Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: A Kerala Government panel's ruling on the damages Coca-Cola must pay villagers affected by pollution from its Palakkad bottling plant is likely to rekindle the debate on the compensation limits set by the Nuclear Liability Bill. If the soft drinks giant is asked to pay Rs. …
New Delhi The fire in BARC, which killed two nuclear scientists, was caused by low intensity explosive energy released from accidental mixing of small quantities of reactive chemicals, the Lok Sabha was told on Wednesday.
RANIGANJ, 3 FEB: The continued illegal coal mining in Raniganj has posed a threat to the Haldia-Barauni underground oil pipeline passing through the area. Experts apprehend that an explosion is imminent and fearing this, police sought immediate intervention of the Eastern Coalfields Limited. The SOS by the police has become …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: An independent expert committee set up by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry on Tuesday blamed lack of safety procedures and human error for the devastating fire in the Indian Oil Corporation's fuel depot in Jaipur that killed 11 people and injured 45 in October last …
A major fire broke out at the Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) in the wee hours today, severely hitting the hot metal production at the flagship entity of the Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL). According to official sources, the blaze broke out in the electrical cable tunnel of the plant, …
S.S. NEGI After persistent hammering by the Supreme Court over disposal of the deadly methyl isocyanate and toxin's waste material from Union Carbide's defunct plant at Bhopal where over 3,000 people were killed and lakhs of others crippled for life, the Centre finally has created hightech incinerator facility in Pithampur …
The Korba District and Sessions court has rejected the bail applications of three Chinese engineers, who were arrested in connection with the chimney collapse in which 40 people lost their lives at the Bharat Aluminum Company (BALCO) power plant on September 23 last year.
THE three Chinese engineers of Shandong Electric Power Construction Corp (SEPCO), arrested for the chimney collapse at the 1,200 MW Bharat Aluminum Company power plant, have said the responsibility of the construction work lay with a Delhi-based firm and that they were not at fault. Forty people were killed in …
Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS SECOND generation victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy are in town to urge Anna University to return the Rs 5 lakh sponsorship obtained from Dow Chemicals, the company that presently owns the Union Carbide factory that caused the gas disaster in 1984. "Accepting Dow's sponsorship will …
At least six workers and two senior officers of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) in Orissa's Sundergarh district fell ill on Sunday following leakage of toxic gas in one of its blast furnaces. The affected persons were immediately admitted to the Ispat General Hospital at Rourkela. While four of them were …
It is 25 years of the Bhopal gas disaster—the night when chemicals spewed out of the Union Carbide factory to kill and maim thousands over generations. The question is if we have learnt from the disaster—learnt how to handle chemical accidents; to dispose of industrial toxic waste; to manage crucial …
A major fire that broke out at the Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant (GNDTP) late last night here has reportedly caused a loss of more than Rs 125 lakh to the plant. The fire broke out after a blast around 10 p.m. in the oil-filled unit transformer. As a result, …
The major fire that broke out at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre at Trombay on Tuesday afternoon has sparked off fears of a radioactive gas leak, even though Barc has stressed that the explosion happened more than a kilometre away from the two nuclear reactors that are there in the …
Two research scholars lost their lives in a major fire that broke out at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre at Trombay on Tuesday afternoon. Barc sources said scientists working there heard a loud explosion in the modular laboratory, which houses over 60 research scholars and assistants, and rushed to see …
