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 …
NEW DELHI: The Madhya Pradesh government has asked the Centre to review why compensation paid and other facilities made available to citizens of 36 wards of Bhopal following the gas tragedy should not be extended to the other 20 wards of the state capital. The state also asked that clean-up …
Contrary to the claims made by Union Carbide Corporation — now The Dow Chemical Company — that the methyl isocyanate (MIC) which killed thousands of people in Bhopal in December, 1984, following a leak in its pesticide unit, was not highly poisonous, a report released by the Indian Council of …
Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have submitted a memorandum to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in wake of the Group of Ministers meet being held in New Delhi. The 24-page memorandum seeks to clear facts and figures relating to the tragedy. An important fact brought to light in the …
Govt Must Decide Amount Before Curative Petition Subodh Ghildiyal | TNN New Delhi: How much to demand from Union Carbide or its successors for Bhopal gas disaster is the moot question. The Centre was offered to pick from three high amounts for additional compensation
The group of ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy, which met here Monday, reviewed the progress made by various ministries on its recommendations to the Union Cabinet three months ago. The ministerial panel has decided to change the site for disposal of toxic waste from Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh following …
New Delhi: The group of ministers on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy has decided to give an extra Rs 72 crore compensation for the kin of those who died in the disaster, but were not considered for relief earlier. The ministerial panel, chaired by home minister P Chidambaram, on Monday …
Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have submitted a memorandum to Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram in wake of the Group of Ministers meet being held in New Delhi. The 24-page memorandum seeks to clear facts and figures relating to the tragedy. An important fact brought …
All governments need to be watched. You never know when one of them will slip in a nasty tax on the quiet or pass a seemingly simple notification that can be the undoing of entire communities or of the environment. That is the nature of the beast. But how vigilant …
The Supreme Court today decided to review its 1996 judgement in the Bhopal gas case, following which a local court had imposed a two-year jail sentence on Keshub Mahindra and six others who were executives of Union Carbide at the time of the tragedy. The apex court has issued notices …
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 …
THE Supreme Court will examine legality of the judgement delivered by chief justice A M Ahmadi, in 1996, which diluted charges against Union Carbide officials in the Bhopal gas tragedy. A bench comprising chief justice S H Kapadia, justice Altamas Kabir and justice R V Raveendran issued notices to seven …
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the former Union Carbide India chairman, Keshub Mahindra, and six others, asking them to show cause why the charge under Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) should not be …
Vandita Mishra When Union Home Minister P Chidambaram rose to reply to the discussion on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy in the Lok Sabha, he emphasised a collective abdication.
Washington, 19 Aug: The United States has denied reports that it was trying to link the Bhopal gas tragedy with India-US investment ties by suggesting a "lot of noise" over the issue could have a "chilling effect" on them. "The assertion that there was linkage between two separate and distinct …
A member of student group hold a placard as she participates in a demonstration to express solidarity with the Bhopal gas tragedy survivors in Bangalore. File photo AP A member of student group hold a placard as she participates in a demonstration to express solidarity with the Bhopal gas tragedy …
New Delhi: Ahead of the November visit of President Barack Obama, US has stepped up efforts to push India to drop its demand that Dow Chemicals pay Rs 1,500 crore compensation to victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. On Wednesday, Times Now, in an exclusive report, said US deputy …
BIG BOSS: US DY NSA WARNS OF CHILL IN INVESTMENT Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI THE US appears to be piling pressure on the Manmohan Singh government for providing relief to Dow Chemicals. In an e-mail to Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, US deputy National Security Advisor Michael …
Jabalpur, Aug 18: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has set October 26 as the date for final hearing after all parties submitted arguments on a public interest litigation for disposal of 350 tonnes toxic waste present for years in the now-closed Union Carbide factory at Bhopal. Justices Arun Mishra and …
New Delhi: A recent exchange of emails between Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia and U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Michael Froman, accessed by Times Now, would suggest that the United States is trying to pressure India to take back its demand for Rs. 1,500 crore in compensation from …
Times Now's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami debates the issue of US Deputy NSA writing an email to Montek Singh Ahluwalia and advising him to go slow on Dow Chemicals, demanding that the Dow 'noise' be handled and US corporate interest over India's biggest industrial tragedy.
