Govt may try for Anderson extradition'
The Government may try again for the extradition of former chairman of Union Carbide Warren Anderson from the US in connection with the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, and seek to enhance the compensation
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Crime, no punishment
V.R. Krishna Iyer The Bhopal mega-crime trial is over. The barbarity has ended in a light sentence, although the victims are countless. Eight officials of the erstwhile Union Carbide India Limited have been convicted and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment.
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Union Carbides toxic wastes can be burnt at Defence Research Laboratory
<p>Tons of toxic wastes strewn in and around Union Carbide factory ever since the happening of industrial disaster can be disposed of by the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO). It is believed that the Organisation can easily destroy the waste materials without posing any threat to environment.
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How The Hindu covered the 1984 Bhopal calamity
S. Viswanathan With a former Chairman of Union Carbide India Limited, Keshub Mahindra, and seven others convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment by a trial court, the 26-year-old Bhopal tragedy case has reached a new stage.
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Gas survivors counsel asks Centre to hold Carbide accountable
The lead counsel for the victims of toxic contamination here against Union Carbide in an American court, on Thursday said that time was ripe for the Centre to take legal action to hold Carbide accountable for proper environmental remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater.
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Bhopal case: 'Move to extradite Anderson may be too late'
CBI's seeking extradition of 90-year-old former Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation Warren Anderson in connection with Bhopal Gas tragedy case may have come too late, according to leading lawyers. Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan said "the agency (CBI) was sleeping" over the years. He, however, described the Delhi court's order allowing CBI to seek Anderson's extradition as "an exceptional"
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Ex-CJI's defence of '96 order causes stir
BHOPAL NGOs working for the cause of the gas victims here have reacted sharply to the former Chief Justice of India A.H.
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The Bhopal challenge
Critical issues concerning environment and liability in the gas tragedy have evaded a solution Why was there so much public and media outrage over the Bhopal disaster
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Judgment on the Bhopal Gas Disaster: In the Court of Bhopal, dated 7th June 2010
Final judgement on Bhopal gas disaster delivered 25 years, after the tragedy by Bhopal district court. 8 senior executives of Union Carbide have been convicted and sentenced to 2 years of Jail. But this is too little & too late, say victims and the activists. <br />
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Bhopal plant was a polluter even before gas leak: reports
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Union Carbide's Bhopal plant was a polluter long before the 1984 gas leak, according to scientific reports presented to the Group of Ministers looking into the issue.
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SC to decide on compensation for Bhopal victims today
The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday the petition filed by the Centre seeking enhancement of compensation from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore for the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, in which more than 5000 people were killed due to leakage of poisonous gas from Union Carbide factory.
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SC sets up panel to monitor treatment of gas victims
The Bhopal Gas affected people have received some consolation. Supreme Court has accepted their long-standing plea to oversee through its own agencies medical facilities provided to them in the
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Won’t submit to SC jurisdiction: Dow
New Delhi: US-based multinational Dow Chemicals has declined to share its wholly owned subsidiary Union Carbide Corporation’s alleged past residuary liability towards compensating 1984 Bhopal tragedy victims.
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Anderson wouldn't have come without assurance of safe passage: ex-official
Smita Gupta NEW DELHI: The allegation that the Rajiv Gandhi government had succumbed to U.S. pressure and allowed the former Union Carbide chairman, Warren Anderson, to escape from the country was
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SC Hearing on Harsher Charges in Bhopal Case Today
A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear the Centre
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Wronged again
the Bhopal gas tragedy victims suffered yet another setback when the Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust refused to entertain their compensation claims without a copy of the judgement given by the
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A traffic accident in Bhopal
Karuna Nundy BHOPAL: A demonstration outside the district court on Monday. Those in the corporate world looking to cut costs regardless of human and environmental impact are watching the case closely.
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M&M chairman may have to quit
Arijit Barman & Swaraj Baggonkar / Mumbai June 8, 2010, 0:17 IST
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Bhopal: A Chronology
It was the night between December 2 and 3 in 1984. It was a night when graveyards in Old Bhopal ran short of space and cloth merchants threw open their shops at midnight, freely donating any length of cloth to cover the endless corpses that were to be cremated or buried
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Govt soft line responsible?
June 7: The silence of the trial court in its verdict on the criminal liability of Union Carbide