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.
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.
BHOPAL NGOs working for the cause of the gas victims here have reacted sharply to the former Chief Justice of India A.H.
The multi-disciplinary study of histopathology and toxicology of Bhopal gas tragedy resolved several issues. First, the progression of severe pulmonary oedema to chronic fibrosis was confirmed experimentally, following a single exposure to MIC. Analysis of the residue in Tank 610 revealed over 21 chemicals.
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.
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
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.
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 />
A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear the Centre
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.
This is unique year for India's environmental movement 2004 marks the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy , web a horrendous chemical accident killed thousands and condemned many more to
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
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.
Arijit Barman & Swaraj Baggonkar / Mumbai June 8, 2010, 0:17 IST
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
June 7: The silence of the trial court in its verdict on the criminal liability of Union Carbide
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
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Did the Emergency allow the Indira Gandhi government to ignore the concerns of Union Industry Ministry officials in allowing Union Carbide to produce methyl isocyanate-based pesticides in India?
IN the first official response from the Gov ernment on the Warren Anderson issue Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee ha put the onus squarely on former Madhy Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh.
In October activists of the International Campaign for Justice for Bhopal issued an advertisement in the brochures of the India Chem exhibition. But the advert was issued in the name of Clean Chemistry Council, a fictitious European public relations firm, offering consultancy to corporations for improving their public image. The ad cited Dow Chemical as a pioneer in charity
