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

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  Blinded, Deformed, Thousands Paying For Endosulfan In Karnataka Say ‘Enough’

  Belathangady, Karnataka: As a child, Shridhar Gowda, now 40, was taken to a cashew nut farm in Karnataka’s Belathangady by his teacher to see a small chopper spraying insecticide. Little did he know that a few years later, the same deadly insecticide called Endosulfan will become the reason for the loss of his eye sight. Over two decades between ...

• 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...

• Rehabilitating endosulfan victims Government's aim: Oomen Chandy

  Government has drawn up a project to provide employment to endosulfan victims after giving them proper training, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today said.

• Supreme Court bans Endosulfan across country

  The Supreme Court has banned the production, sale and use of controversial pesticide Endosulfan in the country for the next eight weeks, holding that human life is more important than anything else."Keeping in mind various judgements of this court under Article 21 (right to life and liberty) of the Constitution and particularly keeping in mind the ...

• Supreme Court bans manufacture, use of endosulfan

  The Supreme Court today banned the manufacture and use of pesticide Endosulfan across India. An expert panel headed by the Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will examine the ill effects of the pesticide on human beings and the eco system and will submit a preliminary report to the apex court within eight weeks.The court ...

• End of Endosulfan saga in Kerala

  Kerala State Pollution Control Board on Tuesday ordered closure of public sector company Hindustan Insecticides Ltd, a major producer of the pesticide Endosulfan, for "violation" of pollution and environmental safety rules.The company at Elur, near Kochi, had persistently violated rules laid down to check air and water pollution and environmental h...

• Endosulfan victim dies due to alleged medical negligence

  A two-and-a-half-year-old girl, suspected to be a victim of the harmful effects of Endosulfan pesticide, died on Thursday allegedly after she failed to receive timely medical care in a government-run hospital in Kerala's Kasaragod district.Prajitha was taken to the Kasaragod General Hospital after she complained of breathlessness.As the child speci...

• 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...

• Endosulfan ban: Achuthanandan rallies support from Chief Ministers

  Seeking to widen his government's campaign against Endosulfan, Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has written to his counterparts in other states requesting them to bring combined pressure on the Centre to impose a nationwide ban on the pesticide.Ahead of a Kerala 'hartal' on Friday called by ruling CPM-led LDF on the Endosulfan issue, Achutha...

• 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 ...

• Kerala Chief Minister fasts against endosulfan

  Stepping up pressure on Centre for a nationwide ban on endosulfan pesticide, Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan began a day-long fast on Monday along with peoples' representatives, political leaders and civil rights activists to press for the demand.The mass fast at the martyr's column is being held as part of the "anti-endosulfan day" being o...

• 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...