Villagers take on polluting plant

Pollution board raps Vedanta

Company increases effluent outlets instead of plugging them

Faceless workers

They work in our interest we have heard a great deal in recent years about the demand-supply chasm in India's electricity supply. Solemn discussions abound on whether India's newfound recognition as a nuclear power will plug this gap. Almost every participant to this debate seeks a clincher in the oft-repeated, if rather grubby, concept of "national interest". India's recent bonhomie with the US promises an end to the country's

Sun, sea and garbage

That's the lot of fishing villages along Karachi's coastline

Tannery convicted

All owners dead except one after a trial lasting 25 years, a special court in Lucknow convicted the owners of a tannery for polluting river water. On June 2, the court sentenced the owners of East India Leather Company to six months' imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 9,000 on them. In 1984 the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board accused the tannery of not having a primary treatment plant and discharging untreated effluents

No check on effluents

Industrial town spent Rs 2 crore on flow meters that no one monitors THE industrial units of Pali town in Rajasthan were made to install meters to measure the amount of effluents they discharge. But no one is monitoring them.

7,000 litres of oil in Sutlej

Aquatic life safe, tests underway on april 24, 7,000 litres of heavy furnace oil leaked into the Sutlej river after a pipeline burst at the Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Power Plant at Ropar in Punjab. A senior plant official said the welding in the pipeline could have given way due to heat and fatigue. Water samples collected by the Punjab Pollution Control Board found oil and grease content in the river but they found little damage to aquatic life.

Oil in the well

Company chokes water supply of 25 families in Karnataka

Human factor in swine flu

People infected with the virus show symptoms similar to common cold such as runny nose, cough and fever, but there is no vaccine for it. No serious effort has been made to search for one till now as there have been very few cases so far. Only 50 cases of human swine flu have been reported since 1958, said Christopher Olsen, a virologist with University of Wisconsin, the US, in his 2007 study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Alert in India

Our little mushroom clouds

Toxic waste is a problem. Whose?