After successfully stalling the project of Dow Chemicals in the state, the warkari community is now preparing for a bigger battle

AN EXPERT panel on ethanol pricing is likely to suggest that the chemicals industry should be assured a certain minimum supply of this key raw material, dealing a blow to the much-hyped programme for blending of ethanol with petrol, which would have to be curtailed sharply.

The panel headed by Planning Commission member Saumitra Chaudhuri is likely to finalise the recommendations on Friday.

Consumer-connect, sustainable strategies and adopting new technologies can salvage the sector from its faceless existence

INSTITUTIONS make choices at forks on their journey and embark on distinctive trajectories. The choice made is influenced by its culture and mindset.

Chemical maker DuPont said on Thursday that it would invest $120 million to boost production of a popular solar cell product.

The move is part of a broader push by the chemical industry to supply solar cell producers with technologies to make the renewable energy source more efficient.

DuPont hopes sales of all its solar products will exceed $1 billion by 2012, it said on Thursday.

B Krishna Mohan / Hyderabad May 19, 2009, 0:38 IST

With consumers switching to ever newer drugs, getting licences for changing product lines is an issue.

Nine dangerous chemicals used in farming and industry will be added to a list of banned substances whose presence in the environment causes serious health risks, more than 160 government agreed on Saturday.

The nine pesticides and industrial chemicals join 12 substances targeted for elimination under the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).

A counsel for the victims of March 2006 dumping of highly toxic industrial waste said on Thursday that he would challenge the acquittal of a factory owner and others by a district court "as it was