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 …
Thiruvananthapuram: Throwing his weight behind the anti-nuclear plant activists, renowned cognitive scientist and professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky, said “Kudankulam could be another Bhopal disaster in waiting.” In a solidarity letter sent to the Kudankulam protesters, Chomsky said, “Nuclear energy is a …
Brazenly flouting environmental norms, hundreds of manufacturing units in Mumbai are operating illegally, without even the most basic “consent to operate” from the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). While MPCB officials estimate that there are about 4,000 such illegal units operating in Mumbai’s industrial hubs, information obtained under the Right …
Public outrage seems to have got better of scientific opinion when it comes to disposing of over 350 tonnes of toxic waste on the Union Carbide's now-defunct premises at Bhopal. A perusal of several official documents on the matter clearly indicates that various plants in India are capable of treating …
A German firm has refused to remove 350 tonnes of toxic waste from the Bhopal gas disaster site for disposal in Germany, claiming the soil was contaminated with insecticides and that the waste was not related to the world’s worst industrial accident. The refusal may come as a blow to …
Over 100 survivors of the Union Carbide disaster on Wednesday kept a candlelight vigil to express solidarity with those opposing the Kudankulam nuclear power project. Five organisations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal condemned the brutalities unleashed by Tamil Nadu police and Rapid Action Force on …
Coordinated action by governments and industry is urgently needed to reduce the growing risks to human health and the environment posed by the unsustainable management of chemicals worldwide, according to a by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). These risks are compounded by the steady shift in the production, use …
Bhopal: An NGO, party in the Bhopal gas tragedy case in the court and fighting for the rights of the victims, has said it will move an application in the High Court for setting up a special court to conduct a fresh trial against Union Carbide officials at that time. …
The Supreme Court has washed its hands off monitoring the relief and rehabilitation schemes for the Bhopal gas victims, asking the Madhya Pradesh High Court early this week to keep an eye henceforth on them. Pointing out irretrievable damage to health and environment for generations from avoidable disasters caused by …
Supreme Court gave six months to the Central and the Madhya Pradesh governments to dispose of toxic waste lying in and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal for the past 28 years. Read this order. Supreme Court order on Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster dated 09/08/2012. See Also Feature: …
Five organisations of the survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster have planned to jointly organise ‘Bhopal Special Olympics’ on July 26, a day ahead of the London Olympics, in protest against the sponsorship of London Olympics by Dow Chemicals, the present owners of Union Carbide Ltd. Talking to media persons …
Five labourers died in an accident at an under-construction power plant of Korba West Power Co Limited in Raigrah district of Chhattisgarh Saturday morning. The labourers were on a 170-foot high scaffolding built around a cooling tower of the power plant when the scaffolding came crashing down. The victims were …
The Supreme Court today expressed concern over alleged illegal clinical trial of drugs in the country, saying its "unfortunate" that humans were being treated as "guinea pigs". A bench headed by Justice R M Lodha pulled up the Centre and the Madhya Pradesh government for not filing their response on …
The Gas Relief and Rehabilitation department on Friday constituted a committee to examine proposals for disposal of chemical wastes at the Union Carbide site. The waste has to be cleared by GIS IS, a German company. As per the MoU, the responsibilities have to be discharged by the Union and …
Tokyo: The nuclear accident at Fukushima was a manmade disaster rooted in government-industry collusion and the worst conformist conventions of Japanese culture, a high-level parliamentary inquiry concluded on Thursday, in a report that also warned that the plant may not have stood up to earthquake damage — a worrying concern …
Just days after the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant came third in an environmental rating of the steel industry, a huge fire at the plant claimed 16 lives. The disaster at Vizag raises questions about standards in the steel industry. If health and safety are so poorly managed in one of the …
Ten workers of an agrochemical company were injured in a fire following an explosion at the plant in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam district Saturday morning, police said. Some workers are feared trapped in the plant. Fire broke out at Nagarjuna Agrichem Limited following an explosion in the fifth block of the …
In yet another blow to the survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster, a US district court has dismissed a plea seeking to make Union Carbide liable for contamination caused by its pesticide plant in Bhopal. Seventeen survivors of the 1984 gas leak tragedy had filed a case against the corporation …
New York: In a setback to 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, a US court has held that neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or pollution-related claims at the firm’s former chemical plant in Bhopal. US district judge John Keena in Manhattan dismissed …
Over hundred survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy staged a protest on Wednesday to protest the inclusion of Dow Chemicals as a sponsor of the London Olympics. Leaders of all the five survivors' organisations said that similar protests were held in London, Berkley and Boston, USA and St Catharine's, Canada on …
