A barrel of sulphuric acid accidentally tipped over at a factory in the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate on October 3. The acid burnt four workers.

The High Court summons the Chinese and Bangladeshi representatives of a Chinese company constructing effluent treatment plant at Savar tannery industrial area to appear before it on August 22 for placing explanation about their plan in controlling the pollution of the area.

The quality of the Buriganga water in Dhaka improved to some extent after the tanneries of Hazaribagh were shut down recently. Tests by Department of Environment (DoE) say so and so do the people of the area.

Tanners can bring in rawhides and skins to their factories of Hazaribagh until April 10, as a government wing yesterday relaxed a directive banning rawhides to the tanneries there.