Cancer state

Three pharma units under scanner for exposing workers to polyacrylate hazard

Gujarat High court directs medical check-up of all employees

Endosulfan manufactures file amendment application in Karnataka High Court

Question rationale behind baning endosulfan in the state

Bad chemistry

Asbestos, agribusiness get a leg up

Scientists get legal notice for highlighting health hazards of endosulfan

Excel Crop Care asks them to withdraw report, apologise publicly by July 28

Gujarat to set up water regulatory commission

Andhra salt-makers want recognition as farmers

White asbestos finds backers at Rotterdam Convention

Pesticide-ridden Punjab to begin cancer registration

Joint committee favours endosulfan exports

Cites lack of pesticide disposal facility

Lab Chrysotile bankrupt

WHO bans smoking in indoor workplaces

Women have a greater risk of contracting avian flu

Science and Technology - Briefs

SC bans endosulfan, for now

Committee to submit report on the pesticide's toxicity in eight weeks

Air & water quality report in post-WTC debated

Rotterdam Convention meet: no consensus on including herbicide paraquat in the prior informed consent list

120 nations had agreed to the listing, but India and Gautemala played spoilsport

Science and Technology - Briefs

In Court

Letters

Industrial devil-ution

Maharashtra and Gujarat. The brightest jewels in India's industrial crown. But impressive industrial growth figures fail to hide the grim …

A Nationalised Nightmare

One of the main reasons given for nationalising the coalmines of India was to protect workers from accidents. What followed was large-scale …

"Whistleblowing is bound to increase"

Joyce Rothschild, professor of sociology, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and  State University, …

Knocking strange doors

The study of sleep patterns in environments as wierd as outer space and underwater could be beneficial to public health in general

Hands shackled

Repetitive work done by hands can lead to serious nervous disorders, from numbness in fingers to permanent nerve damage