Reply by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in the matter of Mamta Samir Shirali Vs The authorities of new crematorium, Boriwali & Others dated 11/12/2024. Mamta Samir Shirali resident of Borivali (W), Mumbai in her application to the NGT said that the authorities responsible for running new crematoriums at Borivali, Babhai/Vazira …
BHUBANESWAR: At least three people were killed after inhaling poisonous carbon monoxide gas in a sponge iron factory in Orissa's Jharsuguda district, police said Friday. The deaths occurred at the Singhal Enterprises Private Ltd. factory at Hirma, some 400 km from here, at around 8 p.m. Thursday. Inspector in charge …
Even after controlling Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) for over two decades, the CPI-M led board has failed to stop pollution created by industries in most of its wards. Smoke emitted by industries in ward number 1 to 5 and 22, 23 and 25 have been polluting the entire area for …
Yamunanagar, July 16 Two persons were killed and one fell ill after inhaling a poisonous gas that surfaced from a tubewell at Patti village here today. The mishap took place when a farmer, Joginder Singh, along with his servant Ranbir had gone deep into the tubewell to repair a non-functional …
The French interior ministry has reported that traces of the poison ricin have been detected at a Paris railway station. Sources revealed that two vials containing the deadly poison were found inside a locker at the Gare de Lyon. Ricin is a potentially lethal toxin found in castor beans. It …
Emission of hazardous gases and chemicals by brick kilns are a cause for concern in the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. Their numbers have risen rapidly over the years across the valley. "But the present laws are not adequate to punish the owners of these kilns who have illegally set up …
Devices to reduce the emissions of toxic gases from two Cameroon lakes will be put in place by a team of 10 scientists and engineers from the us , France and Japan. The emission of these gases has killed almost 1,800 people till now. "The devices called Nyos Organ would …
a carcinogenic gas called cokeoven leaked from the gas supply lines of the Durgapur Steel Plant (dsp), West Bengal, in the last week of December, 2000. The leak took place when a fire gutted the benzol scrubber unit of the plant. The Steel Authority of India Limited (sail) owns the …
B F Goodrich's General Chemical Plant in Akron and its surrounding area in Ohio had to be evacuated after approximately 1,500 litres of butadiene was accidentally released. Butadiene is a flammable material used in the production of synthetic rubber. Immediately after the chemical release about 100 employees and visitors were …
TESTS carried out by France and Switzerland have not found any presence of vx, a poison gas on Iraqi warheads. These findings are contrary to those of the US, which had shown presence of the deadly nerve substance on the warheads. If the findings are confirmed, then Iraq's argument that …
TOXIC fumes from a well claimed five lives at Dichaun Kalan village in west Delhi on July 11. The first casualty was a villager who climbed down the well to install a pump in an attempt to solve the village's water shortage. The other four died one by one, trying …
nearly 63 miners died in a methane gas explosion which took place in the Skochinsky coalmine, Donetsk, Ukraine. This was one of the Ukraine's worst mining disasters. Some 600 persons were working when the methane blast ripped the pit. Rescue teams had to burrow through 300 metres of rubble, 1.2 …
The Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board has ordered closure of four chlorinated parafin wax manufacturing units located at Taliwal in Una district which were releasing higher than permissible levels of chlorine gas into the atmosphere. An inspection team had detected the leakage of chlorine gas. The managements of these units …
an electronic nose fitted with air-conditioning of a car would prevent toxic gases from entering the cabin. A team of researchers led by Julian Gardner of the engineering department at Warwick University in the English Midlands, uk, has developed the sensitive device that may also be fitted to exhausts of …
Thousands of people fled their homes in panic as a fire at a chemical plant spewed out poisonous gas which spread over the Makassar community area near Cape Town. At least 100 people were hospitalised after inhaling corrosive sulphur dioxide, causing irritation in the eyes, nose and lungs. On the …
SCIENTISTS are trying to simulate the generation of hot poisonous gases from the mouth of a volcano in order to minimise the vast destruction they cause. And some scientists posit that volcanic gases, particularly sulphur dioxide, can also help predict eruptions. The most ambitious and sophisticated model so far is …
EVEN BEFORE disaster struck the New Kenda coal mines of the Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL) in Asansol on January 25, ECL had earned the dubious distinction of running the maximum number of accident-prone mines. As many as 10 of its mines rated high on the accident frequency rating. The company's …
TUBEWELL-related deaths in the green revolution districts of Haryana due to the victims getting trapped in poison-gas pockets formed, some say, by heavy use of fertilisers, are rapidly approaching their usual post-monsoon peak. Since 1987, there have been hundreds of tubewell-related deaths in Haryana, in particular in the districts of …
