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 …
Mining operations at Papua New Guinea's Ok Tedi copper mine remain suspended on Monday following the tragic death of a worker from a rock fall, just two weeks after operations recommenced. Papua New Guinea's largest copper miner restarted operations earlier this month following a nine-month shutdown due to the savage …
A worker for Sinopec's Addax Petroleum was missing after an oil tank exploded in Gabon, the company said on Sunday. Addax said the cause of the accident on Saturday, which occurred at the Obangue-East oil producing site, was unclear and that an investigation was underway. The accident injured six other …
The Geita District Administrative Secretary, Mr Gasper Kanyairita, told the ‘Daily News’ that the victims’ death came a few months after authorities warned over the safety of the pit. Mr Kanyairita said an operation conducted as soon as the calamity was reported managed to save four miners who were rushed …
Russia's technical watchdog, Rostekhnadzor, said on Tuesday it had not found any serious breaches of safety regulations at an Arctic coal mine where an accident killed 36 miners and rescue workers last week, Russian news agencies reported.
The 26 miners who were trapped in a Russian coal mine above the Arctic circle have died and rescue operations have been halted after a third blast underground killed several rescue workers, emergency services said on Sunday. The miners were trapped on Thursday after a sudden leak of methane gas …
Newcrest Mining suspended all mining and processing at its Gosowong operation in Indonesia after the underground section of the gold mine was damaged by a cave-in late on Monday, which trapped one of its workers. Newcrest said on Tuesday it did not know what caused the "geotechnical event", which led …
A chemical plant in Taichung of central Taiwan caught fire Monday morning, with two workers missing, local media said. Explosions were around 5:51 this morning, and photos posted on social media showed fire and thick smog at the site, according to China Times. Police has arrived to put out the …
Rescuers have successfully lifted out 4 miners who had been trapped for 36 days after a gypsum mine collapsed in Pingyi County, east China's Shandong Province in late December. Meanwhile, rescue efforts are still in full swing for the 13 trapped miners still listed as missing underground. Zhang Shuping, mayor …
Rescuers have found eight survivors five days after a mine collapse in east China's Shandong Province, rescuers confirmed Wednesday. The gypsum mine accident happened at 8 p.m. Friday in Pingyi County. At the time, 29 people were working underground. One is confirmed dead, four escaped, and seven have been rescued, …
At least 13 people died when an old gold mine they were working in collapsed in eastern Guinea, a local official said on Monday. The accident happened in a mine run by informal workers in Kintinia, about 800 km (500 miles) northeast of Conakry, an area which holds some of …
Another four miners have been confirmed dead, bringing the death toll in a mine fire in northeast China's Liaoning Province to 17 as of Friday morning, local authorities said. The fire broke out Thursday afternoon at the Xingli coal mine in Huludao City. As of 9:07 pm Thursday, 23 trapped …
Bangladesh has far more factories engaged in the global garment business than stated by its industry and millions of people working in them are exposed to unsafe conditions, a U.S.-based study said on Thursday. Bangladesh's $25 billion (17 billion pounds) garment industry has been in the throes of a safety …
HARBIN - The number of people trapped underground after an explosion at a coal mine on Wednesday afternoon has risen to 19, the work safety authority in northeast China's Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province said. The explosion happened at about 2:30 p.m., at the time 52 people were working underground, 33 …
Five workers were hurt when a fire broke out at the Lazaro Cardenas refinery in Minatitlan in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz, state oil and gas company Pemex said on Thursday. Pemex said in a statement the fire in a catalytic plant that had been closed for maintenance …
A draft National Occupational Health Safety Strategic Plan 2016-2020 was recently validated at a ceremony held at the CIAM National Malaria Conference Hall in Kanifing. The event was presided over by Bolong Jobarteh, the Chief Public Health Officer at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, on behalf of the …
Azeri state energy company SOCAR said that 29 workers missing after its oil platform in the Caspian Sea caught fire on Friday were feared dead, and President Ilham Aliyev declared a day of national mourning. SOCAR said on Sunday that one worker had been killed and 33 rescued, out of …
The Department of Factories and Boilers has issued an order to a plastic printing unit at the Kusharkode Industrial Estate, Nedumangad, to stop functioning. Following media reports that four personnel of the Fire and Rescue Services developed uneasiness after a gas leak at the Green Plastic Printers on Monday, Factories …
At least 12 miners are feared dead after an illegal gold mine collapsed in Indonesia's West Java province on Tuesday night, local police said on Wednesday. Lack of safety was blamed for the incident in Pongor mountainous area of Bantar Karet village in Bogor district, said Udjwala Prana Sigit, head …
Eight large parent corporations — along with their subsidiaries — shelled out more than $1 billion in penalties related to environmental, health and safety violations since 2010, according to a new report. Another 32 companies ponied up $100 million or more. “It seems like there’s another corporate scandal every other …
Says the actual poverty is much higher than suggested by the multilateral lender, adding there is lack of scientific basis in computing the poverty line Here in extremely unhygienic conditions, reside the workers of the thousands of small factories and workshops The government has contested the World Bank's recently released …
