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Dow special panel report gathers dust
Pune The report on Dow Chemical International (Dow India) site at Chakan, Pune, submitted by the special committee formed by the state environment department in 2008, is gathering dust with the state government yet to release it. The report was submitted to the state government about eight months ago.
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Abhishekh Singhvi, counsel for Dow in the Madhya Pradesh High Court case and Congress party spokesperson gives an ex-parte ...
Abhishekh Singhvi, counsel for Dow in the Madhya Pradesh High Court case and Congress party spokesperson gives an ex-parte opinion to the Prime Minister
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Dow in the dumps?
Dow Chemicals may run into trouble with its Indian investments. On August 8, Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizer Ram Vilas Paswan met some of the victims of the Bhopal gas leak disaster at their protest site in New Delhi and promised them action against the company. An empowered committee would be formed within two months to oversee the cleanup work at the Union Carbide site, heavily
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Govt enhances relief to gas victims
Centre Accepts GoM
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SC accepts Ahmadi's resignation from Bhopal Hospital Trust
THE Supreme Court on Monday accepted the resignation of former Chief Justice of India and chairpers son of Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust (BMHT) Justice A M Ahmadi and trans ferred the charge of the superspecialty hospital to the departments of Atomic Energy and Biotechnology.
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Bhopal stirs far away EU
The European Parliament appealed to India on December 16, 2004, to immediately clean up the site of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. A resolution adopted by the EU assembly recently "calls on the
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Some lessons from the Bhopal outcome
V.R. Krishna Iyer The court verdict shows that India is still in a Victorian imperial-feudal era, distances away from the socialist dream. The political parties that were in power during these years are guilty of culpable neglect One extraordinary feature of the outcome is that the highest officer who was involved in Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, is nowhere in the picture
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Need to review IPC after the Bhopal case verdict
Arun Bothra and Komal Jain The judge could only punish the guilty as per the law book. Just because people are angry and the media is getting hysteric he could not invent new sections of the law. In fact maximum punishment for the offence under Section 304B is two years and it has been awarded
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Govt forms panel to clean up Bhopal
Oversight Committee To Monitor Waste Disposal Activities At Union Carbide Factory
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GoM on Bhopal to meet today
Smita Gupta NEW DELHI: The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, which was asked by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to report back to the Cabinet by June 24, will meet on Friday and again on Saturday with the object of wrapping up its work as expeditiously as possible, government sources said.
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US class action suits seek justice for Bhopal victims
Far away from the heat and dust of Bhopal, two federal class action lawsuits are under way here in New York City. The Bhopal cases filed in the US have had a circuitous history, not unlike in India. The cases, Sahu vs Union Carbide et al, are civil cases filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Union Carbide's toxic waste to be incinerated
The Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB) has given clearance to a private waste management company to dispose 346 tonnes of toxic waste of the now-defunct Union Carbide Corporation (UCC)'s pesticide plant, officials said.
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Local people will be consulted on waste disposal: Jairam
Facing protests over a plan to incinerate toxic waste of Union Carbide plant in Bhopal at a disposal unit at Pithampur, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has assured villagers that a study will be conducted and locals taken into confidence before a final view is taken.
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Complaint against Arjun Singh in gas case
Ex-CM Accused Of Illegally Sending Anderson Out; Ex-US Embassy Official Says Indian Govt Assured Of Safe Exit For UC Boss
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25 yrs on, Bhopal lives in minds & lungs (editorial)
In case we do have another major industrial accident, Bhopal serves as an example of what not to do by way of legal, political, administrative and medical remediation, says Praveen S Thampi
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Bhopal 25later years: all papers in order, but denied their due
an 80-Yr-Old Still Queues Up For Relief Suchandana Gupta | TNN
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Call to fly out Anderson came from CM office
Entire Op Was Hush-Hush, Says Then Aviation Director
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300 ill after chlorine gas leak in UT
Victims include 100 children; Collector orders closure of Chemfab Alkalis Limited THE ghost of the Bhopal gas tragedy rocked Puducherry s when more than 300 people s including 100 children from Chinna Kalapet took ill after inhaling chlorine gas, which had leaked from Chemfab t Alkalis Limited, situated in s the area.
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Rules violated in clearing Union Carbide waste; impact ignored
Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board had cleared the trial run of the incineration of hazardous waste lying on the Union Carbide factory premises here, overlooking several violations of Hazardous Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules.