Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
Human rights experts, including a U.N. special rapporteur, are criticizing a U.N. scientific report dismissing concerns about the effects of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese public. Speaking Thursday at an event organized by U.S. and Japanese nongovernmental groups, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to health …
The owner of the detergents factory responsible for emitting ammonia gas which left 72 area residents in hospital on Tuesday, has agreed to shift the facility to Kalutara. Following agitations by people, he gave the assurance at a meeting he had with senior police officers, Buddhist monks and people’s representatives …
The government plans to introduce safety rating system for chemical plants in India will minimises accidents and increase productivity, if implemented in right spirit Chemical industry involves handling of hazardous substances, which if not handled as per prescribed guidelines can lead to disaster. While there are many regulations (pertaining to …
A toxic gas leak from a factory in a suburb of Sri Lankan capital prompted authorities to close the factory on Tuesday after more than 70 factory workers and residents near the factory were hospitalized following the leak. About 72 factory workers and nearby residents who complained of breathing difficulties …
Forty employees of a chemical factory and 30 persons residing in the neighbourhood were admitted to hospital following a gas leak at the factory in Piliyandala early yesterday. A special police team in coordination with the Central Environment Authority commenced an investigation into the gas leak at a chemical factory …
Initial investigations conducted by the Piliyandala police have revealed that ammonia gas which leaked from a factory in Piliyandala causing 72 persons to be hospitalised had been formed due to an accidental mixing of two chemicals in the wee hours of yesterday. A tense situation arose following the gas leak …
Four miners have died of suffocation inside hazardous rat-hole coal pits in a remote mining area near the Indo-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya’s South West Khasi Hills district and another was crushed in a quarry, officials said today. The incident took place on Thursday evening but the matter was brought to …
Japanese authorities may have underestimated by 20% the radiation doses workers got in the initial phase of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese newspaper reported on Saturday, citing a U.N. panel. A big earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 damaged the power station north of Tokyo, operated by …
Introducition: Essel Mining & Industries Ltd. (EMIL), a company of Aditya Birla Group is operating Koira Iron mine spreading over an area of 90.143 ha falling under the jurisdiction of Koira, Nuagaon, Kadodihi & Harischandrapur Villages, Koira Tehsil, Sundergarh District, Odisha. Project Detail: EMIL proposes to increase the Iron ore …
Six workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were exposed to a leak of highly radioactive water on Wednesday, the latest in a string of mishaps the country's nuclear watchdog has attributed to carelessness, saying they could have been avoided. Tokyo Electric Power Co, also known as Tepco, has been …
Rescuers carry the body of a miner onto an ambulance at the entrance of Zhengsheng Coal Mine in Fenyang of North China's Shanxi province on October 8, Tuesday, ten days after the mine flooded. Ten miners have been confirmed dead. [Photo/Xinhua] FENYANG, Shanxi - Ten miners were confirmed dead after …
The death toll in August 23 fire at the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd's (HPCL) refinery here rose to 23 with four more workers succumbing to their injuries on Sunday. While three succumbed to their burn injuries in the hospital here, another one died at a hospital in Mumbai, HPCL sources …
The death toll in the coal dump crash at a Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) site in Odisha’s Sundargarh district reached 14 on Sunday night as four more bodies were recovered and the rescue operation resumed, a MCL spokesman said. “On Sunday morning toll was 10. It rose to 14 in …
Four more bodies were today extricated from under a coal dump which crashed at an open cast mine of the Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd in Odisha’s Sundargarh district yesterday, taking the toll to 14, though police confirmed 10 deaths. An official of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) maintained that 14 bodies had …
Four people were dead and another ten were injured after a carbon monoxide poisoning occurred at a chemical plant in Northwest China's Gansu province on Sunday night, local authorities said Monday. The accident happened at about 11 pm at a sodium sulfide manufacturing workshop at Gansu Jinshi Chemical Co Ltd, …
Incident rates down from 2.6 to 1.4 per thousand workers in 2012-13; while national average is 11 per thousand workers, Goa’s figure is lowest Even as the industrial scenario in the State remained dismal in 2011-12 with almost 40 industrial units shutting shop, there has been a silver lining with …
For the first time Goa would conduct a safety audit of all of its 250 hazardous units once every two-years, to ensure industrial safety and prevent accidents. Not just the major accident hazardous (MAH) units, but the pharmaceuticals, steel, chemical and other industries under the hazardous category would be subject …
Speaking to media persons, Paranjape said that the sudden decline in the number of accidents is attributed to series of safety practices at industrial estates adopted by the Inspectorate and Green Triangle Society (GTS), a joint venture of industries and state government. The training programmes of Inspectorate of Factories and …
Production was stopped at the Hingir Rampur Underground Coal Mines of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited from Thursday over safety concerns. The mine in Orient Coal Area of Brajrajnagar is one of the oldest underground mines in the area. The Hingir Rampur Colliery started operations in 1906. It is one of the …
Consistently clocking negative growth for the past two years, the mining industry now has some good news: this has been the safest period with the number of fatal accidents hitting an all-time low of 112 in 2011 and rising marginally to 116 in 2012. “Mining accidents and fatalities have gone …
