Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Ujjwal Sharma Vs Union of India & Others dated 10/01/2025. An application was registered on the basis of a news item titled "1 Kodo poisoning behind elephant deaths in MPs Bandhavgarh All you need to know" …
Washington: When a federal jury in Alaska in 1994 ordered Exxon to pay $5 billion to thousands of people who had their lives disrupted by the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill, an appeal of the nation's largest punitive damages award was inevitable. But almost no one could have predicted the …
Residents of the Madhanatha puram village on the outskirts of Chennai claim that the groundwater in their area is polluted and is depleting fast. And they blame Siva's Soft Drink Private Ltd, a local soft drinks manufacturing company, which produces two brands of soft drinks
there is no end to ghost pipelines in industrial areas in Gujarat. Recently, the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (gpcb) had issued closure notices to 49 private industrial units including three chemical trading units in the Ankleshwar and Panoli industrial areas. The board has also issued show-cause notices to 13 industrial …
one child died and another had his leg amputated after exposure to toxic industrial waste dumped on a plot in Karachi, Pakistan. Two other children also sustained serious burn injuries in the incident that occurred in March. The plot is located in Abidabad in Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (site). Following …
effluents spur boycott: Farmers from Kuppam village in Tamil Nadu's Karur district have declared a boycott of the assembly elections, scheduled for May 8-10, 2006. They allege that effluents from bleaching and dyeing units in Tirupur, upstream of the Noyyal, have seriously affected the village in the past few years. …
The Pentagon has stalled efforts to clean water supplies contaminated by a carcinogenic chemical despite evidence that it posed a significant health risk to millions of people, the Los Angeles Times reported recently. The Environment Protection Agency (epa) had conducted a study in the 1990s to assess the danger of …
The Supreme Court of India recently asked the Union environment and forest secretary to explain the government's failure to implement its 1996 directive measures on sludge removal. These measures were to be implemented in and around eight units in the Bichhadi area of Udaipur. The bench said the failure to …
the Punjab Pollution Control Board (ppcb) has issued notices to about 500 industrial units in Ludhiana over groundwater pollution in the area. The units allegedly discharge their effluents into soaking pits, some of which are 70 feet (just over 20 metres) deep. The industries in question include manufacturing units for …
researchers in Canada have proved that persistent toxic fluorochemicals used in industrialised parts of the world land up in the blood of humans and animals in pristine areas far away, such as the Arctic region. The chance detection of the derivatives of fluorotelomer alcohols, which are carcinogenic, in the cells …
The cement industry is India's ultimate sunshine industry. Up until the 1980s, it was not growing phenomenally. Now it is. After cement was decontrolled in 1989, the industry took off
function table() { var popurl="image/20051215/43_map.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=640,height=250,scrollbars=yes") } In south-west Delhi is Mayapuri, a robust industrial area, divided into two phases. Dye factories, electro-plating and painting units, automobile factories, food-processing units exist cheek-by-jowl in Mayapuri phase i, while resolute junk-dealers try to salvage all that's possible from enormous clutters in the …
LAND is equal to real estate in Mumbai. Any land, even when poisoned. In Dahisar, Mumbai's northernmost suburb, it is construction boom time, even by Mumbai's dizzying real estate standards. Sites for large residential and commercial complexes are selling sooner than you can say buy. The USP: proximity to both …
indian scientists have found the bark of widely grown eucalyptus can help solve one of the most gruelling industrial problems: removing chromium from effluents. The bark not only reduces chromium content in industrial waste to safe levels, but also enables the toxic metal's recovery for reutilisation, claim researchers at the …
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 …
Nowadays, Taiwan's forest-covered mountains can hardly be seen through the island's increasingly foetid yellow smog. 50 years of overdrive industrialisation has left the country with such rampant pollution problems that experts, reacting to a recent environmental survey, said that it would take another half century just to clean up. Of …
India's construction sector contributes about six per cent to her Gross Domestic Product. In the Tenth Five-year Plan currently unfolding, that figure is likely to go up. The plan envisages massive construction activity across the country. Over 60 per cent of the total plan outlay is likely to be spent …
Once touted as a symbol of West Bengal's industrial resurgence, the mini sponge iron plants in Durgapur and adjoining panchayat areas of Burdwan district are now being blamed for pushing the region "closer to a major industrial disaster'. Most of these plants, which blithely disregard pollution control and labour laws, …
Madhab Baru is a worried man. His livestock keep falling ill these days. The cows pass black dung and the goats, especially the kids, suffer from diarrhoea. It's the black dust from the factory across the road, says the small time farmer of Harirampur, a remote village in West Bengal's …
In a violent uprising against industrial pollution, thousands of farmers in eastern China's Huaxi village clashed with nearly 3,000 police personnel before dawn on April 10, 2005, when the latter tried to remove blockades that had closed down chemical plants in the vicinity. Unconfirmed reports said two elderly protestors were …
