Pesticides And Toxins

Paul Fernandes & Arvind Tengse | TNN Margao/Panaji: The deposition of tar balls on some stretches of south Goa’s beaches is turning into a complicated problem with the authorities struggling to find a way to dispose of the pollutants. Several truckloads of the sticky material are lying on the state’s worst affected beaches in Colva, Velsao and some other stretches.

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Margao/Panaji: While the clean-up along some of the worst tar-sullied beaches began, the sticky substance that has washed up ashore hardened into lumps on Thursday.

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Under Environment Protection Act, Penalty Can Only Go Up To 1 Lakh New Delhi: The tar balls floating up to Goa beaches and blighting the picture-perfect tourism hotspot have again brought to the fore how weak the environment and liability laws are in India when it comes to checking maritime pollution. The recent collision of two cargo ships off the Mumbai coast, and the consequent oil sp

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KOLKATA, 1 SEPT: At a time when the state pollution control board has taken up a drive to phase out lead, a toxic-metal, innumerable lead-battery units in the city not only continue to cough out lead aerosols dust, but also ignore the safety of labourers working in these units. There are about 100 small or medium lead battery units operating on the stretch of APC Road from Manicktala Crossing t

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Sandip Das New Delhi: With aromatic basmati rice from India kept out of the supermarkets in Germany for the last few months, following reports of the presence of high levels of pesticide residue, exporters are urging the government to hold discussion with the European Union for bringing in uniformity in the norms concerning the minimum residue limit (MRL). “EU approval process for the presen

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Over a hundred containers that had fallen off merchant vessel MSC Chitra, following its collision with MV Khalijia over a week ago, are yet to be recovered.

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Sandip Das

New Delhi: With Europe and Gulf countries, putting in place stringent safety norms for ensuring that pesticide residue in agricultural crops remain below prescribed limits, basmati (aromatic rice) exporters from India have urged the Union agriculture ministry to ensure that farmers use less pesticide.

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Siliguri, Aug. 11: Residues of an insecticide used in Naxalbari Tea Estate were found in the stomachs of three garden children who had died yesterday.

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