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 …
The alacrity shown by the government in setting up a Group of Ministers (GoM) to look into all issues of the Bhopal gas tragedy - including adequacy of compensation - was clearly missing just three years ago when the UPA government opposed tooth and nail any enhancement of payment to …
Warren M. Anderson New Delhi: Comments by key players in the aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy give an indication of the exit of the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson from India. A TV channel reproduced the bytes of Mr. Anderson and the then Chief Minister Arjun Singh before …
Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: Whether it was bureaucratic callousness or political cover-up, the fact that the only comprehensive survey of Bhopal gas victims ever to be undertaken has yet to see the light of day 25 years later is likely to add to the controversy surrounding the disaster. The Tata …
Faced with stiff opposition from the BJP and the Left, the government today dropped plans to dilute a key provision in the Nuclear Liability Bill, as its top officials were grilled by the Parliamentary Committee. Department of Atomic Energy Secretary Srikumar Banerjee, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and a number of …
Ex-CM Accused Of Illegally Sending Anderson Out; Ex-US Embassy Official Says Indian Govt Assured Of Safe Exit For UC Boss AS FORMER Madhya Pradesh chief minister Arjun Singh faces allegations of arranging for
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Babulal Gaur has put the previous Atal Bihari Vajapayee-led National Democratic Alliance Government in the dock over the welfare of Bhopal gas tragedy victims. Replying to questions of reporters here today, Mr Gaur said various governments at the Centre …
Bhopal, June 15 : A complaint has been filed in a local court here for registration of a criminal case against former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh for allegedly releasing the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson in a wrong manner after the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. A separate …
PM Asks Panel To Meet Immediately & Suggest Follow-Up Measures New Delhi: With the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict triggering an in-house Congress drama, government sought to shift focus onto the group of ministers (GoM) set up to examine the trial court
Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: Human rights activists from all over the country, led by prominent Bhopal activist Abdul Jabbar, on Monday wrote a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama drawing his attention to the gas leak issue after his tough stance towards the British Petroleum (BP) over the oil spill …
P. Sainath Bhopal marked the horrific beginning of a new era. One that signalled the collapse of restraint on corporate power. Over 20,000 killed. Over half a million victims maimed, disabled or otherwise affected. Compensation of around Rs.12,414 per victim on average on the 1989 value of the rupee. ($470 …
With the Bhopal Gas tragedy verdict coming in for widespread condemnation, the role of the Supreme Court in watering down the charges from culpable homicide not amounting to murder to a charge of death by negligence has come under increased scrutiny. Recently, Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily even blamed the …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Did the Emergency allow the Indira Gandhi government to ignore the concerns of Union Industry Ministry officials in allowing Union Carbide to produce methyl isocyanate-based pesticides in India? For five years, the company's application for an industrial licence lay pending, with officials in what was then …
Seeking justice for the gas leak victims, survivors of the tragedy have started a campaign to get signatures on a memorandum to be sent to US President Barack Obama.
Indu Bhan The Bhopal gas leak disaster, which killed thousands and rendered hundreds of thousands seriously infirm and with genetic defects in yet-to-be-born, has clearly brought to the fore the need to have clear-cut laws relating to class action suits, which originated in the US and are being followed in …
New Delhi: As the fallout of the judgement on the Bhopal gas tragedy continues to embarrass the government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday asked a group of ministers (GoM), headed by home minister P Chidambaram, to meet
A non-government organisation working for victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy today felt that the Centre should submit a curative petition to the Supreme Court for ensuring appropriate punishment for the guilty and justice for victims in the criminal case relating to the world's worst industrial disaster. ''Several statements …
Anxiously aiting outside the court of the chief judicial magistrate Mohan M Tiwari in Bhopal on 7 June, 36-year old Raghu Jaidev and many other victims of the Bhopal catastrophe were crestfallen, some of them,outraged,upon hearing the outcome of the trial that had dragged on for almost two decades. (Editorial)
Anatomy of a continuing tragedy by Maj-Gen Pushpendra Singh (retd) Victims protesting against the Bhopal judgement SAHIB, kanoon ka kaam garibon ko phasana aur amiron ko khiskana. Some years back a taxi driver had voiced this sentiment. The recent judgement in the Bhopal case now reinforces this widely held belief. …
