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 …
Mithapur, being a water scarcity region, uses spent cooling seawater instead of raw water for dilution of HCT underflow. Per day approx. 2700 KL of seawater is consumed in the plant.
The first CETP (Common Effluent Treatment Plant) for heterogeneous chemical industries wastewater has been established by Jeedimetla Effluent Treatment Ltd (JETL) and is in operation since 1989 in Jeedimetla Industrial Estate (JIE), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
Lanco Infratech on Tuesday said it has terminated the coal supply agreement with Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilisers, with which it is fighting a legal battle, as the Australian company has not achieved financial closure for its urea project. Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilisers in June filed a . 16,600-crore lawsuit against …
KolkataThe Mamata Banerjee government on Friday scrapped the proposed petroleum, chemicals and petrochemicals investment region (PCPIR) at Nayachar in East Midnapore district, citing environmental reasons. While in the Opposition, the Trinamool Congress had opposed the Nayachar project vociferously. The government had announced that it would not allow a nuclear power …
An empowered group of ministers (EGoM) under Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has cleared the proposal to free the prices of urea and bring it under the Nutrient Based Subsidy (NBS) policy. The government has decided to raise urea prices by 10 per cent in the first year of the policy, …
Though the south-west monsoon has been normal in many parts of the country, barring a few, farmers have raised concerns about high prices of pesticides and agro-chemicals, which may rise further. Prices of key insecticides and pesticides have increased 5-15 per cent over the past year and experts see prices …
The Supreme Court (SC) gave its verdict on the long impending judgment on the Bichhri case, Writ Petition No. 967 of 1989. A bench of justices Dalveer Bhandari and H L Dattu, imposed a fine of Rs 38.385 crores on Hindustan Agro Chemicals Ltd (HACL) with compound interest since 1997 …
New Delhi The Supreme Court on Friday gave the central government three weeks to file its interim report on the harmful effects of endosulfan, particularly on the pesticide makers' plea to allow them to meet their export commitments. A bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia expressed concern over how …
Supreme Court grants further three weeks' time to file an interim report The Supreme Court on Friday granted further three weeks' time to the Centre to file an interim report on the study by an expert committee on the harmful effects of endosulfan. A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice S.H. …
European companies are not providing robust information to regulators or alternatives to animal experiments. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110713/full/475150a.html
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court has sought explanations from six companies and the state government over complaints of pollution by villagers in Sanand taluka that companies discharge chemical effluents in gaucher land. Acting on a PIL filed by an NGO on behalf of Chacharwadi-Vasna village, a division bench headed by …
People in the villages around Ratlam are paying a heavy price for living near the industrial town in Madhya Pradesh. Their groundwater has been polluted by over 23,500 tonnes of hazardous waste dumped at two factory premises and other sites in Ratlam. The quantity of toxic waste lying at the …
About a year ago, this magazine carried a story on how lethal toys could be. I was struck by a paragraph that described how children could be ingesting chemicals when chewing a toy meant for teething children. That scary feeling came back while reading What’s gotten into us? Staying healthy …
AHMEDABAD: Here is a shocker. The per capita greenhouse gases (GHG) contribution of a small district like Kheda is equivalent to per capita GHG emission of entire Europe. This is a startling revelation made by United Nation`s 2009 Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) report on Gujarat. The lack of …
AHMEDABAD: Of the 26 common effluent treatment plants that operate in the state, 21 are not functioning as per the standards laid down by the Central pollution control board. Gujarat Pollution Control Board officials admitted that a lot still has to be achieved in pollution control. Member secretary of GPCB, …
Tata Chemicals Ltd (TCL) has acquired 25.1 per cent stake in the ammonia-urea fertiliser complex at Gabon in Africa for $290 million (nearly Rs 1,300 crore). The remaining stake is held between Olam International Limited (Olam) at 62.9 per cent and Republic of Gabon (RoG) at 12 per cent. The …
GANDHINAGAR: In a remarkable change in industrial investment pattern over the last three decades, the trend in Gujarat has sharply shifted from projects in chemicals and petrochemicals sectors to the non-polluting infrastructure sector. Latest data with the state industries department, meant for official consumption only, has revealed that as on …
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 …
