Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Ankita Rai New Delhi: The issue of data protection over and above the WTO norms in Pesticide Management Bill 2008 has not got down well with the industry bodies. To tackle the menace of spurious pesticides and to regulate the pesticide market the Pesticide Management Bill 2008 was introduced. The …
A report of analysis of pesticide residues in soft drinks conducted by Centre for Science and Environment(CSE), was made public on 5th August, 2003. This Report was covered very prominently by both electronic and print media. In the Report it was stated that CSE found pesticide residues, in the samples …
The Insecticides Rules of 1971 stipulates that before aerial spraying is undertaken, all waterbodies should be covered. After people began protesting, the Plantation Corporation of Kerala (PCK) has begun to provide dried tree leaves and stitched up fertiliser bags made of plastic to cover the wells. But people of this …
the Indian pesticide industry is growing at a staggering rate of about 12 per cent per annum. But, on the other hand, the market is flooded with sub-standard and spurious pesticides. Keeping this in mind, the Insecticide (Amendment) Bill, 2000, that seeks to reform the Insecticides Act enacted in 1968, …
THE PESTICIDES Association of India (PAI) and the ministry of environment and forests (MEF) are at loggerheads over a draft notification that includes pesticides in the list of products to be covered by the eco-mark scheme. The scheme labels products that are environment friendly. Though the MEF claims this will …
