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: Did the Emergency allow the Indira Gandhi government to ignore the concerns of Union Industry Ministry officials in allowing Union Carbide to produce methyl isocyanate-based pesticides in India? For five years, the company's application for an industrial licence lay pending, with officials in what was then …
Seeking justice for the gas leak victims, survivors of the tragedy have started a campaign to get signatures on a memorandum to be sent to US President Barack Obama.
New Delhi: As the fallout of the judgement on the Bhopal gas tragedy continues to embarrass the government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday asked a group of ministers (GoM), headed by home minister P Chidambaram, to meet
Mahim Pratap Singh BHOPAL: The Bhopal gas leak victims on Sunday appealed to Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily to follow up on his remarks over the failure of the judicial system in delivering justice by filing a curative petition in the Supreme Court against the June 7 verdict of a …
V.R. Krishna Iyer The court verdict shows that India is still in a Victorian imperial-feudal era, distances away from the socialist dream. The political parties that were in power during these years are guilty of culpable neglect One extraordinary feature of the outcome is that the highest officer who was …
There is renewed hope for the gas victims as people across the country have become one with their cause and are expressing outrage over denial of justice and the manoeuvres of those in authority in Bhopal who had allowed the then Union Carbide Corporation chief Warren Anderson to escape to …
New Delhi: Amid the controversies surrounding the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict, the Madhya Pradesh Government is taking legal opinion on whether it can re-investigate the whole case, including the exit of the then Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson. It is also considering the possibility of filing a review petition against …
Pradeep Kaushal Seven years before the recent Bhopal verdict has brought up this issue again, a Lok Sabha committee had talked of a Central Government hand in the release of Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson. The Lok Sabha Committee on Government Assurances, including four Congress MPs, in 2003 discounted the …
A non-government organisation working for victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy today felt that the Centre should submit a curative petition to the Supreme Court for ensuring appropriate punishment for the guilty and justice for victims in the criminal case relating to the world's worst industrial disaster. ''Several statements …
IN the first official response from the Gov ernment on the Warren Anderson issue Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee ha put the onus squarely on former Madhy Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh. Citing a newspaper report that appeare in an English daily on December 8, 1984 Mukherjee said, "It's on published …
Anxiously aiting outside the court of the chief judicial magistrate Mohan M Tiwari in Bhopal on 7 June, 36-year old Raghu Jaidev and many other victims of the Bhopal catastrophe were crestfallen, some of them,outraged,upon hearing the outcome of the trial that had dragged on for almost two decades. (Editorial)
Anatomy of a continuing tragedy by Maj-Gen Pushpendra Singh (retd) Victims protesting against the Bhopal judgement SAHIB, kanoon ka kaam garibon ko phasana aur amiron ko khiskana. Some years back a taxi driver had voiced this sentiment. The recent judgement in the Bhopal case now reinforces this widely held belief. …
The Congress today found itself hemmed in by attacks from within and outside with its leaders blaming the then party governments at the Centre and Madhya Pradesh over the escape of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson after the gas leak in December 1984. The Centre sought to play down …
Entire Op Was Hush-Hush, Says Then Aviation Director Bhopal: A day after Moti Singh, the collector of Bhopal when the deadly gas leak took place, revealed that Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson was released on orders from then state chief secretary Brahmaswaroop, then aviation director of MP government R …
New Delhi: The uproar over the Bhopal gas-leak judgment has put the role of several UPA ministers and functionaries, including those in the newly reconstituted group of ministers (GoM), under scrutiny yet again. While the UPA might have decided to set up the GoM as a facesaver in the midst …
Diggy Unwittingly Drags In Rajiv New Delhi: The dramatic release of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson hours after his arrest has roiled Congress, sparking a factional war which threatens to claim former PM Rajiv Gandhi as its collateral victim. AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday stunned party circles …
Political Bureau New Delhi: Under attack from the Opposition BJP for freeing former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson within hours of his arrest in December 1984 for the Bhopal gas leak disaster, the ruling Congress took a direct hit on Thursday from its own when party general secretary Digvijay Singh …
Why blame the chief judicial magistrate of Bhopal for his tame ruling, when he was left with little choice after the collective compromise by the government, the CBI and the Supreme Court, asks V Krishna Ananth EVEN a child with an elementary sense of justice is bound to be outraged …
