N-liability bill to protect US interests: Karat
MAINTAINING that the Bhopal verdict was of "direct relevance" to the Nuclear Liability Bill, the CPM on Wednesday said the legislation bore the
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Bhopal gas victims fade into the background
Most candidates for the Bhopal North constituency are ready to overlook the fate of victims of the world's worst industrial disaster.
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Entire Bhopal to be declared gas-hit
Uma : The Union Government has in principle agreed to announce entire Bhopal as gas affected and thus, awarding compensation to rest of the 20 wards. Union Minister of State for Tourism Ms. Uma
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Gas leak rumours in Paradip set off Panic, exodus
With the ghost of the cyclone still haunting the residents, the rumour of a "Bhopal-like gas leakage," of ammonia from the storage tanks of the Paradip Phosphates Limited has made several people
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Declare all of Bhopal gas-hit
BJP to PM: Five Madhya Pradesh BJP leaders have urged Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to take steps to treat the remaining 20 wards of Bhopal as gas-affected and ensure payment of compensation to
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Decision on ramaining gas-hit wards soon
ADvani : The Union Home Minister L K Advani recently assured a delegation of BJP leaders from Bhopal that the decision on declaring remaining wards of Bhopal as gas-hit would be taken soon.
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Bhopal gas tragedy victims win legal battle
Victims of the 17-year-old Bhopal poison gas leak disaster have won a major legal battle against the US Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) which had merged into the Dow Chemical Company in February this
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Digvijay wants 'UCC chemical waste' cleared
The Madhya Pradesh Government led by Chief Minister Digvijay Singh is not going to spare the US multinational Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) in connection with the almost 18 year Bhopal Poison Gas
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Sorry saga of Bhopal
Tens of thousands of slum residents in Bhopal woke up on a cold December night in 1984 to the choking impact of methyl iso cyanate gas leaked from the plant of a multinational and 17 years later over
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Bhopal's nightmare of green and apathy
IF LIVING proof is needed of how institutions created by human beings for their welfare really work, one has only to go to Bhopal, where thousands succumbed in a deadly MIC gas leak on the night of
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What rapid urbanization would mean?
There is a huge potential to make villages self-reliant in energy by choosing a location-specific mix of windmills, micro-hydel and watermills, solar energy, bio-gas etc. report by Bharat Dogra
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Bhopal's Rs 1,000-crore question
The Government has decided to turn down the request of a powerful section of the BJP's Madhya Pradesh unit who have been demanding that entire Bhopal declared "gas affected." On February 15, Bhopal's
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Bhopal: towards disaster zone
The number of premature deaths due to high levels of spm in Bhopal are estimated to have decreased from 663 in 1991-92 to 623 in 1995. Similarly, the incidence of illnesses have also gone down from
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"The management did not adhere to safety norms"
It is 15 years since 60 tonnes of methyl isocyanate MIC leaked outfrom Union Carbide Corporation's UCC plant in Bhopal, killing 5,000 people and affecting more than five lakh. Even today, many questions remain unanswered: How did the gas leak oc
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Counting on origami
The Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes empowers tribals with the knowledge of mathematics
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Another year, another ritual
ANOTHER year, another Bhopal memorial ritual over, but the government has learnt little from one of its people's hardest lessons. And the agony of those maimed over a decade ago continues unabated.
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Bhopal remembered, Bhopal forgotten
DECEMBER 3, 1994. The stage was set in Bhopal, again, for an army of people. Mediapeople. Activists. As for those who had rushed out of their homes 10 years ago to the day straight into the most
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Narmada water action plan sent to Centre
The plan to bring Narmada water in the Madhya Pradesh has been sent to the Centre, which should be accepted in view of acute water crisis being faced by the gas victims. This was informed at the
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After 20 years, Bhopal still drinking poison
People around Bhopal remain at risk of poisoning by toxic waste contained in drinking water, 20 years after the gas tragedy which killed nearly 4,000 people and left lakhs disabled, a report claimed.
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Delhi air pollution equals four Bhopals every year
Delhi's air pollution is equivalent to four Bhopal's gas tragedies every year. While 2,500 people died in the Bhopal incident in 1984, nearly 10,000 people succumb to the fatal effect of air