Four industrial workers died after inhaling hydrogen sulphide gas that leaked from a chemical factory in Tarapur on Tuesday evening. Seven other workers were taken to hospital, three of whom were unconscious till late at night. The other four were reported to be out of danger.

The leak occurred at around 7.15 pm on the premises of SeQuent Scientific Ltd, at a plant that makes veterinary drugs, within the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation’s (MIDC’s) industrial zone at Boisar, Tarapur.

Shillong/Khliehriat, Aug. 29: The coal mines in Meghalaya are death traps, feel many migrant labourers who are engaged in extracting the black gold by adopting unscientific rat-hole mining methods.

Because of the hazardous nature of work, the labourers continue to perish in the deep and dark tunnels while digging for coal. Their bodies are sometimes dumped and buried without any ritual and, at times, handed over to the relatives if they insist.

Seven ship-breaking yards at Sitakund were Thursday fined Tk 36.50 lakh for violating environment protection rules and failure to maintain proper safety measures for the workers.

The action was taken after inspection of the ship breaking yards by enforcement team led Environment Directorate chief Monwar Islam.

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Japanese workers entered the No.1 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Thursday for the first time since a hydrogen explosion ripped off its roof a day after a devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

High radiation levels inside the building have prevented staff from entering to start installing a new cooling system to finally bring the plant under control, a

Beijing: At least 31 people, including 28 miners were trapped in flooded coal and iron mines in China, the state media reported on Sunday.

Twenty-eight miners were trapped in a flooded colliery in southwest China

THE Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered the immediate closure of Sterlite Industries

Close to 75 workers at the alumina refinery complex of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) at Lanjigarh in western Orissa