West Texas: Police in Texas say between five and 15 people were killed in a fertilizer plant explosion that also injured more than 160 others. Waco police Sgt William Patrick Swanton said on early Thursday morning that the death toll is only an estimate as search and rescue operations remain under way in downtown West. An explosion on Wednesday night shook the ground with the strength of a small earthquake...
03:39 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Waco: A massive explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco on Wednesday killed two and injured more than 100 people, leaving the factory a smoldering ruin and leveling buildings for blocks in every direction. The explosion at West Fertilizer in West, a community about 20 miles north of Waco, happened shortly before 8 pm (local time) and could be heard as far away as Waxahachie, 45 miles to the north....
08:09 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Dubai: A major 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Iran near the border with Pakistan on Tuesday and tremors were felt in India and Gulf states. The US Geological Survey said the quake hit at 10:44 GMT at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles). The epicenter was in southeast Iran in an area of mountains and desert. It was located 201 km (125 miles) southeast of the Iranian city of Zahedan...
05:19 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: It's a rebirth for 16-year-old Pakistani girl Madiha Tariq Sheikh, who feels India is her "own country" where she underwent a successful liver transplant surgery. Madiha, who hails from Lahore, was flown to India on February 3 after she slipped into coma due to acute liver failure and underwent a liver transplant surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital here. "This is my own country (India). It has been four...
08:34 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Chennai: The National Green Tribunal on Friday said a four-member committee would be set up to study the current status of the controversial copper smelting plant of Sterlite Industries at Tuticorin. The committee, comprising two members from the Tribunal and one each from Sterlite Industries and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), would submit its report on April 29 on the functioning of the plant, said the bench of Justice...
05:38 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Tehran: A 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed at least 37 and injured hundreds more in a sparsely populated area in southern Iran on Wednesday, Iranian officials said, adding that it did not damage a nuclear plant in the region. The report said the earthquake struck the town of Kaki some 96 kilometres southeast of Bushehr, a town on the Persian Gulf that is home of Iran's first nuclear power plant, built...
10:10 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Tokyo: Radioactive water has apparently leaked from another underground storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Sunday. The utility, known as Tepco, said the volume of the latest leakage is believed to be small. On Saturday, it said as much as 120 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from another nearby storage tank. The plant's seven storage tanks are lined with...
05:46 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Chennai: A day-long general strike demanding permanent closure of the copper smelter plant of Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd will be held on Monday at Tuticorin, said MDMK party general secretary Vaiko on Saturday. The company is part of Britain-based Vedanta Resources Group. In a statement issued here, MDMK founder Vaiko said the anti-Sterlite movement has called for a one-day general strike demanding the permanent closure of the copper smelter plant...
01:25 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Raipur: Appreciating the ongoing development work in the state, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah on Friday said that a new India was taking shape in the newly-formed Chhattisgarh and the Centre would extend all "possible support" on renewable energy projects. "A new India is taking shape in the newly-formed state," Abdullah said while inaugurating the 1 MW solar plant at the new Mantralaya building in Raipur....
02:10 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Thane: The Tarapur Atomic Power Station, located in Thane barely 15o km from Mumbai, is the first atomic power project of India. While the government has been promoting and building more nuclear power plants, the Tarapur Atomic Power Station has allegedly become a reason for deaths of villagers where it is located. Ghivli village is situated very close to the atomic power station and its residents allege that incidents of...
05:48 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: Power production by the first unit of the Kudankulam atomic plant will start in April 2013, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V Narayanasamy said on Wednesday. He said that the second unit would start production by October 2013. Narayanasamy told reporters in New Delhi that Indian and Russian scientists had checked the parameters of the plant and the system was working well. "All parameters are...
02:50 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Only 54 per cent of the total sewage generated in the national capital is treated by Delhi Jal Board and the rest 313 MGD of waste is released into Yamuna untreated. The Comptroller and Auditor General, in its report for the fiscal ending March 2012 which was tabled in Delhi Assembly on Tuesday, said that sewage management in Delhi was found to be "deficient" in various aspects. ...
05:35 AM, Apr 03, 2013
The Supreme Court on Tuesday imposed a fine of Rs 100 crore on Sterlite Industries, part of Vedanta Resources, for polluting environment through its copper smelting plant in Tamil Nadu. However, the apex court refused to direct closure of the plant in Tuticorin. ...
12:12 PM, Apr 02, 2013
The Supreme Court will pronounce an important judgment on Monday on a Swiss pharma firm's plea asserting its patent over a medicine, and Tuesday take up Sterlite's plea opposing the order to shut down its plant as well as the case of the Italian marines. ...
04:20 AM, Apr 01, 2013
A 27-year-old North Texas man, who was one of the first to receive a full face transplant in the US, has married another burn patient, transforming their pain into bliss. Dallas Wiens married Jamie Nash, 29, on Saturday at a Texas church where a severe electrical accident destroyed his face and eyesight in 2008 as he was making repairs to a window, The Dallas Morning News reported. ...
09:47 PM, Mar 31, 2013
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Friday ordered closure of the Tuticorin copper smelting plant of Sterlite Industries, part of Vedanta Resources group, with immediate effect, and power supply to the plant has been cut off, a company official said. ...
05:19 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Shortage of fuel - both gas and coal - was the only reason for the growing electricity scarcity in the country, particularly in the south, Central Electricity Authority Chairman AS Bakshi said in Hyderabad on Saturday. "Coal shortage will continue for at least 3-4 years though we have adequate reserves. Domestic coal supply to power generating stations has increased by eight per cent in 2013, but still there will be...
02:30 AM, Mar 31, 2013
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) Friday ordered closure of the Tuticorin copper smelting plant of Sterlite Industries, a subsidiary of Vedanta group, with immediate effect, and power supply to the plant has been cut off, a company official said. "The TNPCB issued the order to shut down the plant with immediate effect and the power utility yesterday (Friday) night disconnected the power supply to the plant. We are...
02:39 PM, Mar 30, 2013
The controversial Kudankulam Unit I of the atomic power reactor in Tamil Nadu will become operational by April, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said. He gave this assurance to Russian President Vladimir Putin when the two met here on Tuesday night on the sidelines of the BRICS summit. ...
12:41 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Seven persons, including some senior officers, have been booked in connection with an explosion at a chemical plant in Boisar in Thane, police said on Saturday. ...
03:37 PM, Mar 23, 2013
