Plant to treat 7 lakh litres of toxic effluents discharged by 91 units

Chennai The Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), a constituent body of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has developed a technology that checks pollution due to effluents from leather units.

The technology, called SRIOM (Salt Recovery from Inorganic and Organic Mixture), helps separate sodium chloride and calcium chloride contained in the evaporated residue of reve

Contamination of aquatic resources by a variety of heavy metals is of growing concern because of health risk posed by the exposure to flora and fauna as well as human being. The vast majority of toxic metals are the waste products/by products of industrial and metallurgical processes. Other possible sources include the effluent from electroplating, storage battery manufacturing industries, tanneries, municipal sludges, extractive metallurgy processes, and metal finishing operations contains high amount of dissolved metals and the concentration reaches to a significant range.

New Delhi: A trial court has slapped a fine of Rs 35,000 on an industrialist, convicted for discharging huge quantity of untreated water from his factory into a drain after he pleaded guilty for the offence.

Metropolitan Magistrate Sandeep Garg passed the order on a complaint by Delhi Pollution Control Board, which accused Paradise Foam Industries' proprietor A K Jain of discharging 700 to

Environment minister Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar paid a surprise visit to the Shibpur botanical garden on Thursday and asked police to take

It took the British Government almost two decades to clean up and revive the once

Whenever a woman in Arnetu village conceives, she, instead of celebrating, goes into a depression with thoughts that the child may be born with a physical deformity.

This is the general fear among residents of this village, situated near the Ghaggar in the Patran sub-division of Patiala.

They opine that due of the industrial waste in the river, the ground water quality in their village has d

The growing convergence of information, communication and entertainment has given a new impetus to the Electronics Hardware Sector which comprises mainly of four sub-sectors namely :
* Industrial Electronics
* Computers and peripherals ;
* Communication and Broadcast Equipment ;
* Strategic Electronics and Components.
In India the demand for hardware is fuelled by a variety of drivers which i

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Factory effluents, sewage find their way into cultivated fields
SP Sharma
Tribune News Service
The Lasara drain carrying toxic water to Bathinda
The Lasara drain carrying toxic water to Bathinda.

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