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 …

UK stands by BP, ready to help clean up spill

Kabul: Britain stands ready to help BP with its clean-up efforts following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday as he came under intense pressure at home to stand up for the oil giant.

Call to fly out Anderson came from CM office

Entire Op Was Hush-Hush, Says Then Aviation Director Bhopal: A day after Moti Singh, the collector of Bhopal when the deadly gas leak took place, revealed that Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson was released on orders from then state chief secretary Brahmaswaroop, then aviation director of MP government R …

Members of GoM on Bhopal pleaded Dow case in UPA-I

New Delhi: The uproar over the Bhopal gas-leak judgment has put the role of several UPA ministers and functionaries, including those in the newly reconstituted group of ministers (GoM), under scrutiny yet again. While the UPA might have decided to set up the GoM as a facesaver in the midst …

Anderson blame game begins: Its Cong vs Cong

Diggy Unwittingly Drags In Rajiv New Delhi: The dramatic release of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson hours after his arrest has roiled Congress, sparking a factional war which threatens to claim former PM Rajiv Gandhi as its collateral victim. AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday stunned party circles …

Dont bow to US, get Anderson back: BJP, Left to Centre

CORNERED over its role in the fleeing of Warren Anderson, Congress on Thursday came under heavy shelling from the Opposition. BJP and the Left said the then Congress government at the Centre came under

US pressure may have been a factor: Digvijay Singh

As the role of past and present Congress governments comes under intense scrutiny for effectively helping Warren Anderson and America's Union Carbide get away in the Bhopal gas leak case, senior party leader Digvijaya Singh has said that American pressure could have been a factor in how the disaster was …

State plane flew Anderson out of Bhopal: Ex District Collector

Bhopal, June 09 In a sensational claim, the district collector of Bhopal at the time of the gas tragedy claimed Wednesday that the state government had actively helped Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson to escape law. Detailing the sequence of events on December 7, 1984

Chidambaram to chair reconstituted GoM on Bhopal

P Chidambaram Union home minister P Chidambaram will head a reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) to look at relief and rehabilitation measures arising out of the Bhopal gas disaster that killed 15,000 people in one night in 1984. Earlier, Arjun Singh was heading the panel, as he was the state …

Caught in court

The verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy has caused considerable outrage. It seems to provide little recompense to the victims, and little assurance to the public at large that the legal system is up to protecting us from the risks that make us all vulnerable. Perhaps there will be learning …

The perils of limited liability

The long-delayed and farcical verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy case should make us all think twice about the pending Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Bill, which seeks to limit the maximum compensation that a company setting up a nuclear power plant in India has to pay in case of …

GoM on Bhopal case reconstituted

New Delhi: The Centre, under fire from the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy for the way the legal case has panned out over the last 26 years, on Wednesday announced the reconstitution of a Group of Ministers (GoM) to go into the relief and rehabilitation measures for those affected …

Cong joins chorus on Bhopal verdict, GoM reconstituted

With growing criticism of the verdict on the Bhopal gas leak disaster, the government today reconstituted a Group of Ministers to go into a range of issues relating to the December 1984 incident. Home Minister P Chidambaram will head the reconstituted panel which was earlier headed by Arjun Singh

Arjun Singh played friend in needto Carbide Anderson

Ex-Collector Says Then Chief Secy Asked Him To Release UC Boss, Who Was Flown To Delhi In Then CM

Bhopal NGO to move HC

Bhopal: Disheartened and annoyed over the trial court verdict in the Union Carbide gas tragedy case, a victims

Bhopal panic seeps into Singur Ash from factory with blot on record

KINSUK BASU AND JAYANTA BASU Singur, June 8: Bhopal cast a pall on Singur today, fed by a cocktail of pollution, panic and politics. A chemical factory, declared a

Gas leak scare in Hooghly village

CHINSURAH, 8 JUNE: A day after the country saw the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict being delivered, villagers in Haripal block of Hooghly got quite a scare, after many fell ill, alleging that gas emitted from a local factory, Himadri Chemicals, led to the incident. They staged a demonstration complaining that …

Verdict in Gas Tragedy

Twenty-five years after the worst industrial disaster in world history which claimed over 15,000 lives, Bhopal district court on Monday convicted eight people including former Union Carbide India chairman Keshub Mahindra in the Bhopal Gas tragedy case. The Gas Tragedy of Bhopal is not an issue of city/state or nation …

M&M chairman may have to quit

Arijit Barman & Swaraj Baggonkar / Mumbai June 8, 2010, 0:17 IST Keshub MahindraShould Keshub Mahindra step down as the chairman of Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M;) following his conviction in the Bhopal gas tragedy case? Will he vacate his seat on the boards of HDFC, Bombay Dyeing and a host …

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