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GoM on Bhopal case reconstituted
New Delhi: The Centre, under fire from the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy for the way the legal case has panned out over the last 26 years, on Wednesday announced the reconstitution of a Group of Ministers (GoM) to go into the relief and rehabilitation measures for those affected by the world's worst industrial disaster.
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Bhopal readies to observe 25th year of gas tragedy
Vivek Trivedi | Bhopal
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Warren Anderson? CBI still trying
Immediately after rt verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy case on Monday, the CBI maintained that its efforts to extradite Mr Warren Anderson, former chairman of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), who is also an accused in the case, is still on.
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SC shot down move to slap tough charges
New Delhi: It will be unkind to blame the trial court for handing out mild punishments to the Bhopal gas leak accused whose collective negligence caused an industrial catastrophe. For, the court
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Keshub Mahindra, 6 others get 2-year jail for Bhopal tragedy
Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: A court here on Monday convicted all the seven accused, including the former chairman of Union Carbide, Keshub Mahindra, in the Bhopal gas tragedy case and awarded them a maximum of two years' imprisonment. They were released on bail later in the evening.
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19 judges presided over trial
Bhopal: The trial in the Bhopal gas tragedy case saw 19 judges presiding over it after the charge sheet was filed in December 1987. The CBI filed the charge sheet in Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) A Sisodia's court on December 1, 1987 here. CJM R.C. Mishra heard the case of the world's worst industrial disaster from September 30, 1988.
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Bhopal gas disaster case: Keshub Mahindra, 7 others convicted
26 years after the world's worst industrial disaster that had left over 15,000 people dead, a local court on Monday convicted all the eight accused including former Union Carbide chairman Keshub Mahindra in the Bhopal gas tragedy case.
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Bhopal victims want accused hanged, but not hopeful of getting full justice
OVER 25 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy when the verdict in the case is to be pronounced on Monday, the victims want capital punishment for the accused, but are not too hopeful of getting full justice.
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Cancer in Bhopal: comparison of cancer patterns in MIC affected and unaffected areas (1988-2007)
<p>This Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) report of twenty years of data from 1988 to 2007 compares the magnitude and patterns of cancer between areas affected by the methyl isocyanate (MIC) leak and the unaffected areas of Bhopal.</p>
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SC summons top govt officials
Concerned about the serious threat posed by huge toxic material left in Union Carbide’s Bhopal plant after the 1984 gas tragedy, the Supreme Court on Thursday summoned top officials of the Union and MP government to suggest measures for its early disposal. A bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and S.J. Mukhopadhyaya sought the presence of Union environment and chemical secretaries and Madhya Pradesh’s secretary for “Bhopal gas tragedy rehabilitation department” on Friday to give “assistance” to the court as how 350 tones of toxic waste deposited in Carbide plant should be disposed off as early as possible.
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Doctors ‘scare away’ swine flu patient
BHOPAL: When Rajesh Verma, a gas tragedy victim, reached Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre (BMHRC) on March 31last year, he and his family members were impressed by the spacious hospital building
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Reductio ad absurdum PM's Bhopal hourglass
Aditya Sinha
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MP govt to file plea against court order
The Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday announced that it will file a curative petition against the Supreme Court
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Allowing Anderson to escape was unpardonable: BJP
NEW DELHI: With more and more evidence emerging of the Congress government at the Centre in 1984 having promised
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Bhopals Can of Worms
What is sorely missing is the political will to get to the truth behind such tragedies, says ERVELL E MENEZES
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Chemical factory leak sparks strong reactions
On the eve of the 19th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster, fear about chemical pollution and industrial safety in a small industrial area in central Maharashtra are
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With ‘Special Olympics’, Bhopal protests Dow role
Bhopal: Bhopal gas tragedy survivors on Thursday marched with a jhadu (broom) at the opening ceremony of the ‘Bhopal Special Olympics’ organised to protest Dow Chemicals sponsorship of the London Olympics.
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A tissue of lies
The inhabitants of the city of Bhopal became victim of the world