Gas survivors to hold Padyatra on Feb 20
The survivor of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal and people poisoned due to ground water contamination from the pesticide factory that caused the world's worst industrial disaster on
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Haryana government has set up a multi-discipline panel to identify long-term integrated strategies focusing on improved land, conservation and sustainable management of land and water resources.
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Amnesty comes to gas victims' aid
Amnesty International today asked the Indian government to prevent further damage to peoples' health in Bhopal as a sequel to the gas tragedy 20 years ago and ensure Dow Chemical cleans up the site
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Dow to clean up Bhopal site
dow Chemicals has agreed to pay up for cleaning up the site of Union Carbide plant in Bhopal but it wants all legal liabilities of the 1984 disaster removed against them. According to reports, Dow
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Court raps CBI
The Bhopal High Court has pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for "lack of seriousness" in handling criminal proceedings against Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), whose negligence
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Gas tragedy blame
The Union and Madhya Pradesh governments have been ruled culpable by a Rome-based tribunal of violating the rights of the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy. The Permanent People's Tribunal
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Federal appeals court decision reinstating parts of suit against Union Carbide
This appeal presents the latest of many legal battles stemming from perhaps history's worst industrial catastrophe: the 1984 toxic gas disaster at a chemical plant in Bhopal, India. Earlier actions included scores of individual and class-action complaints filed in federal courts throughout the United States and consolidated in the United States District Court for the
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Victims victory
The survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster have cause for cheer. A city court has rejected the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) plea to dilute charges against former chairperson of Union Carbide
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The Bhopal legacy
In May 1999, Greenpeace International, along with the Bhopal-based NGOs Bhopal Group for Information and Action and Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghatana, carried out an investigation of the former UCIL site. Samples of soil were collected both from areas once used for waste disposal, and around the former Sevin plant, where a ruptured and leaking storage tank was found.
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Accept responsibility or quit India: Carbide victims
To mark the 63rd anniversary of the 'Quit India' movement, four organisations representing survivors of the 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal launched the 'Accept Responsibility for Bhopal or Quit India'
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Rights being violated : Amnesty
Two decades after the gas tragedy in bhopal on December 2, 1984, which led to eh dealth of 20000 people and left lakhs of people injured for life, Amnestry International has released an exhaustive
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Waiting for relief
All THAT the government is earning from the Bhopal disaster is interest: Rs 20 crore daily from the Rs 715 crore deposited by the Union Carbide as compensation money. Nearly eight years after the
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Supply of oil, gas through pipeline to be increased
Piped supply of oil and domestic gas will be increased in next few years. Similarly, 25 percent of the country’s energy will be met through natural gas. This information was given at a two-day workshop
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Stifling secret
Researches into the cause of the Carbide catastrophe are yet to see the light of the day
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Another gas tragedy in Bhopal in the offing
Chances of leakage of chlorine gas from the water filtration plants opposite the new Assembly building in Bhopal are as high as those of the MIC gas leak from the Union Carbide factory. If the
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'CBI delaying Bhopal gas leak probe'
The CBI has sent accused of adopting delaying tactics in the criminal suit pertaining to Bhopal gas leak disaster. This allegation has been leveled by Mr. Abdul Jabbar, convener of Bhopal Gas Peedit
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One lakh Bhopal victims yet to get compensation
About one lakh victims of the Bhopal gas disaster, the world's worst industrial catastrophe, have been denied compensation even 15 years after the disaster, the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udhyog
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Bhopal leak victims suffer as hospitals hobble
Thousands who came out alive of the Bhopal gas leak, have been denied medical facilities 15 years after the world's worst industrial disaster, Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udhyog Sangathan (BGPMUS), the
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Mission to monitor gas victims' rehab
Almost 15 years after the Bhopal gas disaster of December 1984, the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangthan has decided to set up an investigative mission to look into all aspects of rehabilitation,
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Victims ridicule MP's demand
The Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udhyog Sangathan, the largest body of survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster, criticised the BJP MP from Bhopal, Mr S C Verma, for pressing for inclusion of 20 municipal