BEIJING : A blast which ripped through an explosives plant in China has left 13 people dead and another 20 missing, an official said Tuesday, compounding the country’s poor industrial safety record.Another 19 people were injured in the explosion on Monday at a three-storey workshop owned by ...

LAHORE -A 45 year old factory owner was found dead in his unit in Khalid Park Shafiqabad on Sunday.The deceased identified as Mohammad Asif hailed from Baddomalhi.The police said that the locals noticed stench emitting from the factory and informed the police. The police recovered the decomposed ...

    LAHORE  A newly-married man ended his life after having an altercation with his wife over some domestic issue in the Nawan Kot area, police said Friday. Muhammad Afzal, said to be a factory worker, committed suicide by hanging himself with the ceiling fan at his house. The family ...

DHAKA : Eight people were killed when a fire swept through a clothing factory in Bangladesh, police and an industry association official said on Thursday, as the death toll from the collapse of another factory building two weeks ago climbed above 900.The fire, in an industrial district of Dhaka, ...

DHAKA : The death toll from Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster passed 800 on Wednesday as rescuers pulled dozens more bodies from the rubble of a nine-storey building that collapsed outside Dhaka last month. "The death toll now stands at 803" with 790 bodies recovered from the wreckage and 13 ...

  PAJU, South Korea : South Korea was due Monday to pull out its last workers from a joint factory zone in North Korea - a rare symbol of cross-border cooperation now crippled by a tense military stand-off. The move raises the prospect of the permanent closure of theKaesongcomplex, the last ...

PAJU, South Korea Dozens of South Korean workers returned from a jointly run factory park in North Korea on Saturday as part of an evacuation of the flagship project following months of military tensions.The move plunges into doubt the future of the Kaesong complex - once a rare symbol of ...

LAHORE - Goods, machinery, and valuables worth millions of rupees were reduced to ashes when huge fire erupted in a shoemaking factory at Bund Road in the Shafiqabad police limits on early Tuesday, police and eyewitness said. Firefighters said the fire, which erupted because of short-circuiting, ...

our staff reporter bahawalpur  - The CIA Police raided a factory preparing substandard and unhygienic beverages and seized a huge cache of substandard juices, bottled water and chemicals, and also found that four children were working there as forced labourers. CIA Police’s In-charge ...

BERLIN (AFP) - German engineering giant Siemens said Thursday it is planning to cut over 3,000 jobs in its industrial division as part of a vast plan to save six billion euros ($8b) as it faces falling profits.In a presentation published on its website, the company said 500 jobs would be cut at its ...

MULTAN - A huge quantity of paperboard was gutted when a fire erupted in a paperboard-making factory near Bahawalpur Bypass here on Monday.  According to recue sources, fire-fighters were called in to extinguish the fire.  According to rescue sources, fire started due to a short circuit, ...

MULTAN - A huge quantity of paperboard was gutted when a fire erupted in a paperboard-making factory near Bahawalpur Bypass here on Monday.  According to recue sources, fire-fighters were called in to extinguish the fire.  According to rescue sources, fire started due to a short circuit, ...

Three labourers received burnt injuries when a paint manufacturing factory caught fire in Sham Nagar area here in Lahore on Monday.The fire engulfed the entire building due to presence of chemicals in the factory.The rescue and fire brigade personnel reached the spot and controlled the fire. The ...

LAHORE – The heavy-power generator installed inside an industrial unit cut a 20-year-old worker into pieces, seconds after he plunged into its fan in the Kot Lakhpat industrial area on Wednesday. The poor worker, identified as Muhammad Zahid, climb to the top of the generator to check water ...

LAHORE – A 21-year-old factory worker committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan in the Shahdara area, police said on Monday. Resident of Chishtian, Imran Munir, was residing alone in a residential quarter on rent in the Shamsabad area and he was working at a shoemaking ...

KARACHI – A fire erupted in a factory in Korangi area was extinguished after hectic efforts of several hours, officials said on Sunday. The reason of the fire was said to be a short circuit. Wrong assessment of the intensity of incident by the authorities and absence of proper instruments ...

LAHORE – Valuables worth hundreds of thousands of rupees were reduced to ashes when a fire erupted at a chemical-producing factory on Bund Road in the Shera Kot area, rescuer  said on Tuesday. Firemen said that the blaze broke out due to short-circuit in Ecro-chemicals factory and ...

KARACHI - The Sindh government would provide financial assistance to rehabilitate each family of the Baldia factory fire victims through Workers Welfare Fund.Labour Department Provincial Secretary Arif Elahi made the statement while addressing a workshop held for the training of Baldia Town factory ...

DASKA –Raw material and machinery worth Rs11 million was gutted as a factory caught fire due to short circuit at village Ghueinki on main Daska-Sialkot Road. The Rescue 1122 firefighters extinguished the fire after three-hour struggle.  It was also learnt that there were no proper ...

Lahore - District Coordination Officer Noorul Amin Mengal has given seven days deadline to the owners of the industrial units for installing fire extinguishing equipments with obtaining safety measures otherwise strict action of sealing these industrial units could be initiated with arresting them ...

Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Wednesday raided several eateries and sealed a factory in Shalimar Town found to be producing substandard ketchup.  The team on the directions of PFA Director General raided a factory producing unhygienic tomato ketchup in Shadbagh Area of the Shalimar Town after ...

RAWALPINDI - Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench has awarded protective bail till October 1, 2012 to the owners of a garments factory that reduced into ashes in Baldia Town in Karachi claiming 289 precious human lives.LHC Rawalpindi Bench Justice Mamoon Rashid Sheikh accepted the bail plea of ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - DCO Syed Javed Iqbal has directed the DO Civil Defence to seal all such factories which do not adopt required security measures in their factories to save the lives of workers in any emergency. He was presiding over a meeting of district factories data collection survey ...

LAHORE - District Coordination Officer (DCO) Noorul Amin Mengal has directed the administration of all towns to complete the survey of industrial units located in the residential areas of the City and ensure security measures like fire alarm, fire extinguishing equipments, entrance and exit ways, ...

RAWALPINDI - All the owners of factories, government and private offices, mills, educational institutions, bus stands and shopping centres in Rawalpindi division have been directed to install modern fire extinguishing instruments within two weeks.After the tragic blaze incidents of Karachi and ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif on Friday stressed punishing all those responsible for the Baldia Town factory fire, which claimed at least 258 lives, without any discrimination and delay. “Be it the factory owners or government officials, action ...

KARACHI  - With over only three dozen fire tenders being operated by Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) to cater the needs of the spiraling city of approximately 20 million people, the majority of buildings are also devoid of fire-safety measuresThe city administration has never attempted ...

At least 20 labourers were killed and several others wounded when fire swept through a plastic factory here on Tuesday, medics said. The factory is located on Band Road in Gulshan-e-Ravi area of Lahore. According to sources, 26 people were brought to Mayo Hospital. Out of them, 20 people were ...

ISLAMABAD - Assistant Commissioner, Industrial Area, Imran Sultan Ali, during a surprise raid in Naz Market of Sector I-9/1 sealed a soda water plant allegedly involved in manufacturing unhygienic and health hazardous drinks unfit for human consumption.  A spokesman of the local administration ...

KARACHI - As many as two people were burnt alive, half dozen were wounded when fire broke out in two separate localities here on Tuesday. According to the officials of Fire Brigade Department, the incident was reported in the wee hours of Tuesday at Zumrad Colony located in Block 22 of FB ...