Touts in courts
Interim relief payments have thrown up touts galore, and final compensation will only increase the rampant corruption.
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Gas victims allege corruption in compensation distribution
Scores of gas victims under the banner of Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi Sangharsh Morcha have demonstrated in front of Gas Welfare Commissioner Office. They were raising slogans against the
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"Thou shalt inform "
Eleven years after the Bhopal gas catastrophe, the Government of India finally recognises communities' right to know about neighbourhood industrial operations
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Petroleum exploration deed inked
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has provided a block in the 609 sq-km Sohagpur Coalfield, in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol and Umaria districts, to France-based Geopetrol International Incorporated consortium Reliance Natural Limited and Reliance Infrastructure Ltd for prospecting coal-bed methane. A petroleum exploration deed was inked here yesterday by the consortium's members and the state
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Housing Dept acknowledge UC Plant
Bhopal, Jan 16: The dilapidated Union Carbide premises would be handed over to the Housing and Environment department for construction of a gas monument after cleaning up of the toxic waste from its vicinity.
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Unique forest conservation proposal
As a step towards forest conservation, poor tribal folk living in villages bordering this district's Madhav National Park will be provided cooking gas connections at 100 per cent subsidy.
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Declare entire Bhopal as gas hit
The Madhya Pradesh government passed a non official resolution urging the Centre to declare all 56 wards of this city as affected by the 1984 gas tragedy the world worst industrial disaster
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Admn fails to control use of LPG in vehicles
The Bhopal district (Madhya Pradesh) administration has virtually failed to control the use of kerosene and liquid petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders of domestic use in the vehicles. Last year,
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20 years later, poison still in air
Thousands of people around Bhopal remain at risk of poisoning by toxic waste contained in drinking water, 20 years after the gas tragedy which killed some 4,000 people and left lakhs injured or
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding disposal of fly ash in an economical and environmental friendly manner, Madhya Pradesh, 21/03/2023
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Budhsen Rathore Vs Union of India & Others dated 21/03/2023.</p> <p>The matter related to ash dyke breach of the
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Survivor's dillemma
Razia Sultana I ran away with my husband and 6 children on the night of the leak. But there was no escape from the toxic fumes. My husband was diagnosed stomach cancer and a heart condition. Till
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House members call on Dow Chemical to help those harmed by Bhopal Gas Disaster
This is the letter by the Congress of United States, Washington to Chairman & CEO of Dow Chemical Company, Michigan, requesting that Dow ensures that a representative appear in the ongoing legal cases in India regarding Bhopal, that Dow meets the demands of the survivors for medical and economic rehabilitation, and cleans up the soil and groundwater contamination in and around the factory site.
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Red tape and corruption delay compensation
DECEMBER 2 3 marks the eighth anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak the world's worst industrial disaster. More than 4,000 lives were lost and 6.4 lakh people injured when methyl isocyanate MIC gas leaked from the Union Carbide India Ltd plant. Si
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40 MT toxic waste removed from UC plant
The State Government on June 27 removed 40 metric ton of toxic waste from the abandoned Union Carbide Plant premises located Bhopal Railway Station and have been disposed of in Peethampur jointly by Madhya Pradesh Waste Management Project and Ramco Enviro Engineers India. "About 40 metric ton chemical waste and clay (lime sludge) was transported from Union Carbide Plant premises on June 27 to Pithampur. The work was executed under the eyes of experts and officials", said JT Ekka, Director, Gas Disaster & Relief Department on Tuesday.
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SC orders MP to supply water near Carbide plant
The Supreme Court has come to the rescue of residents around the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal facing severe drinking water crisis even 20 years after the gas leak tragedy as the toxic wastes left by
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Rally taken out on World TB Day
A rally was taken out under the joint aegis of Arham Education and Public Welfare Society and in association with District Tuberculosis Centre on Wednesday from Indira Gandhi Gas Rahat Hospital and reached at District Tuberculosis Centre via Bharat Talkies.
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Arrest Anderson
The Chief Judicial Magistrate (cjm) of Bhopal has issued an arrest warrant against the former chairperson of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, in connection with the 1984 gas tragedy. A gas leak from company
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Pesticides - 15,000 in Sri Lanka affected annually
The Worldwide no Use of Pesticides Day was Dec 3rd. On December 3, 1984, the pesticide-manufacturing plant in Bhopal, India leaked 42 metric tonnes of methyl isocyanate, a heavy deadly gas, over a
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Mysterious gas not from Mandideep
Mysterious poisonous gas that led to illness and eye infections to dozens of Bhojpur residents did not leak from any industry in Mandideep, Bhopal, Madhya
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14 Years Later..
...there's a Bhopal waiting to happen in the nooks and corners of the country. But the government is yet to take the right steps to ensure the safety of workers and the environment