Complaint filed against gas relief NGOs
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
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
Eighteen years after a gas leakage at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, the government has finally asked the USA to hand over the then company CEO, Mr Warren M Anderson, to
A civil engineer and a farmer, he knows the importance of the relationship between land and water. Small dams are his forte.
Despite the negative image about Bhopal created by the Union Carbide gas leak tragedy, the position is different when it comes to the city's concerns for its environment.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India wants to know what a groundbreaking 2006 UN report concluded: 'Raising animals for food generates more greenhouse-gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, ships and planes in the world combined.' That is why the group will display on Tuesday (World Earth Day) of 'polar bears' with 'bloody' wounds and with forks stuck in their chests standing
The murky dealings of the world s largest public relations agency
Several colony specific environmental problems surfaced during the election campaign in Delhi and that's where they remained.
Indian lakes are no longer serene waterbodies. Instead, they have become stinking cesspools, a result of continuous inflow of sewage and massive siltation. As the lakes die a premature death, the question that arises is who is responsible for this sorry s
It was the Stockholm conference, held exactly 20 years ago, which put environmental issues on the global agenda for the first time. But the contours of environmental negotiapons have changed a great deal from those early days
The Madhya Pradesh state government has provided sanction to a Rs 4 crore workplan of the Government of India for the economic rehabilitation of gas affected beneficiaries through NGOs. A review
The Madhya Pradesh government is toying with the idea of closing down the Gas Relief and Rehabilitation department that was created in the wake of the gas disaster in 1984. Chief Minister indicated
Issues relating to the environment, though not on top of the agenda, did make their presence felt in the just concluded assembly elections.
An illiterate farmer of village Sanjra in Madhya Pradesh has invented operation of generator with bio-gas installation. Local farmers are pleasantly surprised at the
Union minister of state for Petroleum and Natural GAs Sumitra Mahajan said that CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) will be provided to Madhya Pradesh for industrial
The remaining compensation amount of Rs 400 crore for the gas victims could be utilised for the implementation of a big project in Bhopal. However, it is not decided what would be the project and
In 1984, 40 tones of lethal gas leaded form a Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. Thousands of people were killed. The disaster in India led the U.S. Congress to pass a law requiring
Twenty-five years after Union Carbide's accursed chemical plant spewed 42 tonnes of poisonous methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas, killing 8,00010,000 people, and debilitating thousands of others, a study conducted by the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found that toxic waste lying at the plant premises still contaminates the city's land and water.
Agriculturists in India are gradually moving away from chemical pesticides and fertilisers;
The pollution of Betwa river figured prominently in the election campaign in two constituencies in Madhya Pradesh, but was ignored in the worst hit villages.
Tribals and farmers in MP protest against exploitatiojl and atrocities