Just days before the 29th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster of 1984, news came last Friday that no hearing took place at the Supreme Court on a curative petition filed by the central government to
<p>Curative Petition (Criminal) No. 39-42 of 2010 in Criminal Appeal No. 1672-75 of 1996 on Bhopal Gas Disaster.</p>
Bhopal: Union Carbide Poisonous Gas Leak Investigation Commission has invited information pertaining to the gas leak which occurred in December 1984. The commission has invited documents or statements
<p>A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice H S Kapadia began the hearing of curative petitions in the Bhopal gas tragedy on April 13.
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday extended support and sympathy to the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy that occurred 25 years ago.
A new generation is now suffering the aftermath of the Bhopal gas
The representatives of five organisations of Bhopal gas survivors have urged the Group of Ministers on Bhopal to take a long term view while dealing with the issue of hazardous waste and toxic contamination.
Hundreds of women widowed by the Bhopal gas tragedy protested here on Thursday, demanding adequate pension and enhanced compensation. The members of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi Sangharsh Morcha led the rally of the widows and shouted slogans, demanding a raise in pension from the State Government. "It's been 26 years since the gas tragedy and in these 26 years the condition o
BHOPAL: Trial run to incinerate toxic waste from the defunct factory of Union Carbide at Bhopal will take place in the presence of a third party monitor. A directive in this regard has been issued by Union
A demand has been raised with the Union Government to provide Rs 10 lakh compensation each to the kin of 15,342 persons who died in Bhopal gas tragedy. Representatives of gas victims will be taken to Delhi
The judiciary has heaped more injustice on victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, activists said on Wednesday after the apex court's decision to reject the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea for more stringent punishment to the seven accused. Some said it was a "black day" and squarely blamed the CBI for failing to defend the victims.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved verdict on the CBI's curative petition for enhancement of punishment to the accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case by reviving the charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. A Constitution Bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices Altamas Kabir, R.V. Raveendran, B.
Several NGOs working for the cause of the Bhopal gas victims on Wednesday called for immediate scrapping of the recommendations of the Peer Review Committee set up for remediation of toxic contamination in and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory in the state capital and demanded reconstitution of this committee to ensure that there were no members in this panel with conflict of interests.
Krishnadas Rajagopal New Delhi: Fourteen years after it described the Bhopal gas leak disaster as an act of negligence, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to re-open its September 1996 judgement, a rarest-of-rare step, to assess if the criminal liability of Union Carbide employees extended to culpable homicide. A Special Bench of Chief Justice SH Kapadia and his two seniormost colleagues in
The Supreme Court will pronounce its order on Wednesday on the CBI's plea for prosecuting the Bhopal gas tragedy case accused, who have escaped with lighter punishment of two-year jail term, under the stringent penal provision attracting maximum 10 years of imprisonment. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India S.H.
The chlorine gas leak on August 22 in the State capital has shown the lack of preparedness of the administration in dealing with such incidents as it could have resulted in a major tragedy if it had not
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Thirty years after India’s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, contamination owing to the leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide pesticide factory continues to affect residents. The leak of
As one enters old Bhopal’s Arif Nagar area, there are two enduring reminders of the city’s toxic legacy that goes back to a fateful winter night three decades ago, when 30 tonnes of Methyl Isocyanate gas
