Chemicals Dump

After the city's heaviest August rain in a century, two giant lakes in Bengaluru are spewing so much toxic foam that residents who live near them have reportedly complained that they are having to stay indoors. On Wednesday, the froth, a stinking cocktail of chemicals and untreated sewage dumped in the lakes, rose to over 10 feet in the Varthur Lak...

India has started investigations into alleged dumping of ammonium nitrate, used in fertiliser sector, by four countries - Russia, Indonesia, Georgia and Iran - following a complaint by major domestic producers.

More than 100 villagers in western Madhya Pradesh indulged in stone pelting and violence in the industrial area of Jhabua district last week, alleging that chemical factories are flouting pollution norms. The administration has arrested one person on Sunday, and shut down three factories.

At least 300 people fell ill in Ulhasnagar near Mumbai on Saturday after a tankers dumped hazardous discharge into a drain.

If you live in the vicinity of Chennai's largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system. What's worse, the noxious fumes contain Butadiene, Chloromethane and Benzene, known to be carcinogenic and between 8.5 to 50...

If you live in the vicinity of Chennai's largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system.

A 22-year-old woman was abducted by three Chunabhatti residents and raped in a moving auto rickshaw for two hours on Sunday evening. The woman, Anita (name changed), was abducted near the Rashtriya Chemical and Fertilizers (RCF) company in Chembur and dumped at a spot four kilometers away in Chunabhatti later at night, where a policeman found her.

A senior executive of a private firm, Karnataka Chemsyn Limited, which dumped seven barrels of chemicals in a deserted place adjacent to a railway track recently, has been arrested.

The Karnataka Pollution Control Board has now ordered the company to shut under the Environment (Protection) Act.

After the city's heaviest August rain in a century, two giant lakes in Bengaluru are spewing so much toxic foam that residents who live near them have reportedly complained that they are having to stay indoors. On Wednesday, the froth, a stinking cocktail of chemicals and untreated sewage dumped in the lakes, rose to over 10 feet in the Varthur Lak...

India has started investigations into alleged dumping of ammonium nitrate, used in fertiliser sector, by four countries - Russia, Indonesia, Georgia and Iran - following a complaint by major domestic producers.

More than 100 villagers in western Madhya Pradesh indulged in stone pelting and violence in the industrial area of Jhabua district last week, alleging that chemical factories are flouting pollution norms. The administration has arrested one person on Sunday, and shut down three factories.

At least 300 people fell ill in Ulhasnagar near Mumbai on Saturday after a tankers dumped hazardous discharge into a drain.

If you live in the vicinity of Chennai's largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system. What's worse, the noxious fumes contain Butadiene, Chloromethane and Benzene, known to be carcinogenic and between 8.5 to 50...

If you live in the vicinity of Chennai's largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system.

A 22-year-old woman was abducted by three Chunabhatti residents and raped in a moving auto rickshaw for two hours on Sunday evening. The woman, Anita (name changed), was abducted near the Rashtriya Chemical and Fertilizers (RCF) company in Chembur and dumped at a spot four kilometers away in Chunabhatti later at night, where a policeman found her.

A senior executive of a private firm, Karnataka Chemsyn Limited, which dumped seven barrels of chemicals in a deserted place adjacent to a railway track recently, has been arrested.

The Karnataka Pollution Control Board has now ordered the company to shut under the Environment (Protection) Act.