Bill to provide for civil liability for nuclear damage, appointment of claims commissioner, establishment of nuclear damage claims commission and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
"TO BE or not to be": one is immediately struck by the stark bipolarity suggested by the title. The show, presented by Max Mueller Bhavan and the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature, is about the
An us7owned vanadi'u'm mine in Vametco in tfie North West province seems to be doing a repeat of the Bhopal gas tragedy. Inhabitants of the villages of Mothutlung which has a population of
About 200 persons are still suffering the after effects of inhaling a toxic gas that leaked last evening from a hitherto unidentified factory in Mandideep area. After being provided first aid at
The disbursement of compensation among Bhopal's gas tragedy victims has come to a standstill following a strike called by about 900 employees of more than 56 gas victims' welfare courts since 5
The Supreme Court will pass orders on a Government proposal to appoint former Chief Justice of India A M Ahmadi to head a new trust to oversee the building of a hospital at Bhopal for the gas leak
Community based risk assessment and abatement is a must in the age of expanding business opportunities
THE world's biggest industrial disaster has been rendered today its most trivial. Criminal corporate culpability and governmental concern for its poorest of the poor are the 2 elements missing in Bhopal a full decade aft methyl isocyanate leaked fro
The Supreme Court ruled recently, in reference to Beyond Genocide, a film on the Bhopal gas disaster, that Doordarshan cannot curtail the Constitutional right to freedom of expression
On December 3 1984, more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, immediately killing at least 3,800 people and causing significant morbidity and premature death for many thousands more. The company involved in what became the worst industrial accident in history immediately tried to dissociate itself from legal responsibility.
The work on the ambitious Bhopal Hospital Project along with several dispensaries being set up in areas affected by the Union Carbide gas disaster in December 1984 by the Bhopal Hospital Trust with
The LPG is now available for the vehicle drivers of the State. The first auto gas pump has been set up by the Indian Oil Corporation in the Sawantika Petrol Statioon at Security Lines,
The US based Dow Chemical Company has agreed to propose concrete programmes for long term relief and rehabilitation of the gas disaster victims in Bhopal, according to Satinath Sarangi of the Bhopal
Tardy compensation, inadequate and inappropriate medical treatment and absence of economic rehabilitation to the debilitated survivors characterised the post gas leak scenario in Bhopal. A study by
During the night of 2-3 December 1984, a leak of some 40 tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas mixed with unknown other gasses from a chemical plant owned and operated by Union Carbide (India) Limited, a partly-owned subsidiary of the US-based Union Carbide Corporation, caused one of the highest-casualty industrial accidents of the 20th century.
Toxic wastes, lying in the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal closed after the gas tragedy killed 10000 people in 1984, may now be cleaned up by defence scientists. Methyl isocynate gas had leaded out on
Eighteen years after the Union Carbide gas disaster, Bhopal continues to gasp for breath as the authorities have apparently paid only a lip service when it comes to providing clean and healthy
Dow Chemical, the owner of Union Carbide factory in Bhopal from which toxic gas leaked killing thousands of people in 1984, has said it does not have any liability for the tragedy.The company also
The Madhya Pradesh government has ordered an inquiry into Monday night's chlorine leakage at the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd's water treatment plant here. The Commissioner of Bhopal Municipal Corporation
Following a damning expose by a renowned US-based Indian doctor on its treatment methods, the Union Carbide-funded Bhopal Hospital Trust (BHT) has confiscated the health books issued to the Gas
