Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
A New York federal court has dismissed all claims by Indian plaintiffs against Union Carbide Corp. for any environmental fallout of a gas leak which killed thousands of people in the Indian city of Bhopal 28 years ago. Protesters against Dow Chemical's sponsorship of the London 2012 Olympic Games demonstrate …
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 …
The Vizag Steel Plant (VSP), where one of the worst industrial accidents in the steel industry took place on Wednesday night, had been warned about its poor safety record but its management ignored all such warnings. The steel plant, ironically a Navaratna company, was rated the last for its safety …
As the Andhra Pradesh government ordered an inquiry into Wednesday night’s explosion at the plant of the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) which left at least 12 people dead, it emerged that senior officers, on learning that pressure was building alarmingly in an oxygen storage unit due to a malfunction, …
An explosion in a state-owned steel plant in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has killed at least 11 people, police said Thursday. At least 16 other workers suffered serious burns in the blast and a massive fire that broke out late Wednesday in the plant in the coastal …
Bhopal: The Centre had barred the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) from publishing the Bhopal gas tragedy-related research work for nine years, information under the RTI Act has revealed. It was not immediately clear why the ban was imposed. Some Union petroleum and chemicals ministry documents, including minutes of …
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Central Pollution Control Board to file a comprehensive affidavit on the “character and content” of reported contamination of ground water in Bhopal's Arifnagar area due to the 1985 Union Carbide gas tragedy. A Bench of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice J. Chelameshwar also …
A dispute over the authority of U.S. accident investigators heads to federal court here Wednesday, in a case pitting the U.S. Chemical Safety Board against Transocean Ltd., RIG -2.01% the owner of the doomed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. The House Energy and Commerce Committee asked the board, which investigates industrial …
Hydrofluoric acid (HF) leaked from an alkylation unit at BP Plc's 406,570-barrels-per-day refinery in Texas City, Texas on Tuesday morning, triggering alarms in the plant and warnings to area residents, company and city officials said. No injuries were reported at the refinery, the fifth-largest in the United States, or in …
The death toll from an explosion at a chemical plant in northern China last week has risen to 25, with four missing and 46 others injured, state media reported. The official Xinhua News Agency on Sunday reported that the death toll rose from the original 16 killed in Tuesday's blast. …
The Indian Olympic Association’s repeated pleas to have Dow hemicals removed as a sponsor of the London Olympics may have fallen on deaf ears but now the Indian government has intervened with a new request. In a letter to International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, the sports ministry has asked …
Five organisations of the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal on Sunday burnt an effigy of Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympics Committee to protest the apex body’s recent declaration that Dow Chemical could not be held responsible for the lingering liabilities in Bhopal. “An assessment …
The American company, Dow Chemicals, should not be sponsoring the Olympics, said the Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Ms Jayanthi Natarajan. Speaking to a group of media persons on the sidelines of Business Ethics Conference — Beacon 2012, organised by Loyola Institute of Business Administration here on Friday, she …
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has appreciated Indian Olympic Association's (IOA) concern for the victims of 1984 Bhopal Tragedy but maintained that Dow Chemicals had no ownership stakes in Union Carbide till 2000. IOC also said that its relationship with Dow Chemicals is well over 30 years and "we were …
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) …
A demand has been raised with the Union Government to provide Rs 10 lakh compensation each to the kin of 15,342 persons who died in Bhopal gas tragedy. Representatives of gas victims will be taken to Delhi to meet the Prime Minister. This information was given at a quarterly review …
Rahul Wadke The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has asked Mumbai Waste Management Ltd, a hazardous waste management company with a facility near Mumbai, to incinerate 10 tonnes of toxic waste from the Union Carbide's Bhopal plant. The company is keen to dispose of the waste, provided the pollution control …
At least 40 villagers undergo treatment. Panic spread among the residents of Maitapur area under the Simulia police station in Baleswar district after they began to experience an irritating smell of gas late on Saturday evening. The gas emanated from a neighbouring private pesticide manufacturing unit Krishi Rasayan. The unit …
