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 …
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 …
In the most tangible demonstration so far of collaboration between public and private genome researchers, the U.S. National Institutes of Health has awarded $58 million in grants to Baylor College of Medicine and Celera Genomics Group to sequence the genetic code of the laboratory rat.
For the past three or four years, environmental groups have been highlighting conditions in ship demolition yards, primarily in the Indian subcontinent and China. So the code's call for all ships to be delivered to the recycling yards with their tanks (except, of course, some bunker tanks) cleaned and certified …
The campaign against child labour, disputing claims by fireworks manufacturers, estimates that about 45,000 children are still employed in the fireworks units in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, in hazardous conditions.
Activists of Narmada Bachao Andolan(NBA) will hold a protest rally at Badwani on October 23, against the Supreme Court order giving green signal to the controversial Sardar Sarovar project(SSP) on the river Narmada.
Last year before Diwali, the Tamil Nadu Fireworks and Amorces Manufacturers' Association (TFAA) put out advertisements proclaiming that there was no child labour involved in the firecracker industry. Five days later, Campaign Against Child Labour (CACL), visited Sivakasi and its surrounding regions. Its findings: Over 50,000 children were still slaving …
Once the centre of attraction for tourists in Kashmir, the Dal Lake has shrunk by half from its previous size in the last few decades. About 20 per cent of its total area of 11 sq km has passed into private lands for cultivation on the artificially-created pieces of land …
Fire burned out of control on Tuesday at the scene of pipleline explosion in southern Nigeria that killed about 250 villagers who had been scooping up gasoline with buckets, witnesses said.
Students from various schools of Delhi gathered at the India Gate lawns this evening to express their solidarity with children who work in the firecracker industry and other similar hazardous occupations all over the country.
The World Wide Fund for Nature ( wwf ) launched a year-long campaign to put an end to the rampant ivory trade in Thailand. Citing a recent report, wwf -Thailand said ivory trade has contributed to a rapid decline in the elephant population in Thailand and in neighbouring Myanmar and …
Torrential rains in central Korea have killed 42 people and injured 94 in the Kaesong area alone, according to official figures. Also, 581 houses were submerged or destroyed, leaving 2,905 people homeless, according to figures released by the representative office of the International Federation of Red Cross and Crescent Societies …
