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MP wants package for entire Bhopal city
NEW DELHI: The Madhya Pradesh government has asked the Centre to review why compensation paid and other facilities made available to citizens of 36 wards of Bhopal following the gas tragedy should not be extended to the other 20 wards of the state capital. The state also asked that clean-up of the contaminated site be carried out by the alleged culprit firms but the Centre has not agreed to the
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The Bhopal Gas Disaster : 25 years later
This presentation highlights the environmental, social, economic and health problems of the people of old Bhopal
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Bhopal Protesters Block Trains in India
Thousands of survivors of the world's worst industrial accident blocked trains through a central Indian city on Saturday to demand more compensation for the 1984 disaster. A survivor of the 1984 disaster
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Health effects of the toxic gas leak from Union Carbide methyl isocyanate plant in Bhopal: technical report on pathology and toxicology
<p>Contrary to the claims made by Union Carbide Corporation — now The Dow Chemical Company — that the methyl isocyanate (MIC) which killed thousands of people in Bhopal in December, 1984, following a leak in its pesticide unit, was not highly poisonous, a report released by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has established that it caused not only “acute cyanide toxici
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It is culpable, it is homicide
Nandita Rao
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GoM proposes global bids for clean-up
New Delhi: A fairer deal for victims has been worked out by the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal Gas Tragedy. It also tackled the issue of environmental clean-up. While a sum of Rs 300 crore will be set apart for the clean-up job, Rs 227 crore has been earmarked for upgrading seven hospitals including the Bhopal Memorial Trust hospital which was set up in the aftermath of the tragedy.
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Dow Chemical's Olympic PR push dogged by Bhopal
Dow Chemical Co hoped an Olympic sponsorship would boost its global cache, but the company's link to a gas leak tragedy 28 years ago threatens to curb some of the benefits from the $100 million advertising deal. As many as 25,000 residents of Bhopal, India, died in the aftermath of a 1984 gas leak at a pesticide factory that was owned by a subsidiary of Union Carbide, which sold the facility in 1994. Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001.
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CM for special panel on Carbide premises pollution
Bhopal : Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has urged the Centre to constitute a special committee for assessing the quantum of soil and water pollution around the Union Carbide premises
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'Union Carbide must be made to clean up contamination'
The indefinite fast by three social activists fighting for the cause of the Bhopal gas tragedy survivors entered the third day today at Jantar Mantar here. However, following advice from doctors,
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Dow shalt pay
Civil society groups resist Dow Chemical
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Farooq moots solar plant in Union Carbide premises
New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah today said a park and solar energy plant should be established in the premises of the now-closed Union Carbide here in memory of the 1984 Bhopal Gas disaster victims.<br />''Positive indications were received from Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan during our related discussion.
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Bhopal gas victims demand action against Union Carbide
Hundreds of Bhopal gas tragedy victims staged a demonstration in the Capital on Tuesday calling for bringing former Union Carbide chairman James Anderson to India and initiating environmental damage
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Supreme Court orders report on contamination due to Bhopal tragedy
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Central Pollution Control Board to file a comprehensive affidavit on the “character and content” of reported contamination of ground water in Bhopal's Arifnagar area due to the 1985 Union Carbide gas tragedy. A Bench of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice J. Chelameshwar also asked the Board's counsel Vijay Panjwani to recommend measures to overcome the contamination and action to be taken in this regard.
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A chance to fight
The Supreme Court's order to disburse among the Bhopal gas victims the unspent compensation amount remaining with the RBI presents an opportunity to reopen and correct the distortions in the 1989 settlement reached between Union Carbide Corporation and the Government of India.
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Award winners to donate prize money
Winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize, Rashida Bee and Champadevi Shukla announced their decision to donate the award money of Rs 56 lakh to a charitable trust for the welfare of 1984 Bhopal Gas
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Contamination of soil and water in and around the Union Carbide site at Bhopal
<p>The Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) factory at Bhopal, abandoned after the world’s worst industrial disaster that took place on December 3, 1984, is still heavily contaminated with a range of persistent pollutants.
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Resolution favouring Bhopal gas tragedy victims voted down
In a set back to the Bhopal gas tragedy survivors, a resolution called on Dow Chemical, which took over Union Carbide, to prepare a report on the initiative it has taken to address the survivors'
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Forgotten Bhopal
It is a measure of the national indifference to the enormous injustice inflictred on victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy that two recent developments have failed tgo jar our conscience or activate the
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SC to examine Ahmadis Bhopal verdict
THE Supreme Court will examine legality of the judgement delivered by chief justice A M Ahmadi, in 1996, which diluted charges against Union Carbide officials in the Bhopal gas tragedy. A bench comprising chief justice S H Kapadia, justice Altamas Kabir and justice R V Raveendran issued notices to seven convicts on the curative petition filed by CBI, seeking recall of its judgement of S