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The sweet story behind India's first Chinatown
11 months, 3 weeks ago

The sweet story behind India's first Chinatown

China Daily  

Madhusree Mallik The word for sugar in Bengali, as in some other Indian languages, is chini. When Atchew died in the 1780s and the sugar mill went bust, the Chinese mill workers moved to Kolkata proper in search of a living. The Chinese workers settled around central Kolkata's Tiretta Bazaar area, making a living running leather tanneries and carpentry shops. …

Food India China Kolkata Bengali Chinese
The sweet story behind India's first Chinatown
11 months, 3 weeks ago

The sweet story behind India's first Chinatown

China Daily  

Madhusree Mallik The word for sugar in Bengali, as in some other Indian languages, is chini. When Atchew died in the 1780s and the sugar mill went bust, the Chinese mill workers moved to Kolkata proper in search of a living. The Chinese workers settled around central Kolkata's Tiretta Bazaar area, making a living running leather tanneries and carpentry shops. …

Food India China Kolkata Bengali Chinese
Collective seeks a day’s paid leave to women workers post-vaccination
3 years, 9 months ago

Collective seeks a day’s paid leave to women workers post-vaccination

The Hindu  

Thozhi, a collective for women workers in the unorganised sector, has appealed to the Government to direct employers to provide a day’s paid leave for women workers following vaccination, in view of the potential side-effects. In a representation to the government, the collective highlighted the difficult conditions in which women work in spinning and garment shop floors, tanneries, shoe factories, …

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Palar river in Vellore flows again, after three years
4 years, 1 month ago

Palar river in Vellore flows again, after three years

The Hindu  

While Vellore and Katpadi residents are happy about water flowing through the Palar river after three years, river conservation activists want more check dams to improve groundwater levels and also want authorities to stop effluent discharge into the river. “Many people gathered on Polur Subramanian Bridge and Katpadi Old Bridge to witness water gushing through Palar river,” said Sivadasan, a …

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NGT slaps Rs 10 crore fine on UP govt, Rs 280 crore on tanneries
5 years, 1 month ago

NGT slaps Rs 10 crore fine on UP govt, Rs 280 crore on tanneries

India TV News  

The National Green Tribunal has imposed a penalty of Rs 10 crore on the Uttar Pradesh government for failing to check sewage discharge containing toxic chromium into river Ganga at Rania and Rakhi Mandi in Kanpur. The NGT also held UPPCB liable and directed it to pay Rs 1 crore for ignoring illegal discharge of sewage and other effluent containing …

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NGT Directs UP Govt. To Pay Rs 10 Crore As Environment Compensation: Read Order To Know Why
5 years, 1 month ago

NGT Directs UP Govt. To Pay Rs 10 Crore As Environment Compensation: Read Order To Know Why

Live Law  

The National Green Tribunal has directed State of Uttar Pradesh to pay Rs 10 crore as Environment Compensation, for causing damage to the environment by permitting discharge of untreated sewage, containing toxic Chromium, into 'River Ganga'. A bench led by Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said "It was not considered that the sewage/effluents had highly toxic Chromium content. The tribunal …

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Embankment in Punjab collapses
5 years, 4 months ago

Embankment in Punjab collapses

India TV News  

A crucial embankment in Punjab's Ferozepur district collapsed early Monday due to heavy discharge of water from Pakistan, posing a threat of flooding in at least 17 villages. Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday asked the Water Resources Department to work out a joint action plan to strengthen the embankment to avert the flooding of nearby villages. Presiding over a …

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Pakistan opens headworks gates, 17 villages of Punjab's Ferozepur flooded
5 years, 4 months ago

Pakistan opens headworks gates, 17 villages of Punjab's Ferozepur flooded

India TV News  

As many as 17 villages of Punjab's border district Ferozepur were flooded after Pakistan opened headworks gates in its area on the Sutlej river, an official said on Thursday. "With the opening of gates of headworks in Kasur area by Pakistan, 17 villages in our side have been affected," Deputy Commissioner, Ferozepur, Chander Gaind said. He said the water released …

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BJP's blatantly discriminatory policies have brought Unnao's leather industry to its knees, but no candidate acknowledges it
5 years, 8 months ago

BJP's blatantly discriminatory policies have brought Unnao's leather industry to its knees, but no candidate acknowledges it

Firstpost  

Forced to close down in November for the Kumbh Mela, ostensibly to prevent pollution in the Ganga from waste from the tanneries, the centres are still shut. Their findings — straight and raw from the ground — will be combined in this series, Elections on the Go _, over a course of 100 days._ *** Unnao: “Agar ek pregnant worker …

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Government claims clean Ganga work is on fast pace after India Today TV's report
5 years, 9 months ago

Government claims clean Ganga work is on fast pace after India Today TV's report

India Today  

After India Today TV's fact check report "X Factor-Unquiet Ganga", the government has claimed that ongoing work to clean the river continues at a fast pace and many projects have been completed and are undergoing trial run while more have been sanctioned. India Today TV utilised data from NMCG website and reported 63 sewerage projects have been setup along the …

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CSIR stands tall with 10 innovations in 2018
6 years ago

CSIR stands tall with 10 innovations in 2018

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research has had an exciting 2018 where India’s first biofuel powered flight, aerospace technology, research in rare diseases, stroke, artificial intelligence and water disinfection have seen a major boost. First biofuel powered flight from Dehradun to Delhi on August 27, 2018: The indigenously produced aviation biofuel technology took its maiden flight on August …

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Uttar Pradesh govt decides to shut tanneries during Kumbh Mela; move made to provide devotees with clean water
6 years, 3 months ago

Uttar Pradesh govt decides to shut tanneries during Kumbh Mela; move made to provide devotees with clean water

Firstpost  

According to the UPSIDC, there are 264 big and small tanneries that operate in Kanpur and Unnao. Lucknow: The Government of Uttar Pradesh has taken a decision to close tanneries operating in Kanpur and Unnao, between December to March, 2019, to provide clean water for devotees participating in the upcoming Ardh Kumbh festival. Mukhtarul Amin, chairman of the Council of …

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