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 …
Budapest: Hungary declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after a toxic mud spill killed four people and injured 120 in what officials described as Hungary
LALIT SHASTR BHOPA The Supreme Court has issued notices to the respondent Union ministry of chemicals and fertilisers and welfare commissioner, Bhopal, in a petition filed earlier in March 2010 by Bhopal NGOs regarding the death and injury claims arising out of the Bhopal gas disaster. The same petition was …
Contrary to the claims made by Union Carbide Corporation — now The Dow Chemical Company — that the methyl isocyanate (MIC) which killed thousands of people in Bhopal in December, 1984, following a leak in its pesticide unit, was not highly poisonous, a report released by the Indian Council of …
KANPUR: Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) director RD Goyal visited the company's plant in Auraiya on Sunday and ordered a probe into the fire that broke out at the plant on Saturday. A senior official of GAIL was killed while three others sustained serious burns when the fire broke …
Renuka Bisht When the Bhopal Court finally gave out convictions for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy on June 7 this year, the judgement attracted such a public outcry that the government
The Supreme Court today decided to review its 1996 judgement in the Bhopal gas case, following which a local court had imposed a two-year jail sentence on Keshub Mahindra and six others who were executives of Union Carbide at the time of the tragedy. The apex court has issued notices …
Krishnadas Rajagopal New Delhi: Fourteen years after it described the Bhopal gas leak disaster as an act of negligence, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to re-open its September 1996 judgement, a rarest-of-rare step, to assess if the criminal liability of Union Carbide employees extended to culpable homicide. A Special …
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the former Union Carbide India chairman, Keshub Mahindra, and six others, asking them to show cause why the charge under Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) should not be …
To avert disasters like the Bhopal gas leak, the environment ministry is preparing off-site emergency plans for hazardous units in 41 selected industrial pockets such as Gurgaon, Coimbatore, Bharatpur and Panipat.
Leading mining group Vedanta Resources has been stripped of international safety awards amid claims that it won the prize without declaring that a chimney collapse at one of its sites had killed at least 40 workers last year, according to a media report. Awards to Vedanta have been withdrawn by …
Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN New Delhi: The Centre is firm on pressing for an additional Rs 1,500-Rs 2,000 crore from Dow Chemicals, which has taken over Union Carbide, to provide adequate compensation to lakhs of Bhopal gas tragedy victims. Recent exchange of emails between Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh …
Vandita Mishra When Union Home Minister P Chidambaram rose to reply to the discussion on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy in the Lok Sabha, he emphasised a collective abdication.
Washington: The United States said on Friday the Bhopal gas tragedy was a closed case now. State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley was answering reporters' questions on the issue. Later, the State Department official clarified that legally the case was closed. Sympathy and concern
Indira Kannan / New York August 20, 2010, 0:09 IST The United States moved quickly on Wednesday to deny that it attempted to influence any action the Indian government might seek to take against The Dow Chemical Company over the Bhopal gas disaster in return for US support on a …
A member of student group hold a placard as she participates in a demonstration to express solidarity with the Bhopal gas tragedy survivors in Bangalore. File photo AP A member of student group hold a placard as she participates in a demonstration to express solidarity with the Bhopal gas tragedy …
New Delhi: Ahead of the November visit of President Barack Obama, US has stepped up efforts to push India to drop its demand that Dow Chemicals pay Rs 1,500 crore compensation to victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. On Wednesday, Times Now, in an exclusive report, said US deputy …
The Bhopal gas leak continues to cast a long shadow, even 25 years after the accident. It today emerged that a senior US government functionary offered to help India garner greater funding from the World Bank in return for protecting Dow Chemicals from possible legal fallout from the gas tragedy. …
BIG BOSS: US DY NSA WARNS OF CHILL IN INVESTMENT Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI THE US appears to be piling pressure on the Manmohan Singh government for providing relief to Dow Chemicals. In an e-mail to Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, US deputy National Security Advisor Michael …
Jabalpur, Aug 18: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has set October 26 as the date for final hearing after all parties submitted arguments on a public interest litigation for disposal of 350 tonnes toxic waste present for years in the now-closed Union Carbide factory at Bhopal. Justices Arun Mishra and …
