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 …
Business Standard / New Delhi September 24, 2008, 0:46 IST Corporate social responsibility has attracted growing opprobrium over the past two decades because of the way corporations approach the issue. Most pay lip service to the concept of
A documentary film on how market forces are appropriating natural resources that belong to everybody. IN VARANASI, WITH the Ganga in the background. The documentary is part of a movement to expose the subterranean war going on for water. GLOBALISATION is the new omnipotent mantra of our age. Dissenters who …
Hyderabad, July 2: A writ petition was filed in the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday seeking a direction for action to be initiated against Hindustan Beverages Coca-Cola Limited for selling its drinks higher than the MRP rate in Cinema theatres in the city. The petition filed by the Cine …
With skill and resources, they persuade power to benefit their clients. SHANTANU GUHA RAY trawls the world of Delhi's adept influencers ON A QUIET Tuesday last month, the rooftop res - taurant of a leading central Delhi hotel had four of its dozen tables occupied. One had a senior former …
The Union Cabinet's Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday approved a proposal for an investment of $52.4 million (Rs.205 crore) in Hindustan Coca-Cola Holdings Private Limited by its parent company to predominantly fund capital expenditure in its subsidiary, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited. The approval is subject to compliance with …
With the increasing stringent safety regulatins, the beverage industry is now accepting UV disinfection as a versatile treatment against micro-organisms and pollutants.
With the increasing stringent safety regulations, the beverage industry is now accepting UV disinfection as a versatile treatment technology against micro-organisms and pollutants.
Residents of the Da-Dhora farming area in Dergaon will take out a protest rally tomorrow against the move to set up a calcinated coke industry, work of which has begun about a month ago. Sources said that the industry was to have been established a year ago, but massive protests …
Coca Cola India earned itself a drop of hard-earned joy this week for its corporate social responsibility initiatives in the form of the Golden Peacock award for CSR for 2008. But the award which cites its work in water management comes just a few weeks after it had received advice …
Beverages company Coca-Cola today reported an 18 per cent growth in volumes in India for the December quarter. Coming on the back of a 21 per cent growth in the September quarter this consistent performance puts the company on track for strong growth in the country. In the first quarter …
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the Kerala High Court verdict quashing an order of a panchayat that canceled the licence of soft-drinks major Pepsi's plant at Kanjikode in Palakaad district. A Bench headed by Justice Arijit Passayat dismissed the appeal filed by the state government against the HC judgement, …
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a judgment of the Kerala High Court quashing the Pudussery grama panchayat's order cancelling the licence of Pepsico India Holdings Private Limited for running its factory at Kanjikode in Palakkad. The panchayat cancelled the licence in 2003 stating that there was scarcity of drinking …
The first part of the paper briefly describes the geography and the socio-economic background of Plachimada. The second part analyses the legal and institutional framework applicable to the case. This part also examines how the government approached the case, which has already been presented before the Kerala High Court. The …
The health ministry's pesticide residue sub-committee was entrusted the job of fixing a pesticide residue standard for soft drinks. The committee, in March 2004, called "stakeholders' for discussions. Interestingly, for this health ministry sub-committee the only worthy stakeholders were industry. Of the 21 invited, only five responded and only two …
In December 2005, CSE's Pollution Monitoring Lab decided to check whether the samples of soft drinks available in the market are within the limits prescribed by BIS or not. A total of 57 samples, of 11 brands of Pepsi Co and Coca Cola available in the market, were collected from …
when you buy a bottle of Coke, the company's sales figures increase. The stock price goes up, encouraging, activists claim, it to support dubious labour practices in Latin America, deplete groundwater in Kerala, and sell drinks laced with pesticides all over India. And now Max Keiser, a former New York …
