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 …
Bhopal: A Commission will be set up to look into all aspects of the Bhopal gas tragedy to ensure that the guilty are punished and victims get adequate compensation, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan said in the State Assembly on Monday.
Announcing to form a commission for an in-depth probe into Bhopal gas tragedy in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly today, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the government was committed to punish those who were responsible for the world's worst industrial tragedy and provide adequate compensation to the victims. ''I am …
The government has swung into action with the ministry of chemicals and fertilisers (MCF) having filed an affidavit in the Jabalpur high court demanding that DOW Chemicals bear the cost of remediation in and around the Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) factory in Bhopal. The MCF has also made it …
Anindita Dey / Mumbai July 22, 2010, 0:22 IST The Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers has filed an affidavit in the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur for entrusting Dow Chemicals, the present owner of Union Carbide, with the entire cost of remediation efforts towards detoxifying the areas around …
WITH Opposition Congress on the defensive on the escape of Warren Anderson, the legislators of the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh on Monday forced adjournment of the Assembly on the Bhopal gas tragedy issue. Carrying posters and raising slogans they demanded that the former chief of the Union Carbide be …
THE Supreme Court on Monday accepted the resignation of former Chief Justice of India and chairpers son of Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust (BMHT) Justice A M Ahmadi and trans ferred the charge of the superspecialty hospital to the departments of Atomic Energy and Biotechnology. A decade after the Union Carbide, …
The Madhya Pradesh government today admitted in the Assembly today that the main convict Warren Anderson, the then Chairman of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) in the Bhopal gas tragedy case could have been granted bail in a court rather than from police station where the bail was granted. This …
Maneesh Chhibber New Delhi: The Centre has asked attorney general Goolam E Vahanvati to file a curative petition in the Supreme Court in the Bhopal gas leak case, asking it to set aside the 1996 judgment of a Bench headed by then Chief Justice of India AM Ahmadi, which had …
The role that our scientists and engineers played, on the spot, during the catastrophic period has not been duly brought out Much has been written about the recent judgment in the Bhopal gas tragedy. But the role that our scientists and engineers played, on the spot, during the catastrophic period …
Luck plays in strange ways. I was reaching for my scooter when the telephone rang in my office-cum-residence in Bhopal. I opened the gate, unlocked the door downstairs, ran up the steps to the first floor and opened the door to my apartment. Normally the caller would have given up, …
Has Bhopal taught the nation how to ensure industrial safety? Following the Bhopal accident, several pieces of legislation came into force, the prime one being the Environment Protection Act (EPA), 1986. In 1987 a new chapter was added to the Factories Act, 1948, in the aftermath of Bhopal and the …
The group of ministers (GoM) has not made it clear whether Dow Chemicals, the company that acquired UCC in 2001, is to be held liable for the threat to public safety as a result of the toxic waste the pesticide factory dumped on its premises. It has only said the …
There is 1.1 million tonnes of highly contaminated soil at the plant site, according to an estimate by the National Environment Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur. It needs to be treated and safely disposed of. The report said up to two metres of soil will need to be …
The Bhopal question has one more angle: why was there so much public and media outrage over this 25-year-old issue? Why did the national media focus on this story, which till now had been consigned to the backrooms where only noisy environmental activists live? Many things, I believe, have contributed …
Sankar Ray Manufacture of MIC became risky as, being a little lighter than water but twice as heavy as air, once the compound escapes into the atmosphere it remains close to the ground to do its deadly work. Exactly that happened in December 1984 together with instant damage to eyes …
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 …
Facing protests over a plan to incinerate toxic waste of Union Carbide plant in Bhopal at a disposal unit at Pithampur, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has assured villagers that a study will be conducted and locals taken into confidence before a final view is taken. Local residents, mainly those from …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on his way back from the recent G-20 summit in Toronto, righteously declared his desire to push for a “more favourable” US attitude to extradite former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson. But as his government begins to push for it, which past Congress and BJP governments …
