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 …
Industrialists and regulators are unclear on best practices in India's wastewater management in the textile sector, which generates 1,750 million litres a day (mld). Says Mangilal Gandhi, owner of Sankeshwar Fabrics, Pali: In Pali, though the common effluent treatment plants (CETPs) were designed for effluents from cotton processing, introduction of …
Cotton has a long and tortuous history in India and its ramifications are extremely complex. The origin of the problems of today's cotton farmers was the attempt by the British to introduce long-staple American cotton, which did not suit Indian conditions. This was compounded after independence, when the establishment continued …
This case study reports on how the various stakeholders came together to alleviate the problem of effluents discharged by factories in the industrial estates on the eastern periphery of Ahmedabad into the Kharicut canal that flows into the Khari, a tributary of the Sabarmati.
nylon production generates large quantities of corrosive by-products. Now, a team of two British scientists has developed an environment friendly method to make caprolactam, which is the precursor of nylon. An important textile and industrial fibre, nylon is a polymer (chain) of caprolactam and is used to make a variety …
Pali is a textile town deep in water-scarce Rajasthan. It is well known for the cloth it produces. But it is even better known for the filth it also produces, best seen in the colours in its mostly dry river, the Bandi. Pali's pollution, and the protest of residents and …
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seawater remedy: Hyderabad-based IVRCL Infrastructures and Projects Ltd, a company that specialises in water treatment systems, has bagged a Rs 900 crore seawater desalination project to end Chennai's water crisis and supply drinking water to the city. IVRCL will construct a seawater desalination plant on design, build, own, operate and …
Polluted fabric: Most textile factories in and around Bangladesh's capital Dhaka do not comply with environmental laws and cause severe pollution, the Bangladesh government's Directorate of Environment (DoE) detected recently. Five DoE inspection teams visited 90 factories in Tejgon, Mirpur, Abdullahpur, Gazipur, Sreepur, Rupnagar, and Kaliakoir over five days. A …
In Rajasthan state particularly, textile mills represent an important economic sector. Pali district in Rajasthan has got largest number of textile industries in the State i.e.989 units, mostly engaged in cotton and synthetic textile printing and dyeing. These industries liberate a variety of chemicals, dyes, acids and alkalis besides other …
On April 1, 2005 the Mumbai High Court stayed the sale of textile mill lands in the city. The order was a pleasant surprise to many who have, over the years, seen the state machinery degenerating into a handmaiden of real-estate operators. It was also heartening that the court had …
gm cotton ban: On May 3, 2005, the Union government's Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) barred commercial cultivation of three varieties of genetically modified (GM) cotton hybrids in Andhra Pradesh. The three varieties, manufactured by the Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company Limited, are Mech-12, Mech-162 and Mech-184. They had completed three …
In a rare judgement, an industry official has been sentenced to two years imprisonment in a pollution case by the court of chief judicial magistrate, Thane, Maharashtra. The court held B V Ajhar, administrative manager of Badlapur-based M/S Matushree Textile Limited, guilty for the pollution caused in the Ulhas river …
the district authorities of Coimbatore and Tirupur in Tamil Nadu have cracked down upon industrial units polluting the river Noyyal. Coimbatore and Tirupur are India's major centres for the manufacture of textiles and cotton knitwear, respectively. In the second week of March 2005, the authorities ordered the erring units to …
Colours are inescapably embedded in everyday life. So it’s critical to know, and to regulate, the way they operate. Having said that, it’s not easy to recognise the problems associated with their use. Adulteration in food colours, or allergic reactions to elements in fabric apart, consumers are unaware of problems …
In the last decades of the 18th century, a garrulous North American was a conspicuous presence in the working class colonies of Manchester, England. He also frequented working class localities in other parts of England, and in Ireland. This was Thomas Atwood Digges, the scion of a wealthy family in …
chinese scientists have mapped the genome (genetic make-up) of silkworm (Bombyx mori), a moth economically important to a large number of people in Asia, including about six million in India. The work, by a battery of 93 scientists drawn from several Chinese institutions, appeared in the December 10 issue of …
A disaster is brewing in Belgaum and we are on the brink of committing suicide. We have lost our traditional jobs and do not know how to feed our children. In spite of running from pillar to post, no government support has come to us. Please write about our plight …
The dynamics of trade in textiles and clothing will change dramatically. The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (atc) under the World Trade Organization (WTO) allows some developed countries to maintain import restraints on textiles and clothing products from some high-volume low-cost developing countries. By January 1, 2005, these restrictions would …
statistics with the Union ministry of textiles (mot) point at a major slump in the textile industry. Textile mills have been downing their shutters at an average rate of one mill per week. The fact that the textile industry is the second largest employer in the country accentuates the severity …
