JAMMU, Feb 8: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Wednesday sought the support of Council of Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR) in the promotion of aroma, herbal and leather industry in Jammu and Kashmir. "We are also looking forward for technological intervention of CSIR to enable the State utilize huge quantity of weeds produced in Dal and other lakes", Chief Minister told the visiting team of CSIR led by Secretary Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and Director General, Prof. Samir K. Brahmachari, who called on the Chief Minister here.

New Delhi: Chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board S P Gautam sold a patent he held privately on a technology to the apex authority on a revenue sharing basis and then passed a directive in his official capacity asking the leather industry to buy the expensive and untested know-how.

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LUCKNOW: Several teams constituted by the UP Pollution Control Board inspected 44 tanneries in Kanpur district on Wednesday. The teams were constituted by the UPPCB as a follow-up to an order passed by the Allahabad High Court early in November.

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh could boast of owning the country's biggest leather complex, if plans of UP State Industrial Development Corporation (UPSIDC) actualise. In a significant move, the corporation is planning to set up a Leather Park sprawling over an area of 1,500 acre in Unnao, bordering Kanpur district.

A project larger than the Nano that Bengal lost to Gujarat is going waste because the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government is bungling in Bantala after slipping in Singur.

At 1,200 acres, the Calcutta Leather Complex