{"id":1014457,"date":"2026-06-15T08:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014457"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:03:06","slug":"tatas-apple-iphone-factory-in-tamil-nadu-faces-shutdown-threat-over-farmland-water-contamination-pollution-body-seeks-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/15\/tatas-apple-iphone-factory-in-tamil-nadu-faces-shutdown-threat-over-farmland-water-contamination-pollution-body-seeks-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata&#8217;s Apple iPhone factory in Tamil Nadu faces shutdown threat over farmland water contamination; pollution body seeks explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: An Indian pollution regulator has alleged wastewater discharged from a Tata components factory for Apple&#8217;s iPhone has contaminated the groundwater for nearby farms and warned of a forced shutdown unless Tata gives a satisfactory explanation. <\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s Tata Electronics is central to Apple&#8217;s push to diversify iPhone production beyond China and is the second-biggest supplier to Apple in South Asia after Taiwan&#8217;s Foxconn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: An Indian pollution regulator has alleged wastewater discharged from a Tata components factory for Apple&#8217;s iPhone has contaminated the groundwater for nearby farms and warned of a forced shutdown unless Tata gives a satisfactory explanation. India&#8217;s Tata Electronics is central to Apple&#8217;s push to diversify iPhone production beyond China and is the second-biggest supplier to Apple in South Asia after Taiwan&#8217;s Foxconn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014458,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014457\/revisions\/1014458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}