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 …
The delegation led by the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan reached Germany on Sunday morning. The delegation includes Chief Minister Chouhan, Industries Minister Kailash Vijayavargiya, senior officers and industrialists. They are touring three countries with a view to attract foreign investment. The Chief Minister along with the delegation reached Frankfurt …
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 …
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
With the Bhopal Gas tragedy verdict coming in for widespread condemnation, the role of the Supreme Court in watering down the charges from culpable homicide not amounting to murder to a charge of death by negligence has come under increased scrutiny. Recently, Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily even blamed the …
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.
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
CORNERED over its role in the fleeing of Warren Anderson, Congress on Thursday came under heavy shelling from the Opposition. BJP and the Left said the then Congress government at the Centre came under
United States President Barack Obama says he needs to know whose ass he should kick in the case of the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He wants those responsible to pay for the damage — to the people and the environment. The victims of the Bhopal gas …
As the role of past and present Congress governments comes under intense scrutiny for effectively helping Warren Anderson and America's Union Carbide get away in the Bhopal gas leak case, senior party leader Digvijaya Singh has said that American pressure could have been a factor in how the disaster was …
Bhopal, June 09 In a sensational claim, the district collector of Bhopal at the time of the gas tragedy claimed Wednesday that the state government had actively helped Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson to escape law. Detailing the sequence of events on December 7, 1984
The verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy has caused considerable outrage. It seems to provide little recompense to the victims, and little assurance to the public at large that the legal system is up to protecting us from the risks that make us all vulnerable. Perhaps there will be learning …
With growing criticism of the verdict on the Bhopal gas leak disaster, the government today reconstituted a Group of Ministers to go into a range of issues relating to the December 1984 incident. Home Minister P Chidambaram will head the reconstituted panel which was earlier headed by Arjun Singh
25 years after Bhopal gas tragedy, the local court has convicted executives of Union Carbide & sentenced them to 2 years of imprisonment. In this interview on CNBC-TV18, Sunita Narain, Director-CSE and the supreme court advocates Prashant Bhushan & Mukul Rohatgi give their perspectives on the judgement & what it …
