This new report- Nigeria’s National Immunisation Coverage Survey (NICS), has revealed that the country has recorded a significant decrease in the number of children who get married before the age of 18. The latest report said the statistics reduced from the 44 per cent given in 2016 to 30 per …
Three decades after the Bhopal gas lead killed a few thousand people overnight, the struggle continues for its survivors. A number of issues concerning the survivors of the disaster, termed the biggest industrial accident in history, seemed close to resolution this year, but none was resolved.
Nine years after the Bhopal methyl isocyanate disaster, we examined the effects of exposures among a cross-section of current residents and a subset of those with persistent symptoms. We estimated individual exposures by developing exposure indices based on activity, exposure duration, and distance of residence from the plant. Original Source
In yet another blow to the survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster, a US district court has dismissed a plea seeking to make Union Carbide liable for contamination caused by its pesticide plant in Bhopal. Seventeen survivors of the 1984 gas leak tragedy had filed a case against the corporation …
Supreme Court gave six months to the Central and the Madhya Pradesh governments to dispose of toxic waste lying in and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal for the past 28 years. Read this order. Supreme Court order on Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster dated 09/08/2012. See Also Feature: …
A large numbers of subjects were exposed to the aerosol of methyl isocyanate (MIC) during Bhopal gas disaster and lung was one of the most commonly affected organs. The aim of the present study was to analyze retrospectively the lung function abnormalities among the surviving MIC exposed population (gas victims) …
Startling new documents show that weeks after the tragic Bhopal gas leak in December 1984, the Indian government mutely accepted a settlement offered by Union Carbide Corporation (UCC). Among other things, UCC's offer outlined the quantum of compensation to be paid out to victims and how injuries were to be …
Just months after the 1984 gas leak at Union Carbide's plant here, the Centre had agreed to the "terms" set by the company on compensation to be paid to victims, a Right to Information (RTI) activist has claimed. Not only that, the government treated the world's worst industrial disaster as …
Cancer cases in the State capital that saw world's worst industrial disasters have more than tripled among men and more than doubled among women between 1988 and 2007. A 19-year-long study, conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ACMR), has found that overall, cancer in men in all sites …
The Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) factory at Bhopal, abandoned after the world’s worst industrial disaster that took place on December 3, 1984, is still heavily contaminated with a range of persistent pollutants. From this study it can be concluded that even after 25 years the residents of the area …
A case under various sections of IPC was registered against then Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson and several functionaries of the company for causing immense loss to human and cattle life. But it has not been handled with due care. There are so many disturbing aspects of the whole …
Uncorrected text of the discussion on Bhopal Gas Tragedy in Lok Sabha on Aug 11, 2010 centered on who was responsible for plight of the tragedy victims and who helped former chairman of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, to escape to the US
Anxiously aiting outside the court of the chief judicial magistrate Mohan M Tiwari in Bhopal on 7 June, 36-year old Raghu Jaidev and many other victims of the Bhopal catastrophe were crestfallen, some of them,outraged,upon hearing the outcome of the trial that had dragged on for almost two decades. (Editorial)
Why blame the chief judicial magistrate of Bhopal for his tame ruling, when he was left with little choice after the collective compromise by the government, the CBI and the Supreme Court, asks V Krishna Ananth EVEN a child with an elementary sense of justice is bound to be outraged …
