Bhopal (D)

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding desilting of the Defence Colony drain in Delhi before the monsoon, 16/04/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …

Anderson: BJP stalls House...

WITH Opposition Congress on the defensive on the escape of Warren Anderson, the legislators of the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh on Monday forced adjournment of the Assembly on the Bhopal gas tragedy issue. Carrying posters and raising slogans they demanded that the former chief of the Union Carbide be …

SC accepts Ahmadi's resignation from Bhopal Hospital Trust

THE Supreme Court on Monday accepted the resignation of former Chief Justice of India and chairpers son of Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust (BMHT) Justice A M Ahmadi and trans ferred the charge of the superspecialty hospital to the departments of Atomic Energy and Biotechnology. A decade after the Union Carbide, …

SC allows Centre to take over BMHT

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Centre to take over the management of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust running super-speciality treatment centres for the 1984 gas victims. The apex court also accepted the resignation of former Chief Justice A M Ahmadi as the chairman of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital …

Bhopal: Govt tells AG to file curative plea at the earliest

The Union Government has asked Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati to file a curative petition in the Supreme Court in the Bhopal gas leak case, asking it to set aside the 1996 judgment of a Bench headed by then chief justice of India A M Ahmadi, which had ordered the …

Power generation to go up by 5500 megawatts by year 2013-14

Concerted efforts are being undertaken in Madhya Pradesh for increasing power generation. For this purpose, various schemes and projects are under construction in different phases due to which power generation in Madhya Pradesh will go up by 5,486 by the year 2013-14. Out of this, 724 MW power generation will …

Free organ transplantation camp in August

The Bhopal Jan Seva Samiti is going to organise free artificial organ transplantation camp. Main member of the committee Rameshwar Sharma, Goviind Goyal informed in joint press conference that artificial organ transplantation will be done in place of severed organ and the person will be made independent and free from …

State flood Control Room ready to face situation in case of excess rains

The office of the Relief Commissioner has set up flood control rooms in all 50 districts of the state to meet any eventuality in case of excess rains during the monsoon. If necessary, control rooms will also be opened at the tehsil-level too. Food control room has also been set …

Bhopal model plastic waste disposal to be implemented in other cities

Principal Secretary Housing and Environment Shri Alok Shrivastava has issued directives to all Municipal Corporations to adopt the model of Bhopal Municipal Corporation to dispose off the plastic waste. So far plastic waste is considered to be indestructible and hazardous to life. Several animals lost life by eating plastic waste. …

Start preparations for making bio-pesticide

The farmers who have decided to start bio-farming and other farmers who prefer to adopt local methods to reduce cost of farming should start preparations to make bio-pesticides. Soyabean and other main important crops of Kharif crops are attacked by several types of insects. Since the number of insects is …

MP still waits for adequate rainfall

Bhopal: Despite the forecast of good monsoon in Madhya Pradesh, the state was yet to experience adequate rainfall, met department sources said. According to Regional Meteorological Centre, the monsoon was weakening mid-way when it was moving towards the state and it happened twice in twenty days. But a cyclonic circulation, …

Govt forms panel to clean up Bhopal

Oversight Committee To Monitor Waste Disposal Activities At Union Carbide Factory THE Centre on Wednesday constituted an oversight committee to co-ordinate and monitor activities related to waste disposal, decontamination and remediation at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. Headed by Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh and Madhya Pradesh minister for …

No evidence against me, says Mahindra

A month after a trial court convicted him in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, the then non-executive chairman of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) Keshub Mahindra has said he is not guilty.

Vilalge Kutkipura lights up by bio electricity

Village Kutkipura in Berasia tahasil of Bhopal district has ushered in a revolution by generating electricity by human waste. The Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan dedicated to people a 5 kw bio electricity generation plant set up at a cost of about Rs. 22 lakh in this village which …

Gas tragedy case: 5 convicts furnish bail bonds

Five convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case including industrialist and former Chairman of Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) Keshub Mahindra today furnished bail bonds of Rs 1 lakh each in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) here. The documents were submitted by the convicts on the earlier …

Keshub Mahindra gets bail, says - want to do something for victims

Former Union Carbide India chairman Keshub Mahindra and four others convicted on June 7 in the Bhopal Gas leak case were Tuesday granted bail by a court here. UCIL former Managing Director Vijay Gokhle, former Vice President Kishore Kamdar, former Works Manager J Mukund and former Production Manager S P …

Bhopal lapse: Seek systemic solutions

The business community, government, civic agencies and the judiciary should all overhaul their systems to ensure that the Bhopal gas leak was the last blunder of its kind, says Kiran Karnik MUCH has been written and spoken following the recent court judgement in the case related to the Bhopal gas …

Dows double standards exposed

Fights 75,000 Union Carbide-Related Suits In US, But Denies Role In Bhopal Here is something for legal eagles of the government of India to chew on: while Dow Chemical Company denies any responsibility for damages caused by Union Carbide in Bhopal, it has taken over all liability of Carbide for …

Karat launches nationwide campaign against gas disaster

Victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy lamented that they were not informed of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) general secretary Prakash Karat

How the Bhopal victims were sold short

The large number of deaths due to gas leakage from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in December 1984 was a tragedy of great magnitude. The initial tragedy was that the Union Carbide plant was allowed at all. The Union industry ministry found the technology obsolete, and it was a …

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