Bhopal gas leak case: all is not lost
Sriram Panchu The government should arrange for a current calculation of compensation requirements, provide the balance funds, and ensure speedy disbursement.
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GoM backs hike in compensation
Members of the reconstituted Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas leak disaster today favoured enhanced compensation as one of the key ingredients of a healing touch package but agreed to take it up along with all other issues in back-to-back meetings over the weekend before finalising its report on Monday.
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Tragedy Today
Twenty five years later, ground zero of the Bhopal gas disaster is still a ghastly minefield for residents. They are still being harmed by the land they live in and the water they drink, writes M Rajshekhar
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Govt panel on Bhopal to discuss Anderson's extradition today
More than two decades after the Bhopal gas tragedy, there is a renewed sense of hope that the government's empowered Group of Ministers (GoM) will look afresh at various issues which have been lying buried all these years. The issue of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson's extradition is expected to come up. Also on the agenda is greater compensation for the victims of the gas leak.
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50% of Bhopal leak victims have abnormal lung function: study
A 10-year-study in Bhopal has found that every second person who was exposed to the gas leak 28 years ago has abnormal lung function. The study carried out by researchers at Bhopal Memorial Hospital &
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GoM agenda: Healing touch, pressure points
Seeking to zero down on the right healing touch to rectify the political damage from the 26-year-old Bhopal gas tragedy, the Group of Ministers (GoM) set up by the PM will look afresh at remediation measures as well as the complexities of giving additional compensation to victims. This also raises the legal issue of whether Dow Chemicals can be made to pay for the added reimbursements.
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I am free to go home, Anderson said after disaster
Warren M. Anderson New Delhi: Comments by key players in the aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy give an indication of the exit of the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson from India. A TV channel reproduced the bytes of Mr. Anderson and the then Chief Minister Arjun Singh before the former left the country on December 7, 1984, three days after the world's worst industrial disaster.
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Bhopal effect: N-liability bill remains undiluted
New Delhi: Reeling under the blowback of the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict, the government on Tuesday withdrew a set of
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Bhopal: An unsettling settlement
Usha Ramanathan
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Dow sought to pre-empt judicial outcome
Narayan Lakshman Washington: Dow Chemical Company, which owns the erstwhile Union Carbide Company that was behind the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, might have systematically sought to pre-empt the judicial outcome of the case by putting pressure on officials at the Indian embassy in Washington, it has emerged.
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More than 25 years later, Bhopal still drinking poisoned water
Bhopal gas tragedy killed 20,000 people and scarred many for life. More than 25 year after the disaster, countless victims are still suffering due to neglect and callousness of authorities. Forget compensation, they don't even have access to clean drinking water. Here's a report on the state of the victims who are forced to drink toxic water, risking their lives with each drop:
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What the SC said in 1996
With the Bhopal Gas tragedy verdict coming in for widespread condemnation, the role of the Supreme Court in watering down the charges from culpable homicide not amounting to murder to a charge of death by negligence has come under increased scrutiny. Recently, Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily even blamed the apex court for reducing the charges to that of a
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PM asks GoM on Bhopal to meet immediately, report in 10 days
New Delhi: As the fallout of the judgement on the Bhopal gas tragedy continues to embarrass the government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday asked a group of ministers (GoM), headed by home minister P Chidambaram, to meet
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Gas leak victims seek curative petition against verdict
Mahim Pratap Singh BHOPAL: The Bhopal gas leak victims on Sunday appealed to Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily to follow up on his remarks over the failure of the judicial system in delivering justice by filing a curative petition in the Supreme Court against the June 7 verdict of a local court.
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MP govt seeks legal opinion on reinvestigation
New Delhi: Amid the controversies surrounding the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict, the Madhya Pradesh Government is taking legal opinion on whether it can re-investigate the whole case, including the exit of the then Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson. It is also considering the possibility of filing a review petition against dilution of charges against convicts in the gas leak case.
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Digvijay Singh again: US pressure freed Anderson
Political Bureau New Delhi: Under attack from the Opposition BJP for freeing former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson within hours of his arrest in December 1984 for the Bhopal gas leak disaster, the ruling Congress took a direct hit on Thursday from its own when party general secretary Digvijay Singh said that Anderson was released
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US pressure may have been a factor: Digvijay Singh
As the role of past and present Congress governments comes under intense scrutiny for effectively helping Warren Anderson and America's Union Carbide get away in the Bhopal gas leak case, senior party leader Digvijaya Singh has said that American pressure could have been a factor in how the disaster was handled.
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Chidambaram to chair reconstituted GoM on Bhopal
P Chidambaram Union home minister P Chidambaram will head a reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) to look at relief and rehabilitation measures arising out of the Bhopal gas disaster that killed 15,000 people in one night in 1984. Earlier, Arjun Singh was heading the panel, as he was the state chief minister when it occurred. He is no longer part of the government.
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Told to give quick bail for Anderson: MP official
More details tumbled out today in the Bhopal gas tragedy case of how former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson got bail immediately after his arrest. However, the then CBI chief rejected claims that the agency was asked not to pursue his extradition.