AROUND 300 tonnes of toxic waste still lies unattended at the former factories of Union Carbide in Bhopal. Dow Chemicals, which now owns Union Carbide, the company responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy,
More than 26 years after a poisonous gas leak killed 10,000 people and maimed over a lakh in Bhopal, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review its judgments in the criminal and civil cases, which allegedly helped the accused get away with light punishment and Union Carbide pay meagre compensation. The court issued notices to Dow Chemicals, Union Carbide, Eveready Industries India Ltd and McL
THE Centre has moved a curative petition in the Supreme Court seeking revision of its 1989 judgement on the world
Representatives of the anti-Koodankulam nuclear power project protesters presented a ‘questionnaire’, seeking answers to 50 questions, during the first meeting of the committees set up by the Central and
Photos of Bhopal by Raghu Rai
Letter to Dow Chemical Company from Congress of the United States to immediately take steps towards remediation and redress of the chemical disaster in Bhopal, India.
Q&A: Satinath Sarangi Satinath Sarangi of the Bhopal Group for Information and Action tells SREELATHA MENON that activists made a mistake by delaying raising the issue of removal of the 8,000 tonnes of toxic waste from Union Carbide's Bhopal plant. Where were you when the 1984 disaster in Bhopal took place and what brought you to work there among the survivors?
Successive Indian governments have failed Bhopal’s gas victims in a variety of ways. From the first shoddy efforts following the terrible incident to non-disbursal of compensation years after
Wants Union Carbide Corp, Mcleod Russel India, Union Carbide India to increase compensation from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore. The government on Friday moved the Supreme Court, seeking enhancement of compensation from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy in which more than 5,000 people were killed due to leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide
Tata group Chairman Ratan Tata writes to Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia saying that it is critical for Dow to have the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizer withdraw their application for a financial deposit by them against the remediation cost. This is because this application implies that the government of India is
Smita Gupta and J. Venkatesan NEW DELHI:The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, which met on Friday, will work through the weekend and submit its report to the Cabinet on Monday, ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 10-day deadline. The mood at the meeting, sources said, was
There is renewed hope for the gas victims as people across the country have become one with their cause and are expressing outrage over denial of justice and the manoeuvres of those in authority in Bhopal who had allowed the then Union Carbide Corporation chief Warren Anderson to escape to America when the city was struck by the worst industrial catastrophe in December 1984.
<p> The Maharashtra government has filed an intervention appeal before the Jabalpur Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court against its order of July 12 to incinerate toxic waste from the former Union
US appeals court rules in favour of Bhopal gas victims
In a grim reminder of the Bhopal gas tragedy of India
Union home minister P. Chidambaram has said that charges against the absconding former head of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) Warren Anderson were not diluted and even lauded the CBI for being steadfast in its endeavour to seek his extradition. He also said that the curative petition in the case is almost ready to be filed.<br />
NEW DELHI: Residents of 13 localities around the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal first bore the brunt of the gas leak in 1984 and are now suffering contamination of ground water by hazardous waste from the plant.
The contamination of soil and groundwater at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal has nothing to do with the 1984 gas leak disaster, according to a study released on Thursday by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute. Instead, the toxic wastes were dumped over a much longer period between 1969 and 1984.
Kumkum Sen / July 05, 2010, 0:42 IST Speculations on government response have been put to rest with the outcome of the deliberations and discussions of the GoM. A case has been made out for enhancement of the compensation based on the degree of severity ranging from death, permanent disability, cancer cases, renal failure to temporary disability on a scale of Rs ten to one lakh.
Fights 75,000 Union Carbide-Related Suits In US, But Denies Role In Bhopal
