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 …
Representatives of the anti-Koodankulam nuclear power project protesters presented a ‘questionnaire’, seeking answers to 50 questions, during the first meeting of the committees set up by the Central and state governments to resolve the stand-off, on Tuesday. Emerging from the hour-long talks, held at the collectorate here between the 15-member …
Startling new documents show that weeks after the tragic Bhopal gas leak in December 1984, the Indian government mutely accepted a settlement offered by Union Carbide Corporation (UCC). Among other things, UCC's offer outlined the quantum of compensation to be paid out to victims and how injuries were to be …
Bhopal : So far, an amount of Rs. 578 crore 83 lakh has been distributed among the heirs in 36 thousand 948 cases of Bhopal gas tragedy. Commissioner Relief is distributing ex gratia amounts in rest of 11 thousand 776 cases. A sum of Rs. 104 crore will be spent …
Just months after the 1984 gas leak at Union Carbide's plant here, the Centre had agreed to the "terms" set by the company on compensation to be paid to victims, a Right to Information (RTI) activist has claimed. Not only that, the government treated the world's worst industrial disaster as …
Bhopal : Just months after the 1984 gas leak at Union Carbide’s plant here, the Indian government agreed to the “terms” set by the company on compensation to be paid to victims, a Right to Information (RTI) activist has claimed. Not only that, the government treated the world’s worst industrial …
A day-long Bhopal bandh observed by all the five gas survivors organisations on Tuesday for demanding adequate compensation, based on the actual number of persons killed and affected in the 1984 gas disaster, was successful with markets and transport services remained closed in support of the protest. The bandh was …
The government will spend Rs 30 crore in removing 346 tonnes of toxic waste from the Bhopal gas tragedy site, over 25 years after the deadly industrial disaster took place. The waste will be taken to Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)-controlled incineration facility near Nagpur, Maharashtra. “The toxic waste …
Bhopal/New Delhi : Government will spend Rs 30 crore in removing 346 metric tonnes of toxic waste from the Bhopal gas tragedy site, over 25 years after the deadly industrial disaster took place. The waste will be taken to Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) controlled incineration facility near Nagpur, …
Government will spend Rs 30 crore in removing 346 metric tonnes of toxic waste from the Bhopal gas tragedy site, over 25 years after the deadly industrial disaster took place. The waste will be taken to Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) controlled incineration facility near Nagpur, Maharashtra. “The toxic …
The call for a Bhopal bandh on Tuesday in support of proper compensation for all victims of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal on Sunday received support from traders, transport owners associations, porters and transport workers unions. These include Bhopal Gas Peedit Nyaya Morcha, Transport Hammal Mazdoor Union, Sarrafa …
The Jabalpur Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the Centre to identify a laboratory in the country to analyse the waste from Union Carbide and prepare an environmental impact assessment on the impact of burning it in Nagpur. The September 22 order came after the Maharashtra Pollution …
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre on a plea seeking transfer of the corpus of the erstwhile Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust to it. The trust was set up to look after the victims of the 1984 gas tragedy. A Bench headed by Chief …
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has told the Madhya Pradesh High Court in an affidavit that the DRDO facility at Nagpur has neither the requisite infrastructure nor the storage facilities for handling toxic waste from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. What's more, the incinerator at the facility has …
AROUND 300 tonnes of toxic waste still lies unattended at the former factories of Union Carbide in Bhopal. Dow Chemicals, which now owns Union Carbide, the company responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, will spend £7 million on the 2012 London Olympics. The same company has refused to clean …
The chlorine gas leak on August 22 in the State capital has shown the lack of preparedness of the administration in dealing with such incidents as it could have resulted in a major tragedy if it had not been controlled in time, writes Vivek Trivedi The unforgettable memories of the …
Bhopal: Union Carbide Poisonous Gas Leak Investigation Commission has invited information pertaining to the gas leak which occurred in December 1984. The commission has invited documents or statements from the common citizens about the accused persons. Investigation commission’s Secretary Shri Shashimohan Shrivastava has said that general public or institution or …
A NAGPUR Bench of the Bombay High Court has stalled the transfer of toxic waste from Bhopal to Maharashtra amid protests by residents and activists. The decision comes a week after the Jabalpur Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordered that 350 tonnes of the hazardous material lying at …
More than 200 survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal on Tuesday set fire to an effigy of ‘Corruption in medical care, rehabilitation and compensation disbursement’ in front of the Union Carbide factory here. Five organisations representing the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster on Monday had announced …
The criticism of the Supreme Court’s decision to reject the curative petition on the Bhopal gas judgment is based on an inadequate understanding of the process. In fact, the Central Bureau of Investigation will be better off seeking an enhancement of the punishment under the 2010 judgment than in pursuing …
The Maharashtra government has filed an intervention appeal before the Jabalpur Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court against its order of July 12 to incinerate toxic waste from the former Union Carbide plant in the Defence Research and Development Organisation facility at Butibori near Nagpur. The government has appointed …
