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Ahmedabad: 30 members of Rajasthan State Mine Labour Union came to stage a protest at the National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH) in the city on Tuesday.

Jaipur: On the sixth day of a dharna being staged by group of alleged asbestosis victims at the Jhadole block of Udaipur, instead of being given a patient ear, the subdivisional magistrate

JAIPUR: Having failed to open any door for themselves, a group of alleged asbestosis victims from Jhadole in Udaipur are preparing to go on a hunger strike in front of the sub-divisional magistrate's (SDM) office from Wednesday.

The victims are demanding that the medical test done on them by the National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH), Ahmedabad, last year be made available to them.

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NEW DELHI: Environmentalists here have accused the asbestos industry of having launched a

Will Rotterdam Convention put controls over the killer mineral? PRODUCERS of chrysotile asbestos, India, Russia and Canada, will again try to scuttle any controls over the mineral under the Rotterdam Convention that allows countries to monitor and control trade and use of hazardous chemicals. Conference of parties (CoP-4) to the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC)

another attempt to bring chrysotile, the most common form of asbestos, under the prior informed consent list (pic) of the Rotterdam Convention has failed. Parties to this international treaty