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 …
There is stiff resistance to the latest US federal court order that neither Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for any pollution-linked claims by the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster and the non-government organisations working here for the cause of the gas …
In a setback to 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, a United States court has held that neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or pollution-related claims at the firm’s former chemical plant in Bhopal. In his written opinion, US district judge John Keena …
New York: In a setback to 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, a US court has held that neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or pollution-related claims at the firm’s former chemical plant in Bhopal. US district judge John Keena in Manhattan dismissed …
Victims and survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy staged a “die-in” protest here on Wednesday to “remind the organisers” of the Olympic Games in London that they have exactly one month to drop Dow Chemical as a sponsor of the event. Starting July 27, the victims will also organise a …
Over hundred survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy staged a protest on Wednesday to protest the inclusion of Dow Chemicals as a sponsor of the London Olympics. Leaders of all the five survivors' organisations said that similar protests were held in London, Berkley and Boston, USA and St Catharine's, Canada on …
Taking a significant step towards making agriculture profitable, the State Government has decided to make free soil health cards available to all farmers of Madhya Pradesh. For this purpose, an MoU was signed between Agriculture Department and IL&FS; Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited, Gurgaon in the presence of Farmers’ Welfare and …
Medicos Allowed To Treat Non-Victims, Collect Cuts. Doctors are earning crores out of treating private patients at the Bhopal Memorial and Research Centre — a hospital set up on orders of the Supreme Court to serve the gas tragedy victims free of cost. In 1991, the SC ordered that a …
Bhopal: Home Minister Shri Umashankar Gupta gave away cheques worth Rs. one lakh 23 thousand to 77 natural calamity-affected persons here today. He handed over cheques to 64 beneficiaries of Bhim Nagar and 13 of Vallabh Nagar. These amounts have been sanctioned under provisions of Revenue Book of Circulars. It …
Over Rs73 crore has been sanctioned for 23 road construction projects in various divisions of the State.. These roads will cover a total distance of 120.91. These works were recommended at the standing finance committee of the Public Works department recently. Besides these roads, recommendation for the construction of two …
The Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) has formed a task force for the rescue and relief of the citizens during emergency situations. The task force would control the emergency situations to safeguard the citizens. The task force includes divers, welders, saw-cutter operators, watering pump agents and others. This would remain alert …
Concerned official circles in Madhya Pradesh are now in the action mode and have started defining the strategy to “leave behind the grim legacy of Union Carbide gas disaster of 1984 and carve out a future and build Bhopal as a global environment city” as emphasised by Prime Minister’s advisor …
German company GIZ, which has offered to airlift the highly-dangerous toxic waste from Union Carbide’s Bhopal plant for disposal in Germany, has raised “doubts” about the logistic support facilities at Bhopal airport for handling of such sophisticated cargo to avoid any environment problem. The Centre, which though had decided to …
Bhopal: All the inaccessible villages of Madhya Pradesh will be linked with all-weather roads by the year 2013. All the general category villages having less than 500 population and tribal villages with less than 250 population will be linked by all-weather roads with main roads under Mukhyamantri Gram Sadak Yojna. …
Five non-government organisations representing victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster on Monday described the latest decision taken at the meeting of Group of Ministers to send 350 tonnes of hazardous waste from the abandoned Union Carbide pesticide plant to Germany for safe disposal was a vindication of their long-standing …
Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed gratitude towards Advisor to Prime Minister and Chairman of National Innovation Council Shri Sam Pitroda for his state visit and has urged him to become mentor of ambitious projects for establishment of Knowledge City near Ujjain and development of Bhopal as Global …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has urged Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to ensure that prices of fertilisers including DAP are not increased this year. He has appealed to the prime minister to take all appropriate steps in advance towards this end. In a letter, the chief minister said that …
MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed gratitude to Advisor to Prime Minister and chairman of National Innovation Council Sam Pitroda for his State visit and has urged him to become mentor of ambitious projects for establishment of a Knowledge City near Ujjain and development of Bhopal as a …
A German firm selected to remove toxic waste from the Bhopal gas leak site has said it would require over 4,000 special containers approved by the United Nations as well as trained experts for the job. Besides this, it would identify and train workers for packing of 346 tonnes of …
Advisor to the Prime Minister, Shri Sam Pitroda called on Chief Secretary Shri R. Parasuram and other senior officers at Mantralaya today after arriving at Bhopal. Member-Secretary of National Innovation Commission Shri R. Gopalakrishnan was also present on the occasion. Shri Pitroda lauded Bhopal Global Environment City and Knowledge City …
Union home minister P Chidambaram, who is heading a Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal gas disaster, said here on Tuesday the group will meet on June 8 decide on the remediation of 390 metric tonnes of toxic waste lying in closed entity of Union Carbide India Limited (now represented …
