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 …
Nearly one-and-a-half month after the collapse of chimney at a power plant near here, the police on Monday arrested three senior officials of Vedanta Resources-controlled Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (BALCO) in connection with the accident. The accident had claimed at least 41 lives at BALCO Nagar on September 23. BALCO …
Ajay Modi / Jaipur November 16, 2009, 0:53 IST Financial losses at nearby units in crores, air quality severely affected. Smoke continues to emanate from the Jaipur bulk storage depot of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), more than a fortnight after a massive fire broke out there on October 29, unleashing …
Air pollution caused by the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) fire may lead to environmental hazards, including acid rain, even as the blaze in two of the 11 oil storage tanks at Sitapura continued on Tuesday, the sixth day. A large number of villagers are at hospitals in the State capital …
NARAYAN BARETH OIL FIRE SMOKE CAN CAUSE SERIOUS HEALTH PROBLEMS The Rajasthan Pollution Control Board has constituted a high-level committee to check environmental hazards The fire at the Indian Oil depot in Jaipur is now going to die but thick black smoke continued to billow from it on Tuesday. People …
The fire at the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot continued to burn for the sixth day even as government officials maintained that only one of the 11 containers was ablaze on Tuesday evening, which would be expended in another 24 hours. Meanwhile, the state government has relaxed roadblocks in the …
NEW DELHI: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has recommended an environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the area affected by the raging fire in the Indian Oil depot at Sitapura on the outskirts of Jaipur. It has also suggested regular monitoring of air, water and soil in Jaipur, Haryana and …
JAIPUR: A high-level committee appointed by the Union Petroleum Ministry began on Monday its inquiry into the cause of the fire at the Indian Oil Corporation depot here, even as the death toll in the industrial disaster went up to 12 with a body being recovered and a man succumbing …
JAIPUR: The fire raging at the Indian Oil Corporation depot at the Sitapura Industrial Area near here since last Thursday has led to an environmental crisis in the capital city. The thick black plumes of smoke have spread to dozens of villages and residential colonies, hampering visibility and creating panic. …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as there is no respite from the towering inferno in Jaipur, a similar incident is waiting to happen in Sambalpur. While the oil depot in Jaipur was on the outskirts of the city, in Sambalpur the depots are in the heart of the town. And in case, fire …
The goal of Kerala Disaster Management Policy is to institute structures and systems and to establish directive principles for effective disaster risk and crisis management in order to minimise human, property, environment and livelihood losses and to contribute to the sustainability of development and better standards of living for poor …
Jaipur: A day after the massive fire broke out in Indian Oil Corporation depot on the outskirts of Jaipur, thick smoke clouds enveloped the nearby areas on Friday posing serious health hazards to people living in the vicinity. While official figures were not available, sources at SMS Hospital said at …
Human Negligence Caused Jaipur Inferno: Experts Jaipur: As Rs 500 crore worth of fuel burned through the second day of the Jaipur inferno, there were two questions no one had answered satisfactorily. How did it happen? And how many had died in the blaze that started with a blast on …
Sunny Sebastian JAIPUR: A massive fire that broke out in the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot in the Sitapura Industrial Area on the outskirts of the Rajasthan capital on Thursday night claimed at least four lives. More than 150 persons are being treated in various hospitals in the city for …
The comprehensive survey report conducted in 15 communities surrounding the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL)plant site in Bhopal. Reveals that tens of thousands of people are being poisoned with deadly chemicals even 25 years after the Bhopal Gas Disaster on 3rd December 1984. Shows that the site of the disaster …
What is BALCO? Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO), which was a public sector undertaking in Korba district of Chhattisgarh, was disinvested in 2001. Sterlite Industries India Limited had bought 51 per cent stake for Rs 551 crore and took management control of BALCO. It also had the option to buy …
Joseph John Rescue workers waited with masks, stretchers and sheets for bodies as heavy earth moving equipment tried to clear debris of a giant chimney that collapsed Wednesday at the Korba power plant site of the Bharat Aluminium Company (BALCO), killing at least 25 people and trapping many others. Hopes …
