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. …
THE Madras High Court has ordered the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to go through the report filed by the monitoring committee and submit a timeframe by which it intends to take action for lack of corrective measures by units or common effluent treatment plants located in Karur district. …
Kalawati Eknath Mangela and Parvati Bai Somna do not consider themselves fisherwomen any mo re. Every time they cast nets in the Arabian Sea, off the Tadgam beach in Valsad district of Gujarat, all they catch is garbage.
Mushrooming of dyeing units contributes to the high level of pollution Legal cell demands setting up of an SC Bench in Chennai Tirupur: The Tirupur district unit of the All India Congress Committee
Certain plants absorb pollutants from wastewater for their metabolism. A team from the National Botanical Research Institute in Lucknow, planned a plant-based project to clean the Ganga. U N Rai, environment scientist who heads the team, speaks to Savvy Soumya Misra On how the project began With the help of …
NEW DELHI: A sum of Rs.23.04 crore would be released by the Delhi Government to the Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation for this financial year for control of industrial pollution in Delhi as the construction of ten Common Effluent Treatment Plants has already been completed by the agency. …
Common Effluent Treatment Plant Not Complying With Pollution Norms Harish Joshi | TNN Bharuch: Tough time lies ahead for chemical industries located at critically polluted industrial estates of Ankleshwar, Panoli and Vapi. Ministry of Environment and Forests, vide its circular dated August 25, has directed Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) …
Dense population, high industrial growth, increasing pollutant loads and a lack of wastewater infrastructure in Dhaka have jointly created a serious threat to the city's sustainability. The industrial wastes caused severe degradation of the watersheds. 60% of the total pollution load comes from around 7,000 industrial units located within the …
The Government of Karnataka has announced a State Policy for Special Economic Zones-2009 vide Govt.Order No. CI/114/SPI/2007 dtd: 28.2.2009 to support and encourage development of SEZs in the State. As per Rule 5(5) of Central SEZ Rules 2006 certain fiscal benefits have been extended to SEZ Developers/ Co-developers/Units in the …
Melvyn Thomas | TNN Surat: The city of diamonds and textile may have earned the distinction of being one of the cleanest cities in the country, but it lags behind when it comes to keeping a check on industrial pollution. Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) in a recent meeting held …
Stalin criticises AIADMK Government for neglecting industrial growth Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin looking at the machines installed at the factory of Gangotri Textiles Ltd., at SIPCOT Industrial Estate, in Perundurai, Erode on Monday.
Only four out of 379 industrial units operating in Quaid-e-Azam Industrial Estate have separate water treatment plants and the site for a combined treatment plant has not been allocated yet, a report said on Sunday. The report titled
Adulterated Groundwater Leading To Skin Diseases, Tooth & Nail Decay Tushar Rattan | TNN Ropar: Once the lifeline of Ropar in Punjab, the Sutlej river is fast turning into a deathtrap for human and aquatic populations dependent on its water, allegedly steeped in hazardous industrial effluents that sneakily find their …
The Punjab government has succeeded in brokering peace with the dyeing and textile industry of this city which is in the dock for causing pollution in the "buddha nullah" by taking the authority to regulate it from the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) and giving it to the Central Pollution …
TIRUPUR MP C Sivasamy has asked the Centre to take initiatives for granting 60 per cent of the cost of setting up of common effluent treatment plants (CETPs) as subsidy to help the textile sector of Kongu region. Talking to newspersons in Gobi on Monday, he said that despite textile …
Lawyers for New York City are trying to convince a jury in a federal trial that Exxon Mobil knew that an additive that it used in gasoline would contaminate groundwater. The trial, which began on Tuesday before Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of United States District Court in Manhattan, is one …
