Noxious Gas

Twenty-eight students of a municipal school in west Delhi's Naraina area were hospitalised on Friday with two of them requiring oxygen support after allegedly inhaling noxious fumes following a suspected "gas leak" incident nearby, officials said.

Three persons were choked to death on Sunday at a sewage treatment plant (STP) in Loni town of Ghaziabad district, police said.

Fountains of lava gushed out of the ground Friday on the Big Island of Hawaii, and residents were forced to flee from threats of fires and dangerous levels of sulfur dioxide gas.

Skunk water - Israel's weapon of choice for crowd control - is said to smell like a mixture of excrement, noxious gas and a decomposing donkey. And that is what the government is considering for use to break up protests in India. Under attack over the use of pellet guns that wreaked havoc during protests in Kashmir last year, blinding and injuring ...

A team of experts from IIT Madras and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board officials have begun inspecting the Copper smelter unit of Sterlite Industries on a direction from the National Green Tribunal following alleged noxious gas leak last month causing health problems to locals.

A day after the copper smelter unit of Sterlite Industries was shut down in the wake of alleged leak of noxious gas, employees of the Vedanta group company today appealed to the Tamil Nadu Government to facilitate its reopening by saying their livelihood was at stake.

Twenty-eight students of a municipal school in west Delhi's Naraina area were hospitalised on Friday with two of them requiring oxygen support after allegedly inhaling noxious fumes following a suspected "gas leak" incident nearby, officials said.

Three persons were choked to death on Sunday at a sewage treatment plant (STP) in Loni town of Ghaziabad district, police said.

Fountains of lava gushed out of the ground Friday on the Big Island of Hawaii, and residents were forced to flee from threats of fires and dangerous levels of sulfur dioxide gas.

Skunk water - Israel's weapon of choice for crowd control - is said to smell like a mixture of excrement, noxious gas and a decomposing donkey. And that is what the government is considering for use to break up protests in India. Under attack over the use of pellet guns that wreaked havoc during protests in Kashmir last year, blinding and injuring ...

A team of experts from IIT Madras and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board officials have begun inspecting the Copper smelter unit of Sterlite Industries on a direction from the National Green Tribunal following alleged noxious gas leak last month causing health problems to locals.

A day after the copper smelter unit of Sterlite Industries was shut down in the wake of alleged leak of noxious gas, employees of the Vedanta group company today appealed to the Tamil Nadu Government to facilitate its reopening by saying their livelihood was at stake.