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 …

Warren Anderson and the Bhopal Gas Tragedy

He knew about an audit of Bhopal plant, which identified 30 hazards Warren Anderson was the chairman and chief executive of Union Carbide Corporation, once one of the largest chemical polymer companies in the United States. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1921 to Swedish immigrant parents. At …

Bhopal's ongoing tragedy

Higher courts will take their own time to deliver justice Even though 25 years have already elapsed after the Bhopal gas tragedy, which claimed over 10,000 lives and left around five lakh affected, yesterday

Anderson: The man who got away

Nearing 90, the CEO of Union Carbide at the time of the disaster lives the life of a recluse in a multi-million dollar home in NY

SC shot down move to slap tough charges

New Delhi: It will be unkind to blame the trial court for handing out mild punishments to the Bhopal gas leak accused whose collective negligence caused an industrial catastrophe. For, the court

Bhopal verdict will impact Nuclear Liability Bill: Moily

Smita Gupta New Delhi: The long-delayed verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy case will have an impact on the pending Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Bill, Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said here on Monday evening.

Fateful moments of the tragedy

Bhopal: In the apocalyptic moments on the wintry night of December 2-3, 1984, people simply started dying in the most hideous ways after a toxic gas leak. Some vomited uncontrollably, went into convulsions and fell dead. Others choked to death, drowning in their own body fluids after the Union Carbide's …

Bhopal gas disaster victims used to getting rough deal

New Delhi: Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have, it seems, become used to injustice. On Monday, seven influential officers of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) were convicted by a court with a mere two-year sentence for causing the world

People living around Carbide's plant drink contaminated water

The Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984 has damaged the environment so much that over 50,000 people are still drinking underground water affected by the industrial waste dumped around the now defunct Union Carbide Factory. "More than 50,000 people living in 25 localities around the Union Carbide Factory drink underground water …

Bhopal verdict: Survivors furious, want death penalty

Emotions ran high among relatives and survivors of the victims of the world's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal as they demanded capital punishment after eight senior officials of the Union Carbide were convicted today only of death due to criminal negligence. "It is black day for Bhopal gas victims," was …

Bhopal gas disaster case: Keshub Mahindra, 7 others convicted

26 years after the world's worst industrial disaster that had left over 15,000 people dead, a local court on Monday convicted all the eight accused including former Union Carbide chairman Keshub Mahindra in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari pronounced the verdict in a packed …

Victims continue to suffer

It was on the mid night of December 2 and 3, 1984 when tonnes of deadly poisonous gas had leaked into the air from the Union Carbide

A quarter-century after Bhopal, seven sentenced

Milind Ghatwai More than 25 years after gas spewing from a Bhopal pesticide plant on a December night killed several thousand and left many more affected, a local court today convicted seven former officials of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) after a marathon criminal trial. Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan …

Is justice blind?

LALIT SHASTRI | Over 25 years after the deadly gas leak at the Union Carbide plant here in December 1984, which killed over 20,000 people and critically wounded hundreds of thousands others, Bhopal

Judgment on the Bhopal Gas Disaster: In the Court of Bhopal, dated 7th June 2010

Final judgement on Bhopal gas disaster delivered 25 years, after the tragedy by Bhopal district court. 8 senior executives of Union Carbide have been convicted and sentenced to 2 years of Jail. But this is too little & too late, say victims and the activists. Judgment on the Bhopal Gas …

Bhopal victims want accused hanged, but not hopeful of getting full justice

OVER 25 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy when the verdict in the case is to be pronounced on Monday, the victims want capital punishment for the accused, but are not too hopeful of getting full justice. They feel the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has already

Spill oil, pay Rs 5 crore to get away in India

Kirtika Suneja & Jyoti Mukul / New Delhi June 5, 2010, 0:04 IST On World Environment Day, Business Standard tracks the hazards in which India

The National Green Tribunal Act, 2010

The National Green Tribunal Act 2010 approved by the President of India on June 2, 2010. It provides for establishment of National Green Tribunal- a special fast-track court for speedy disposal of environment-related civil cases. An Act to provide for the establishment of a National Green Tribunal for the effective …

RTI raises fresh Bhopal doubts

The PMO documents on Dow Chemicals and its liability on Bhopal gathered by Bhopal activists. These have brought to light a letter written in 2006 by Dow Chemicals CEO Andrew Liveris to the then Indian ambassador to the US Ronen Sen, claiming that the Indian government had said that his …

Assessment and remediation of hazardous waste contaminated areas in and around M/s Union Carbide India Ltd. Bhopal: final report

The final report by NEERI on assessment and remediation of hazardous waste contaminated areas in an around UCIL in Bhopal. Certifies that contamination of soil & groundwater at UCIL premises has nothing to do with the 1984 MIC gas tragedy.Several studies were carried out by various agencies in the past …

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