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 DELHI court has allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to seek extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation chairperson Warren Anderson, the prime accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, from the US. Anderson, 90, has never faced trial in the case. On March 23, while allowing CBI’s plea …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved verdict on the CBI's curative petition for enhancement of punishment to the accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case by reviving the charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. A Constitution Bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices Altamas Kabir, R.V. Raveendran, …
You really have to hand it to the nuclear industry. In any other sphere of the economy, a major industrial disaster is likely to have adverse, long-term financial consequences for the company or companies whose product or activity was involved in the accident, regardless of actual cause or legal liability. …
A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice H S Kapadia began the hearing of curative petitions in the Bhopal gas tragedy on April 13. While hearing the curative petition filed by the CBI to re-examine the 1996 Supreme Court's judgement, the five-judge bench questioned the CBI …
A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice H S Kapadia began the hearing of curative petitions in the Bhopal gas tragedy on April 13. While hearing the curative petition filed by the CBI to re-examine the 1996 Supreme Court's judgement, the five-judge bench questioned the CBI …
CBI's seeking extradition of 90-year-old former Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation Warren Anderson in connection with Bhopal Gas tragedy case may have come too late, according to leading lawyers. Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan said "the agency (CBI) was sleeping" over the years. He, however, described the Delhi court's order allowing …
A high-powered committee today asked the Madhya Pradesh government to release compensation to those victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy who are yet to receive any money from the government. The group of ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas disaster, chaired by home minister P Chidambaram, also gave its …
Agency wants former Union Carbide chairman for his criminal culpability in the 1984 Bhopal gas leakage tragedy The CBI on Tuesday moved a Delhi court to obtain a Letter Rogatory to the US authorities for the extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson to stand trial for his …
Expressing concern over ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan in the aftermath of earthquake and tsunami, five organisations -- fighting for rights of Bhopal Gas Tragedy victims -- today demanded immediate suspension of the work on Jaitpur plant in Maharashtra. The five organisations -- Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh, …
New Delhi: The CBI is ready with documents to seek extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson from the US for his trial in the Bhopal gas leak case which led to the death of thousands in 1984. CBI
Effects Of Poison Cloud Pose Threat To Generations The spectre of lethal radioactive fallout from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima in Japan continued to haunt the country as ripples of panic spread to distant shores. Fifty workers and technicians quarantined inside the power station complex were fighting a deadly …
KOLKATA: A major fire broke out in a private petrochemical company's warehouse containing plastic granules at Haldia town in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district on Monday. There was no report of any casualty. According to District Magistrate Archana, the fire broke out in one corner of the 3,000 sq ft …
Former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Dr Anil Kakodkar, on Sunday said that in the backdrop of the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, the design of the Jaitapur nuclear power plant (JNPP) being planned in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, should be strengthened. Speaking to DNA …
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 Supreme Court today issued notices to the Union Carbide Corporation, Dow Chemicals and others on a Centre's plea seeking increase in compensation to the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore. A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia also …
Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) released the following statement in response to the filing of the curative petition by the Union of India in relation to the 1989 legal settlement concerning the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. The Indian Supreme Court’s decision today to hear the government’s petition is not a ruling …
