-The Tribune BARC reports toxic metals in fertilisers as firms avoid costly decontamination process Bathinda (Punjab): The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has found high uranium content in diammonium phosphate and single superphosphate fertilisers that do not undergo the costlier decontamination process during production. The conclusion was reached after testing of soil and fertiliser samples. The Environmental Assessment Division of BARC sent a report on samples of DAP (diammonium phosphate) and single superphosphate...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Cancer is thought to be the great leveler. Whether you are an Indian or a Korean or Icelander, Cancer will bring death. But a massive study of 26 million Cancer patients over 15 years has shown that survival rates in the 10 most prevalent types of Cancer vary hugely across countries. Survival rates in India are quite low for most types of Cancer, less than...

-The Hindustan Times Two popular restaurant chains, KFC and Sagar Ratna, are serving rice dishes that have been found to be "unsafe" due to the presence of harmful artificial colouring, the Delhi government's food safety department has said in a report submitted to the high court. The "unsafe" dishes mentioned are fast-food giant KFC's Rizo Rice served at its restaurant at Scindia House in Connaught Place, and some rice recipes from South...

-ETV/ News 18 Claiming that the excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides destroyed Punjab in the two decades, volunteers from Punjab - once an agri-role model-have cautioned Madhya Pradesh against the same. These volunteers from Kheti Virasat Mission - a group of volunteer activists from different fields working in Punjab for promoting organic farming, said this while participating in Vikalp Mela as part of Bhopal gas tragedy's 30th anniversary events in...

-The Hindu The clean-up of the plant is pending due to legal disputes Thirty years after India's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, contamination owing to the leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide pesticide factory continues to affect residents. The leak of 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984, killed thousands of people in its immediate aftermath and continued to kill people in the...