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 …
Irked by curbs on milk, cotton and sugar exports, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stating that the government’s policies are hurting farmers who are being asked to subsidise the industry. Mr Pawar wrote to the Prime Minister on Tuesday, a …
JODHPUR: Union Textile and Commerce & Industry minister Anand Sharma on Saturday, while expressing concern over the closed textile units, announced to set up a high level committee to look into the damages caused by the textile industry to the local environment and ecology at Jodhpur, Barmer and Pali. Headed …
The Killer Jeans Campaign, launched in November 2010, called on major brands and retailers to stop sandblasting, a method of giving jeans a worn-out look. The process can seriously damage worker's health if performed without suitable protective equipment. Over 40 major brands and retailers have issued a ban on sandblasting …
The Thai International textile manufacturing plant in Perunurai, discharges significant volume of wastewater each day. The pH level must be controlled to meet requirements for safe discharge. This modern textile dye facility processes cotton fabric using color dye stuffs and proprietary chemicals.
Fifteen textile processing units that were closed for violation of rules, were found being operated once again and dumping huge amount of untreated effluents in water sources near Bhavani. The units were sealed again on Wednesday. Following widespread complaints from the public, a team of officials from revenue department and …
Landlords who let out space will also be punished The district co-ordination committee, which was established based on the Madras High Court order to monitor the polluting industrial units, has decided to initiate criminal action against the owners of illegal textile processing units and those providing lands on rent to …
Those providing lands on rent to such units will also be punished The district co-ordination committee, which was established based on the Madras High Court order to monitor the polluting industrial units, has decided to initiate criminal action against the owners of illegal textile processing units and those providing lands …
Committee fears more textile mills, importing nations may switch to polyester India’s recent flipflop over a ban on cotton exports has created uncertainty in the market, according to countries that produce, trade and consume the item. The twin development could, in the long term, encourage more textile mills around the …
A team of officials from Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) demolished 11 unauthorised textile processing units in Erode town and its suburbs on Tuesday. The units were found functioning in Rasampalayam, SSP Nagar, and Kongampalayam and dumping huge amount of untreated, toxic effluents in the water sources. Officials demolished …
The Bhavani Municipality has a quick-fix method to clean up the holy site of Kooduthurai. It removes the waste from the holy site and dumps it into the Cauvery River. So, the more spruced up and clean Kooduthurai is, the dirtier Cauvery will be. Kooduthurai, where the Rivers Bhavani, Cauvery …
Notification today; GoM will work out riders Allies of the ruling United Progressive Alliance have again forced the Manmohan Singh government to take a step back, this time over the ban on cotton exports. The government has now announced that a new notification revoking the ban imposed on March 5 …
NEW DELHI: The commerce ministry said on Friday it would allow cotton cleared by customs before March 4 to be exported, easing a controversial blanket ban the world's second largest producer had imposed this week and which had fired international prices. India unexpectedly banned exports on Monday to ensure adequate …
New Delhi: Ali Husain Ansari, a weaver of embroidered Mughal textiles and owner of Abdul Ghani Silk in Varanasi town of northern India, says he has not benefited from the government’s financial package for weavers announced in December 2011. “All the money sanctioned by the government has gone to cooperative …
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has demolished a total of 11 textile processing units operated illegally in different parts of the Erode block during the last seven days. The board, along with the Revenue Department, re-launched the drive against the polluting textile processing and tannery units in the …
Canals in Erode district not maintained properly Farmers in the district have appealed to the district administration to initiate criminal action against the owners of polluting textile processing and tannery units in the district. Many farmers, who spoke at the grievances redressal meeting, wanted the administration to step up its …
TNPCB's drive against polluting industrial units on Five textile processing units, found functioning illegally in Erode, were demolished on Tuesday.Continuing the drive against polluting industrial units for the second day on Tuesday, officials from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board identified four unauthorised textile processing units operating in Muthalithottam area …
People in Kanpur have learnt patience from the Ganga which takes in all the effluence from the ever-growing illegal tanneries here. Neither of them ever had a choice.
Jaipur: Former environment minister Maneka Gandhi visited Jaitpur area in the Pali district on Sunday as she was invited by the farmers to take up the issue of Bandi river, which is getting polluted by industrial waste and making agricultural land infertile. Gandhi inspected the area and said those responsible …
Surat: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) chairman Dr KU Mistry said more development means more responsibilities for the industries, adding that growth at the cost of environment can’t take place. He said pollution level has to be monitored and accountability of the industries fixed. “We are not against industries, but …
The growing need for land for industrial and residential purposes has resulted in lands under agriculture shrinking by 10 to 15 per cent per annum in Coimbatore, Erode and Tirupur districts. Top officials in the Agriculture Department, pointing out to the statistics discussed by the State Planning Commission at its …
