SAVAR, Bangladesh -- Bangladesh tanneries prepping leather for shoes, belts, wallets and purses are dumping toxic chemicals into a river at a new industrial complex more than a year after the ...

The tanneries started functioning normally from Thursday onwards.The leather units had been temporarily closed on the orders of the high court in view of Mahakumbh. The decision brought relief for ...

In 1998, The Independent, the British daily, reported that the overwhelming majority of Dhaka tanneries, “did not have any treatment plant” for several dangerous pollutants used to process animal hide ...

Child labour as well as environmental and health hazards in tanneries will be the same even if the industry is relocated from Hazaribagh unless Bangladesh strictly enforces related laws, observes ...

On May 19 there’s a rare chance for accountability for the massive health problems caused by Bangladesh’s toxic leather tanneries. The country’s High Court has summonsed the secretary of the Ministry ...

For probably the first time, Bangladesh’s government has leveled pollution-related fines against two leather tanneries in Hazaribagh, a Dhaka neighborhood so polluted with waste from its roughly 150 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yet organizers were able to transfer the showcase of Italian tanneries by setting up a platform filled with webinars and digital ...

Anant Shekhar Misra.Last week, UPPCB allowed 28 tanneries to start operations. <p>The news of reopening of tanneries has generated hope among workers in Jajmau area where many tanneries are closed ...