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 …
Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board had cleared the trial run of the incineration of hazardous waste lying on the Union Carbide factory premises here, overlooking several violations of Hazardous Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules. The MPPCB gave the clearance after the go-ahead from the Central …
The Anderson escape and all related matters of the Bhopal tragedy have to be seen as part of our slavish mentality which lacks the courage of conviction to stand up to our "superiors" in public interest. It is shameful that persons in positions of authority often conduct themselves as saleable …
A case under various sections of IPC was registered against then Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson and several functionaries of the company for causing immense loss to human and cattle life. But it has not been handled with due care. There are so many disturbing aspects of the whole …
The test of a firm's success lies in its efficiency. That means quite a lot, much more than a simple one-line statement. But it is better to start with a set of important facts relating to whatever happended or did not happen in the process of the Bhopal gas tragedy …
Sidhartha / June 30, 2010, 0:26 IST Manmohan SinghIn his first statement on the Bhopal gas leak disaster since the verdict by a lower court early this month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the government would try to ensure a more favourable attitude from the US on the extradition …
ON JUNE 7, a Bhopal city court held eight persons guilty in connection with the toxic gas leak from the Union Carbide pesticide plant more than 25 years ago that killed thousands and affected over 500,000 people. The court sentenced the guilty to two years in jail but the convicts, …
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai June 29, 2010, 1:06 IST Says real culprits of gas tragedy not punished. The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has planned a three-pronged strategy to help the families of Bhopal gas disaster. Apart from pursuing legal action in the district court, high court and the apex …
Industrialist Keshub Mahindra and six other accussed convicted in the Bhopal gas tragedy case today challenged a Chief Judicial Magistrate's court verdict in a District and Sessions court here. The hearing on the application will take place in District and Sessions Judge Subhash Kakde's court tomorrow. On June 7, the …
Hasan Suroor LONDON: Salman Khurshid, Union Minister for Corporate Affairs, on Sunday blamed the NGOs working on the Bhopal gas tragedy case for the delay in cleaning up the still-toxic site of the Union Carbide factory. Mr. Khurshid said the government's bid to clean up the area was frustrated by …
The handling of the Bhopal disaster is reflective of the highly feudal nature of our political culture A V Rajwade / New Delhi June 28, 2010, 0:10 IST Since the pronouncement of the judgment in the Bhopal gas leak case a couple of weeks ago, and after 26 long years, …
Despite the Union Carbide Corporation being criminally liable for the Bhopal catastrophe, the government, though being the sole representative of the victims, colluded with the UCC and compromised the interests of the affected people. The UCC and its Indian subsidiary, the Union of India and the state of Madhya Pradesh …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: The Central government has denied any official knowledge of the visit of the then Union Carbide chairman, Warren Anderson, to India immediately after the Bhopal gas leak disaster since
The government on Thursday cleared a financial package of Rs 1,256.65 crore for the Bhopal gas tragedy that includes Rs 650-700 crore towards compensation to victims. It will also continue its chase to bring back the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson, pursue legal means to force Dow Chemicals to …
The Union Cabinet on Thursday accepted all 22 recommendations by the Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy. These include enhanced compensation of Rs 1,265.56 crores, extradition of former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson and filling a curative petition in the Supreme Court. Announcing the decisions taken at the …
V.R. Krishna Iyer The Bhopal mega-crime trial is over. The barbarity has ended in a light sentence, although the victims are countless. Eight officials of the erstwhile Union Carbide India Limited have been convicted and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment. The judge has given the maximum possible punishment for …
Smita Gupta New Delhi: The United Progressive Alliance government will explore whether the $470-million out-of-court settlement, arrived at between India and Union Carbide in 1989 in the Bhopal gas leak case, can be reviewed in the light of evidence that emerged in the intervening years. On Thursday, the Cabinet approved …
