<p>On the grimy, filth-lined streets of Bhopal's walled city that were stalked by death more than 25 years back, the outrage following the June 7 judgement in the gas tragedy criminal case by a local Chief Judicial Magistrate's (CJM) court has slowly made way for quiet dejection. In the prevailing mood of gloom, the fears of the survivors of the world's worst industrial accident have come true.
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Centre for Environment Protection, Research & Development Vs. State of M.P. & Others dated 20/03/2014 regarding pollution
On the eve of the 16th anniversary of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, the specially set up Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC), which is a 350-bed super-speciality
It has been 16 years since the lethal gas leak at Bhopal killed more than 14,000 innocent men, women and children, but those responsible for the grave tragedy are still at large. Neither is any
Case dismissed, says US judge: A New York federal court has dismissed a class action suit filed by the survivors of the December 1984 poison gas leak in Bhopal against Union Carbide Corparation. The
The gas victims of Bhopal,who have announced boycott of the elections, on Tuesday took out an 'anti election campaign' rally at Bhopal. They registered protest against the political parties who have
The Centre is unlikely to ask the US government to extradite Mr. Warren Anderson, the chief executive of Union Carbide at the time of the Bhopal tragedy. Methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leak from a Union
Nearly 18 years after the gas tragedy struck Bhopal, one person still dies daily in the city of exposure-related illnesses, say experts. The toxic legacy of the disaster continues as persistent
After 12 years and a month long padayatra, women survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal recently won a labour battle in court, ensuring them permanent government jobs and equal pay.
<p>United States President Barack Obama says he needs to know whose ass he should kick in the case of the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He wants those responsible to pay for the damage — to the people and the environment.
Nearly eight years after the Bhopal gas disaster, the legal battle over a settlement continues. But for the efforts of public interest agencies and public spirited advocates, the victims and the legal system would have been mired in a horrendous plight
More than 100 activists of the international environment crusader Greenpeace and various NGOs representing gas tragedy victims were arrested in Bhopal. The activists were trying to enter the premises
When no institute is ready to take possession of preserved organs of gas victims, the Medicolegal Institute in Bhopal has decided to dispose of the organs in phases. The Madhya Pradesh government,
A shoddy cleanup exercise in Bhopal has left residents only angrier
Industrial estates of Gujarat are cesspools of filth and environmental health hazards. Yet the government is blindly promoting industry
On December 2,1984, around midnight, half-a-million people in Bhopal were exposed to around 40 tonnes of the most poisonous gas known to man - methyl isocyanate. Two Bhopal survivor's organisations -
Recent research reveals that subjecting night shift workers to eight hours of bright light could bring about a 12 hour shift in their daily rhythms.
One of the long-term effects of methyl-isocynate gas (MIC) - responsible for the gas disaster that struck Bhopal in 1984 - could be an abnormal increase in cases of malignancy and mutogenetic
Panic prevailed for some time in areas near the Tarun Pushkar swimming pool in the Bhopal city following leakage of chlorine gas from the pool premises in which about 35 persons were affected. There
The Chief Medical Officer Gas Relief had filed a complaint against the office bearers of various voluntary organisations working for the relief and rehabilitation of the gas victims charging that
