New budget is inevitable: HDK
Bengaluru, June 29: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that in order to fulfill the promises made in the manifesto, it was inevitable to present the new budget.
Speaking to reporters here on Friday, Kumaraswamy said that the new budget would not have any major changes. Besides continuing the old programmes of the previous government, a comprehensive development of the state would be given in the new budget, he said.
No popular programmes of the previous government would be stopped. Both the parties have agreed to continue those programmes. He was committed to waive off the farm loans as promised to the people and it would be announced in the budget, he said.
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At least 19 killed as methane leak causes explosion at eastern Iran coal mine, state TV reports
Tehran (AP/PTI): A methane leak sparked an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran, killing at least 19 people and injuring another 17, Iranian state television reported Sunday.
The report said the deaths happened at a coal mine in Tabas, some 540 kilometers (335 miles) southeast of the capital, Tehran.
Authorities were sending emergency personnel to the area after the blast late Saturday, it said. Around 70 people had been working there at the time of the blast.
Oil-producing Iran is also rich in a variety of minerals. Iran annually consumes some 3.5 million tons of coal but only extracts about 1.8 million tons from its mines per year. The rest is imported, often consumed in the country's steel mills.
This is not the first disaster to strike Iran's mining industry. In 2013, 11 workers were killed in two separate mining incidents. In 2009, 20 workers were killed in several incidents. In 2017, a coal mine explosion killed at least 42 people.
Lax safety standards and inadequate emergency services in mining areas are often blamed for the fatalities.
