Geismar: An explosion and fire killed one person and injured 73 at the Williams Olefins chemical plant in Geismar, Louisiana, on Thursday, unsettling an industrial town where authorities ordered people to remain indoors for hours to avoid the billowing smoke.
The blast at 8:37 am (1337 GMT) sent a huge fireball and column of smoke into the air. The plant along the Mississippi River, about 60 miles (100 km) from New Orleans, is one of 12 chemical plants along a 10-mile (16-km) stretch of the river.
The fire, fueled by the petrochemical propylene, burned for more than three hours, though government monitors had yet to detect dangerous levels of emissions, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal told a news conference near the scene.
"Once the investigations are done, once there's a responsible party, they will absolutely be held responsible," Jindal said....
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07:19 AM, Jun 14, 2013
New Delhi: Jindal coal companies received coal blocks despite rejection by the Power Ministry, probe details of the coal block allocation scam accessed by CNN-IBN have revealed. The probe reveals how Jindal companies did not meet the criteria set by the Power Ministry and yet managed to receive coal blocks. The revelations came when CNN-IBN accessed details of the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) probe against Congress MP Naveen Jindal...
06:50 PM, Jun 12, 2013
Hisar: BJP workers were lathicharged by the police on Wednesday while they were protesting outside Congress MP Naveen Jindal's residence. Jindal is an elected MP from the Kurukshetra constituency in Haryana. The protests come two days the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a case against the industrialist and former Minister of State for coal Dasari N Rao in the allocation of coal blocks in Jharkhand. On Tuesday, the...
03:32 PM, Jun 12, 2013
The investigations into the multi-crore coal scam just got uncomfortably closer to the government with the CBI today registering its 12th FIR in the case against sitting MP Naveen Jindal and former MoS Coal Dasari Narayan Rao. ...
09:32 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Amid CBI booking Congress MP Naveen Jindal and former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao in a fresh FIR in coal scam, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Tuesday said that strict action would be initiated against all those found guilty of wrongdoings. "We have forwarded to CBI all complaints between 1993 and 2009. CBI is taking action....Strict action would be initiated against all those who have...
08:48 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Mumbai: Shares of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd on Tuesday crashed over 24 per cent in morning trade, as Naveen Jindal and the company were named as accused in the fresh FIR filed by CBI in connection with the coal allocation scam. Following the news, shares of JSPL went into tailspin and plunged 24.3 per cent to Rs 202 - its 52-week low on the BSE. At the NSE, the...
01:59 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: The BJP hit out at the UPA government after the CBI registered an FIR against Congress MP Naveen Jindal and former union minister of state for coal Dasari Narayan Rao in the coal blocks allocation scam. BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar accused the Congress of looting the country. "Naveen Jindal and Dasari Narayan's name has come up in the coalgate scam. It has proved how the Congress is looting...
01:11 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed an FIR against the Jindal Group in the coal scam. The FIR names Congress MP Naveen Jindal and former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao. The FIR has accused Jindal and his company Jindal Power and Steel Ltd of misrepresentation of networth and concealing previous allotment. They are also charged with cheating and forgery. Jindal Power and Steel...
10:34 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Mumbai: Surrendering most of its early gains, the BSE benchmark Sensex on Monday closed just 12 points higher as rupee hitting record lows dashed hopes of a rate cut by RBI, while IT stocks rose on expectations of better dollar revenues. In a volatile trade, the 30-share index, commenced the day strong and touched an intra-day high of at 19,583.58 from its previous close, but settled only 11.84 points higher...
09:29 AM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court has dismissed a plea of Zee Group Chairman Subhash Chandra for modifying a court's order directing him to take its prior permission before going abroad in a case of alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid from MP Naveen Jindal's firm by the two editors of the news channel. Additional Sessions Judge Daya Prakash said this condition was imposed on Chandra for the purpose of facilitating...
08:10 PM, May 16, 2013
Washington: Gunmen fired shots during an informal Mother's Day afternoon parade in New Orleans in Louisiana state injuring 19 people, two of them children, according to police. The wounded in Sunday afternoon's shooting in the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana, governed by Indian-American Bobby Jindal, included 10 men and seven women as well as a boy and a girl, both 10. Local Nola.com cited police...
06:25 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: A court here has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary in a fresh case registered against him by the Delhi Police for telecasting a show allegedly on the basis of forged documents against Jindal Group in connection with Coalgate. Additional Sessions Judge Daya Prakash brushed aside Chaudhary's contention that the fresh FIR has been filed against him due to "a grudge as he...
08:59 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: JSW Steel has put on hold plans to set up a 10 million tonnes steel plant in West Bengal as it has not been able to secure long-term iron ore supplies for the Rs 35,000 crore project. "It is stalled right now, it's on hold. Unless we are going to fix the iron ore matter, unless we have the visibility of iron ore, we can not move ahead....
01:55 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Chandigarh: Savitri Jindal, said to be India's richest woman, was on Friday asked by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to vacate within 15 days her government accommodation, which she had been occupying unauthorisedly. The court said that if Jindal failed to vacate the government bungalow within the stipulated time, the estate officer here would complete eviction proceedings within six weeks. Jindal, a legislator of the ruling Congress in Haryana...
02:50 AM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: Hit hard by rising interest burden and lower sales realisations, Jindal Steel and Power's (JSPL) consolidated net profit fell by nearly 35 per cent to Rs 760.27 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. The company, headed by Naveen Jindal, had reported a net profit of Rs 1,167 crore in same quarter of FY'12. Net sales during the fourth quarter of 2012-13 reported a meagre growth of...
12:30 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal and the Centre on a PIL seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into demolition of a 400-year-old mosque. The mosque was laid in the mining lease area of the Jindal company in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan. The apex court demanded why there should not be a CBI inquiry into the demolition. Jindal has...
11:03 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Orleans: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, one of the nation's most prominent Republicans and a possible 2016 presidential candidate, has fallen out of favor with local voters, and his bold plan to scrap the state income tax is running into trouble. Jindal was re-elected to a second term with two-thirds of the vote in 2011. But his Louisiana approval rating was down to 38 per cent in a recent poll,...
11:32 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Jindal Power Ltd (JPL) was on Monday issued summons by the district court in Raigarh for alleged violation of environmental norms in connection with its coal washery at Libara and Dhaurabhatha villages in Chhattisgarh. Chief Judicial Magistrate Raigarh GK Neelam issued the summons to JPL, its Executive Vice President Ram Niwas and Assistant Vice President Sameer Chatterjee, seeking their presence in the court on April 25, 2013. ...
01:42 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Both the ruling CPM led Left Front as well as the Congress-led opposition alliance were optimistic of forming the next government in Tripura as election officials prepared for counting of votes on Thursday. ...
05:56 AM, Feb 28, 2013
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to Congress MP Naveen Jindal and the Centre on Zee Group's plea for transfer of alleged extortion case investigation against it from Delhi Police to another agency. ...
06:29 PM, Feb 12, 2013
