Industrial Disasters

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding large scale felling of toddy yielding palm trees in Bihar, 05/06/2025

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 …

US linked Bhopal to aid

Times Now's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami debates the issue of US Deputy NSA writing an email to Montek Singh Ahluwalia and advising him to go slow on Dow Chemicals, demanding that the Dow 'noise' be handled and US corporate interest over India's biggest industrial tragedy.

US trying to create pressure on India in Bhopal gas tragedy

Times Now has proof that the UPA is under immense pressure to go easy on Dow Chemicals - the American company liable for India's worst industrial tragedy. The proof is in the form of an email exchange between US President Barack Obama's assitant and Deputy National Security Advisor Michael Froman …

Bhopalis end dharna as 62 MPs sign letter to Prime Minister

Sixty four Members of Parliament from 20 political parties including, BJP, Congress, CPM, CPI, LJP, RSP, BSP and others have endorsed a letter urging the Prime Minister to set up a mechanisms to resolve all pending issues of long term rehabilitation and prosecuting the guilty corporations and individuals including Warren …

No record of who called to let Anderson off: Chidambaram

Gargi ParsaiNEW DELHI: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that there was no record of who from the Union Home Ministry made calls to the Madhya Pradesh Chief Secretary for letting off Warren Anderson, then chairman of the Union Carbide Corporation in December 1984. Mr. …

Arjun blames Rao for Andersons escape

    ARJUN Singh broke his silence on the Bhopal gas tragedy only to lay the blame for Warren Anderson

Bhopal: Arjun clears Rajiv, takes swipe at Rao

Breaking his silence on the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, senior Congress leader Arjun Singh today gave a clean chit to then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in the exit from India of then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson in the wake of the disaster.Singh suggested that the then Union Home …

Rajiv was briefed soon after gas leak, says Arjun Singh

NEW DELHI: Congress member Arjun Singh told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that he briefed the then Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, on developments following the Bhopal gas tragedy on December 3, 1984, moments after the leak.Participating in a short duration discussion on recent developments relating to the Bhopal tragedy, Mr. …

Warren charges not diluted: PC

Union home minister P. Chidambaram has said that charges against the absconding former head of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) Warren Anderson were not diluted and even lauded the CBI for being steadfast in its endeavour to seek his extradition. He also said that the curative petition in the case …

Discussion in the Lok Sabha on Bhopal Gas Tragedy

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

Chemical disaster mgmt plans missing

RTI Application Filed By Activist Had Demanded Information From GovernmentTushar Tere | TNNVadodara: Considered the chemical hub of the country, the state is home to over 3,000 chemical units and contributes over 20 per cent to India

Critique of NEERI & NGRI by Bhopal survivors organisations

This critique of NEERI & NGRI reports on assessment & remediation of contamination in and around Union Carbide, Bhopal says that both reports provide useful information but the critical results are misinterpreted, or missing & several conclusions reached within the reports are not supported by the evidence presented. This document …

Comments/suggestions received on the NEERI, NGRI and IICT reports related to Bhopal gas leak disaster

This documents consists of comments and suggestions received by the Ministry of Environment and Forests on NEERI, NGRI and IICT reports related to decontamination and remediation of the Union Carbide plant site in Bhopal. Comments/suggestions received on the NEERI, NGRI and IICT reports related to Bhopal gas leak disaster.

Treating Bhopal victims: power of pathology to the fore

The most apt description of Bhopal on the early morning of December 3, 1984 came from one by Dr. Ivor Doney who likened the tragedy to

CBI files appeal against Gas verdict

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today filed an appeal in the District and Sessions court against the verdict of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) on the Bhopal gas tragedy case delivered on June 7 this year. The appeal was filed by CBI in the court of District and Sessions …

No policy so far on UCIL waste

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Water Resources Minister Jayant Malaiya said in the Assembly today that there had been no policy underlined so far by the Housing and Environment Department for disposal of toxic waste of the now-closed plant of Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL). The Minister in a written reply to …

Commission to probe Bhopal gas tragedy: Chauhan

Bhopal: A Commission will be set up to look into all aspects of the Bhopal gas tragedy to ensure that the guilty are punished and victims get adequate compensation, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan said in the State Assembly on Monday.

MP govt to form commission for Bhopal gas tragedy: CM

Bhopal, July 26: Announcing to form a commission for an in-depth probe into Bhopal gas tragedy in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly today, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the government was committed to punish those who were responsible for the world's worst industrial tragedy and provide adequate compensation to the …

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