The dawn-to-dusk hartal called by the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala to press for a total ban on production, sale and use of Endosulfan in the country was total and peaceful.
The hartal hit normal life across the State with vehicles, barring two-wheelers and a few four-wheelers, staying off the road and shops and commercial establishments downing their shutters.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A rapid assessment of the effects of Endosulfan on cashew plantations, ecology, biodiversity and the people in Kasaragod, conducted by V.S.
While it is still not ready to ban it in the immediate future, India has decided to agree to a global phase-out of the controversial chemical endosulfan, a common pesticide, over the next 11 years.
The decision to phase out endosulfan is being discussed at the fifth Conference of Parties (CoP) to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants currently going on in Geneva.
A writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a directive to the Centre to impose all-India ban on Endosulfan.
The petitioner, Democratic Youth Federation of India, in its petition said it was constrained to approach the Supreme Court in compelling circumstances wherein the valuable life of a large section of people was directly affected because of the use of Endosulfan, a pesticide
India is strangely reluctant to ban this pesticide despite mounting evidence of its collateral damage
As the stage is set for the crucial meeting of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP), a global regime to protect human health and the environment from dangerous chemicals, to be held in Geneva from April 25, a showdown between the Centre and Kerala has been underwa
Eighty-one countries have either banned endosulfan or are in the process of banning it. As the fifth Conference of Parties (COP) of the Stockholm Convention meets in Geneva from April 25 to April 30 to decide the fate of the pesticide, India still remains in denial mode.
