New Delhi, Feb. 3: The plan to build a chemical hub spanning Nayachar and Haldia is on course to the final date with the Union cabinet with a central committee approving a Bengal government presentation today.

Dow in trouble again: The Maharashtra government has ordered setting up of a committee to look into Dow Chemical

Activists of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal played a prank at the chemical export exhibition India Chem to expose the dealings of Dow Chemicals. The activists issued an advertisement in the brochures of the exhibition in the name of Clean Chemistry Council, a fictitious European public relations firm, offering consultancy to corporations for improving their public image

Pune, November 24 Saturday's fire at Elkay Chemicals Pvt Ltd, could have led to a major disaster in the Pimpri-Chinchwad-Bhosari industrial belt housing nearly 5,000 small, medium and large industries.

THERE was panic in Pimpri-Chinchwad on Saturday afternoon, when thick smoke, visible from afar, snaked skyward in Bhosari area.

The cause was a major fire at ELKAY Chemicals Pvt. Limited and Shivam Industries. The fire that broke out at around 3.40 pm raged till 6.30 pm, when it was finally brought under control. No casualty was reported. But there were some injuries.

Residents of a pollution-plagued Chinese city are mobilising against a proposed chemical plant they fear will menace their health, with some urging marches against the scheme they say puts growth before the environment.

BEIJING: Residents of a Chinese city plagued by pollution are mobilizing against a proposed chemical plant that they say could harm their health, with some urging marches against the plan, which they say puts growth before the environment.

Pune, September 29 Warkari leader Banda Tatya Karadkar, who was arrested on September 20 for leading the agitation against Dow Chemicals, was released from Yerwada Central Prison on Monday. The moment he stepped out, he vowed to resume the agitation against he project, which Warkaris allege would pollute the sacred river Indrayani.