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 government is examining increased compensation to the families of Bhopal gas victims to address the public anger in the wake of a recent court verdict. The government
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI:Hours before the Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram met on Friday, the Planning Commission is understood to have released Rs.982 crore to the Madhya Pradesh government for rehabilitation of the Bhopal gas tragedy victims. There was no official word on the …
Smita Gupta and J. Venkatesan NEW DELHI:The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, which met on Friday, will work through the weekend and submit its report to the Cabinet on Monday, ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 10-day deadline. The mood at the meeting, sources said, was
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The office of the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister has no Public Information Officer (PIO) to receive applications filed under the Right to Information Act. An RTI application seeking details on who assisted (the then chief of Union Carbide) Warren Anderson, the main accused in the 1984 …
Sriram Panchu The government should arrange for a current calculation of compensation requirements, provide the balance funds, and ensure speedy disbursement. The verdict in the Bhopal gas leak criminal case convicted officers of Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) for rash and negligent acts causing death, and imposed the maximum penalty …
Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government will file a curative petition in the Supreme Court seeking to revive charges of culpable homicide against the accused in the Bhopal gas leak case. The petition will challenge the 1996 judgment and review order of the Supreme Court, in which Justice …
Aditya Sinha When GoM runs through its marathon meetings this weekend, it is not out of a sense of redressing delayed justice. It is because Manmohan Singh is running out of time Congress is in a dilemma: it wants the prime minister to continue till Rahul Gandhi is ready to …
The Madhya Pradesh government today said it would file a review petition in the sessions court against the recent verdict in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, as the sentence to all convicts was insufficient in view of the magnitude of the crime. The state government has also decided to constitute …
Milind Ghatwai Bhopal: Seven organisations representing gas tragedy victims came together on one platform on Thursday to say that they expected the group of ministers (GoM) to address issues of justice and opportunities for a life of dignity for survivors.
Mahim Pratap Singh BHOPAL: Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have written to Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily requesting him to place some of their demands requiring urgent attention before the reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM). Among these are the setting up of the promised Empowered Commission on Bhopal …
Smita Gupta NEW DELHI: The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, which was asked by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to report back to the Cabinet by June 24, will meet on Friday and again on Saturday with the object of wrapping up its work as expeditiously as possible, government …
Ishita Ayan Dutt / Kolkata June 17, 2010, 0:02 IST None of its owners since the Bhopal gas tragedy is willing to own up to the equity, present or past. The world
What is sorely missing is the political will to get to the truth behind such tragedies, says ERVELL E MENEZES The recent judgment in the Bhopal gas leak, the worst industrial disaster in history, was a mockery of justice
Warren M. Anderson New Delhi: Comments by key players in the aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy give an indication of the exit of the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson from India. A TV channel reproduced the bytes of Mr. Anderson and the then Chief Minister Arjun Singh before …
Smita Gupta NEW DELHI: The allegation that the Rajiv Gandhi government had succumbed to U.S. pressure and allowed the former Union Carbide chairman, Warren Anderson, to escape from the country was
Jyoti Punwani Our governments routinely shield the guilty and ignore the victims, but this routine conduct had a life-and-death fallout for victims of the world's largest industrial disaster In 1975, when M N Buch, head of Bhopal municipal corporation, had advised shifting the plant out of the city due to …
Narayan Lakshman Washington: Dow Chemical Company, which owns the erstwhile Union Carbide Company that was behind the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, might have systematically sought to pre-empt the judicial outcome of the case by putting pressure on officials at the Indian embassy in Washington, it has emerged. This was …
Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: Whether it was bureaucratic callousness or political cover-up, the fact that the only comprehensive survey of Bhopal gas victims ever to be undertaken has yet to see the light of day 25 years later is likely to add to the controversy surrounding the disaster. The Tata …
