Villagers set R&D centre near Pune on fire On July 25, over 150 villagers entered Dow

Makarand Gadgil / Vasuli Shinde (pune) July 30, 2008, 0:51 IST

Battle lines are drawn here in village Vasuli Shinde on the banks of river Sudha, near Chakan

Phoolnagar police have registered a case against five officials of a food company on the application of a fish farmer who has alleged that the company's poisonous chemical waste has killed thousands of fish in his farm in Gagar village.

Rafhan Foods was dumping its chemical waste at an open place near a fish farm owned by plaintiff Rao Abdul Hafeez.

The State Government on June 27 removed 40 metric ton of toxic waste from the abandoned Union Carbide Plant premises located Bhopal Railway Station and have been disposed of in Peethampur jointly by Madhya Pradesh Waste Management Project and Ramco Enviro Engineers India. "About 40 metric ton chemical waste and clay (lime sludge) was transported from Union Carbide Plant premises on June 27 to Pithampur. The work was executed under the eyes of experts and officials", said JT Ekka, Director, Gas Disaster & Relief Department on Tuesday.

ravi aggarwal, director of ngo Toxic Links, has recently been conferred the who/ifcs (Chemical Safety) Special Recognition Award. He talks to arnab pratim dutta on different aspects of chemical regulation india: There is a hazardous waste law and a hazardous chemical law. But these don

- Harmful chemicals are posing a serious threat to human survival thus endangering global environment, said Ijaz Ahmad Qureshi, Secretary Ministry of Environment here on Friday. He was presiding over the inauguration ceremony of the national consultative workshop on 'Obligation and implementation status of Pakistan on chemicals-related environmental treaties', Organised by the Ministry of Environment.

The Trinamul Congress and the LF junior partners today lambasted the CPI-M for "trying to be wise after the event by letting the state urban development minister' announce the state government's decision today that land would be acquired for any industrialisation project only after setting up land procurement committees that include local representatives. Trinamul chief Miss Mamata Banerjee said the CPI-M-led LF government had lost its credibility and there's no need to attach any importance to the words its individual ministers say from time to time.

tanzania's state-run National Development Corporation (ndc) has brushed aside concerns raised by conservation groups that Tata Chemical's proposed soda ash plant would threaten lesser flamingos