Asphalt today is relatively safe to work with. Crews don’t have to worry about their health, or the health of the public, on a typical milling and paving job. However, back in the 1960’s it wasn’t ...

KOLKATA: Asbestos sheets have finally been banned from the Calcutta HC. Disposing of a PIL, the bench of acting Chief Justice Nishita Mhatre and Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty directed, “The HC main ...

New Delhi: The Union environment ministry has submitted a report to the National Green Tribunal, acknowledging the adverse effects of asbestos sheets on human health. The submission came after a ...

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Union environment ministry to assess the usage of asbestos sheets in the construction of roofs of educational institutions as the material ...

In June 2009, this journalist had reported that the broken-down asbestos roof of a pedestrian bridge in a railway station in Mumbai was being replaced by metal sheets. The plan to replace asbestos at ...

Research shows that Asbestos roofing sheet is a hazardous material which causes cancer of the lungs in people who are exposed to it and also in persons who work in the factories that produce them. The ...

Asbestos was once tagged as a miracle material for its strength. But the move last month under the Rotterdam Convention, to list asbestos under hazardous materials, which need the prior consent of ...