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 …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Even as it pursues its case to make Dow Chemical pay for the clean-up of the Bhopal gas leak site, the Centre has decided to spend about Rs. 250 crore towards complete remediation. The entire process of decontaminating the one million tonnes of toxic waste at …
S. Viswanathan With a former Chairman of Union Carbide India Limited, Keshub Mahindra, and seven others convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment by a trial court, the 26-year-old Bhopal tragedy case has reached a new stage. The long wait for the families of thousands of victims who were either …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Activists and groups representing victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak are asking if the government is letting the Dow Chemical off the hook by deciding to pay for the clean-up of the contaminated site. While they welcome the recommendation of the Group of Ministers (GoM) …
The Centre seems to have forgotten the findings of a high-level technical committee it had formed immediately after the Bhopal gas tragedy, which had slammed the Union Carbide Corporation saying it was
Deliberating on remediation measures, the Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday considered a number of clean-up options, including building a memorial and burying part of the toxic waste at the disaster site in Bhopal where the Union Carbide factory is located. Chidambaram told reporters …
Smita Gupta New Delhi: Environmentalists and activists who have been tracking the Bhopal gas tragedy case say the current ownership of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) plant should make no material difference to the case against Dow Chemicals. On Saturday, the Group of Ministers was concerned that the ambiguity …
Sukalp Sharma One key component of industrial safety is industrial waste management, conspicuous largely by its absence in India. That 26 years after the world
The chronicle of Bhopal in the courts is of a case doomed to failure. In step after step from that fateful night of 2 December 1984 onwards, the government, legal luminaries and, even on occasion, the Supreme Court of India failed the victims of Bhopal, and one could even say …
Sriram Panchu The government should arrange for a current calculation of compensation requirements, provide the balance funds, and ensure speedy disbursement. The verdict in the Bhopal gas leak criminal case convicted officers of Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) for rash and negligent acts causing death, and imposed the maximum penalty …
Members of the reconstituted Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas leak disaster today favoured enhanced compensation as one of the key ingredients of a healing touch package but agreed to take it up along with all other issues in back-to-back meetings over the weekend before finalising its report on …
NEW DELHI: Warren Anderson had met Foreign Secretary M.K. Rasgotra in New Delhi at his South Block office before he flew out of the country the same night, the retired official has confirmed in a television interview. Anderson had come alone, and the meeting lasted 20 minutes or so. The …
Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government will file a curative petition in the Supreme Court seeking to revive charges of culpable homicide against the accused in the Bhopal gas leak case. The petition will challenge the 1996 judgment and review order of the Supreme Court, in which Justice …
Aditya Sinha When GoM runs through its marathon meetings this weekend, it is not out of a sense of redressing delayed justice. It is because Manmohan Singh is running out of time Congress is in a dilemma: it wants the prime minister to continue till Rahul Gandhi is ready to …
The Madhya Pradesh government today said it would file a review petition in the sessions court against the recent verdict in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, as the sentence to all convicts was insufficient in view of the magnitude of the crime. The state government has also decided to constitute …
This is the right time to ask the govt to rethink the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill Days after President Barack Obama lashed out at British Petroleum (BP) saying he would not let it
Milind Ghatwai Bhopal: Seven organisations representing gas tragedy victims came together on one platform on Thursday to say that they expected the group of ministers (GoM) to address issues of justice and opportunities for a life of dignity for survivors.
Twenty five years later, ground zero of the Bhopal gas disaster is still a ghastly minefield for residents. They are still being harmed by the land they live in and the water they drink, writes M Rajshekhar MUHAMMAD Khan, a former Union Carbide employee, is confronted with the tragedy every …
Mahim Pratap Singh BHOPAL: Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have written to Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily requesting him to place some of their demands requiring urgent attention before the reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM). Among these are the setting up of the promised Empowered Commission on Bhopal …
Smita Gupta NEW DELHI: The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, which was asked by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to report back to the Cabinet by June 24, will meet on Friday and again on Saturday with the object of wrapping up its work as expeditiously as possible, government …
