Those who have come to Telangana from the UK after December 9 have been advised to call 040-24651119 for the government to arrange a COVID-19 test. Eighteen people who returned from the UK to Telangana have tested positive for the coronavirus so far, health officials said Saturday. Samples from infected …
Read More »Tollywood actor Chiranjeevi tests positive for coronavirus, under home quarantine
Just a few days ago, Chiranjeevi had met with Telangana’s chief minister, K Chandrasekhar Rao, along with actor Akkineni Nagarjuna. Tollywood actor Chiranjeevi said on Monday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. On Twitter, Chiranjeevi wrote: “I did a COVID-19 test before resuming the ‘Acharya’ session as protocol …
Read More »Waiting for Center’s New Green Nod, How AP Pollution Body Helped Vizag’s LG Polymers Expand Ops 6 Times in 13 Yrs
[ad_1] File photo of firefighters outside the LG Polymers in Vizag. (PTI) The company also bypassed the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification, which mandates that modernization and expansion of existing projects needs an environmental clearance (EC). News18.com Last Updated: May 9, 2020, 8:02 AM IST New Delhi: The manufacturing unit …
Read More »Over 60% Styrene Vapor Leak From Cured Vizag Plant: Report – Andhra Pradesh
[ad_1] More than 60 percent of the styrene vapor that leaked Thursday from a tank at LG Polymers near Visakhapatnam, killing at least 11 people, has been polymerized so far and all of the chemical tanks at the plant are safe, it said Friday. District Collector V Vinay Chand. In …
Read More »35 years later, Bhopal gas leak failures resurface in Vizag
[ad_1] When I see images of the Vizag gas leak from the LG plant and hear about the deaths and injured people, it is a strange memory of the time I visited Bhopal in 1985, a few weeks after the toxic gas escaped from the Union Carbide plant in December. …
Read More »“It turned into a fog”: locals tell of the Vizag gas leak in which 11 people died
[ad_1] Thursday was going to be a normal day for people living in RR Venkatapuram village near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. But, even before they could wake up, a deadly gas escaped from a nearby chemical factory and pulled them out of their sleep. The pre-dawn disaster, which occurred at …
Read More »Vizag Gas Leak: What is styrene and how can it kill if inhaled?
[ad_1] Home / India News / Vizag gas leak: what is styrene and how can it kill if inhaled At least 11 people died and about 1,000 were affected after a factory chemical leaked and hung like smoke in nearby villages in the Visakhapatnam district in the early hours of …
Read More »All efforts to address Vizag situation, government says after Prime Minister Modi meeting
[ad_1] Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting on Thursday morning to assess the steps being taken in response to the Vishakhapatnam gas leak incident, the government said in an official statement. “He discussed at length the measures being taken for the safety of the affected people, as well …
Read More »Chandrababu Naidu sues actions against the Vizag chemical plant
[ad_1] The Telugu Desam party, the main opposition in Andhra Pradesh, demanded on Thursday that LG Polymers India Ltd in R R Venkatapuram in Visakhapatnam, from whose plant styrene poison gas leaked killing 11 people, outside the city. In a letter written to the Union’s Minister of Commerce and Industry …
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