A historic ruling
A US Court of Appeals sustains the plea of the survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster and orders Union Carbide Corporation to undertake the removal of contamination in and around the abandoned
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Supreme Court order on Bhopal Gas Disaster dated 19/07/2004
Supreme Court order dated July 19 2004 directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to release Rs 1503 crore deposited with it by the company for disbursement to Bhopal gas tragedy victims.
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US denies linking investment ties to Bhopal disaster
Washington, 19 Aug: The United States has denied reports that it was trying to link the Bhopal gas tragedy with India-US investment ties by suggesting a "lot of noise" over the issue could have a "chilling effect" on them. "The assertion that there was linkage between two separate and distinct issues is wrong, is incorrect," Mr Benjamin Chang, deputy spokesperson of the National Security Counci
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US pressures India to go easy on Dow
New Delhi: Ahead of the November visit of President Barack Obama, US has stepped up efforts to push India to drop its demand that Dow Chemicals pay Rs 1,500 crore compensation to victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. On Wednesday, Times Now, in an exclusive report, said US deputy NSA Michael Froman wrote to Planning Commission deputy chairmanMontek Singh Ahluwalia in an email that the
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Cancel Dow sponsorship, government writes to IOC
Says this will uphold the noble ideals of Olympic Movement The Union Sports Ministry has written to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), urging it to cancel the sponsorship of Dow Chemical for the London Olympics. In a letter, dated February 24, to IOC president Jacques Rogge, the Ministry's joint secretary Rahul Bhatnagar said that such a step by the IOC would assuage the “feelings of millions of people”
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Congress faces flak on Bhopal gas leak verdict
The Congress today found itself hemmed in by attacks from within and outside with its leaders blaming the then party governments at the Centre and Madhya Pradesh over the escape of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson after the gas leak in December 1984.
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US lawmakers want Dow to clean up Bhopal gas leak site
US lawmakers have asked Dow Chemical to clean up the soil and underground water contaminated by the deadly gas leak at Union Carbide plant at Bhopal but the US firm disowned the liabilities saying that it never owned or operated the disgraced plant site.
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Ray of hope for Bhopal gas victims
A recent US court judgement allowing Bhopal gas victims to seek monetary claims against Union Carbide and Mr Warren Anderson for pollution-related diseases in the afternath of the 1984 disaster has
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Non-issues hijack Bhopal debate
The US is less concerned about who's jailed and more about a huge compensation from BP Michael Pinto / June 29, 2010, 0:01 IST
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SC Rules Out Corrective Action in Bhopal Gas Case
Slams CBI for waiting 14 years to make curative plea, says sessions court can frame stricter charges The Supreme Court has refused to change its mind about a 1996 judgment and allow stricter punishments for seven corporate executives convicted for their role in the world
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Fateful moments of the tragedy
Bhopal: In the apocalyptic moments on the wintry night of December 2-3, 1984, people simply started dying in the most hideous ways after a toxic gas leak. Some vomited uncontrollably, went into convulsions and fell dead.
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Shivraj asks Sam to mentor knowledge, environs cities
MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed gratitude to Advisor to Prime Minister and chairman of National Innovation Council Sam Pitroda for his State visit and has urged him to become mentor
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CBI trying hard to press stricter charges against Bhopal accused
New Delhi: As it prepares to move a Bhopal sessions court to fasten stringent charges under Section 304-II IPC on those held responsible for the Bhopal gas leak case, CBI is recognizing that it may have restricted leeway against the most prominent of those convicted for the disaster, Keshub Mahindra.
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The great Bhopal whitewash
Even after 25 years, Union Carbide refuses to accept responsibility or show any remorse Sunil Jain / New Delhi December 7, 2009, 0:29 IST
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Masood demands compensation of Rs 10 lakh for gas victims
Bhopal: MP Congress Committee spokesman Arif Masood said that in the meeting of union group of ministers to be held in Delhi on June 18 priority should be given to the compensation to be given to gas victims. The family of the deceased in gas tragedy should be given Rs 10 lakh as compensation and those affected by gas tragedy should be given Rs 5 lakh as compensation.
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Bhopal verdict not to impact India plans: Dow
Kolkata: For all those worried over the impact of a possible hounding of The Dow Chemical Company on foreign investment flows to India, rest assured! Dow itself has no intention of scaling down its proposed expansion plans for the country in the wake of fresh pressure building up on the UPA-2 government to have a relook at the 1984 Bhopal gas leak issue.
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Kudankulam another Bhopal in waiting
Thiruvananthapuram: Throwing his weight behind the anti-nuclear plant activists, renowned cognitive scientist and professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam
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MP to launch judicial probe into Bhopal leak
Bhopal: A judicial commission of inquiry will be constituted to go into all aspects of the Bhopal gas tragedy, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced on Wednesday. The terms of reference of the commission and the name of the retired high court judge who will head it, will be decided soon, he told reporters here.
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Bhopal disaster hospital turns cash cow for docs
Medicos Allowed To Treat Non-Victims, Collect Cuts. Doctors are earning crores out of treating private patients at the Bhopal Memorial and Research Centre — a hospital set up on orders of the Supreme Court
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The other US govt standard for Bhopal
Indira Kannan / New York June 9, 2010, 0:46 IST