<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of New item titled “Six workers killed in fire inside Nagaland rat-hole mine “appearing in The Hindu Bureau
Twenty-five garment factories were awarded yesterday for being environmentally-compliant by Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association and SouthAsia Enterprise Development Facility.
China's safety watchdog said Wednesday it will suspend or shut down operations in over 5,000 non-coal mines that do not meet safety standards this year. The government will take steps to reduce accidents
An underground methane gas explosion killed up to 18 miners at a coal pit in northern Russia on Monday and President Vladimir Putin dispatched his disasters minister to the scene to oversee rescue efforts.
With gas emissions during manual sewer cleaning recognized as a cause of death that has claimed the lives of many a sanitation worker over the years, Delhi government has finally taken the first step towards
A blast occurred at a chemical plant in East China's Shandong province on Saturday, but casualties remain unknown. The blast occurred around 11 am at Yongxin Chemical Plant in Boxing county, located
A federal judge in New Orleans on Tuesday approved an agreement between BP and the Justice Department for the company to plead guilty to 14 criminal charges and pay $4 billion in penalties for the 2010
Mines Dept Sends Proposal For Minimum 3% Reservation For Widows Of Mine Workers Jaipur: The department of mines and geology has submitted a proposal to the state government seeking reservation and preferential rights in allocation of mining leases to widows of mine workers who have died due to occupational diseases and accidents. According to the United Nations Human Rights Report- 2012, out of the total miners in the state, nearly 37% are women and most of them are dalits and tribals. Now, in a bid to provide definite source of livelihood such widows, the department has recommended a minimum of 3% reservation to them in mining leases.
There was a gas leak in the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant late on Monday night, around 11 p.m. or so, resulting in the hospitalisation of 11 employees. According to sources, two of them are still in hospital,
Assistant commissioner of police, Rajesh Pathak said: “The nature of the gas is still a mystery. We have asked Gujarat Pollution Control Board to submit their report at the earliest but there is no intimation from the agency yet. GPCB collected samples from the drain in Narol. We have begun hunting for chemical factories which may have dumped effluents illegally, causing the gas emission from the sewer. Without this GPCB report, we cannot proceed against people responsible for this.” “The preliminary postmortem report says that the victims died of suffocation caused by gas. The gas was heavier than air and affected those sleeping on the floor.
CIL subsidiary alleged to have compromised mine safety Bharat Coking Coal (BCCL), a subsidiary of Coal India (CIL), has come under the Competition Commission of India (CCI) scanner for floating a vendor-biased global tender against the country’s competition rule, thereby compromising the safety of mines. A source in the CCI told FE that BCCL floated a tender in November 2012 asking for Mine Slope Stability Monitoring Radar. But the specifications given were out dated and not vendor neutral. The specification only supported one technology — Real Aperture Radar (RAR) system.
