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 …
BERHAMPUR: The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) was totally unprepared and callous towards emergencies that may emerge due to leakage of hazardous chlorine gas, felt the authorities of the Orissa's State Pollution Control Board (SPCB). It may be noted that on Monday morning around 60 persons were taken ill due …
Advice To Replace Leaking Pipes Ignored Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN New Delhi: In what could be a callous criminal cost-cutting measure, the Union Carbide management had apparently brushed aside warnings about leaking pipes in the Bhopal plant needing urgent replacement and told the staff to keep the factory running by …
BERHAMPUR: With Bhopal gas leak case fresh in mind, panic gripped Berhampur on Monday after chlorine gas leaked from a cylinder at a Public Health department store. At least 50 persons were affected and 35 treated in hospital. The leak was stopped by a team of experts from Jayshree Chemicals, …
Shock, horror, outrage. Those were the dominant reactions when the world woke up to the nightmare of Bhopal on that December morning in 1984. Over 26 years later, those were again the dominant reactions following the judgement of the Bhopal district court last week which awarded a shamefully light two-year …
CHINSURAH, 8 JUNE: A day after the country saw the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict being delivered, villagers in Haripal block of Hooghly got quite a scare, after many fell ill, alleging that gas emitted from a local factory, Himadri Chemicals, led to the incident. They staged a demonstration complaining that …
Bhavnagar: Working conditions at Alang ship-breaking yard were proved hazardous yet again on Sunday when a worker died of suffocation while dismantling a ship anchored at Sisodiya Ship Breaking Yard at Alang on Sunday. The incident also left one labourer seriously injured. According to police, the incident occurred at plot …
FIVE persons, including three brothers, were asphyxiated to death after poisonous gas emanated from a chemical tank which they were cleaning at a leather factory at Vaniyambadi on Friday. Vaniyambadi DSP Gurusamy said that on Friday morning, a group of five contract labourers were cleaning the chemical tanks in a …
Parbatpur (Bokaro), April 4: Kitchen fires have literally stopped burning in Fatehpur of Chandankyari block. Villagers have been surviving on dry gram and puffed rice for the last few days as the presence of coal-bed methane in their homes has made it impossible to strike a match indoors for fear …
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 …
The victims are yet to be adequately compensated or given proper medical help; their water sources are yet to be decontaminated. At Arif Nagar slum, a toxic waste yard next to the boundary wall of the factory. The accident polluted the soil and groundwater in the neighbourhood to dangerous levels. …
At least two persons were killed and the condition of six others was critical following the leakage of a poisonous gas at a pharmaceutical factory in Indore on Sunday. According to reports, an unidentified gas started leaking in the factory early on Sunday morning. Some of the workers present there …
Dec. 3: In an unfortunate coincidence with the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy, two workers lost their lives after inhaling toxic gases while repairing an empty reactor in a bulk drug factory at IDA Jeedimetla here on Thursday. Another worker, who also inhaled the gases, has been admitted …
On December 3, 1984, toxic poisonous methyl isocyanate gas leaked from Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL's) pesticide plant in Bhopal. The gas leak triggered a disaster that is now widely recognized as the world worst industrial catastrophe. Thousands of people were killed instantly and more than 25,000 people have died …
Over a dozen people have been reported to have suffered from itching and difficulty in breathing after gas leakage at Tube Division of Tata Steel here. According to the information, leakage of ammonia gas while transferring from a tanker to a storage tank in Tubes Division crated a uproar, however, …
Around 50 work leading multiers of a leading multinational washing machine assembly plant here were taken ill after inhaling noxious gas from one of its plants located in phase II of neighbouring Noida on Tuesday. Although most of them were discharged after first aid, around half-a-dozen were admitted in the …
Noida: At least 69 people were affected by a gas leak at a washing machine factory of the multinational, Samsung, in Noida Phase II for nearly three hours on Tuesday before they were taken to the hospital. Though most of them were stable by the end of the day and …
