ON JULY 15th a 75-tonne cap closed off the Macondo well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The flow of oil ceased, for the first time in the three months since a blowout in the well doomed the rig which had drilled it, Deepwater Horizon. The cap is not necessarily permanent.
Pune A team of 49 members of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) from Pune was deployed to tackle the chlorine leak at the Mumbai Port Trust dock at Haji Bunder in Sewri. The team, which is still on the job, helped out to neutralise the cylinders at the Trust.
KOLKATA: Twenty-four workers fell ill after inhaling a heavy concentration of toxic gases inside the Durgapur Steel Plant at Durgapur in Bardhaman district on Thursday.
The incident happened within a day of 118 persons falling ill after inhaling chlorine gas that leaked from a cylinder at the Mumbai Port Trust godown on Wednesday.
Mumbai: Even as efforts are on to neutralise chlorine tonners, the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) has appointed a one-member committee to probe the cause of Wednesday's chlorine gas leak.
MbPT Deputy Chairman Shrikant Singh, who constitutes the committee, will submit his report within a week.
Twenty-six workers and two technicians took ill after inhaling blast furnace gas during maintenance work at Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) this morning, a day after over 100 people fell sick following a chlorine gas leak in a Mumbai Port Trust godown compound.
As many as 103 people fell sick early today after inhaling chlorine gas leaking from a cylinder stored in the Mumbai Port Trust (MPT) premises at Sewri. Some of the affected people were discharged after treatment. Currently, 78 people are recuperating, of which eight are in the Critical Care Unit due to respiratory problems and 14 in the Medical Intensive Unit due to throat problems.
