of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) today visited the city for a ground-level assessment of the problem before recommending a unified …
Following a report by Greenpeace calling out a number of companies whose supply chains have been connected to rainforest deforestation, Nike has created a policy to not source leather from cattle raised in the Amazon rainforest (the company says it already does not source from there) and will require that …
All owners dead except one after a trial lasting 25 years, a special court in Lucknow convicted the owners of a tannery for polluting river water. On June 2, the court sentenced the owners of East India Leather Company to six months
Leather-making is a processing industry with both socio-economic and environmental implications. Conventional leather processing is associated with the discharges of significant amount of environmental contaminants. Researchers at the Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Chennai have developed a novel green technology for leather processing. It uses enzymes (biocatalysts)and other integrated technological …
LUCKNOW: It took nearly 22 long years for UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to get a leather industry booked under Water Pollution Control Act, for discharging untreated effluent into a river in Barabanki. On Tuesday, the board announced that a special judicial magistrate court in Lucknow has ordered six months …
In developing countries, weak environmental regulatory institutions often undermine conventional command-and-control policies. As a result, these countries are increasingly experimenting with alternative approaches that aim to leverage nonregulatory
Giridih, May 18: They are political foes, but pollution friends. Putting behind the Lok Sabha election results, BJP and JMM have come together to voice concern over the rising level of pollution in the district. Leaders of both the parties today drew the attention of Giridih deputy commissioner Vandana Dadel …
May 7: In the backdrop of 500 people taking ill due to water contamination in and around Bholakpur, concerned citizens have voiced their apprehension over the functioning of animal skin and hides trade in the area even as government officials were trying to pass the buck. Officially, no tanneries are …
