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Pali farmers teach state pollution body a few things technical

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PASHMINA is Kashmiri: India granted, on September 12, the Geographical Indicat-ion (GI) status to Pashmina yarn, produced in th Kashmir valley by Tahfuz (a body of all Kashmiri handicraft artisans). Islamabad filed an objection claiming that the fine wool is also produced in Pakistan. A consultative committee of the Geographical Indication Registry of India rejected Pakistan's objections. A GI status ensures that a name can only be used by produce from a particular geographical region, not anywhere else. Example: Darjeeling tea, Champagne.

Court asks to close polluting industries in Pali

on april 11, the Jodhpur bench of the High Court of Rajasthan ordered closure of 126 industries operating in non-conforming areas in Pali, infamous for pollution from its dyeing and printing industries. The court issued two orders in response to petitions filed by industry groups--one led by Aruna mills and the other by Rajaram mills. The groups had challenged directives

Authorities clueless Carcinogen NP in a large number of products in India.

Ana M Soto, professor at the Tufts Medical School at Massachusetts in the us, made an important discovery while working with breast cancer cells in 1989. She found that some of the tissues were proliferating without stimulation when stored in plastic tubes. An

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Effluents from Bhilwara textile units flow unabated

The moniker 'textile city' is apt for Bhilwara. After all, it produces 75 per cent of the country's textile. But there is a dark side to its sheen. The industry's poor effluent management system has long poisoned the area's groundwater affecting agricultural lands and people's health.

Rajasthan HC comes down hard on polluters in Barmer district

rajasthan's Barmer district administration is on a drive to shut down all erring textile colouring and printing units in Balotara area since February 1, 2007. The step comes a year too late.

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effluents spur boycott: Farmers from Kuppam village in Tamil Nadu's Karur district have declared a boycott of the assembly elections, scheduled for May 8-10, 2006. They allege that effluents from bleaching and dyeing units in Tirupur, upstream of the Noyyal, have seriously affected the village in the past few years. But the government has paid no heed to their complaints. The farmers allege that the industrial effluents have caused havoc to nearly 8,000 hectares of cultivatable land in Karur district and polluted 1,000 cusecs of drinking water.

New route to nylon

nylon production generates large quantities of corrosive by-products. Now, a team of two British scientists has developed an environment friendly method to make caprolactam, which is the precursor of nylon.