Effects Of Poison Cloud Pose Threat To Generations The spectre of lethal radioactive fallout from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima in Japan continued to haunt the country as ripples of panic spread to distant shores. Fifty workers and technicians quarantined inside the power station complex were fighting a deadly battle to cool the three functional reactors even as cooling pools w
The us Congress has expressed its commitment to work with the Indian government to ensure that the Union Carbide provides complete medical, social and economic rehabilitation to the victims of
Around 300 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, including women and children, were assaulted by the police on May 17, 2005, while holding a peaceful protest demonstration to demand clean drinking water.
Diggy Unwittingly Drags In Rajiv New Delhi: The dramatic release of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson hours after his arrest has roiled Congress, sparking a factional war which threatens to claim former PM Rajiv Gandhi as its collateral victim.
Order passed in the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Bhopal regarding attachment of the properties of UCC (USA).
In the ongoing battle for justice, the victims of the Bhopal gas leak disaster of 1994, won a significant case when the Supreme Court of India directed the reopening of compensation claims
25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal reveals this study by Centre for Science & Environment. This study based on CSE's Pollution Monitoring Laboratory tests found that water and soil in & around the Union Carbide factory are loaded with pesticides. See Also: Factsheets: The legal & medical tangles. http://www.downtoearth.org.in/webexclusives/factsheet_1.htm
Deadline for disposing UCIL waste THE Madhya Pradesh High Court on December 16 issued fresh directions to dispose the toxic waste lying at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. The waste is to be incinerated at the waste treatment site in Ankleshwar industrial area of Gujarat. The court directed the Gujarat government to dispose the hazardous waste by January 31, 2009. The waste has been
The UCIL plant is still a health hazard
The final report by NEERI on assessment and remediation of hazardous waste contaminated areas in an around UCIL in Bhopal. Certifies that contamination of soil & groundwater at UCIL premises has nothing to do with the 1984 MIC gas tragedy.<br />
More than two decades after the gas leak in Bhopal, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has reported a higher incidence of cancer in affected areas
Sixty four Members of Parliament from 20 political parties including, BJP, Congress, CPM, CPI, LJP, RSP, BSP and others have endorsed a letter urging the Prime Minister to set up a mechanisms to resolve all pending issues of long term rehabilitation and prosecuting the guilty corporations and individuals including Warren Anderson in Bhopal before December 2010.
A petition filed by the Bhopal gas tragedy victims has prompted the Supreme Court to ask the Union government for an explanation. The discrepancy in the compensation amount due to the victims appears too huge to go unnoticed...
The Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan, a prominent activist group working for the cause of the victims of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster, has threatened to file a public interest
Judgement on Bhopal Gas Disaster on the review petitions filed by various petitioners was announced by the five judge constitutional bench on 3rd October, 1991.
Twenty years on, the verdict on how the Indian state has responded to Bhopal should be unequivocal: not only did it neglect its responsibilities, it actively suppressed the rights of the victims.
<br> This critique of NEERI & NGRI reports on assessment & remediation of contamination in and around Union Carbide, Bhopal says that both reports provide useful information but the critical results are misinterpreted, or missing & several conclusions reached within the reports are not supported by the evidence presented.
Advice To Replace Leaking Pipes Ignored Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN New Delhi: In what could be a callous criminal cost-cutting measure, the Union Carbide management had apparently brushed aside warnings about leaking pipes in the Bhopal plant needing urgent replacement and told the staff to keep the factory running by welding the damaged ones.
S.S. NEGI After persistent hammering by the Supreme Court over disposal of the deadly methyl isocyanate and toxin's waste material from Union Carbide's defunct plant at Bhopal where over 3,000 people were killed and lakhs of others crippled for life, the Centre finally has created hightech incinerator facility in Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh itself to burn it after 25 years.
the controversial move by the Madhya Pradesh government to incinerate some waste from the the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal has met with stiff opposition. Civil society groups have strongly
