Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Union Carbide Corp (UCC) have released new evidence to show its "direct role in designing and building the pesticide plant in Bhopal" where the 1984 gas disaster killed thousands. Union Carbide, now a Dow Chemical subsidiary, refuses to clean up the site claiming that its former Indian subsidiary bears sole responsibility for the now shuttered plant in Bhopal.
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The survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy secure from the government promises to implement part of their demands. Akash Kushwaha, a seven-year-old boy who suffers from malformed eyes owing to contaminated groundwater, at a press conference held to highlight the plight of the gas victims, in New Delhi on April 29.
The Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted to oversee the matters related to the Bhopal Gas Leak, in its meeting held on 11th June, 2008, had taken certain important decisions. Based on these decisions, the following action has been/ is being taken by the Government.
Bhopal: Gas Tragedy, Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Babulal Gaur today visited claim courts at old district court in Shahjehanabad locality and talked to the gas claimants about the arrangements for distribution of compensation. In charge Registrar Bharat Bhushan Shrivastava informed that a sum of Rs 39 crore 82 lakh against 5481 cases were distributed as compensation among gas victims.
Bhopal victims to get additional relief
Party in the dock for accepting donation from Dow Chemical BHOPAL: The Leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, Jamuna Devi, has written to the Election Commission asking that Bharatiya Janata Party be de-recognised because it had accepted donation from Dow Chemical International Private Limited, the Indian subsidiary of Dow Chemical that now owns Union Carbide, which was responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster.
The Group of Ministers (GOM), appointed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the Bhopal gas tragedy, has looked into the health-related problems that people suffered due to the sudden leakage of tonnes of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) from the storage tank at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal on the night of December 2-3, 1984.
NEW DELHI: Nine activists, including survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster and victims of water contamination, began a hunger strike here on Tuesday. The activists said the statement by Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan on the setting up of an empowered commission for rehabilitation made no mention of its powers; nor did he specify any time frame for submission of its recommendations. Also, the statement was silent on the issue of legal action against Union Carbide and Dow Chemicals.
<div>Bhopal, Aug 25: The Gas Relief and Rehabilitation Department will construct over two thousand houses at a cost of Rs 40 crore for the widows of those who died in the world's worst industrial disaster that occurred in Bhopal in 1984.
The Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy, which held its last meeting here Sunday and will submit its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday, will recommend filing of a curative petition in the Supreme Court to fix criminal liability, seeking extradition of former UCC chief Warren Andreson and cleaning up toxic material from the Bhopal site.
Govt Must Decide Amount Before Curative Petition Subodh Ghildiyal | TNN New Delhi: How much to demand from Union Carbide or its successors for Bhopal gas disaster is the moot question. The Centre was offered to pick from three high amounts for additional compensation
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai June 29, 2010, 1:06 IST Says real culprits of gas tragedy not punished. The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has planned a three-pronged strategy to help the families of Bhopal gas disaster.
“Survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal are more prone to developing high blood pressure than unexposed people of the same socio-economic background.” This was disclosed by members of the Sambhavna Trust Clinic at a press conference here on Sunday. They presented findings of their recent study coinciding with World Health Day.
New York: In a setback to 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, a US court has held that neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or pollution-related
Soon after the Bhopal gas disaster in December 1984, efforts were made to suppress research reports to dilute the magnitude of the incident, claims a doctor who was posted as a child specialist at a state-run hospital here when the tragedy occurred. In his latest book, '25 years of Gas Tragedy and untold truth', Dr NR Bhandari has said that the real problems of the gas victims were suppressed by
Even 25 years after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, there are several families in Bhopal where the women are not getting married. If in some cases, the gas-affected women are suffering from gynaecological disorders, in others no family is ready to take them in marriage suspecting that either the woman would not conceive or if she does, the child would not be normal and healthy.
The PMO documents on Dow Chemicals and its liability on Bhopal gathered by Bhopal activists. These have brought to light a letter written in 2006 by Dow Chemicals CEO Andrew Liveris to the then Indian ambassador to the US Ronen Sen, claiming that the Indian government had said that his company is not liable for the Bhopal gas tragedy.
LALIT SHASTR BHOPA The Supreme Court has issued notices to the respondent Union ministry of chemicals and fertilisers and welfare commissioner, Bhopal, in a petition filed earlier in March 2010 by Bhopal NGOs regarding the death and injury claims arising out of the Bhopal gas disaster.
The District and Sessions Court today admitted the Central Bureau of Investigation's review petition challenging the Chief Judicial Magistrate's June 7 verdict in the criminal case pertaining to the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. Judge Subhash Kakde directed issuance of notices to accused Keshub Mahindra, Vijay Gokhale, Kishor Kamdar, J Mukund, S P Choudhary, A V Shetty, S I Qureshi and Union Carbide
