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 …
When the small and medium-scale industries relocated to Konkan from Nashik, Thane, Pune and Belapur, they were not prepared to incur losses. Two years ago, the state drew up a policy to decongest the Nashik, Thane and Pune corridor by giving incentives such as cheap land and labour to small …
Calcutta, Nov. 17: The Centre has extended till next March a little-known moratorium on setting up “potentially polluting” units in Haldia and Asansol, making it all the more difficult to attract investments in sectors closely identified with the two industrial towns. The sectors that fall under the ban include oil …
Sri Lanka has moved into regulation of hazardous chemicals and monitoring industries that use them. “I am glad to announce today that my Ministry has commenced the process of designing a Chemical Emergency First Responders’ Plan. What is important about this pioneering plan is the global compliance standard we will …
South Asian countries must not allow their beaches to be used as dumping grounds for the chemically contaminated and extremely hazardous ships from the western countries. The ship-breaking in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh has been causing serious environmentally-hazardous issues as the poor and the marganilsed people are forced to work …
A highly toxic Chinese ship, detected with at least “79 deficiencies since 2010” at different ports, is now on its way to a ship-breaking yard in Chittagong for dismantling. The Asia Union, formerly known as MV Humber and MV Cast Otter, is due to enter Bangladesh maritime boundary anytime tomorrow, …
She is contesting against Mrs Nandini Mukherjee of CPI-M, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering in Jadavpur University, in the by-election on 25 September. The seat fell vacant after the state PWD and transport minister Mr Subrata Bakshi resigned. As many as 116 motor garages and engineering workshops have …
A Dutch engineering company is trying to make safer the dangerous job of dismantling old ships contaminated with chemicals - by building the world's first "green dock wharf" in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has long been a final destination for decommissioned ships from around the world. Their scrap metal is valuable, but …
Bangladesh's Supreme Court agreed on Monday to allow ship breaking yards more time to meet tougher safety and environmental rules, allowing them to operate until at least mid-October. Judges backed a lower court's ruling two weeks ago that extended the deadline for the $1.5 billion ship scrap industry to implement …
The crop protection industry has joined hands with Crop Life India, an association of technology-driven agriculture companies, to form an Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force in a bid to check the rampant growth ‘bio-products' laced with chemical insecticides. The major crop protection companies that have joined hands with Crop Life in the …
Seven ship-breaking yards at Sitakund were Thursday fined Tk 36.50 lakh for violating environment protection rules and failure to maintain proper safety measures for the workers. The action was taken after inspection of the ship breaking yards by enforcement team led Environment Directorate chief Monwar Islam.
India opposed the listing of chrysotile asbestos in the PIC list on day two of the Rotterdam Convention. India cited pieces of national evidence suggesting that the substance can be used safely. Sudan too cited the same reasons for opposing the listing of chrysotile asbestos also known as white asbestos. …
ERODE: More than 100 residents staged a demonstration in front of a private textile processing unit in Sipcot premises in Perundurai in Erode district on Thursday protesting against the discharge of untreated effluents into open space. People claimed that the
The chemical industry produces over 100,000 chemicals which have improved the quality of our lives. These chemicals are being produced for purposes ranging from fulfilling domestic and industrial needs, boosting agriculture, making our clothing fire resistant and producing components for our mobile phones or other electronic devices. Every day new …
Into five categories based on richness of biodiversity and other environmental factors The ecologically sensitive areas of Western Ghats, the hill range of which starts near the Maharashtra-Gujarat border running to nearly 1600 km along the States of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and ending at Kanyakumari, will …
Why did you choose public interest litigation (PIL) as a strategy for environmental activism? When we started Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA), the country had just emerged from a long period of martial law. People were distanced from the administration. We wanted to activate the administration and law-makers through judicial …
S. Ramesh No action taken; residents of nearby colonies express concern Attention please:Huge amount of untreated solid effluents from dyeing units being dumped on the sides of Sathy main road at Choolai in Erode, posing serious danger to the environment. ERODE: The mindless dumping of hazardous effluents and tannery chemical …
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has asked all sponge iron industries in the State to follow pollution control measures as per the norms set by the Ministry of Environment and Forests. The KSPCB organised its first ever workshop on
Shillong, Sept. 14: The chief labour commissioner of Meghalaya and his team today wrapped up the visit to Jaintia Hills to ascertain the prevalence of minors working in coal mines and will prepare a report to be submitted to the Union government. According to sources, chief labour commissioner N.K. Prasad, …
Shillong, Sept. 12: The central team to ascertain the number of children working under hazardous situation in the coal mine areas of Jaintia Hills is still in the district and has covered nearly 30 coal mines so far. The seven-member team, led by a chief labour commissioner from New Delhi, …
