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3 Labourers Die While Cleaning "Pollution" Tank In Kanpur Tannery
Three labourers died after allegedly inhaling toxic gas while cleaning a 'pollution' tank at a tannery in Kanpur, police said on Friday.
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Video: Massive Fire Breaks Out In Kolkata Tannery
A major fire broke out at a tannery in Tangra area of the city on Saturday evening and 16 fire tenders were pressed to douse the towering flames, a senior official of the fire department said.
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UP Pollution Control Board Orders Kanpur Tanneries's Shutdown Again
The Regional Pollution Control Board of Uttar Pradesh has ordered 248 tanneries in Jajmau area of Kanpur to stop their operations from February 19 till further orders, without assigning any reason.
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Women Hold Protest Against Citizenship Act, NRC In Bengaluru
Chanting slogans of ''Azaadi'' (freedom), women on Sunday hold the protest at Tannery Road against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR).
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Green Court Fines UP Government, 22 Tanneries For Polluting Ganga
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has rapped the Uttar Pradesh government for failing to check sewage discharge containing toxic chromium into Ganga at Rania and Rakhi Mandi in Kanpur and imposed a penalty of 280 crore on 22 tanneries for causing pollution.
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Move Tanneries, Set Guidelines For Ganga's Ghats, Uttar Pradesh Is Told
In its latest move to protect the Ganga river, the country's top green court has banned the dumping of any kind of waste within 500 metres of the river's edge; anyone caught littering the river will be charged Rs 50,000. It has also instructed the government of Uttar Pradesh to move polluting tanneries and to set up guidelines - along with the hill...
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Centre's Cattle Law Death Certificate For Us, Say Kolkata Leather Traders
Marks and Spencer, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Nine West - top global brands are suddenly calling Kolkata in a panic: Will Kolkata's tanneries be able to supply their high-quality leather anymore after the ban on sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets?
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Green Body Slams UP Government For Behaving 'like A King' On Tannery Shifting Order
The National Green Tribunal today slammed the UP government over the issue of shifting of tanneries located on the banks of Ganga in Kanpur to some other place to stop discharge of effluents, saying, "it can't behave like a king."
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Gujarat Dalits Unite In Mega Rally Sending Stern Message To BJP Government
On a day a Dalit man, who had attempted suicide to protest the thrashing of four Dalit tannery workers by self-styled cow vigilantes in Gujarat earlier this month, died, members of the community organised a large congregation in Ahmedabad to send a message to the state government.
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Kanpur's Leather Industry Shrinks As Controversy Over Cow Slaughter Grows
The controversy over cow slaughter had had an unexpected spin-off. One that's not pleasant for Kanpur - one of the biggest leather manufacturing centres of Uttar Pradesh, where assembly elections are due next year. Over the last few years, nearly half the units have shut, others have been making losses. And the Dalits, who form a chunk of the work...
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3 Labourers Die While Cleaning "Pollution" Tank In Kanpur Tannery
Three labourers died after allegedly inhaling toxic gas while cleaning a 'pollution' tank at a tannery in Kanpur, police said on Friday.
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Video: Massive Fire Breaks Out In Kolkata Tannery
A major fire broke out at a tannery in Tangra area of the city on Saturday evening and 16 fire tenders were pressed to douse the towering flames, a senior official of the fire department said.
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UP Pollution Control Board Orders Kanpur Tanneries's Shutdown Again
The Regional Pollution Control Board of Uttar Pradesh has ordered 248 tanneries in Jajmau area of Kanpur to stop their operations from February 19 till further orders, without assigning any reason.
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Women Hold Protest Against Citizenship Act, NRC In Bengaluru
Chanting slogans of ''Azaadi'' (freedom), women on Sunday hold the protest at Tannery Road against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR).
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Green Court Fines UP Government, 22 Tanneries For Polluting Ganga
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has rapped the Uttar Pradesh government for failing to check sewage discharge containing toxic chromium into Ganga at Rania and Rakhi Mandi in Kanpur and imposed a penalty of 280 crore on 22 tanneries for causing pollution.
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Move Tanneries, Set Guidelines For Ganga's Ghats, Uttar Pradesh Is Told
In its latest move to protect the Ganga river, the country's top green court has banned the dumping of any kind of waste within 500 metres of the river's edge; anyone caught littering the river will be charged Rs 50,000. It has also instructed the government of Uttar Pradesh to move polluting tanneries and to set up guidelines - along with the hill...
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Centre's Cattle Law Death Certificate For Us, Say Kolkata Leather Traders
Marks and Spencer, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Nine West - top global brands are suddenly calling Kolkata in a panic: Will Kolkata's tanneries be able to supply their high-quality leather anymore after the ban on sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets?
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Green Body Slams UP Government For Behaving 'like A King' On Tannery Shifting Order
The National Green Tribunal today slammed the UP government over the issue of shifting of tanneries located on the banks of Ganga in Kanpur to some other place to stop discharge of effluents, saying, "it can't behave like a king."
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Gujarat Dalits Unite In Mega Rally Sending Stern Message To BJP Government
On a day a Dalit man, who had attempted suicide to protest the thrashing of four Dalit tannery workers by self-styled cow vigilantes in Gujarat earlier this month, died, members of the community organised a large congregation in Ahmedabad to send a message to the state government.
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Kanpur's Leather Industry Shrinks As Controversy Over Cow Slaughter Grows
The controversy over cow slaughter had had an unexpected spin-off. One that's not pleasant for Kanpur - one of the biggest leather manufacturing centres of Uttar Pradesh, where assembly elections are due next year. Over the last few years, nearly half the units have shut, others have been making losses. And the Dalits, who form a chunk of the work...
