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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vajubhai Arsibhai Dodiya & Ors. Vs Gujarat PCB & Ors. regarding the accident in Gujarat Ambuja Cement Ltd. dated 18/07/2013.
Fire raged through a poultry plant in northeastern China Monday, trapping workers inside a cluttered slaughterhouse and killing at least 119 people, reports and officials said. Several dozen people were hurt in the blaze in Jilin province's Mishazi township, which appeared to have been sparked by three early morning explosions, …
Three decades after it was shut down, the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal continues to be a real danger to the people of Bhopal and there is large-scale contamination in soil and water of the area where the factory is located. Read this action plan prepared by CSE for ridding …
An explosion killed six workers on Monday at a coal mine in northeast China where a similar accident killed 28 miners just three days earlier, state news media reported. Several recent industrial accidents across the country are again focusing attention on lax enforcement of safety regulations. The explosion at the …
The incident occurred at a factory in the southeastern industrial city of Gumi, where a hydrochloric acid leak at another factory last September left more than 3,000 people seeking medical treatment. Tuesday’s leak involved around one litre (around one quart) of chlorine gas and was contained within minutes, a city …
Liquid chlorine spill at a chemical plant in Russia's Perm Territory injured 30 people, local authorities told the Interfax news agency Friday. Workers at the plant, located at the town of Berezniki in Perm, violated the technological process, triggering the accident. "30 people have been injured, 27 of them were …
The objective of this work is to draw attention to the impact of climate change on internal displacement as an important factor affecting the security of millions of inhabitants of our planet. Relevant considerations have been preceded by an analysis of the most important causes of internal displacement. In the …
Carbon monoxide has been blamed for four deaths of workers in a cement plant in northwest China's Gansu Province on Wednesday, local officials said. Seven workers were poisoned by carbon monoxide at 6:40 p.m. when they were adding steel balls into a raw mill at the cement plant in Pingliang …
A blast occurred at a chemical plant in East China's Shandong province on Saturday, but casualties remain unknown. The blast occurred around 11 am at Yongxin Chemical Plant in Boxing county, located about 150 km northeast of the provincial capital Jinan, sources with the local government said. A preliminary investigation …
There was a gas leak in the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant late on Monday night, around 11 p.m. or so, resulting in the hospitalisation of 11 employees. According to sources, two of them are still in hospital, one in the general hospital in the steel plant and the other in a …
Three people were killed and one person has been reported missing in the fire accident at IOC at Hazira in Surat on Saturday noon. The financial loss in the incident has been estimated to be Rs 45 crore. The fire and emergency teams of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), which reached …
CPCB funded this project to IITR, Lucknow vide letter No. A-14011/1/2011- Mon/S870dated13/10/2011to carry out the analysis of groundwater, soil and sub-soil samples from UCIL, Bhopal premises and in the near by vicinity with particular reference to some selected physico-chemical parameters heavy metals and organics. The survey and analysis of soil …
At least 88 labourers working in different big industries in the State died in accidents during the last two years, the Assembly was informed on Tuesday. “While 56 labourers died due to accidents in big industries during 2011-12, 32 met a similar fate during 2012-13 (up to August),” Labour and …
he Supreme Court, in its fi nal order of October 1991, upheld the compensation settlement with Union Carbide which made the Government of India liable for any shortfall in compensation or any new claims from the Bhopal gas victims. Following this order the Indian Council of Medical Research disbanded its …
The Kerala High Court has directed the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and the State Government to file an affidavit in response to a writ petition seeking steps to prevent any possible chemical accidents on the site and off site project areas of the Petronet LNG terminal here. A …
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF STEEL RAJYA SABHA QUESTION NO 1506 ANSWERED ON 06.12.2012 Fire accident at RINL 1506 DR. T.N. SEEMA Will the Minister of STEEL be pleased to satate :- (a) whether Government has ordered safety audit of all the public sector steel plants after fire accident at …
As the city observed the 28th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster today, various organisations working for the cause of the people affected by it held rallies while criticising the government for not doing anything for the victims. Even after 28 years the disaster, no one has been punished for …
As the city marked the 28th anniversary of Union Carbide gas leak disaster on Monday, which claimed at least over 3,000 lives in its immediate aftermath, activists alleged the victims have got a raw deal from both the Centre and the BJP Government in Madhya Pradesh. Even after 28 years, …
When people are about to observe the 28th anniversary of Bhopal gas disaster on December 3, the members of the Sambhavna Trust clinic in the state capital have come forward and expressed deep concern on the deterioration of medical care of those exposed to Union Carbide's poisons gas and the …
