India On Endosulfan

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  Centre To Provide Aid For Compensation To Endosulfan Victims: Kerala

  The Kerala government on Thursday said neither the Centre nor pesticide manufacturers have provided any assistance to disburse compensation to the victims of Endosulfan pesticide exposure in the southern state as directed by the Supreme Court and the

• Endosulfan victims issue: Ministers to visit Kasaragod

  A team of Ministers would visit Kasaragod next week and hold discussions with peoples' representatives in the district on the demands of endosulfan victims, an official release here said. This was decided at a discussion held by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy with Kasaragod MP P Karunakaran and District Panchayat President PP Shyamala Devi in the cap...

• Treat Kasargod endosulfan 'tragedy' as a national disaster: Workshop resolution

  Emphasising the need to speed up rehabilitation of people affected by the spraying of endosulfan in the district, a workshop on the issue on Sunday decided to urge the Centre to treat the problem as a national disaster like tsunami or Bhopal gas tragedy.

• Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on plea to ban Endosulfan

  The Supreme Court today sought response from the Centre on a petition seeking ban on Endosulfan pesticide across the country.A bench comprising Chief Justice S H Kapadia and Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Swatanter Kumar issued notice to the Centre and asked Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium to remain present on the next date of hearing on May 11...

• What endosulfan did to these children in Kerala's Kasaragod

  Twelve-year-old Badusha can't run; he can't play like other children. Permanently bedridden, this young boy is symbolic of what many allege are the effects of endosulfan, a pesticide used by farmers in India. He is a living testimony of the harmful effects of endosulfan in Kasaragod. This is a condition of the children in a state whose tourism tag ...

• India agrees to Endosulfan ban

  In a major change of position, India on Friday accepted at a world convention in Geneva that the pesticide Endosulfan is a health hazard. India is currently the largest exporter of Endosulfan in the world and it is used extensively in many states.It has now agreed to a phased out ban with an exemption for some crops.Activists too say this is a majo...

• Achuthanandan, others fast for ban on Endosulfan

  Demanding a nationwide ban on the pesticide Endosulfan, Kerala Chief Minister and veteran CPI(M) leader V S Achuthanandan today led a day-long statewide mass fast here.He was joined in the seven-hour fast as part of 'anti-Endosulfan day' from 10 am by leaders of various political parties, including BJP, cultural personalities, rights activists and ...

• Govt not for ban on Endosulfan?

  Kasaragod in north Kerala is home to thousands of people with severe neurological and congenital deformities. Years of exposure to endosulfan, aerially sprayed on cashew plantations is said to be the reason. Those demanding a countrywide ban on the pesticide ask if this is not enough proof for India to endorse a global ban on endosulfan at an inter...

• Kerala fights for a ban on endosulfan

  The CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala has asked the Centre to press for a global ban on Endosulfan pesticide at the four-day Stockholm Convention on 'Persistent Organic Pollutants', to be held from April 25."Considering the environment pollution and serious health problems caused by the pesticide, India should take a stron...

• Pesticides only on 'prescription' in Kerala

  Seeking to reduce the use of pesticides, Kerala Government has decided to make it a must for farmers to get 'prescription' from agricultural officers for buying them from shops.The guidelines, issued by Director of Agriculture recently, said agricultural officers should write details such as the name of the crop, the affliction from which the plant...

• Pesticide causes birth defects

  The Kerala High Court in southern India has imposed a ban on the highly hazardous pesticide endosulfan, already banned in many countries, after growing concern at the risk of farmers and villagers being poisoned.