Day: May 7, 2020

Maharashtra: Fire breaks out at pharma packaging factory

11:11 pm May 7, 2020

Mumbai: Fire broke out at a factory in Nashik on Thursday evening, police said. The fire broke out at a pharmaceutical packaging factory at Satpur near Nashik, a police official at the Satpur police station told PTI over phone. The fire was extinguished with the help of two fire tankers, he said. There are no […]

15-yr-old girl abducted, raped by three youths in UP

Minor gangraped, 3 arrested in Rajasthan’s Tonk

11:07 pm May 7, 2020

Jaipur: A minor girl was allegedly gangraped in Rajasthan’s Tonk district following which three people were arrested and a juvenile was detained, police said on Thursday. A case was registered against four accused for kidnapping and gangrape on Wednesday on a complaint lodged by the victim’s brother, SHO of the police station concerned said. He […]

Clash over migrants’ return leaves 9 injured in UP

10:54 pm May 7, 2020

Bahraich (UP): Angry over a villager informing the district administration about the return of some migrants from Mumbai amid the coronavirus lockdown, two rival groups clashed in a village here, leaving nine people injured. Some residents of Hata Revaliya village had returned from Mumbai without informing the health department and the district administration, but a […]

LG completes removal of deadly Styrene Monomer gas from Vizag,ships back to Korea

Glitch in regfrigeration unit led to gas leak: Official

10:50 pm May 7, 2020

Visakhapatnam: A technical glitch in the refrigeration unit attached to the two styrene tanks at a chemical plant near here caused the vapour leak that killed 11 people and affected around 1,000 on Thursday, a senior district official said quoting a preliminary report. The leak at the LG Polymers Limited was so intense that a […]

Gas leak accidents that made headline the last few years

10:40 pm May 7, 2020

New Delhi: The gas leak from a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam in which at least 11 people were killed and 1,000 affected on Thursday is one in a long list of industrial accidents resulting from poisonous gases seeping into the air. The December 1984 Bhopal tragedy in which more than than 3,000 people were killed […]