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 …

25 years after Bhopal Gas Disaster: a selection of news (Jan 2006 - Dec 2009)

On December 3, 1984, toxic poisonous methyl isocyanate gas leaked from Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL's) pesticide plant in Bhopal. The gas leak triggered a disaster that is now widely recognized as the world worst industrial catastrophe. Thousands of people were killed instantly and more than 25,000 people have died …

What Dow Chemical Company is doing to remove its liability for the waste dumped in the Union Carbide factory

Is Dow liable for the waste in Bhopal factory of Union Carbide? The chemical giant says no. It has filed an application asking the Madhya Pradesh High Court to delete its name as respondent to the case. It also wants the Union ministry of chemicals and fertilizers to withdraw their …

Research on waste at the Union Carbide factory and what it has found

This fact sheet includes research on waste at the Union Carbide factory and what it has found.

What is being done regarding toxic waste at Union Carbide, Bhopal

This fact sheet contains what is being done regarding toxic waste at Union Carbide, Bhopal.

Contamination of soil and water inside and outside the Union Carbide India Limited, Bhopal

25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal reveals this study by Centre for Science & Environment. This study based on CSE's Pollution Monitoring Laboratory tests found that water and soil in & around the Union Carbide factory are loaded with pesticides. See Also: Factsheets: The …

Bhopal 25later years: all papers in order, but denied their due

an 80-Yr-Old Still Queues Up For Relief Suchandana Gupta | TNN Bhopal: Eighty-year-old Maqsuda Bi still comes and stands outside the welfare commissioner

Programmes, seminars to mark 25th year of gas tragedy

A two-day national seminar, organised by three organisations, will be held on December 1 to draw attention towards the plight of Bhopal gas tragedy victims on its 25th anniversary. Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahyog Samiti (BGPSSS), All India People's Science Network (AIPSN) and Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) had …

Women still affected even 25 yrs after gas disaster

Kumar Shakti Shekhar | Bhopal Even 25 years after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, there are several families in Bhopal where the women are not getting married. If in some cases, the gas-affected women are suffering from gynaecological disorders, in others no family is ready to take them in marriage suspecting …

Continuing nightmare in Bhopal: CSE laboratory tests soil, water samples from Union Carbide

For more than 25 years, the Union Carbide (UCIL) factory has been contaminating the land and water of Bhopal. Latest tests show that groundwater in areas even three km away from the factory contains almost 40 times more pesticides than Indian standards.

Gas leak at Tata Steel: 12 people suffer breathing problem in city

Over a dozen people have been reported to have suffered from itching and difficulty in breathing after gas leakage at Tube Division of Tata Steel here. According to the information, leakage of ammonia gas while transferring from a tanker to a storage tank in Tubes Division crated a uproar, however, …

Gas leak spurs panic in Jemco

Panic gripped a slum in Jemco, situated close to Tata Steel

Oil leak in Haldia-Paradip pipeline in Orissa

BHUBANESWAR: An oil leak was Tuesday spotted at a crucial pipeline of the state-run Indian Oil Corp in Orissa's Bhadrak district, raising concerns over its environmental impact and loss of supplies. The leak was detected early morning by residents near Jafrabad village, some 170 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, said …

IOC pipeline leakage triggers panic

BALASORE: Panic spread in Faridabad and its adjacent villages under Tihidi block of Bhadrak district today following a leakage in Paradip-Haldia crude oil pipeline of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). The leakage occurred close on the heels of fire mishap at Jaipur oil depot of IOC in Rajasthan that claimed …

Speed up justice for Bhopal gas victims

BHOPAL: Pointing to years of alleged official neglect by the Central and State governments, the organisations putting in serious efforts to bring justice to the kin of the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have once again expressed concern over the manner in which the whole issue has been treated …

Many ill after gas leak in Noida

Around 50 work leading multiers of a leading multinational washing machine assembly plant here were taken ill after inhaling noxious gas from one of its plants located in phase II of neighbouring Noida on Tuesday. Although most of them were discharged after first aid, around half-a-dozen were admitted in the …

69 rushed to hospital after gas leak in Noida

Noida: At least 69 people were affected by a gas leak at a washing machine factory of the multinational, Samsung, in Noida Phase II for nearly three hours on Tuesday before they were taken to the hospital. Though most of them were stable by the end of the day and …

Govt to study disaster-prone chemical, petrochem units

Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: The recent massive fire at the Indian Oil Corporation

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