Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hussain Ahamad Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 05/01/2024. In the application, the allegation was in respect of illegal mining of earth from the nearby agricultural field by brick kilns in an area in Muzaffarnagar district. Pits were …
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 …
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 …
Italian energy group Eni said two people had been killed in an accident at a Sicilian plant operated by its Versalis chemical unit, prompting trade union calls for a strike to protest over working conditions. The two workers, employed by a third-party contractor, had been carrying out inspection work at …
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has issued directions under section 18 (1) (a) of the Water Act and the Air Act to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to ensure better implementation of Public Liability Insurance (PLI) Act, 1991. The Public Liability Insurance (PLI) Act, 1991 makes it …
The death toll from an explosion at a chemical plant in China's Shandong province late on Monday has risen to five, state news agency Xinhua reported, as China still seeks answers to a far larger blast in the port city of Tianjin earlier last month. The latest blast happened close …
An explosion shook a chemical plant in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, state media said on Tuesday, though there were no immediate reports of casualties in a country on edge after blasts killed more than 145 people last month. A single "loud" blast occurred at the plant in Dongying …
Five people died and six were injured in an explosion at a fireworks factory on Monday near Zaragoza in northeastern Spain, officials said. The cause of the blast at the factory on the outskirts of the city near the airport was unknown. The explosion at the factory, which makes fireworks …
Four miners have been killed in a methane gas explosion at a coal mine in Colombia's central Boyaca province. The accident happened near the town of Socha, 250km north-west of the capital, Bogota, on Monday. Boyaca province is rich in minerals and mining is one of its main industries. The …
Safety hazards have been found at almost 70 percent of firms handling dangerous chemicals inspected in Beijing since two massive blasts killed 114 people last week, including a branch of Asia's largest refiner Sinopec Corp, state media reported. An inspection of 124 sites that stored dangerous chemicals in the Chinese …
GUIYANG, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Ten people were killed and three are missing after a gas outburst at a coal mine in southwest China's Guizhou Province on Tuesday night. Five people suffered injuries, but are not in critical condition, an official with the Pu'an County told Xinhua. A total of …
Twelve miners are trapped in a coal mine in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province after it flooded late on Monday afternoon. The flood inundated the mine in Xing'an district of Hegang city, a major Chinese coal producer, at around 5 pm, the city government's publicity department told Xinhua. Rescuers are trying …
MANILA, July 17 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were killed and six others were missing after a coal mine collapsed in Semirara Island in the central Philippine province of Antique on Friday due to heavy monsoon rain, said the country's Department of Energy. The department said initial investigation shows …
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh's disabled population has witnessed a whopping rise of 48% from 2001 to 2011 with the number of disabled going up from 4.19 lakh to 6.24 lakh during the period. These include 2.31 lakh males and 1.88 lakh females. According to the latest Census Report (2011), number of disabled …
South Korea's Hanwha Chemical Corp said there had been an explosion at one of its plastic production plants, leaving five dead and one person missing. The explosion occurred during welding work to expand a waste water disposal facility at its No.2 plant, located in Ulsan, about 300 kilometres (186 miles) …
FUZHOU - Nine people are still trapped after they broke into an unlicensed coal mine on Saturday in Longyan city in east China's Fujian Province, local authorities announced on Sunday morning. Twelve workers broke into an abandoned and unlicensed coal mine in Wendong village in the city's Yongding district without …
CHANGSHA, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in a gas leak that happened at a coal mine on Saturday in central China's Hunan Province has risen to eight, rescuers said Tuesday. The last body was recovered on Tuesday morning as the three-day rescue ended. The accident occurred at about …
Colombia's second-biggest coal miner, U.S.-headquartered Drummond, failed to implement adequate health and safety practices prior to an accident in which two workers were killed when a cargo of coal was tipped on them, the Labor Ministry said. The ministry said it will press administrative charges after finding lax procedures may …
May 11 India's Numaligarh Refiners Ltd said on Monday it had extinguished a fire at the hydrocracker unit at its 60,000-barrel-per-day plant in the northeastern state of Assam and had resumed the process of starting up the entire plant in phases. The refinery has been closed for about a month …
The number of workers exposed to high radiation at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant in fiscal 2014 has grown 1.5-fold from the year before, data from Tokyo Electric said Saturday. A total of 992 workers, mostly those employed by subcontractors, saw their doses top 20 millisieverts in the …
DATONG - Twenty-one people were confirmed dead as of Thursday morning, four days after water from a ground-level reservoir flooded a coal mine in the northern province of Shanxi, according to the work safety regulator. A total of 247 people were working in Jiangjiawan Mine in Datong city when the …
