Lack of safety gear killing Delhi’s sewer workers (Capital Focus)
June 24th, 2012 - 5:20 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) He knows it may prove fatal, yet 55-year-old Uday Ram does not hesitate to enter the narrow manhole filled with fermented faeces, urine and other ... Read more...
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Two die from toxic fumes at Delhi sewage plant (lead)
June 16th, 2012 - 5:01 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) Two labourers working for the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) died Saturday after inhaling poisonous fumes while cleaning a sewage treatment plant in east Delhi's Kondli ... Read more...
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UK pilots donning oxygen masks to counter poisonous fumes in aircraft
March 28th, 2011 - 3:08 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar. 28 (ANI): Airline pilots in Britain are secretly donning oxygen masks and issuing emergency warnings because of poisonous fumes seeping into passenger jets.Potentially deadly incidents are being reported at the ... Read more...
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Oil spill could wipe out Gulf’s sperm whales
May 22nd, 2010 - 1:05 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 22 (ANI): Experts say that the death of even three sperm whales could entirely deplete their population in the Gulf.If the Gulf of Mexico oil spill kills just three ... Read more...
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25 years later, Union Carbide plant to be opened to public
November 10th, 2009 - 3:44 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Nov 10 (IANS) It has been shut for the past 25 years - since that night when poisonous fumes rose from its premises and spread over a sleeping city, killing thousands ... Read more...
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Court orders transport company, MCD to compensate 2004 victims
October 23rd, 2009 - 10:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday ordered Jaipur Golden transport company and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to pay compensation to the families of three people killed ... Read more...
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Suicide rate in Hong Kong goes down
September 10th, 2009 - 12:50 pm ICT by IANS
Hong Kong, Sep 10 (DPA) Hong Kong, once one of the world's suicide hot spots, has in the past six years seen a steady decline in the number of people taking their ... Read more...
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Court hikes compensation for sewer workers, pulls up civic agencies
April 21st, 2009 - 9:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Giving relief to the families of labourers who die unnoticed inside sewers while cleaning them, the Delhi High Court Tuesday hiked the compensation in case of death ... Read more...
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