Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
The Union Cabinet on Thursday accepted all 22 recommendations by the Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy. These include enhanced compensation of Rs 1,265.56 crores, extradition of former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson and filling a curative petition in the Supreme Court. Announcing the decisions taken at the …
V.R. Krishna Iyer The Bhopal mega-crime trial is over. The barbarity has ended in a light sentence, although the victims are countless. Eight officials of the erstwhile Union Carbide India Limited have been convicted and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment. The judge has given the maximum possible punishment for …
Smita Gupta New Delhi: The United Progressive Alliance government will explore whether the $470-million out-of-court settlement, arrived at between India and Union Carbide in 1989 in the Bhopal gas leak case, can be reviewed in the light of evidence that emerged in the intervening years. On Thursday, the Cabinet approved …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Union Carbide's Bhopal plant was a polluter long before the 1984 gas leak, according to scientific reports presented to the Group of Ministers looking into the issue.
Smita Gupta New Delhi: A road map to address the legal, medical, humanitarian, environmental and other aspects of the Bhopal gas leak disaster was presented on Monday by the Group of Ministers (GoM) to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He has called a special Cabinet meeting for June 25 to discuss …
Mahim Pratap Singh BHOPAL: The report on the Bhopal gas leak submitted by the Group of Ministers (GoM) to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday drew mixed reactions from survivors' organisations here, which have decided to write to him to allow them a hearing at a Cabinet meet to be …
Jun 22nd, 2010 -- LALIT SHASTRI | The NGOs working for the cause of the gas victims have expressed serious reservations about the recommendations of the Group of Ministers on various issues linked with Bhopal gas tragedy that include enhanced compensation to the gas victims and the families of those …
Jun 22nd, 2010 -- Rashme Sehgal | A section of senior Madhya Pradesh bureaucrats along with several NGOs believe the solution to the outstanding issue of toxic waste from the Union Carbides factory in Bhopal is to send it back to the United States. They cite the precedent of the …
Report with PM; Cabinet decides on Friday. P Chidambaram A Group of Ministers (GoM) set up to re-examine the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy has recommended the central government give additional compensation worth Rs 1,500 crore to the victims, petition the Supreme Court for a review of its judgment that diluted …
Pune The report on Dow Chemical International (Dow India) site at Chakan, Pune, submitted by the special committee formed by the state environment department in 2008, is gathering dust with the state government yet to release it. The report was submitted to the state government about eight months ago. A …
The Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy, which held its last meeting here Sunday and will submit its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday, will recommend filing of a curative petition in the Supreme Court to fix criminal liability, seeking extradition of former UCC chief Warren …
The proceedings of the Empowered Group of Ministers does not inspire much confidence that the lakhs of victims of the catastrophic Bhopal gas leak will get justice. In fact, it almost seems as if a second betrayal is on the cards. There are reports that the EGoM wants the Madhya …
The Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas tragedy is understood to have today decided to recommend filing of a curative petition in the Supreme Court to fix criminal liability, seek extradition of former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson and cleaning up the complex by burying the toxic waste. …
Conflicting recollections on Bhopal tragedy highlight need to make old government papers public Sanjaya Baru / New Delhi June 21, 2010, 0:54 IST I was on the last unaffected train out of Bhopal that night, or so I was told. It was the Dakshni Express from Hyderabad to Delhi. There …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Even as it pursues its case to make Dow Chemical pay for the clean-up of the Bhopal gas leak site, the Centre has decided to spend about Rs. 250 crore towards complete remediation. The entire process of decontaminating the one million tonnes of toxic waste at …
S. Viswanathan With a former Chairman of Union Carbide India Limited, Keshub Mahindra, and seven others convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment by a trial court, the 26-year-old Bhopal tragedy case has reached a new stage. The long wait for the families of thousands of victims who were either …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Activists and groups representing victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak are asking if the government is letting the Dow Chemical off the hook by deciding to pay for the clean-up of the contaminated site. While they welcome the recommendation of the Group of Ministers (GoM) …
Smita Gupta New Delhi: Environmentalists and activists who have been tracking the Bhopal gas tragedy case say the current ownership of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) plant should make no material difference to the case against Dow Chemicals. On Saturday, the Group of Ministers was concerned that the ambiguity …
Sukalp Sharma One key component of industrial safety is industrial waste management, conspicuous largely by its absence in India. That 26 years after the world
Bhopal, June 18: Sheeshon Ka Mahal, a documentary film based on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, commissioned by the Madhya Pradesh government, may never see the light of day as its original print has been lost, official sources said on Friday. The print of the documentary made by filmmaker Muzaffar …
