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 …
Warm nights impacting Output, Shows Study Based On 50 Yrs of data S Sanandakumar KOCHI ACOMMODITY that has wide industrial use and is largely produced by one million small growers, rubber always makes headlines whenever there are price fluctuations. While growers try to maximise their returns from the crop, user …
It took 10 years for the pollution load of industry to double, and then it took just three more years for this to rise by 50 per cent Sunil K Sinha / April 6, 2010, 0:30 IST An important outcome of the economic liberalisation and changes in industrial policy initiated …
The Department of Forest is apparently depleting the Madhupur Sal Forest through implementation of different donor-funded afforestation projects, which mainly plant exotic trees of commercial value. The majority of the donor-funded projects in the past or the projects the government and development partners plan to implement shortly are about planting …
KOTTAYAM: Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi said that the Government should come forward to provide financial support to the farmers for overcoming the aftereffects of the economic slowdown in the agricultural sector. Speaking at the inaugural function of the All-Kerala Rubber Farmers Meet organised by Rubber Mark …
KOCHI: The Centre should sanction a loan of Rs 100 crore to the crisis-ridden Rubber Marketing Federation and the societies under it to tide over the present crisis, said T H Musthafa, president, Rubber Marketing Federation. Musthafa told reporters here on Thursday that the minimum support price of rubber should …
XISHUANGBANNA, China: On a map on the ecologist Liu Wenjie's computer, the subtropical southern tip of Yunnan Province is slowly turning from green to red. Rubber plantations, shown in red on Liu's computer screen, have supplanted nearly all the low-lying forest in the prefecture of Xishuangbanna and are now starting …
FEATURE - Rubber Trees For Tyre Industry Shrink China Rainforests CHINA: April 8, 2008 XISHUANGBANNA - On a map on ecologist Liu Wenjie's computer, the subtropical southern tip of China's Yunnan province is slowly turning from green to red. Rubber plantations -- shown in red on Liu's computer screen -- …
Tripura government is contemplating to utilise unused land across the state to make the state one of the major rubber producing states around the globe. The landlocked state, which has already become the second largest producing state in the country, will emerge as one of the best rubber producing zones …
Benzene is a human carcinogen. Exposure to benzene occurs in occupational and environmental settings. The researcher evaluated data from a cohort of 1,845 rubber hydrochloride workers. Benzene exposure
Most firms that process rubber in Sri Lanka do not comply with national water pollution control standards. This study seeks to estimate a pollution tax that could motivate firms to meet these standards. The authors use data from 62 rubber producing firms in Sri Lanka over three years to estimate …
the recent Supreme Court (sc) order revoking the ban on the import of natural rubber under the Advanced Licence Scheme (als) has split the sector down the middle. While it has spelt gloom for over 10 lakh small and marginal rubber growers nationwide, the recent sc directive has been welcomed …
US engineers have developed a smart tyre that tells drivers when it needs replacing or inflating. Wen Ko, an engineer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and a team at the tyre manufacturing company Goodyear, which was led by William Dunn, have designed and patented tiny pressure and …
AFTER threshing, rice husk is considered fit only for burning. But scientists at the Delhi-based Shriram Institute of Research have been able to extract an industrially useful product from the ashes of rice husk. They have perfected a process that transforms the waste into an extremely pure form of silica …
