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 …
The most influential process safety accident passed its 20th anniversary on Dec 3, 2004. At an international symposium to mark the event in Kanpur, India during the week of this anniversary, process safety practitioners from around the world assembled to discuss progress in resolving the Bhopal tragedy and in advancing …
Local Area Environmental Committee was constituted by the Kerala State Pollution Control Board in compliance of the direction issued by the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee. This environment audit report was prepared by the Local Area Environmental Committee, Eloor-Edayar, Kochi, dealing with 247 industries in the Eloor/Edayar industrial belt.
Local Area Environment committee under the term of reference was asked to conduct an environmental audit of 247 industries located in Eloor-Edayar industrial belt and report the effect on the ecology, environment and on the health of the local population with the specific reference to the study of raw materials, …
More than 3,000 anti-nuclear activists attempted to block the delivery of atomic waste from France to the German town of Gorleben, on November 20, 2005. The activists staging a sit-down blockade on the railway track were arrested and farmers' tractors forming a barricade along the route confiscated. The controversial waste …
The fire and resultant losses at the manufacturing facility of Dishman Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals Ltd on Saturday has raised a question about the ability of local fire safety agencies to deal with big chemical fires. It is the Ahmedabad Fire & Emergency Services (AFES) run by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) …
On December 3 1984, more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, immediately killing at least 3,800 people and causing significant morbidity and premature death for many thousands more. The company involved in what became the worst industrial accident in history immediately …
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 …
