All tanks containing chemicals at LG Polymers near Visakhapatnam where a gas leak left 11 persons dead are safe after 60 per cent of the styrene vapour turned into liquid, district collector V. Vinay ...

LG Polymers India, from whose factory at Visakhapatnam the gas leaked, is a subsidiary of leading South Korean chemical firm LG Chem.LG Chem took over Hindustan Polymers and renamed it as LG Polymers ...

Bhopal gas tragedy, 1984. Official death toll: 5,295Considered one of the worst industrial disasters the world has ever seen, the Bhopal gas tragedy took place on the night of December 2-3, 1984. Arou...

Household items were reduced to ashes after a fire broke out inside a house, having stocks of diesel and kerosene oil, at Chatwal village, about 40km from the capital, under Chanho thana area on Thurs...

A 42-year-old worker died allegedly after an ammonia gas leak at a Haldiram's building in the city, while more than 300 others were evacuated from there on Saturday, officials said.The leakage was rep...

Tragedy struck a group of 15 tourists from Kerala in Nepal when eight of them, including four minors, died after they fell unconscious probably due to a gas leak from a heater in their room at a mount...

Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd’s plant restarted operations on Monday after a nearly 10-day closure caused by a September 20 fire that has claimed the lives of two employees.Parijat Bhattacharya, 40, a s...

South Korean chemicals giant LG Chem has sent an eight-member team from Seoul to investigate and rehabilitate the victims of Visakhapatnam gas tragedy that killed at least 11 people and forced the eva...

In the wake of the gas leak at a factory in Visakhapatnam, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has issued detailed guidelines for restarting industries after the lockdown and the precaut...

When gas began leaking from a nearby chemical factory and drifting towards his house in Visakhapatnam, there were no warnings and no alarms, welder Elamanchili Venkatesh said.He realised something was...