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 …
Viveat Susan Pinto / Mumbai August 16, 2010, 0:39 ISTPaves way for their use in carbonated drinksThe Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has notified the use of additives Acesulfame potassium (also called Acesulfame K) and sucralose or Splenda as a di-blend in carbonated water. This paves the …
Is the sparkling liquid harmless as claimed, asks FREDDY DIAS The twang of an aerated bottle being opened brings forth a foaming and bubbling drink. You sip on it; and it feels exhilarating. The sparkling liquid, it is claimed, is free from alcohol and other habit-forming drugs. But is it …
G. Prabhakaran Demand to set up tribunal to decide on compensation People's struggle is supported by environmentalists PALAKKAD: The agitation against alleged exploitation of groundwater by soft drink major Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd. at Plachimada, a remote village in Perumatty grama panchayat in Chittur taluk, completed 3,000 days on …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Groundwater levels in Pudussery grama panchayat, Palakkad, where Pepsico has its unit, are falling, the Assembly was told on Thursday. In a written reply to the House, Water Resources Minister N K Premachandran said that water levels in the observation well at the Pudussery grama panchayat office showed a …
After Coca-Cola, another soft drink major, Pepsi, has come on the radar of the LDF government in Kerala, which has alleged its plant in Palakkad district is extracting excess ground water and discharging effluents and solid wastes with pollutants. The plant at Pudussery was found to have been depleting the …
M Sarita Varma Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala government has flexed its muscles at Coke and Pepsi at one go. Within 24 hours of deciding to set up a tribunal to fine Rs 196 crore as environmental damages from Coca Cola, LDF government has indicated that Pepsico factory in Kanjikode too, is guilty …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Groundwater levels in Pudussery grama panchayat, Palakkad, where Pepsico has its unit, are falling, the Assembly was told on Thursday. In a written reply to the House, Water Resources Minister N K Premachandran said that water levels in the observation well at the Pudussery grama panchayat office showed a …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After Coca Cola, another soft-drink major Pepsi has come on the radar of the LDF government in Kerala which has alleged that its plant in Palakkad district was extracting excess ground water and discharging effluents and solid wastes with pollutants. The plant at Pudussery was found to have been …
Additional Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary (Industries) T Balakrishnan has let loose a controversy by expressing his charging over the government decision to close down the bottling plant of Coca Cola. The unit at Palakkad had to wind up production over excessive exploitation of water and discharge of effluents. Earlier …
The Kerala Industries Minister, Mr Elamaram Kareem, has sought to absolve his Department Secretary of any wrongdoing after the latter's comment that he
First Unit To Achieve Positive Water Balance By Replenishing More Water Than Used Ratna Bhushan NEW DELHI THE Indian arm of PepsiCo has become the first of its global units to put more water back into the environment than it consumes, the company said. The beverage giant has achieved
KOLKATA, 25 May: The State Consumer Forum has asked Diamond Beverages Pvt. Ltd. and Bengal Beverages Pvt. Ltd., local soft drinks manufacturers and distributors, to pay compensation of Rs 3 lakh each for allegedly indulging in "unfair trade practice". Director of the Consumer Affairs and Fair Business Practices had filed …
M K Das If the issue is one of accountability, then equity demands that the accomplices are as much guilty as the perpetrator A little known fact is that Coca-Cola was virtually wooed to the state by the then LDF government and its industries minister Susheela Gopalan. It was also …
Kalpana Jain / New Delhi April 23, 2010, 0:58 IST Industry may soon have to pay a lot more for the water it uses. The Union government is in talks with various state governments to draft a model Bill that would lead to a multi-fold increase in water charges for …
The State Government has been requested to initiate legal measures to force Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages to pay compensation to the people of the Plachimada village in Palakkad district affected by the alleged environmental damage its bottling plant had inflicted on the area. Representatives of a mass movement that spearheaded the …
To Madhuraj, the camera is a third eye. His Water Plunder exposes the large-scale exploitation of drinking water by MNCs and the resistance put up by the village communities against this, notes K A Antony For eight years now, the people of Plachimada, an otherwise nonde script village in north-central …
This WRI report assesses financial implications of climate change and water scarcity on the Food & Beverage sector in South & Southeast Asia. Warns that as a large water user, this sector is at risk from decreasing water supplies in parts of emerging Asia , specially India. This report identifies …
Soft drink companies must pay for the water they use While a Kerala government committee has said that the Coca-Cola plant at Plachimada in Palakkad district caused Rs 216 crore of damage to the environment before it shut down in 2004, the company has categorically denied this. It has argued …
