One dead, two hospitalised after chemical leak in Mumbai's AndheriA 20-year-old man died and two others were critically injured after a chemical leak at a two-storey industrial unit in Mumbai’s Andheri MID...
22 Nov, 2025, 08.52 PM IST
Watch: Brazil’s Jundiaí River, ducks, and fish turn bright blue; What caused it and how officials are responding nowA truck accident in Sao Paulo, Brazil, caused a chemical spill. The blue dye leaked into the Jundiai River, changing its color. Emergency t...
20 May, 2025, 05.07 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
Gas leak in Rourkela Steel Plant: SC stays NGT order"Issue notice. In the meanwhile, stay of the operation of the judgment and final order dated February 11, 2021 of the National Green Tribun...
10 Jul, 2021, 12.49 PM IST
French refinery leaks toxic chemical into marine life area25 Jul, 2020, 03.51 PM IST
Why no summons served to Dow Chemical, Court asks MHA in Bhopal Gas Leak caseThe Bhopal Group for Information & Action (BGIA), an NGO working for survivors of the gas leak tragedy, had filed an application in this re...
24 Jan, 2020, 09.10 PM IST
Ammonia gas leaks from chemical plant in Maha; 14 hospitalisedThe incident took place at MIDC industrial zone in the Lote Parshuram area of Ratnagiri, around 330km from Mumbai, Friday morning, an offic...
03 Dec, 2018, 05.40 PM IST
32 yrs on, toxic waste still lying in Union Carbide factory: ActivistsGas leakage from Union Carbide, which made pesticides, on the night of December 2-3, 1984, left more than 3,000 people dead and many more i...
03 Dec, 2016, 06.50 PM IST
- Dead fish spark cyanide contamination fears in China river
A large number of dead fish spotted in China's Tianjin river sparked fresh fears about possible contamination of water due to hazardous che...
21 Aug, 2015, 10.25 PM IST
Amnesty demands Dow appear in court in Bhopal gas leak caseAmnesty International has called on the Dow Chemical Company (Dow) to appear before a Bhopal court this week.
01 Jul, 2014, 10.35 AM IST
Bhopal court summons Dow Chemicals in gas tragedy caseBhopal Group for Information and Action, an NGO working with the gas-affected people, had filed an application seeking to make Dow Chemical...
01 Mar, 2014, 12.03 AM IST
- Water supply to Chinese city cut off due to pollution in river
Water supply to China's Handan city, which has over a million people, has been cut off following contamination of local river by industrial...
06 Jan, 2013, 10.42 AM IST
- Union Carbide waste clean-up: HC seeks time-bound programme
The court said it would examine whether the erstwhile Union Carbide should be made liable for the reimbursement of expenditure for the clea...
27 Apr, 2011, 02.37 PM IST
- Pollution Board asks ports to handle chemicals properly
The near-fatal gas leak in the Bombay Port Trust (BPT) is an eye-opener to various cargo handlers importing hazardous chemicals, the countr...
16 Jul, 2010, 02.39 PM IST
- Family tree of Bhopal gas disaster
The Bhopal gas disaster made headlines 25 years ago as the world’s largest chemical disaster killing 22,000, disabling another 1,50,000.
05 Dec, 2009, 02.56 AM IST
- 18 killed in chemical plant blasts in China
The death toll from explosions that ripped through a chemical plant in southwest China rose to least 18.
27 Aug, 2008, 11.21 AM IST
- FACT seeks inquiry, denies leak from its plant
Denying any leak of ammonia gas from its plant near here, Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore (FACT) Limited on Friday urged Ernakulam dis...
11 May, 2007, 08.05 PM IST