Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
In July-August 2003, when soft-drink firms across the country were struggling to contain the impact of the discovery of pesticide residues in their products, in Kerala, Coca-Cola came under intense scrutiny for distributing sludge from its bottling unit at Plachimada in Palakkad district containing cadmium and lead to local farmers, …
M/s. Sterlite Industries (India) Limited (SIIL), a public limited company, is the flagship company of the Sterlite Group. The proposed project will bring an investment of Rs. 4500 crores to the state of Orissa where the per capita income is about half of the national level. The Lanjigarh bauxite deposit …
The Supreme Court today overruled the Central Excise & Gold Appellate Tribunal as it struck down the impostion of anti-dumping duty on batteries imported from Bangladesh by a company in New Delhi.
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Research Foundation for Science Technology and Natural Resources Policy Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/01/2005 regarding dumping of hazardous waste, India. The matter relates to 133 hazardous waste oil containers lying at Nhava Sheva Port, Mumbai, Maharashtra. …
Australia should seriously consider becoming the world’s nuclear garbage collector because the geology of the nation makes it an ideal place to store deadly radioactive waste, a former Prime Minister for the Opposition Labour Party has said. Bob Hawke, Australia’s longest-serving Labour Prime Minister, told a gathering of Oxford University …
A shipment of nuclear waste arrived at a disputed storage site in northern Germany, completing a journey that was marred by the death of an anti-nuclear protester in France. Police removed about 400 protesters who staged sit-ins on the two roads to the site at Gorleben early Tuesday morning, clearing …
After a relentless wait for two decades by the Bhopal gas tragedy victims for the payment of compensation by US major Union Carbide, the Supreme Court today directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to release Rs 1503 crore deposited with it by the company for disbursement to them. A …
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is well versed in water conservation lessons. Around 350 litres of water is required for cleaning each train. However, keeping in mind the scarcity of potable water in the Capital, it recycles 200 litres of water to wash other trains as well. As of …
The buck must stop somewhere, particularly when it concerns the lives and health of thousands of ordinary people. Yet sadly, despite the simple, obvious and humanitarian step the United Progressive Alliance Government could have taken, it has fallen short by passing the buck. The issue that has come before it …
A Musampally has more borewells than people. This village in Nalgonda district has barely 2000 acres under cultivation. But it boasts over 6,000 borewells
In a stark reminder of failure of authorities in ensuring observance of safety norms in the handling dangerous chemicals, eight people lost their lives and six people received serious injuries in two separate fires, one near Zakhira bridge and the other Govindpuri areas of the Capital.
Greenpeace campaigners on board their ship Rainbow Warrior, on a Corporate Accountability tour, get into a conflict with the Indian authorities. When Rainbow Warrior began its tour of India in November, the international crew on board the ship expected the usual resistance and conflict that Greenpeace campaigners had come to …
Trying to overcome a possibly crippling court decision, the Environmental Protection Agency hopes to have a proposal by early next year on new radiation exposure limits at a proposed nuclear waste site in Nevada. Jeffrey Holmstead, chief of EPA's air and radiation programs, told a panel of scientists this week …
The first national survey of 42 rivers by the UK Environment Agency has just been completed and it found that a third of male fish are growing female reproductive tissues and organs. Effects were most pronounced in younger fish, raising grave implications for future stocks. Scientists now fear that seals, …
"I am hiding because I don't want to go to work today. But they will come and drag me. Look, here they come!" This is 9 year old Pyaari, a child labourer who wants to play, not work. This documentary film, titled Indebalya or "childhood now" explores the social compulsions …
The Central Government today issued yet another notification banning employment of children in six more activities and processes including rag picking and scavenging. Issued as part of the Government's ongoing exercise to declare more and more hazardous industries out of bound for employment of child labour to protect child interest, …
The Batteries (Management & Handling) Rules, 2001 apply to every manufacturer, importer, re-conditioner, assembler, dealer, recycler, auctioneer, consumer and bulk consumer involved in manufacture, processing, sale, purchase and use of batteries or components thereof.
Nike has been getting raked over the coals in recent weeks for a Feb. 22 report documenting sexual harassment, physical punishments and other abuse at factories that make its products in Indonesia. This has led to some fresh corporation-bashing from those who always find some reason to cast stones at …
