Bhavnagar: Working conditions at Alang ship-breaking yard were proved hazardous yet again on Sunday when a worker died of suffocation while dismantling a ship anchored at Sisodiya Ship Breaking Yard at Alang on Sunday. The incident also left one labourer seriously injured.

Adilabad, May 31: As many as 25 labourers employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) have died of sun stroke in the last 30 days at various places in the district.

It is being alleged that the officials concerned had failed to provide the labourers with proper facilities including shelter, safe drinking water and medical kits at work sites.

AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO
BHUBANESWAR
In 1998, all operations at Kalarangi mines were stopped by the state government on the ground that it was a wildlife habitat
The Orissa govern ment has decided to take steps to clear procedural hurdles to operationalise Sukinda chromite mines.

The global recession may have turned many millionaires into paupers, but for the ship-breakers at Alang, a coastal stretch near Bhavnagar in Gujarat, it's been like manna from heaven.