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 …
Did the Indian government guarantee Dow Chemicals, the parent company of Union Carbide, that it will not be held liable for the Bhopal gas tragedy? An RTI response has raised fresh questions over the government
Seema Mustafa It is a tragedy that instead of being concerned with gross injustice, the UPA government is only interested in somehow getting the nuclear liability Bill through There has not been a word from Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi who, by Congress accounts, is looking to give a new …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Did the Emergency allow the Indira Gandhi government to ignore the concerns of Union Industry Ministry officials in allowing Union Carbide to produce methyl isocyanate-based pesticides in India? For five years, the company's application for an industrial licence lay pending, with officials in what was then …
New Delhi: As the fallout of the judgement on the Bhopal gas tragedy continues to embarrass the government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday asked a group of ministers (GoM), headed by home minister P Chidambaram, to meet
Mahim Pratap Singh BHOPAL: The Bhopal gas leak victims on Sunday appealed to Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily to follow up on his remarks over the failure of the judicial system in delivering justice by filing a curative petition in the Supreme Court against the June 7 verdict of a …
V.R. Krishna Iyer The court verdict shows that India is still in a Victorian imperial-feudal era, distances away from the socialist dream. The political parties that were in power during these years are guilty of culpable neglect One extraordinary feature of the outcome is that the highest officer who was …
There is renewed hope for the gas victims as people across the country have become one with their cause and are expressing outrage over denial of justice and the manoeuvres of those in authority in Bhopal who had allowed the then Union Carbide Corporation chief Warren Anderson to escape to …
New Delhi: Amid the controversies surrounding the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict, the Madhya Pradesh Government is taking legal opinion on whether it can re-investigate the whole case, including the exit of the then Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson. It is also considering the possibility of filing a review petition against …
IN the first official response from the Gov ernment on the Warren Anderson issue Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee ha put the onus squarely on former Madhy Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh. Citing a newspaper report that appeare in an English daily on December 8, 1984 Mukherjee said, "It's on published …
The Congress today found itself hemmed in by attacks from within and outside with its leaders blaming the then party governments at the Centre and Madhya Pradesh over the escape of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson after the gas leak in December 1984. The Centre sought to play down …
Political Bureau New Delhi: Under attack from the Opposition BJP for freeing former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson within hours of his arrest in December 1984 for the Bhopal gas leak disaster, the ruling Congress took a direct hit on Thursday from its own when party general secretary Digvijay Singh …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: The reconstituted Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy headed by Home Minister P. Chidambaram has been given a vastly expanded mandate, which includes remediation measures at the site of the 1984 disaster. Internal memos and letters suggest that this inclusion of
Arun Bothra and Komal Jain The judge could only punish the guilty as per the law book. Just because people are angry and the media is getting hysteric he could not invent new sections of the law. In fact maximum punishment for the offence under Section 304B is two years …
BHOPAL NGOs working for the cause of the gas victims here have reacted sharply to the former Chief Justice of India A.H. Ahmadi's widely reported statement that it was a "correct decision" of the Supreme Court bench headed by him in 1996 which converted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) …
LALIT SHASTR BHOPAL Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed shock and concern at the udgment pronounced by the Bhopal chief judicial magis rate in the criminal case inked with the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster. He ha raised the question whethe he sentence of two years i …
P Chidambaram Union home minister P Chidambaram will head a reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) to look at relief and rehabilitation measures arising out of the Bhopal gas disaster that killed 15,000 people in one night in 1984. Earlier, Arjun Singh was heading the panel, as he was the state …
More details tumbled out today in the Bhopal gas tragedy case of how former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson got bail immediately after his arrest. However, the then CBI chief rejected claims that the agency was asked not to pursue his extradition. On top of a former CBI official
