The accident site is hardly 5km from Mundakkai and Chooralmala villages, where a devastating landslide claimed at least 254 lives in 2024. A video clip showed the mound of mud, which had accumulated near Meenakshi Bridge, suddenly collapsing in the rain, bursting through the barricades set up near the tunnel construction site, bringing down trees […]
The Deadly Reality of Jharkhand’s Abandoned Coalfields Defunct and abandoned coal mines that should have undergone scientific closure instead ignore the plight of communities living amid toxic gas leaks and land subsidence. Tapasya Edited by : Mayank Aggarwal July 5, 2026 Dhanbad: India was gearing up to welcome 2026. But Surendra Singh never saw the […]
https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/fire-on-naphtha-pipeline-engulfs-shanties-disrupts-haldia-rail-services-prnt/cid/2168013 HPL, located around 125km from Calcutta, is a naphtha-based petrochemical complex. According to petrochemical sources, naphtha was being transported through the pipeline from a vessel anchored at Haldia Port to the refinery when the accident occurred. Residents claimed they had noticed a strong smell of gas from Monday evening and had alerted security personnel. […]
https://countercurrents.org/2026/06/ammonia-gas-leak-tragedy-industrial-negligence-and-governmental-inaction Yet again, due to habitual industrial negligence, Tamil Nadu has witnessed ammonia gas leak tragedy at St. Peter’s Paul Seafood Exports, a shrimp processing plant located at Kannigaipair near Periyapalayam in Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu, which allegedly claimed two lives and left more than sixty workers hospitalized with severe respiratory complications is not merely […]
https://www.etvbharat.com/en/state/korbas-lifeline-crisis-how-fly-ash-from-power-plants-is-polluting-the-hasdeo-river-in-chhattisgarh-enn26052202868 May 22, 2026 at 7:05 PM IST Korba: Often referred to as the power capital of Chhattisgarh, Korba is fighting with a growing environmental crisis as repeated ash pond breaches from thermal power plants continue to pollute the Hasdeo River, a crucial water source for thousands of people. The latest case in point is […]
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These bursts of fly ash contaminated water occur every few years. This one has killed people in addition to affecting the Hasdeo River and numerous villages. If one places 9 thermal power plants in one small town there is bound to be huge quantities of toxic waste. And a huge open air coal mine at […]
https://countercurrents.org/2026/05/industrial-deaths-in-india-routine-tragedy-rare-accountability/ At 2:30 in the afternoon on April 14, 2026, an explosion at Vedanta’s Singhitarai power plant in Chhattisgarh’s Sakti district killed 24 workers, with a dozen more injured. The workers were from West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh. Their obituaries map the Indian migrant labour economy: painters from Bihar, welders […]
New Delhi: The controversy surrounding the expansion of the Bina opencast coal project in Sonbhadra has intensified. Residents have raised serious concerns about the transparency of public hearings, compliance with environmental clearance terms and the rising pollution. New Delhi: The controversy surrounding the expansion of the proposed Bina opencast coal mining project in Sonbhadra district, Uttar […]
Tucked along the southern Bhutan border with India, Pasakha Industrial Estate under Chhukha Dzongkhag was established in 1988. Today, it stands as the country’s largest industrial estate, covering about 146 acres and hosting 26 factories. Its proximity to raw materials and the Indian border has provided easy access to manufacturing and export markets, making it […]