Here's all you should know about National Pollution Control DayEvery year, around 7 million people die in India due to air pollution, with indoor air pollution killing 4 million. It is believed that nin...
02 Dec, 2022, 02.03 PM IST
Andhra govt brings out new safety guidelines to check industrial accidentsMadireddy Pratap, Director General of AP Disaster Response and Fire Services (DRFS), said the new guidelines issued under the AP Fire Servi...
03 Oct, 2022, 12.04 PM IST
Visakhapatnam gas leak: Andhra Pradesh High Court orders seizure of LG Polymers plant; asks directors not to leave countryAs many as 12 people, including a minor, were killed when styrene vapours leaked from the LG Polymerss plant on May 7, while several hundre...
25 May, 2020, 04.15 PM IST
GNFC shuts down Dahej plant indefinitely post gas leakThe plant to remain closed until additional safety measures are devised to ensure its safety in future. Firm to conduct a thorough review o...
16 Jan, 2018, 11.55 AM IST
- Government forms team of doctors, hospitals on alert after gas leak
Union Health Minister J P Nadda today directed Centre-run hospitals to be ready to help victims of a gas leak in southeast Delhi's Tughlaka...
08 Sep, 2017, 12.29 PM IST
Book ex-collector, retired SP for escape of UCL's Anderson: CourtThe order was passed on a petition filed by activist Abdul Jabbar demanding criminal action against the two former officers for allegedly h...
20 Nov, 2016, 05.14 PM IST
Rahul Gandhi demands thorough probe in Bhilai Steel Plant mishapHe said that his thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives in this terrible tragedy.
13 Jun, 2014, 04.44 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoles deaths at Bhilai steel plant; assures Raman Singh of assistanceLast evening, due to leakage of poisonous carbon monoxide gas from the blast furnace, 36 employees of the Bhilai Steel Plant got affected o...
13 Jun, 2014, 02.44 PM IST
Magisterial probe ordered into Bhilai steel plant gas leakageInitially, as many as 34 people were taken to Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital and Research Centre in Sector-9, Bhilai, after they fell ill upon i...
13 Jun, 2014, 12.46 PM IST
Casualty unlikely to go up, all injured are safe: SAILA company official said that since all the injured people are safe and out of danger the number of casualties is not expected to go up beyo...
13 Jun, 2014, 12.16 PM IST
Five killed in gas leakage at Bhilai Steel PlantGas leakage from blast furnace-GCP occurred at around 6.30 PM due to breakdown in a water pump, affecting people working nearby in the plan...
12 Jun, 2014, 11.33 PM IST
- SC revisits Bhopal case, puts Dow, Carbide on notice
SC issued notices to Dow Chemicals, Union Carbide, Eveready Industries India Ltd and McLeod Russel on Centre's plea seeking up to Rs 7,844c...
01 Mar, 2011, 05.16 AM IST
- Poisonous gas leaks in Dhanbad coal mines, workers rescued
Altogether 191 miners were inside the mines when the incident occurred at Jeetpur colliery, around 35 kms away from Dhanbad, last evening.
10 Nov, 2010, 11.40 AM IST
Keshub Mahindra, 7 others convicted in Bhopal gas caseAmongst the 8 is Warren Anderson, ex-chairman of Union Carbide who is absconding. Activists say 25,000 died in the immediate aftermath.
07 Jun, 2010, 12.44 PM IST
- Chemical industries in Chennai closed after gas leak
The State Pollution Control Board closed several chemical industries at Manali in North Chennai after a strong stench of gas engulfed the c...
05 Dec, 2007, 07.27 PM IST
- New norms to avert chemical disasters
Prevention and mitigation of chemical disasters will now not only be limited to strict regulation and safety audits of industries handling ...
28 May, 2007, 03.26 AM IST
- Little hope for trapped miners
Several dead workers were pulled from a coal mine in Jharkhand and there was “little hope” for about 50 miners trapped underground, officia...
08 Sep, 2006, 12.19 AM IST