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Mumbai: Panic gripped the residents of Pawane village in Navi Mumbai after ammonia gas leaked from a nearby cold storage in the wee hours of Tuesday. At least 55 villagers were admitted to the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation hospital after they complained of uneasiness and problem in breathing after inhaling the gas.

This document on chemical disaster management contains detailed descriptive lectures, talks of holistic disaster management (DM) framework, integration of chemical risk to holisitc and multi-hazard risk management, site assessment, legal framework, district level DM planning, as well as capacity building.

The factory inspector of the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation in Ankleshwar has filed 13 cases against beil under the Factories Act, 1948. One was filed before the fire regarding the tsdf having seven sheds while it had the permission for only six. Nobody knows why the inspector did not talk of other violations then. Cases filed after the fire related to the absence of passage for

Unlicensed firecracker factory did not observe safety rules SEVEN girls, mostly adolescents, working in a firecracker factory in Beed district of Maharashtra were killed and six others injured when the explosives kept on the premises caught fire causing an explosion. Eyewitnesses said the impact was so severe that the workers were blown apart. Their body parts were strewn in a

The present application for intervention arises from Writ Petition No.2802/2004 titled Alok Pratap Singh versus UOI and Ors pending before the Hon'ble Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur wherein vide order-dated 23.06.2005 the Applicant was invited to intervene in the said Writ Petition by the Hon'ble High Court, in order to assist the court in the present matter.

The paper describes, with the help of several representative case studies, how 'dust' explosions commonly occur in process industry all over the world and the devastation they cause to life and property. Dust explosions also pose serious risk of environmental contamination.

One man died and two others were injured when gas leaked in a blast furnace unit of Tata Steel in Jamshedpur Tuesday, a company statement said.

Zubeda Hamid |Chennai
We appeal to you not associate with a company that has still not provided justice to the thousands affected in Bhopal
A group of children from Bhopal, suffering from disablities caused gas leak from Union Carbide in 1984, have appealed to a private trust here to disassociate itself from Dow Chemicals, which now owns the firm.

Ambala: Ammonia gas leaked from a pipeline here on Friday causing panic among employees of a milk plant.

Around six employees of the Vita milk plant were affected by the ammonia gas and were admitted to local hospital, official sources said here. A number of people of the adjoining colonies complained of the effect of the gas on their eyes.

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