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 …
Read this CSE critique on NEERI report on assessment & remediation of hazardous waste contaminated areas in & around M/S Union Carbide in Bhopal. It says that NEERI has underestimated the extent of potential groundwater contamination & that there is a need for extensive research on aquifer movements in & …
Assessment and remediation of hazardous waste contaminated areas in and around M/s Union Carbide India Ltd, Bhopal (NEERI & NGRI) and tender document for detoxification, decommissioning and dismantling of UCIL Plant (IICT).
Twenty-six years after one of the worst industrial disasters, Bhopal gas tragedy which claimed thousands of lives occurred, a local court trying the case would pronounce its verdict on June 7. The Chief Justice Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari on Thursday said he will pronounce the judgment on June seven on …
BHOPAL: Twenty-six years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, a local court trying the case will pronounce its verdict on June 7. During the trial, 178 prosecution witnesses were examined and 3,008 documents exhibited.
Suchandana Gupta | TNN Bhopal: Twenty five years after the December 3, 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, a local court will issue verdict on June 7 against the Union Carbide and other respondents in the case. CBI had chargesheeted Union Carbide Corporation, Union Carbide (India) Limited, Union Carbide (Eastern) Hong Kong, …
The Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB) has given clearance to a private waste management company to dispose 346 tonnes of toxic waste of the now-defunct Union Carbide Corporation (UCC)'s pesticide plant, officials said. Madhya Pradesh Waste Management Project - a division of Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd., Hyderabad - has …
The Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB) has given clearance to a private waste management company to dispose 346 tonnes of toxic waste of the now-defunct Union Carbide Corporation (UCC)'s pesticide plant, officials said. Madhya Pradesh Waste Management Project - a division of Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd., Hyderabad - has …
People in Indore and the adjoining Pithampur industrial area in Madhya Pradesh are protesting the incineration of Bhopal’s toxic waste near their homes. The waste disposal facility in Pithampur in Dhar district was completed recently. On March 18, the Madhya Pradesh state pollution control board allowed Ramky Enviro, the private …
LALIT SHASTRI Pleading on behalf of the accused in the Union Carbide gas tragedy case, the defence counsel Prasad Dhakephalkar submitted before court of the chief judicial magistrate here on Monday that prosecution has drawn attention towards a new possibility. It said there was a possibility of water and other …
Bhopal gas tragedy victims on Thursday accused the Madhya Pradesh Government of concealing facts, and said it continued to deny publicly that 16,000 people had died in the aftermath of the tragedy and 5,000 women were widowed. Representatives of four organisations of Bhopal gas disaster survivors presented information obtained through …
Bhopal gas tragedy victims Thursday accused the Madhya Pradesh government of concealing facts, and said it continued to deny publicly that 16,000 people had died in the aftermath of the tragedy and 5,000 women were widowed. Representatives of four organisations of Bhopal gas disaster survivors presented information obtained through the …
Gokul Chandrasekar CHENNAI: Live Earth run for water, one of the largest global initiatives on the water crisis, scheduled to be held in over 100 cities across the world on April 18 has come to a halt in most major cities, including in Chennai, after local organisers realised that Dow …
The CBI counsel sought another 15 days, but the CJM was unrelenting and refused to extend the proceedings The Bhopal chief judicial magistrate M.P. Tiwari on Monday turned down the request by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) counsel to advance the final hearing in the criminal case linked with …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: A Kerala Government panel's ruling on the damages Coca-Cola must pay villagers affected by pollution from its Palakkad bottling plant is likely to rekindle the debate on the compensation limits set by the Nuclear Liability Bill. If the soft drinks giant is asked to pay Rs. …
Despite the recent Supreme Court directive to dispose of the hazardous waste lying in the now-defunct Union Carbide Plant by putting it through an incinerator in Dhar district of the State, the trial runs for waste disposal flout environmental norms, activists claim. The toxic waste is to be incinerated at …
S.S. NEGI After persistent hammering by the Supreme Court over disposal of the deadly methyl isocyanate and toxin's waste material from Union Carbide's defunct plant at Bhopal where over 3,000 people were killed and lakhs of others crippled for life, the Centre finally has created hightech incinerator facility in Pithampur …
Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), manufactured a pesticide called Sevin, at the production facility in Bhopal, for which one of the raw materials is Methylisocyanate (MIC). MIC was also being produced in an adjacent plant. After the catastrophic release of MIC in December 1984, the remaining MIC stored in storage …
PRODIPTO GHOSH| DISTINGUISHED FELLOW, TERI It should be independent of government & private interest REGULATORY AGENCIES TYPICALLY ASSUME responsibility for public policy objectives that cannot be realised without such intervention, owing to market failure, or relate to concerns that are outside the domain of markets. Environmental regulation has attributes of …
