Industrial Disasters

While it is easier now to sue a firm for adopting harmful manufacturing processes, successive govts have dragged their feet on goading companies to take out adequate insurance

Bangladesh has a history of industrial disasters, including factories catching fire with workers trapped inside.

Images tweeted by news agency ANI showed patients being shifted away from the Vijay Vallabh Hospital.

At least eight people have been killed and 16 others wounded in a blast inside a boiler room within a factory in New Karachi Industrial Area on Tuesday, police and local government officials said

Vizag gas leak: All you need to know

LG Chem, the owner of LG Polymers, said in a statement that the gas emitted in the leak can cause nausea and dizziness when inhaled

The Korean company took over erstwhile Hindustan Polymers in 1997 from its then owner United Breweries Group

Each of these mishaps snuffed out innocent lives, often due to negligence on the part of the authorities

The blast occurred outside the Hebei Shenghua Chemical Industry in Zhangjiakou