Pests behind Codex standards

Swearing by them is nothing more than laziness and deception of regulators

No Entry

Nidhi Jamwal and Kushal P S Yadav, prosecuted as 'trespassers'

Pesticide trap

India extensively uses pesticides banned globally, show RTI responses  

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Bhopal : A Toxic Legacy

Checking in Quietly

Bad regulation equals contaminated imports

Industry's Nemesis

A report by the National Institute of Occupational Health nails endosulfan. Is that why the pesticide establishment wants to keep it under wraps?

Endosulfan victims through the years

Lies, well told

In reel life, when things go wrong, the director takes recourse to a re-take. Then there are the stunt-men, who stand in for the hero when the …

Importing Disaster

Drained India's inland wetlands

During the last ten years, India has lost about 38 per cent of its inland wetlands; in some districts, as much as 88 per cent of the wetlands …

Pesticide industry thriving on legal loopholes

The CSE's recent expos has blown the lid off the bottled water industry's tall claims on the purity of its products. Simultaneously, it has …

The verdict is out

Consumer rights receive a fizzy fillip

New endosulfan ploy

Industry is sidestepping issues by pitching the proposed UN ban on endosulfan as the battle between generics and patented pesticides

Bad chemistry

Asbestos, agribusiness get a leg up

Contest for pesticide

Demand for state control as Pesticides Management Bill is set to be tabled in Parliament

Industrial discharge: seaward ho!

As rivers spill over, the sea becomes the new dumping destination in coastal Gujarat

Poison river

Mythology has named Yamuna after the sister of Yama, the Hindu God of death. With the presence of toxic pesticides and chemicals in the river, …

Tea pesticide flavoured

Darjeeling's famous brew, laced with pesticides, poses a threat to public health

For India, with fizz

JPC report sets serious reform agenda on food safety, water security and public health

Toxicitea tangle

Safeguards have been erected to weed out the supplies of tea laden with high pesticide residue levels. But when governments use these benchmarks …

Brain drain

Consuming vegetables contaminated with heavy metals and pesticides can lower a child's intelligence, warns a study

Default drinking water

'Corporate Responsibility' has died a fancy death at the altar of public relations. A recent chemical analysis of branded packaged drinking water (…

Cola controversy lesson for media management

Children of endosulfan

Several unusual diseases afflict a Kerala village. Residents blame aerial spraying of the pesticide endosulfan by the Plantation Corporation of …