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 …
Focus on making water fit for drinking The dyeing industry in Ludhiana, which is responsible for polluting the Buddha Nullah, has been asked to come out with clean hands on its discharge levels, besides working to the extent of making treated water fit for human consumption. Central Pollution Control Board …
THE Dyers Association of Tirupur (DAT) has postponed its indefinite strike scheduled for Monday to December 1, following an assurance from the State government that the issue of levying a fine ordered by the SC would be looked into in six weeks. After an executive committee meeting of the association …
THE Thamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangam has demanded the closure of all dyeing units along the Noyyal, Cauvery and Bavani rivers and the Kalingarayan canal to protect farm lands from pollution. Sangam's state president Dr M R Sivasamy told reporters on Tuesday that the sangam would stage a demonstration in front of …
Tirupur units plan to suspend operations from October 26 Tirupur: The knitwear production in Tirupur cluster is all set to come to a standstill as the entire 528 dyeing units affiliated to Dyers Association of Tirupur (DAT), an important link in the apparel manufacturing chain, have decided to suspend its …
NAMAKKAL: The Namakkal district administration would initiate stern action, if the dyeing units that were closed for violation of rules, were found being operated once again. The administration had found 138 dyeing units functioning without proper approval from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and polluting the Cauvery River in …
Supreme Court judgement dated 06/10/2009 on river Noyyal pollution. The Court was of the opinion that there has been unabated pollution by the members of Tirupur Dyeing Factory Owners. They cannot escape the responsibility to meet out the expenses of reversing the ecology. They are bound to meet the expenses …
THE Madras High Court has ordered the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to go through the report filed by the monitoring committee and submit a timeframe by which it intends to take action for lack of corrective measures by units or common effluent treatment plants located in Karur district. …
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to go through a report by a monitoring committee and submit a timeframe by which it intended to take corrective measures with regard to dyeing units in three villages of Karur town. A Division Bench, comprising …
Mushrooming of dyeing units contributes to the high level of pollution Legal cell demands setting up of an SC Bench in Chennai Tirupur: The Tirupur district unit of the All India Congress Committee
Modern houses are suffused with harmful chemicals. One of them is lead, present in paints. It is banned in several countries but not in India. The Centre for Science and Environment tested popular paints in India for lead content. It found 72 per cent of the samples had lead much …
We found staggeringly high levels of lead in virtually all samples we checked When paint companies were asked about their plans to phase out lead, three responded by doing so in months. It was in early 2008 that my colleagues at the Centre for Science and Environment had tested household …
Natural Product Antifoulants (NPAs) have been proposed as one of the best replacement options for the most successful antifouling agent, tri-n-butyl tin (TBT), which, due to its ecological incompatibility, is currently facing total global ban imposed by International Maritime Organization (IMO). Realizing the importance, commercial and industrial, of immediately finding …
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 …
The Punjab government has succeeded in brokering peace with the dyeing and textile industry of this city which is in the dock for causing pollution in the "buddha nullah" by taking the authority to regulate it from the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) and giving it to the Central Pollution …
They will study and submit the report by Aug 13 THE Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has formed five teams to inspect the already established Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETP) in Tirupur, following a Supreme Court order. As the CETPs were not inspected by the TNPCB even after the …
