Union Carbide

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding sinking of Liberian ship off the Kochi coast, Kerala, 27/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …

Free treatment for Bhopal imposters?

Bhopal: A chilling incident of fraud with a victim of the Bhopal gas tragedy has come to light and activists insist that is proof of what they have always maintained

MP under hazardous wastes threat

If you think Union Carbide is the only hub of hazardous wastes in Madhya Pradesh, you are in for a shock. There are seven other sites where tonnes of hazardous wastes have been posing a threat to people

Shadows Of The Past

The Bhopal gas disaster is still weighing heavily on Dow Chemical

Give Carbide site waste removal report

LALIT SHASTR BHOPAL The Jabalpur HC on Tuesday issued an order directing the government of India to submit compliance and present the report of the Task Force Committee latest by January 25, 2011 in response to a petition to fix the liability for the removal of the toxic waste lying …

Govt plea in SC to enhance compensation for victims

After a lot of debate on whether Dow, which took over Union Carbide, should be made liable for enhanced compensation to Bhopal gas victims, the Centre on Friday filed a curative petition in the Supreme Court against its two verdicts on civil suits related to the compensation issue. The first …

Govt asks for 7,844 cr more for victims

THE Centre has moved a curative petition in the Supreme Court seeking revision of its 1989 judgement on the world

Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Govt moves SC for addl compensation

Government today moved the Supreme Court seeking enhancement of compensation from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy in which more than 5000 people were killed due to leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide factory. The filing of curative …

Govt moves apex court for additional compensation

Wants Union Carbide Corp, Mcleod Russel India, Union Carbide India to increase compensation from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore. The government on Friday moved the Supreme Court, seeking enhancement of compensation from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy …

Central government should be serious about remaining 92% gas affected: Gaur

Bhopal Gas Tragedy & Rehabilitation Minster Babulal Gaur met Chidambaram, Chairman of the Group of Ministers set up for the gas affected by the Central Government in New Delhi today and submitted a memorandum. It has been stated in the memorandum that only 8 per cent of the gas affected …

Dow-Reliance venture was approved despite concerns

Mahim Pratap Singh Commerce Ministry refused to reconsider the approval despite Chemicals Ministry plea

‘How can India be a defendant, and not a claimant in the Bhopal case’

On the government decision not to pursue Bhopal gas victims’ case in the New York court It is ill-considered and neither in the interest of the victims nor of India. It benefits Dow Chemical Company (Union Carbide is now a subsidiary of Dow) that has asserted it is not subject …

India To Pay Extra $15.8 Million To Bhopal Gas Victims

India will pay an extra 713 million rupees ($15.8 million) in compensation to the victims of the world's worst industrial accident that killed thousands in 1984, the government said in a statement late on Thursday. India says about 3,500 people died when a Union Carbide plant in the central Indian …

Centre for extra Rs 71.28 cr for Bhopal victims

Compensation for Bhopal gas leak victims will be put to a close with the Centre seeking an additional Rs 71.28 crore as ex-gratia for left out cases of permanent and temporary disability and an uncovered category of

Dont know who was our minister when Anderson left

New Delhi, 14 Nov: The external affairs ministry does not know who was its minister in December, 1984 when Bhopal Gas tragedy accused Warren Anderson, the then Union carbide chief, left the country after securing bail. In a strange reply, the ministry has said the question who held the charge …

Bhopal gas victims protest to seek Obama's help

Their campaign started gaining momentum a few days before obama's arrival. On Nov 3, the survivors organized a press conference here to announce their plan of demonstrating in New Delhi Nov 8. They demonstrated near the now-shut Union Carbide India factory on Nov 6, the day Obama arrived in Mumbai. …

Has the UPA govt betrayed Bhopal disaster victims?

The victims of Bhopal disaster and activists have slammed the government’s decision, to not intervene in the case against Union Carbide corporation in a New York court. Noted social activist and lawyer Gopal Krishna has written this letter to Maneka Gandhi, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Government Assurances, …

Contamination of soil and water in and around the Union Carbide site at Bhopal

The Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) factory at Bhopal, abandoned after the world’s worst industrial disaster that took place on December 3, 1984, is still heavily contaminated with a range of persistent pollutants. From this study it can be concluded that even after 25 years the residents of the area …

Gas victims holds demonstration demanding hike in pension

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 …

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