The Bhopal Disaster of 1984
The 20th anniversary of the Bhopal calamity fell on December 3, 2004. The world
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Dow(n) fall for live earth run for water
Gokul Chandrasekar CHENNAI: Live Earth run for water, one of the largest global initiatives on the water crisis, scheduled to be held in over 100 cities across the world on April 18 has come to a halt in most major cities, including in Chennai, after local organisers realised that Dow Chemicals was the key sponsor of the event.
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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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Endosulfan: State wants polluter to pay compensation
Describing that the health problems caused to people in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts from the use of endosulfan are “next only to the Bhopal gas tragedy”, the State government on Wednesday submitted to the Karnataka High Court that it was time to make the polluter to pay compensation in such cases. Submission in this regard was made before a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice B.V. Nagarathna during the hearing of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition, initiated suo motu by the court, on the issue of sufferings of the people affected by the use of endosulfan in two districts. The PIL petition was initiated following a letter written by K.L. Manjunath, a judge of the High Court.
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Continuing nightmare in Bhopal: CSE laboratory tests soil, water samples from Union Carbide
For more than 25 years, the Union Carbide (UCIL) factory has been contaminating the land and water of Bhopal. Latest tests show that groundwater in areas even three km away from the factory contains almost 40 times more pesticides than Indian standards.
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Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhopals Order Of January 6, 2005, requiring Dow Chemical Company, USA to state why it should.....
Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhopal
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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
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500-crore question: A cap on commitment to people?
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: A Kerala Government panel's ruling on the damages Coca-Cola must pay villagers affected by pollution from its Palakkad bottling plant is likely to rekindle the debate on the compensation limits set by the Nuclear Liability Bill.
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At MP investors’ meet, focus on micro and small industries
Admitting that big-ticket investments sound good on paper but create very few jobs, Madhya Pradesh devoted the first day of its three-day investors’ meet on Sunday to micro, small and medium industries
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Plantation company plans to sue makers of toxic endosulfan
The Plantation Corporation of Kerala, the public sector company promoting cash crops, has decided to seek State Government’s permission to move court against the manufactures of Endosulfan, which includes public sector firms like Hindustan Insecticides Limited (HIL). Endosulfan is an off-patent pesticide recently banned in the country for its toxic effects on humans. According to the corporation chairman Varghese George, the manufacturers were actually responsible for the tragedy that had struck several villages in Kasaragod. Mr George was referring to large-scale congenital deformities reported in Kasaragod district.
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Stay commissioning of Kudankulam till safety steps are applied, Prashant Bhushan urges Supreme Court
Of 17 recommendations of AERB, only six have been complied with, he says The safety measures recommended by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) are crucial and the Kudankulam nuclear power plant should not be allowed to be commissioned without implementing these measures, argued counsel Prashant Bhushan in the Supreme Court on Thursday. Appearing for petitioner G. Sundararajan, social activist, he submitted before a Bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra that the AERB had recommended 17 safety measures, of which only six were complied with and 11 yet to be put in place.
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German firm too backs out of Carbide waste disposal
It’s back to square one in the mission to get rid of toxic waste from Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal, with German agency GIZ backing out of a proposal to airlift 350 tonnes of waste to Europe for safe disposal. After three months of extensive contract negotiations with the Indian government, the firm has said: “Hazardous waste disposal through GIZ is no longer an option.” In a statement on why the contract did not materialise, GIZ said “uncertainties [which] extended to the German public” had grown during the months of struggling to close the deal.
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German firm also backs out of Carbide waste disposal
Protests in Germany have ensured that the refuse cannot be taken to Europe either It’s back to square one in the mission to get rid of toxic waste from Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal, with German agency GIZ backing out of a proposal to airlift 350 tonnes of waste to Europe for safe disposal. After three months of extensive contract negotiations with the Indian government, the firm on Monday said: “Hazardous waste disposal through GIZ is no longer an option.” In a statement on why the contract did not materialise, GIZ said “uncertainties [which] extended to the German public” had grown during the months of struggling to close the deal.
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Toxic future
bhopal gas victims are still facing the backlash of a tragedy that happened 17 years ago. Toxic chemicals released from the Union Carbide factory have not just seeped into the soil and
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How can NEPA be made an effective regulator?
PRODIPTO GHOSH| DISTINGUISHED FELLOW, TERI It should be independent of government & private interest
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Row over report on Carbide site water
A cruel joke has been played out at the expense of the Bhopal victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster. The Supreme Court had ordered the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to file a report on the status of the ground water contamination at the Union Carbide plant site in Bhopal by June 4, 2012. The CPCB has treated this entire exercise in a rather lackadaisical fashion and from the six samples tested by them, five were taken from the drinking water supply of the Bhopal Municipal Corporation. The sixth sample was taken from a borewell dug in Street No. 8 and being used by the Ayasha Hotel at Arif Nagar in Bhopal.
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2 workers inhale noxious gas, die
Dec. 3: In an unfortunate coincidence with the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy, two workers lost their lives after inhaling toxic gases while repairing an empty reactor in a bulk drug factory at IDA Jeedimetla here on Thursday. Another worker, who also inhaled the gases, has been admitted to a hospital at Shapurnagar in Jeedimetla and his condition is said to be critical.
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What Dow Chemical Company is doing to remove its liability for the waste dumped in the Union Carbide factory
Is Dow liable for the waste in Bhopal factory of Union Carbide?
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Stalemate over Bhopal waste disposal
New Delhi: Centre wants it to be incinerated at Ankleshwar, Gujarat says already a huge backlog A case between the Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh governments pending before the Supreme Court over disposal of nearly 350 metric tonnes of toxic waste lying at the now defunct Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) -- now Dow Chemicals -- plant in Bhopal for over 24 years seems far from being settled.
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Stop! Take a deep breath
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi December 06, 2008, 0:21 IST India's worst terrorist attack occurred not in Mumbai last month, but in Bhopal 24 years ago - and it's the kind of carnage that goes unheeded.