Report filed by the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board in the matter of News item titled 'Residents stage protest against pollution caused by Vijayawada Thermal Power Station" which appeared in the Hindu, November 4, 2024. The report was dated February 22, 2025. M/s Dr. Narla Tatarao Thermal Power Station is …
KOLKATA, 23 JAN: Seventy people fell ill and 5,000 people were affected following leakage of ammonia gas from a cold storage at Nagerbazar in Dum Dum today. Panic gripped residents and many fled the locality. Around 5,000 people were affected and some of them were admitted to a local hospital. …
KOLKATA, 24 JAN: The leaking valves of the cold storage, which emitted ammonia gas affecting about 3000 people in Nager Bazar area in the northern outskirts of the city, were yet to be fully plugged this morning. People in the area are still in a state of panic even 12 …
B Krishna Mohan / Hyderabad December 24, 2010, 0:59 IST A three-member committee, comprising two officials from the Director of Factories and one pharma expert, will probe the gas leak at a production unit of Dr Reddy
Rajkot: Residents of the stretch between Nanamava chokadi and Nanamava Gam on 150-feet Ring Road were panic stricken as the main pipeline of Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) carrying LPG developed a leak on Monday. Though no casualty or damage to property was reported, fumes could be seen emanating out …
Their campaign started gaining momentum a few days before obama's arrival. On Nov 3, the survivors organized a press conference here to announce their plan of demonstrating in New Delhi Nov 8. They demonstrated near the now-shut Union Carbide India factory on Nov 6, the day Obama arrived in Mumbai. …
Contrary to the claims made by Union Carbide Corporation — now The Dow Chemical Company — that the methyl isocyanate (MIC) which killed thousands of people in Bhopal in December, 1984, following a leak in its pesticide unit, was not highly poisonous, a report released by the Indian Council of …
KANPUR: Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) director RD Goyal visited the company's plant in Auraiya on Sunday and ordered a probe into the fire that broke out at the plant on Saturday. A senior official of GAIL was killed while three others sustained serious burns when the fire broke …
MILIND GHATWAI BHOPAL, NEARLY 26 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday constituted an inquiry commission to find out, among other things, the role of the then administration and others in arresting Warren Anderson and then t letting him leave the country. Madhya Pradesh High …
ON JULY 15th a 75-tonne cap closed off the Macondo well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The flow of oil ceased, for the first time in the three months since a blowout in the well doomed the rig which had drilled it, Deepwater Horizon. The cap is …
Pune A team of 49 members of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) from Pune was deployed to tackle the chlorine leak at the Mumbai Port Trust dock at Haji Bunder in Sewri. The team, which is still on the job, helped out to neutralise the cylinders at the Trust. …
Raktima Bose KOLKATA: Twenty-four workers fell ill after inhaling a heavy concentration of toxic gases inside the Durgapur Steel Plant at Durgapur in Bardhaman district on Thursday. The incident happened within a day of 118 persons falling ill after inhaling chlorine gas that leaked from a cylinder at the Mumbai …
Vinaya Deshpande Mumbai: Even as efforts are on to neutralise chlorine tonners, the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) has appointed a one-member committee to probe the cause of Wednesday's chlorine gas leak. MbPT Deputy Chairman Shrikant Singh, who constitutes the committee, will submit his report within a week. Experts claim that …
Twenty-six workers and two technicians took ill after inhaling blast furnace gas during maintenance work at Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) this morning, a day after over 100 people fell sick following a chlorine gas leak in a Mumbai Port Trust godown compound. The workers, who came in contact with the …
As many as 103 people fell sick early today after inhaling chlorine gas leaking from a cylinder stored in the Mumbai Port Trust (MPT) premises at Sewri. Some of the affected people were discharged after treatment. Currently, 78 people are recuperating, of which eight are in the Critical Care Unit …
