Just a few weeks after clearing an USFDA inspection, Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court has sought explanations from six companies and the state government over complaints of pollution by villagers in Sanand taluka that companies discharge chemical effluents in gaucher land.

Acting on a PIL filed by an NGO on behalf of Chacharwadi-Vasna village, a division bench headed by chief justice directed the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (JPCB) to inquire

AHMEDABAD: Here is a shocker. The per capita greenhouse gases (GHG) contribution of a small district like Kheda is equivalent to per capita GHG emission of entire Europe.

AHMEDABAD: Of the 26 common effluent treatment plants that operate in the state, 21 are not functioning as per the standards laid down by the Central pollution control board.

Gujarat Pollution Control Board officials admitted that a lot still has to be achieved in pollution control.

A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear the Centre

Tata Chemicals Ltd (TCL) has acquired 25.1 per cent stake in the ammonia-urea fertiliser complex at Gabon in Africa for $290 million (nearly Rs 1,300 crore). The remaining stake is held between Olam International Limited (Olam) at 62.9 per cent and Republic of Gabon (RoG) at 12 per cent.

The latest acquisition follows a string of buys by Tata Chemicals in the past.

GANDHINAGAR: In a remarkable change in industrial investment pattern over the last three decades, the trend in Gujarat has sharply shifted from projects in chemicals and petrochemicals sectors to the non-polluting infrastructure sector.

Latest data with the state industries department, meant for official consumption only, has revealed that as on April 30, 2010, 42.19% of all projects that came

A day after a Delhi court accepted the CBI request seeking extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) chairman Warren Anderson