The Bhopal Express
SATINATH SARANGI, 55, had planned to stay for a week. Decades later, he is still fighting on behalf of those affected by the gas tragedy
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Bhopal gas victims in long walk for clean water
More than 20 years after the world's worst industrial disaster, victims of the Bhopal gas leak have stepped up their campaign for clean drinking water with an indefinite sit-down in the Indian
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Bhopal protesters detained in Delhi
Over 100 protesters, comprising mostly women, demanding the rehabilitation of survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy were detained by the police for staging a dharna outside Shastri Bhavan in New
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Didnt address Bhopal seriously: PC in LS
<br /><br />New Delhi: Admitting that
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25 years after Bhopal Gas Disaster: a selection of news (Jan 2006 - Dec 2009)
On December 3, 1984, toxic poisonous methyl isocyanate gas leaked from Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL's) pesticide plant in Bhopal. The gas leak triggered a disaster that is now widely
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Bhopal gas victims: SC asks Centre for details
The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to respond to claims made by organisations representing victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy that the number of those dead and injured were far more than
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Bhopal plea rejected in US
In a big setback to survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy, a US appellate court has rejected their plea against Union Carbide Corporation for compensation and removal of hazardous waste from its chemical
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Water at UCIL contaminated, says institute
High levels of nitrate, lead and nickel have been found present in the groundwater samples collected by the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research at the Union Carbide site in Bhopal. Submitting a report
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How to clean up Bhopal?
Greenpeace spent too little time in Bhopal and made major errors in estimating the extent of contamination, says Vibha Varshney. Even as the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy is
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Bhopal tragedy: 22 years on, all get compensation
At long last, almost 22 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the last compensation cheque was handed over to a claimant on Monday. With this, the process of disbursement of compensation to the gas
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Bhopal gas survivors to expose' Kamal Nath
Accuse the Union Minister of helping Union Carbide Accused of favouring Dow Chemicals and Union Carbide "He has joined hands with the killer of Bhopal' Two organisations of Bhopal gas disaster survivors on Tuesday announced their decision to launch a public awareness campaign to "expose' Union Commerce and Industries Minister Kamal Nath's role "in helping Dow Chemicals and Union Carbide escape their liabilities in Bhopal'.
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Gas tragedy: Chouhan govt seeks relief for 20 new wards
Sensing an opportunity in Saturday’s violence that marked the 27th anniversary of the gas tragedy, the BJP government has revived an old demand for compensation to residents of new Bhopal whose claims
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Bhopal's wounds are yet to heal
Not only have the Union Carbide Corporation and Dow Chemical Company remained unpunished for the Bhopal gas disaster, but the latter is also expanding its business in India. This was emphasised by
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Court OKs CBI plea to extradite Anderson
New Delhi: The CBI
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Disaster tourism
The CSE
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Behind violent protest by gas victims, a video, a training manual
Behind the massive mobilisation on the railway tracks of Bhopal on the 27th anniversary of the gas tragedy were a training video and a seven-step instruction manual. For more than a month before the disaster’s
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How the Bhopal victims were sold short
The large number of deaths due to gas leakage from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in December 1984 was a tragedy of great magnitude.
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25 years of shame
The government
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A tragedy lingers
An insensitive state follows an insensitive multinational in denying justice and succour to the victims of Bhopal. (Editorial)
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Night without end
The government's behaviour compounds the scandal