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 …
The contamination of soil and groundwater at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal has nothing to do with the 1984 gas leak disaster, according to a study released on Thursday by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute. Instead, the toxic wastes were dumped over a much longer period between 1969 …
India at the two-year sentence given to 86-year-old Keshub Mahindra, a respected industrialist, in the Bhopal gas leak case. Mahindra was chairman of Union Carbide when it happened and there has been a movement of sorts at the apex of Indian industry to get him off. The argument is that …
NEW DELHI: The government has set up an oversight committee to coordinate and monitor the clean-up of the Bhopal gas leak disaster site, even as three scientific bodies submitted their final reports and recommendations on the environmental damage and the remediation process. The committee, which was one of the recommendations …
Oversight Committee To Monitor Waste Disposal Activities At Union Carbide Factory THE Centre on Wednesday constituted an oversight committee to co-ordinate and monitor activities related to waste disposal, decontamination and remediation at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. Headed by Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh and Madhya Pradesh minister for …
The Union Cabinet at its meeting held on June 24th, 2010 approved the setting up of an Oversight Committee in the Ministry of Environment and Forests to coordinate and monitor all activities at the Bhopal Gas Tragedy site relating to waste disposal, decontamination and remediation.
Kolkata: For all those worried over the impact of a possible hounding of The Dow Chemical Company on foreign investment flows to India, rest assured! Dow itself has no intention of scaling down its proposed expansion plans for the country in the wake of fresh pressure building up on the …
A month after a trial court convicted him in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, the then non-executive chairman of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) Keshub Mahindra has said he is not guilty.
Aditya Reddy No request for extradition can succeed without sufficient investigation against the fugitive, backed up with astute diplomacy While one can question the basis and motives of the US government's decision to reject India's request for Anderson's extradition in 2004, international law does not offer a remedy to a …
Five convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case including industrialist and former Chairman of Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) Keshub Mahindra today furnished bail bonds of Rs 1 lakh each in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) here. The documents were submitted by the convicts on the earlier …
Former Union Carbide India chairman Keshub Mahindra and four others convicted on June 7 in the Bhopal Gas leak case were Tuesday granted bail by a court here. UCIL former Managing Director Vijay Gokhle, former Vice President Kishore Kamdar, former Works Manager J Mukund and former Production Manager S P …
V.R. Krishna Iyer Fali S. Nariman, one of India's finest contemporary lawyers and jurists, made many points with a bearing on the Bhopal case in his autobiography, When Memory Fades (2010), and he did it with grace and power. He has since said in an instructive and educative interview (Op-Ed …
Kumkum Sen / July 05, 2010, 0:42 IST Speculations on government response have been put to rest with the outcome of the deliberations and discussions of the GoM. A case has been made out for enhancement of the compensation based on the degree of severity ranging from death, permanent disability, …
Fights 75,000 Union Carbide-Related Suits In US, But Denies Role In Bhopal Here is something for legal eagles of the government of India to chew on: while Dow Chemical Company denies any responsibility for damages caused by Union Carbide in Bhopal, it has taken over all liability of Carbide for …
The large number of deaths due to gas leakage from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in December 1984 was a tragedy of great magnitude. The initial tragedy was that the Union Carbide plant was allowed at all. The Union industry ministry found the technology obsolete, and it was a …
The question is not of providing the package to the victims of gas tragedy rather emphasis should be given on avoiding similar tragedy in the coming future and it becomes the responsibility of the govt. to assure mass of state to it. CPI (M) General Secretary and communist leader Prakash …
Keshub MahindraThe sessions court here today granted conditional bail to former Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) chairman Keshub Mahindra who was convicted in the 1984 Bhopal gas leak case. The court, however, reserved its order on the bail application of six other UCIL executives who were also convicted in the …
Critical issues concerning environment and liability in the gas tragedy have evaded a solution Why was there so much public and media outrage over the Bhopal disaster
Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd - the company which carried out disposal of 33.32 tonne of lime from the now-closed plant of the Union Carbide Corporation India Ltd (UCIL) in Bhopal where a gas leak killed thousands in December 1984 - today denied that it currently has any toxic waste lying …
