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 …
More than two decades after the Bhopal gas tragedy, there is a renewed sense of hope that the government's empowered Group of Ministers (GoM) will look afresh at various issues which have been lying buried all these years. The issue of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson's extradition is expected …
New Delhi: Only three years ago, the Centre seemed disinclined to increase payouts for Bhopal gas tragedy victims after applications filed by two NGOs alleged that the estimate used to create the settlement fund was based on a conservative figure, and compensation paid to the kin was woefully inadequate. These …
Ishita Ayan Dutt / Kolkata June 17, 2010, 0:02 IST None of its owners since the Bhopal gas tragedy is willing to own up to the equity, present or past. The world
What is sorely missing is the political will to get to the truth behind such tragedies, says ERVELL E MENEZES The recent judgment in the Bhopal gas leak, the worst industrial disaster in history, was a mockery of justice
Warren M. Anderson New Delhi: Comments by key players in the aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy give an indication of the exit of the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson from India. A TV channel reproduced the bytes of Mr. Anderson and the then Chief Minister Arjun Singh before …
Smita Gupta NEW DELHI: The allegation that the Rajiv Gandhi government had succumbed to U.S. pressure and allowed the former Union Carbide chairman, Warren Anderson, to escape from the country was
Jyoti Punwani Our governments routinely shield the guilty and ignore the victims, but this routine conduct had a life-and-death fallout for victims of the world's largest industrial disaster In 1975, when M N Buch, head of Bhopal municipal corporation, had advised shifting the plant out of the city due to …
Narayan Lakshman Washington: Dow Chemical Company, which owns the erstwhile Union Carbide Company that was behind the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, might have systematically sought to pre-empt the judicial outcome of the case by putting pressure on officials at the Indian embassy in Washington, it has emerged. This was …
Two days after Chief Minister Narendra Modi embarrassed UPA chief Sonia Gandhi over the 1984 Union Carbide leak incident, the BJP and Opposition Congress here engaged in a slanging match over US company Dow Chemicals
Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: Whether it was bureaucratic callousness or political cover-up, the fact that the only comprehensive survey of Bhopal gas victims ever to be undertaken has yet to see the light of day 25 years later is likely to add to the controversy surrounding the disaster. The Tata …
Did the Indian government guarantee Dow Chemicals, the parent company of Union Carbide, that it will not be held liable for the Bhopal gas tragedy? An RTI response has raised fresh questions over the government
Ex-CM Accused Of Illegally Sending Anderson Out; Ex-US Embassy Official Says Indian Govt Assured Of Safe Exit For UC Boss AS FORMER Madhya Pradesh chief minister Arjun Singh faces allegations of arranging for
Bhopal, June 15 : A complaint has been filed in a local court here for registration of a criminal case against former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh for allegedly releasing the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson in a wrong manner after the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. A separate …
Seema Mustafa It is a tragedy that instead of being concerned with gross injustice, the UPA government is only interested in somehow getting the nuclear liability Bill through There has not been a word from Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi who, by Congress accounts, is looking to give a new …
PM Asks Panel To Meet Immediately & Suggest Follow-Up Measures New Delhi: With the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict triggering an in-house Congress drama, government sought to shift focus onto the group of ministers (GoM) set up to examine the trial court
Pune Lokayat, a Pune-based organisation is holding a rally on Wednesday in protest against the recent judgment delivered in the Bhopal gas tragedy. The rally will be carried out from the Corporation bus stand via Shivaji Road to Tilak road to Mahatma Phule Mandai. In a release the organisation has …
Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: Human rights activists from all over the country, led by prominent Bhopal activist Abdul Jabbar, on Monday wrote a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama drawing his attention to the gas leak issue after his tough stance towards the British Petroleum (BP) over the oil spill …
P. Sainath Bhopal marked the horrific beginning of a new era. One that signalled the collapse of restraint on corporate power. Over 20,000 killed. Over half a million victims maimed, disabled or otherwise affected. Compensation of around Rs.12,414 per victim on average on the 1989 value of the rupee. ($470 …
