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 …
Read this CSE critique on NEERI report on assessment & remediation of hazardous waste contaminated areas in & around M/S Union Carbide in Bhopal. It says that NEERI has underestimated the extent of potential groundwater contamination & that there is a need for extensive research on aquifer movements in & …
Assessment and remediation of hazardous waste contaminated areas in and around M/s Union Carbide India Ltd, Bhopal (NEERI & NGRI) and tender document for detoxification, decommissioning and dismantling of UCIL Plant (IICT).
Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: With two persons reported missing from the site of the chimney collapse at the Parichha thermal power plant in Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh still untraced, a case has been filed against the Deputy General Manager of the National Building Construction Company (NBCC), BJMC and Messrs. Vishwakarma …
Gireesh Chandra Prasad New Delhi: The petroleum ministry has said that in case of an oil spill in Indian waters, exploration companies operating the off-shore field will be liable to pay unlimited damages to public and private compensation seekers. The production-sharing contract with the company, however, speaks only of restoration …
Lucknow: Over 50 labourers and technicians were feared trapped under thousands of tonnes of concrete and steel when the newly constructed 210 metre high concrete chimney at Parichha Thermal Power Project in Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh, collapsed on Monday afternoon. Authorities feared that the count of trapped victims could …
Deepa Jainani Lucknow: At least 5 people are feared dead and more than 100 labourers are suspected to be trapped under the debris of the 220 metre under-construction chimney of the 2x250 mw Parichha Extension thermal power station collapsed in Jhansi district in Bundelkhand region on Monday. The chimney, which …
Ahmedabad: A disaster was averted in the nick of time. Late on Saturday night, a 15-tonne container carrying a highly inflammable butanebased chemical caught fire near Piplaj at a unit of Chiripal Industries. The fire fighting operation lasted for seven hours. It took water from 200 tankers and several fire …
BHOPAL: Twenty-six years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, a local court trying the case will pronounce its verdict on June 7. During the trial, 178 prosecution witnesses were examined and 3,008 documents exhibited.
Bill to provide for civil liability for nuclear damage, appointment of claims commissioner, establishment of nuclear damage claims commission and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on May 7, 2010. The main features of the …
Citizens welfare forum, Consumer Protection Council shocked over death of tannery workers in Vaniyambadi VCWF appeals to Centre, State to order closure of all effluent treatment plants Calls for White Paper on incidents leading to asphyxiation of workers VELLORE: The Vellore Citizens Welfare Forum (VCWF) and the Consumer Protection Council …
FIVE persons, including three brothers, were asphyxiated to death after poisonous gas emanated from a chemical tank which they were cleaning at a leather factory at Vaniyambadi on Friday. Vaniyambadi DSP Gurusamy said that on Friday morning, a group of five contract labourers were cleaning the chemical tanks in a …
People in Indore and the adjoining Pithampur industrial area in Madhya Pradesh are protesting the incineration of Bhopal’s toxic waste near their homes. The waste disposal facility in Pithampur in Dhar district was completed recently. On March 18, the Madhya Pradesh state pollution control board allowed Ramky Enviro, the private …
A local court today heard the defence's arguments in the criminal case relating to the Bhopal gas tragedy - the world's worst industrial disaster. Defence Counsel D Prasad submitted before Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari that the Union Carbide senior management was not responsible and even scientists believed that …
Bhopal gas tragedy victims on Thursday accused the Madhya Pradesh Government of concealing facts, and said it continued to deny publicly that 16,000 people had died in the aftermath of the tragedy and 5,000 women were widowed. Representatives of four organisations of Bhopal gas disaster survivors presented information obtained through …
LALIT SHASTRI BHOPAL The Supreme Court will take up for mentioning on Friday a special leave petition challenging the Madhya Pradesh high court decision to uphold the Welfare Commissioner
Bhopal gas tragedy victims Thursday accused the Madhya Pradesh government of concealing facts, and said it continued to deny publicly that 16,000 people had died in the aftermath of the tragedy and 5,000 women were widowed. Representatives of four organisations of Bhopal gas disaster survivors presented information obtained through the …
New Delhi: Around 200 victims and survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy will hold a protest march in the capital on Thursday to press for their long pending demands of rehabilitation and medical care. NGOs organizing the protest said that none of the assurances of rehabilitation given by Prime …
The CBI counsel sought another 15 days, but the CJM was unrelenting and refused to extend the proceedings The Bhopal chief judicial magistrate M.P. Tiwari on Monday turned down the request by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) counsel to advance the final hearing in the criminal case linked with …
This publication, which highlights success stories and lessons learned, is aimed at a wide audience. The intent is to further raise awareness of the devastation that an environmental emergency can cause, and to promote advocacy and action in response. It also aims to highlight the strong need to integrate humanitarian …
