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Monday, July 6, 2009

5 killed, 40 hurt in in Madhya Pradesh factory blasts

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Massive explosions in two chemical factories at the Baidhan industrial estate in Singrauli district, 780 km northeast of Bhopal, on Sunday evening left at least five people dead and 40 injured.

“Rescue operations are on,” said A. K. Shrivastava, Inspector General of Police, Rewa range, confirming the figures.

The blasts occurred at around 7.30 pm at two private factories, Indian Detonators Ltd and Rajasthan Chemical Explosives Ltd, both of which manufacture detonators used in mining, and other explosives. There are a number of coal mines in the region.

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Friday, September 5, 2008

India's Shame

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The cataclysmic flooding in Bihar, the worst in India's modern history, isn't the national calamity.

It is what is unfolding now. Eighteen days after India's most notorious and unpredictable Kosi River suddenly breached an embankment and changed its course uprooting millions of people, thousands remain trapped in homes, crushed in poorly resourced relief camps or just sleeping hungry on the road. It is a stunning indictment on how India's central government, the Bihar administration, and local and international NGOs reacted to the tragedy that has touched the lives of at least 25 million people.

Across the misery-seeped expanse, there are no facilities set up to help trace missing peoples. No trauma care facilities. There are no international NGOs, who have in the past complained that India did not give them access in such situations.

"The prime minister came here and called it a national tragedy If this is how our nation reacts to this tragedy, this is just a cruel joke on us, isn't it?" said Giraj Rishi Yaday, as he sat in a relief camp after walking the whole morning in waist-deep water.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

China Shaken

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Within Hours, the official death toll from a massive earthquake that shook China on Monday afternoon shot up from four to 107 to "several thousands". At the time of going to press, more than 9,000 people were feared dead in the earthquake the worst in China in over three decades.

In southwest China's Sichuan province - 100 km from the epicentre - 900 children were feared buried under the rubble of their high school. Rescue operations were on till 1ate night. State news agency Xinhua reported that the children were "struggling to break loose from underneath the ruins while others were crying out for help". Xinhua said 8,533 people died in Sichuan alone. In Beichuan county, near Sichuan's capital Chengdu, 80 per cent of buildings collapsed and about 5,000 people were killed.

The extent of the death and destruction from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake which struck at 2.28 pm was not revealed until evening.

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