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Toxic waste sites in India with elevated levels of lead and chromium are causing disease, disability and even death, leading to loss of healthy years of life among people, according to a new resear

Gujarat tops the list of being the most polluted state in India, accounting for 29 per cent of the nation’s hazardous waste.

The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) on Thursday directed the Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMC) to immediately stop the burning of biomedical waste.

INDORE: Panic gripped the industrial town of Nagda in Ujjain, nearly 120 km from here, when a toxic gas leaked from a German plant on Tuesday affecting 50 villagers in the vicinity. While most of those affected were discharged after primary treatment, three plant officials were arrested and later released on bail.

Victims complained of cough, burning in eyes and breathlessness and were admitted to Indubhai Parekh Memorial Hospital for treatment. All but three were discharged within hours of being admitted.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued instructions to Haryana government to submit the details of hospitals adhering to the prescribed standards for the management of biomedical waste.

The environmental protection department of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region warned 12 enterprises over pollution.

A court has rejected a demand that a city affected by the fallout of the country’s 2011 nuclear disaster evacuate its children.

MARGAO: Finally taking cognizance of the 25,000 tons of hazardous waste lying unattended in the Cuncolim Industrial estate, Chief Minister, Manohar Parrikar on Thursday issued a host of directions to the IDC as well as the occupier of the plot containing the waste in the Industrial estate.

Parrikar set a 15-day deadline on Ms The Axis to cover the hazardous waste with tarpaulin sheets as a temporary measure in view of the fast approaching monsoons. Secondly, the IDC was directed to hand over the plot of land to The Axis to set up a captive land site facility. The Axis in turn was directed the set up the captive land fill site on scientific lines in consultation with the Goa State Pollution Control Board

PANJIM: The Goa Government has tabled the Goa Cess on Products and Substances Causing Pollution (Green Cess) Bill, 2013 to levy cess till 2 per cent of the sale value on products and substances causing pollution.

The bill defines these products as: “those which upon their handling, consumption, utilization, combustion, or movement or transportation causes pollution of the lithosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and other environmental resources and causes emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases or discharge other types of effluents...”