Former Carbide chief was to get Padma in 2002
New Delhi: In a startling revelation, the Centre on Thursday admitted that former Union Carbide chairperson Keshub Mahindra
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SC CRITICISES GOVT
The Supreme Court (SC) has criticised the Union government for delaying the release of Rs 27 crore sanctioned to better equip the two hospitals at Bhopal to provide medical assistance to over
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Bhopal tragedy: Court turns down advance hearing plea
The CBI counsel sought another 15 days, but the CJM was unrelenting and refused to extend the proceedings The Bhopal chief judicial magistrate M.P. Tiwari on Monday turned down the request by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) counsel to advance the final hearing in the criminal case linked with the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster.
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A clear pointer to the ills India sufers from
The Anderson escape and all related matters of the Bhopal tragedy have to be seen as part of our slavish mentality which lacks the courage of conviction to stand up to our "superiors" in public interest. It is shameful that persons in positions of authority often conduct themselves as saleable and purchasable, spineless entities in the existing system. Truth has to come out, asserts Hari Jaisingh.
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Green laws: Go forth and implement
K V SINGH & SHEPHALI MEHRA BIRDI Mr Singh is partner and Ms Birdi is senior associate with Kochhar & Co
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Dump Dow, Bhopal kids tell NGO
Zubeda Hamid |Chennai We appeal to you not associate with a company that has still not provided justice to the thousands affected in Bhopal A group of children from Bhopal, suffering from disablities caused gas leak from Union Carbide in 1984, have appealed to a private trust here to disassociate itself from Dow Chemicals, which now owns the firm.
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Liability cap in N-accidents to be hiked to Rs 1,200 cr
<p>Nistula Hebbar<br /> <br /> New Delhi: With the controversial verdict on Bhopal gas tragedy exposing inadequacies of the Nuclear Liability Bill, the government is likely to raise the cap on compensation a nuclear operator will have to cough up in case of accident, to Rs 1,200 crore from Rs 500 crore proposed at present.<br />
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NGO demands action against Tata company
Citing the Bhopal gas leak case, a prominent environmental organisation from Orissa on Wednesday demanded that compensation claims be filed against Tata Refractories for releasing poisonous chemicals outside their factory premises three years ago.
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Double standards
<p>President Barack Obama acted with determination and purpose in holding BP accountable in the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, forcing the petroleum company to commit $20 billion to an escrow account (with no cap) that would contribute toward meeting clean-up costs and providing compensation.
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Gas leak in Berhampur: 50 affected
BERHAMPUR: With Bhopal gas leak case fresh in mind, panic gripped Berhampur on Monday after chlorine gas leaked from a cylinder at a Public Health department store. At least 50 persons were affected and 35 treated in hospital. The leak was stopped by a team of experts from Jayshree Chemicals, which supplies chlorine to Ganjam town for water purification, after eight hours.
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Rasgotra confirms meeting Anderson
NEW DELHI: Warren Anderson had met Foreign Secretary M.K. Rasgotra in New Delhi at his South Block office before he flew out of the country the same night, the retired official has confirmed in a television interview. Anderson had come alone, and the meeting lasted 20 minutes or so.
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A liability cap that leaves room for tech enterprise
New technologies hold the promise of benefits for society but they also carry risks. Public policy is supposed to weigh these risks and benefits and ensure that the latter outweighs the former, although this is a hard judgment to make.
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Dow Chemicals issue triggers uproar in Gujarat
Two days after Chief Minister Narendra Modi embarrassed UPA chief Sonia Gandhi over the 1984 Union Carbide leak incident, the BJP and Opposition Congress here engaged in a slanging match over US company Dow Chemicals
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Bhopal effect? Nuke suppliers will be held responsible in case of mishaps
UNDER intense pressure from the Opposition, the government has been forced to withdraw the amendment to the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill that would have made it impossible for the nuclear plant operators, in India
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The Bhopal Disaster of 1984
The 20th anniversary of the Bhopal calamity fell on December 3, 2004. The world
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Chronic denial of justice
Anxiously aiting outside the court of the chief judicial magistrate Mohan M Tiwari in Bhopal on 7 June, 36-year old Raghu Jaidev and many other victims of the Bhopal catastrophe were crestfallen, some of them,outraged,upon hearing the outcome of the trial that had dragged on for almost two decades. (Editorial)
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Arjun Singh played friend in needto Carbide Anderson
Ex-Collector Says Then Chief Secy Asked Him To Release UC Boss, Who Was Flown To Delhi In Then CM
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Gas leak scare in Hooghly village
CHINSURAH, 8 JUNE: A day after the country saw the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict being delivered, villagers in Haripal block of Hooghly got quite a scare, after many fell ill, alleging that gas emitted from a local factory, Himadri Chemicals, led to the incident.
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Spill oil, pay Rs 5 crore to get away in India
Kirtika Suneja & Jyoti Mukul / New Delhi June 5, 2010, 0:04 IST On World Environment Day, Business Standard tracks the hazards in which India
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Show cause notice to Dow Chemicals
The local chief judicial magistrate's court, which is hearing a criminal gase on the world's worst industrial disaster - the Bhopal gas tragedy - today directed issuance of a show cause notice to the