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 …
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board is to be strengthened to address the challenges posed by increased industrialisation in the State. Moving the demand for grants to the Ministry of Environment, the Minister Mr T.K.M. Chinnayya, said in the Assembly that with the rapid growth of new industrial units in …
Farmers demand adequate compensation for the affected at the grievances day meeting Expressing deep disappointment over the inability of officials to stem the pollution rot plaguing rivers in the district, farmers demanded permanent steps to end pollution in water bodies and sought adequate compensation for affected farmers. Raising their voice …
Dyeing hub faces reversal of fortunes, pollutes area Tiruppur :An 84-year old farmer’s court injunction has converted a booming export hub into a ghost town, causing exports to plummet and businesses to relocate. Dressed in a loincloth, a frail-looking 84-year-old AP Kandaswamy, who is a farmer and also the president …
As many as 21 dyeing units, which were operating illegally in Dharmapuri district for the past one week, were closed by the revenue authorities in association with the District Environment Office, official sources said. A revenue official told The Hindu on Sunday that the illegal units were functioning in and …
Farmers unhappy with nomenclature of the panel members The latest decision of the high-level committee constituted under Union Textiles Secretary to evolve methods to put an end to the losses being suffered by Tirupur entrepreneurs due to closure of dyeing units as well as to revive the closed units, has …
Environment department yesterday snapped utility connections of a dying factory and a spinning factory set up illegally in the protected Gazipur Bhawal National Forest for not paying the monetary penalty imposed on it the previous day. Department of Environment (DoE) fined One Denim Ltd, a dying factory, and One Spinning …
Chamarajanagar: Dyeing units for Tamil Nadu’s readymade garment industry are mushrooming in the border areas of the State, after the Madras High Court banned them in Tirupur of that state over environment pollution. An illegal garment dyeing unit at Terakanambi village. Even as the dyeing units are being set up …
Inordinate delay in issuance and execution of the order to seal the dyeing units caught operating illegally, despite a closure order by the Madras High Court, has raised doubts on the sincerity of officials in enforcing pollution control methods in the Tirupur knitwear cluster. Sealing Sealing of 21 dyeing/ bleaching …
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will give green signal to adoption of any specific technology for ensuring zero liquid discharge (ZLD) in dyeing effluent treatment process only after evaluating merits and demerits of ZLD procedures developed by various firms, according to TNPCB chairman C.V.Sankar. “The final nod will …
Biswas Synthetic, a component of the Biswas Group, was fined Tk 1.44 crore on Monday by the Department of Environment for polluting the water-bodies and cultivable land of Pakuriya Beel in Dhamrai-Ashulia near the capital. A DoE team, led by its director Muhammad Munir Chowdhury, conducted a raid on the …
The Centre has notified constitution of a High Level Inter-Ministerial Committee to address problems related to environment and finance, among others, in Tirupur knitwear industry. The committee is headed by the Union Textiles Secretary. Four more IAS officers, Tirupur Exporters Association president A. Sakthivel and five nominees of TEA and …
A Department of Environment team on Sunday realised Tk 71.36 lakh in fine from two dyeing factories, one in the capital and the other in an area adjacent to it, for not using any effluent treatment plant and thus polluting the River Turag. DoE director (monitoring and enforcement) Munir Chowdhury, …
Members of the Save Tirupur Women's Forum observed a fast here on Wednesday in order to draw attention of the State Government to the crisis prevailing in Tirupur knitwear cluster owing to the closure of dyeing units by the order of Madras High Court. The agitators sought the intervention of …
Some of the world's leading clothing brands rely on Chinese suppliers that pollute rivers with toxic, hormone-disrupting chemicals banned in Europe and elsewhere, environment group Greenpeace said on Wednesday. Adidas, Nike, Puma, Calvin Klein, Lacoste, Abercrombie and Fitch and China's Li Ning were among the global names identified in the …
The Department of Environment (DoE) has fined Barnali Fabrics, a dyeing factory on the bank of Dhaleshwari river in Munshiganj, Tk 25 lakh yesterday on charge of polluting the river with toxic liquid industrial waste. DoE Director (Enforcement) Md Munir Chowdhury conducted a drive at the factory on Saturday and …
Some branded Indian paint companies are producing and marketing toxic paint in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal with lead content being much higher than the 1,000 ppm limit specified by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Since India does not have a mandatory law on lead levels in paint, the …
The Department of Environment yesterday fined dyeing factory Apparel Village Ltd Tk 30.31 lakh for polluting water bodies and cultivable land at Birulia in Savar. The penalty came after a team of Rapid Action Battalion-1 led by DoE Director (monitoring and enforcement) Muhammad Munir Chowdhury conducted a raid on the …
KOLKATA, 23 JUNE: A dye factory located adjacent to the Indian Botanic Garden in Howrah was closed following the environment minister, Mr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar
Level of Total Dissolved Solids has begun to surge Tirupur: Farmers on the banks of the River Noyyal, affected by the discharge of dyeing effluents for almost two decades till the Madras High Court ordered closure of all dyeing units in Tirupur cluster for violation of pollution norms, look worried …
Not ready for any compromise with dyers Stance conveyed to government Tirupur: Farmers living alongside River Noyyal, who faced the brunt of the indiscriminate effluent discharge from dyeing units, are firm on their decision that they would not be ready for any compromise with dyers other than ensuring of zero …
