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 trial incineration report, accessed by The Indian Express, shows that emission parameters were monitored during the five-day disposal process which started August 13 afternoon and ended early morning of August. Around 346 tonnes of hazardous waste has been lying in the Union Carbide factory since Dec 1984. A decade …
BHOPAL: Two farmers from the state committed suicide on Sunday after alleged crop failure due to unseasonal rain and hail last month. One of them in Bhind hanged himself from a tree on village outskirt along Chambal ravines while other in Gwalior jumped before a train. In Bhind alone, 13 …
In 1995, India’s Parliament passed the National Environment Tribunal Act. The law was to provide compensation to victims of environmental accidents. It was to ensure special courts quickly decided damage, liability and compensation caused by industrial disasters — not only to people but to the environment also. It was passed …
Thirty years after India’s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, contamination owing to the leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide pesticide factory continues to affect residents. The leak of 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984, killed thousands of people in …
As one enters old Bhopal’s Arif Nagar area, there are two enduring reminders of the city’s toxic legacy that goes back to a fateful winter night three decades ago, when 30 tonnes of Methyl Isocyanate gas leaked out of the Union Carbide factory. Along Berasiya Road, one of the many …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Dr. Subhash C. Pandey & Others Vs. State of MP & Others dated 24/11/2014 regarding encroachments on the riverbed of river Kaliasote. The Tribunal was informed that on 21.10.2014 a meeting was held by the Joint …
Madhya Pradesh not only lags way behind in availability of toilets to children of government schools across the state, officials also don't seem to be interested in providing details of the status of toilets in government schools. Authorities of only seven districts in the state have furnished information about status …
BHOPAL: Six industrialists of Mandideep Industrial Area (MIA) who were served with bailable warrants for operating units without valid environmental consent are yet to get their electricity and water connections restored. Now they have been asked by green panel to submit their corporate social responsibility (CSR) report in two weeks. …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slammed state government for failing to present detailed project report (DPR) for Bhopal lakes before the panel on Tuesday. NGT central zone bench comprising Justice Dalip Singh and expert member PS Rao has taken a stern view of the lack of inter-departmental coordination because of …
Parallels in spend on cleaning up of Ganga, Yamuna and 10 lakes of Bhopal and their conservation, in many ways, are too striking to ignore. If the sum involved to clean Ganga and Yamuna each was over Rs 1,000 crore, in case of Bhopal it had crossed Rs 500 crore …
BHEL organized a mass plantation programme at Padmanabham Nagar here on Sunday. Around 2,000 saplings are to be planted in the area out of which 500 were planted on Sunday. Shashi Ranjan Prasad, executive director, BHEL, Bhopal, was present as the chief guest. Neelima Prasad, president, BHEL Ladies Club, was …
Upper Lake is dying a slow and painful death because of mindless dumping of solid waste from half a dozen wards of Bhopal into the Upper Lake. A study on Bhoj Wetland of Bhopal by Barkatullah University professor has rung an alarm bell over shrinking vital water body. The study, …
Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Union Carbide Corp (UCC) have released new evidence to show its "direct role in designing and building the pesticide plant in Bhopal" where the 1984 gas disaster killed thousands. Union Carbide, now a Dow Chemical subsidiary, refuses to clean up the site claiming that its …
Reacting to developments taking place in US court regarding new 'evidence' on carbide plant, the non-government organizations working for the welfare of Bhopal gas tragedy victims have expressed hope that Madhya Pradesh government would use this opportunity to expedite clean up process at abandoned Union Carbide site. Activist Rachna Dhingra …
Local activists in Pithampur, have expressed serious concern over state government's move to incinerate toxic waste from Union Carbide factory, Bhopal at the Pithampur-based TSDF facility of Ramky Enviro group. They have threatened to intensify their stir against the government decision. Lok Maitri, a local NGO, that had been opposing …
Madhya Pradesh government has on Monday agreed to conduct trial run to dispose toxic wastes dumped at Union Carbide factory premises, Bhopal at the TSDF facility operated by Ramky Enviro Engineers at Pithampur. Union government presented a schedule in the Supreme Court and the state government would submit a timeline …
Pharmaceutical companies Quintiles and Sanofi have failed to follow norms while conducting clinical trials of their new drugs on Bhopal gas leak survivors, the health ministry informed the Supreme Court. During hearings on alleged flouting of norms by pharmaceutical majors in conducting clinical trials on humans, the court had ordered …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Mohd. Mubeen Vs Anees Ahmed & Others dated 06/12/2013 regarding deforestation of private land, bearing Khasra No. 13 & 72, Raqba 6.529 hectares and 3.560 hectare respectively in the limits of Gram Chandanpura, Patwari, Halka No. 40, R.I. Mandal, Ratibarh, …
The second-, third-generation survivors continue to suffer the effects of the toxic leak Survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy this week held a sit-in at the city’s Lower Lake to mark the incident’s 19th anniversary.NGO Chingari provides the second- and third-generation children with special education and therapy. These children, who …
Just days before the 29th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster of 1984, news came last Friday that no hearing took place at the Supreme Court on a curative petition filed by the central government to rectify the flawed settlement of 1989, and no further date had been fixed. The …
