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 …
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 victims. ''I am …
Five Bhopal based organisations namely Children Against Dow-Carbide, Bhopal Gas Peedhit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi Sanghrash Morcha, Bhopal Gas Peedhit Mahila stationery Karmachari Sangh, Bhopal Gas Peedhit Mahila Sangharsh Morcha and Bhopal Group of Information and Action, working among the neighbourhood residents of the abandoned Union Carbide factory has welcome the …
Anindita Dey / Mumbai July 22, 2010, 0:22 IST The Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers has filed an affidavit in the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur for entrusting Dow Chemicals, the present owner of Union Carbide, with the entire cost of remediation efforts towards detoxifying the areas around …
Mumbai: Residents of Dosti Acres and Bhakti Park in Wadala (East) are finally a relieved lot. After six months of complaining about the yellow ammonia fumes emitting from the Rashtriya Chemical Fertilisers (RCF) chimney, five RCF officials visited Dosti Acres on Monday to find remedial measures. DNA on July 18, …
Submission of the intervenor Bhopal Group for Information and Action to the Bhopal environmental remediation oversight committee on remediation of ground and soil water, and other toxic waste, in and around the former Union Carbide factory, Bhopal in compliance with the order ot the hon
The Madhya Pradesh government today admitted in the Assembly today that the main convict Warren Anderson, the then Chairman of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) in the Bhopal gas tragedy case could have been granted bail in a court rather than from police station where the bail was granted. This …
New Delhi: As it prepares to move a Bhopal sessions court to fasten stringent charges under Section 304-II IPC on those held responsible for the Bhopal gas leak case, CBI is recognizing that it may have restricted leeway against the most prominent of those convicted for the disaster, Keshub Mahindra. …
Raktima Bose KOLKATA: Twenty-four workers fell ill after inhaling a heavy concentration of toxic gases inside the Durgapur Steel Plant at Durgapur in Bardhaman district on Thursday. The incident happened within a day of 118 persons falling ill after inhaling chlorine gas that leaked from a cylinder at the Mumbai …
Twenty-six workers and two technicians took ill after inhaling blast furnace gas during maintenance work at Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) this morning, a day after over 100 people fell sick following a chlorine gas leak in a Mumbai Port Trust godown compound. The workers, who came in contact with the …
Luck plays in strange ways. I was reaching for my scooter when the telephone rang in my office-cum-residence in Bhopal. I opened the gate, unlocked the door downstairs, ran up the steps to the first floor and opened the door to my apartment. Normally the caller would have given up, …
Has Bhopal taught the nation how to ensure industrial safety? Following the Bhopal accident, several pieces of legislation came into force, the prime one being the Environment Protection Act (EPA), 1986. In 1987 a new chapter was added to the Factories Act, 1948, in the aftermath of Bhopal and the …
There is 1.1 million tonnes of highly contaminated soil at the plant site, according to an estimate by the National Environment Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur. It needs to be treated and safely disposed of. The report said up to two metres of soil will need to be …
The Bhopal question has one more angle: why was there so much public and media outrage over this 25-year-old issue? Why did the national media focus on this story, which till now had been consigned to the backrooms where only noisy environmental activists live? Many things, I believe, have contributed …
The Bhopal gas tragedy was the worst industrial disaster in human history. Twenty-five thousand people died, 500,000 were injured, and the injustice done to the victims of Bhopal over the past 25 years will go down as the worst case of jurisprudence ever. The gas leak in Bhopal in December …
Facing protests over a plan to incinerate toxic waste of Union Carbide plant in Bhopal at a disposal unit at Pithampur, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has assured villagers that a study will be conducted and locals taken into confidence before a final view is taken. Local residents, mainly those from …
