The explosion that tore through the Bayer CropScience chemical plant here last August, killing two employees, was an easily avoidable accident caused by management decisions and human error, a federal agency said Thursday.

A House subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday on a fatal blast at a West Virginia chemical plant.

Pradeep Gooptu / New Delhi April 09, 2009, 0:22 IST

After nearly two years of relative calm, fresh tension appears to be brewing over the West Bengal government's plans to set up a Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR) spanning Nayachar Island and the adjoining mainland comprising Haldia and Nandigram.

The Village Committee of the Corlim Panchayat for the Regional Plan 2021 has strongly recommended that the Corlim Panchayat should neither allow new chemical and pharmaceutical companies nor an expansion of the existing industries in the village.

Calcutta, March 19: A state team will travel to Japan and South Korea to net investors for the Nayachar and Haldia chemical hub.

Led by industry secretary Sabyasachi Sen, the team will be part of a larger delegation of the Union ministry for chemicals and fertilizers.

A United Nations body working on climate change has rejected a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project proposal submitted by Tata Chemicals, a Tata Group firm.

Meanwhile, data with multilateral agency shows that Indian entities withdrew as many as six applications for projects related to cutting carbon emission, in 2008.

Mumbai: It

The state government is banking on its PCPIR project at Nayachar island, which is expected to create considerable economic advantage
Kalyan Moitra

New Delhi, Feb. 20: The Union cabinet is likely to clear the Nayachar project next week, but only about a fifth of the 250sqkm chemical hub will be located on the island.

The rest will be carved out of the existing industrial zone on mainland Haldia.

Calcutta, Feb. 8: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today kick-started the Left Front