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 …
On August 9th, 2007, Mr. D.Raja, National Secretary, Communist Party of India, wrote a strong letter on the matter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, accusing the PM's office of treating Dow and not Bhopal survivors as the victims of an injustice. The Prime Minister replied on August 17th.
The road map prepared by the ngos calls for a review of all scientific studies conducted at the Bhopal site since 1989. The threats the waste poses to workers, local residents and the environment have to be assessed first, it says. The liabilities of damages caused to workers, residents and …
there has been a surge in accidents in chemicals industries of late. The most recent accident happened in a chemical factory near Ahmedabad where a blast claimed four lives on June 4. A week before the incident, a set of guidelines
a month-and-a-half after a pipeline carrying radioactive waste burst in Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district, the government is yet to investigate into its cause and impact. On December 24, 2006, a pipeline from Uranium Company of India Limited's (ucil) uranium mill to a storage dam had burst discharging highly toxic waste …
Ratan Tata's offer to help find funds to remove the toxic waste in UCC's Bhopal plant is inconsistent with the `polluter pays' principle. THE `polluter pays' principle, which is a basic part of environmental law, requires that polluters bear the remedial or clean-up costs of the damage they cause to …
Massive releases of agents intentionally or unintentionally can be disruptive to the lines of individuals at many levels. In 1984, the release of toxic Methylisocyanate gas had occurred suddenly and without warning from the union carbide plant in Bhopal. This disaster had created thousands of casualties thereby overwhelming local, health …
Warren Anderson, Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation at the time of the 1984 gas disaster in Bhopal is summoned along with UCC to appear before a court in Bhopal to face criminal charges of culpable homicide. Since 1992 he and the corporation have been refusing to appear and have been …
In the last four months, seven people have died in Gujarat's Ankleshwar and Panoli industrial areas in three separate industrial accidents. Recently, on November 12, three girls
