Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
AHMEDABAD: The Centre for Environment Education (CEE) on Friday organized a seminar on hazardous industrial waste. During the seminar, experts pointed out that over the past two years, Ahmedabad has already witnessed a number of deaths by toxic gases from illegally dumped industrial waste. Moreover, groundwater contamination has also taken …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court on Monday asked the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to file an affidavit on its stand pertaining to the operation of jewellery manufacturing units in the walled city, particularly in the Manekchowk area. This was after the GBCB counsel submitted that these units do not fall …
People complained of eye irritation, constant cough: Minister Emission of sulphur dioxide from the Sterlite factory in Tuticorin above the permissible level led to people complaining about the plant, Environment Minister M.C. Sampath told the Assembly on Tuesday. Replying to a calling attention motion, the Minister said continuous monitoring of …
Vaman Acharya, Chairman of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), said on Thursday that the KSPCB had named Mangalore and Bhadravati as “critically polluted” cities in the State. He was inaugurating a three-day international conference on “Environment and occupation health” organised by Manipal University, the National Institute of Occupational …
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Wednesday directed the state government to have an inspection carried out of all industrial units across the state that produce or use hazardous materials like polyacrylate. A bench of acting chief justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and justice J B Pardiwala asked the government to submit …
It is the improper mode of application, violating the law and regulations, that is responsible for the apparent adverse toxic effects of endosulfan. People marking their protest against endosulfan on a 'signature tree' in Kasaragod ahead of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants …
India is strangely reluctant to ban this pesticide despite mounting evidence of its collateral damage As the stage is set for the crucial meeting of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP), a global regime to protect human health and the environment from dangerous chemicals, to be held in …
This committee report submitted to Gujarat Health Ministry has disfavoured ban on endosulfan production in the state saying there are no health effects on humans as a result of exposure to the insecticide. This committee was constituted following representation from endosulfan workers in Gujarat, who urged the state government not …
Ahmedabad: 30 members of Rajasthan State Mine Labour Union came to stage a protest at the National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH) in the city on Tuesday. They are demanding that the institute release the report of test conducted by it on asbestos miners. Rana Sengupta, managing trustee of Mines …
Jaipur: On the sixth day of a dharna being staged by group of alleged asbestosis victims at the Jhadole block of Udaipur, instead of being given a patient ear, the subdivisional magistrate
JAIPUR: Having failed to open any door for themselves, a group of alleged asbestosis victims from Jhadole in Udaipur are preparing to go on a hunger strike in front of the sub-divisional magistrate's (SDM) office from Wednesday. The victims are demanding that the medical test done on them by the …
Pesticide industry body loses defamation case against CSE, twice. The Crop Care Federation of India (CCFI), a pesticide industry body, has twice lost the defamation case it filed against Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi. CCFI had been pursuing the case against a study done by CSE highlighting the …
In the first week of April this year, a group of men came and stood outside the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi. They carried placards with offensive slogans directed at me. We understood the 'protesters' were ostensibly from an NGO we believed was a front for the …
Bengal Engineering and Science University in collaboration with National Institute of Occupational Health under Indian Council of Medical Research will conduct a study on the occupational health hazards amongst IT professionals. Claiming that there are no baseline data to detect the number of IT professionals falling prey to stress and …
Poor Jhabua tribals are falling prey to the deadly silicosis Kamli Ditiya is barely 40, but she looks 60. Two years ago, hers was a family of ten. Today, she is just one of three. The seven dead include her husband and their two sons. All died of one dreaded, …
