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 …
PSEB Chairman assesses damage Tribune News Service Ropar, March 12 To assess the damage caused to machinery during a minor fire in unit number 6, Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) Chairman HS Brar today visited the Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Plant today. But the chairman was greeted with black …
Mumbai: Panic gripped the residents of Pawane village in Navi Mumbai after ammonia gas leaked from a nearby cold storage in the wee hours of Tuesday. At least 55 villagers were admitted to the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation hospital after they complained of uneasiness and problem in breathing after inhaling …
This document on chemical disaster management contains detailed descriptive lectures, talks of holistic disaster management (DM) framework, integration of chemical risk to holisitc and multi-hazard risk management, site assessment, legal framework, district level DM planning, as well as capacity building. It also includes geological, meteorological, health and community issues in …
The factory inspector of the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation in Ankleshwar has filed 13 cases against beil under the Factories Act, 1948. One was filed before the fire regarding the tsdf having seven sheds while it had the permission for only six. Nobody knows why the inspector did not talk …
Unlicensed firecracker factory did not observe safety rules SEVEN girls, mostly adolescents, working in a firecracker factory in Beed district of Maharashtra were killed and six others injured when the explosives kept on the premises caught fire causing an explosion. Eyewitnesses said the impact was so severe that the workers …
The present application for intervention arises from Writ Petition No.2802/2004 titled Alok Pratap Singh versus UOI and Ors pending before the Hon'ble Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur wherein vide order-dated 23.06.2005 the Applicant was invited to intervene in the said Writ Petition by the Hon'ble High Court, in order …
The paper describes, with the help of several representative case studies, how 'dust' explosions commonly occur in process industry all over the world and the devastation they cause to life and property. Dust explosions also pose serious risk of environmental contamination.
Zubeda Hamid |Chennai We appeal to you not associate with a company that has still not provided justice to the thousands affected in Bhopal A group of children from Bhopal, suffering from disablities caused gas leak from Union Carbide in 1984, have appealed to a private trust here to disassociate …
Ambala: Ammonia gas leaked from a pipeline here on Friday causing panic among employees of a milk plant. Around six employees of the Vita milk plant were affected by the ammonia gas and were admitted to local hospital, official sources said here. A number of people of the adjoining colonies …
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi December 06, 2008, 0:21 IST India's worst terrorist attack occurred not in Mumbai last month, but in Bhopal 24 years ago - and it's the kind of carnage that goes unheeded. What determines the gravity and enormity of an outrage? Is it the number of …
Pune, November 24 Saturday's fire at Elkay Chemicals Pvt Ltd, could have led to a major disaster in the Pimpri-Chinchwad-Bhosari industrial belt housing nearly 5,000 small, medium and large industries. PCMC
THERE was panic in Pimpri-Chinchwad on Saturday afternoon, when thick smoke, visible from afar, snaked skyward in Bhosari area. The cause was a major fire at ELKAY Chemicals Pvt. Limited and Shivam Industries. The fire that broke out at around 3.40 pm raged till 6.30 pm, when it was finally …
BY LALIT K. JHA NEW YORK The lawsuit was filed in 2004 by a group of people who live in the vicin- ity of the pesticide plant in Bhopal A New York court has reinstated a case filed against Union Carbide by residents of Bhopal who claim to have suffered …
Nellore, Oct. 31: The district authorities on Friday alerted the Oil and Natural Gas Commission after noticing fire coming out of a bore drilled in an aqua-culture pond in Mypadu, 30 km away from here. The blaze is emerging around 15 to 20 feet from the ground level and is …
This study was conducted to assess the safety with special reference to the acute toxicity, if any of siz samples (Excavated waste, Lime sludge, Naphthol tar (nor Napthol tar), Reactor residue, Semi processed pesticide and Sevin tar) collected from `Stored Toxic Wastes at the former UCIL Plant Site at Bhopal'. …
Ask why diabetes is epidemic in the 21st century and most people will point the finger at bad diet, laziness and obesity. According to a small but growing group of scientists, though, the real culprit is a family of toxic chemicals known as persistent organic pollutants, or POPs. If these …
Dow Chemicals may run into trouble with its Indian investments. On August 8, Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizer Ram Vilas Paswan met some of the victims of the Bhopal gas leak disaster at their protest site in New Delhi and promised them action against the company. An empowered committee …
