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 …
New Delhi: Ahead of the crucial hearing on Wednesday on curative petitions seeking stringent charges in the Bhopal gas tragedy case and additional compensation for victims, a plea before the SC could prove embarrassing for the government. For, it requests SC to ask the government to divulge names of officials …
CBI's seeking extradition of 90-year-old former Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation Warren Anderson in connection with Bhopal Gas tragedy case may have come too late, according to leading lawyers. Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan said "the agency (CBI) was sleeping" over the years. He, however, described the Delhi court's order allowing …
A high-powered committee today asked the Madhya Pradesh government to release compensation to those victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy who are yet to receive any money from the government. The group of ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas disaster, chaired by home minister P Chidambaram, also gave its …
Agency wants former Union Carbide chairman for his criminal culpability in the 1984 Bhopal gas leakage tragedy The CBI on Tuesday moved a Delhi court to obtain a Letter Rogatory to the US authorities for the extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson to stand trial for his …
Expressing concern over ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan in the aftermath of earthquake and tsunami, five organisations -- fighting for rights of Bhopal Gas Tragedy victims -- today demanded immediate suspension of the work on Jaitpur plant in Maharashtra. The five organisations -- Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh, …
New Delhi: The CBI is ready with documents to seek extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson from the US for his trial in the Bhopal gas leak case which led to the death of thousands in 1984. CBI
Effects Of Poison Cloud Pose Threat To Generations The spectre of lethal radioactive fallout from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima in Japan continued to haunt the country as ripples of panic spread to distant shores. Fifty workers and technicians quarantined inside the power station complex were fighting a deadly …
The Supreme Court (SC) decided on Monday to revisit its 21-year-old judgment that allowed Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) to escape by paying a mere Rs750-crore compensation to hundreds of victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy, one of the world's most ghastly industrial disasters, of 1984. The decision comes on curative …
More than 26 years after a poisonous gas leak killed 10,000 people and maimed over a lakh in Bhopal, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review its judgments in the criminal and civil cases, which allegedly helped the accused get away with light punishment and Union Carbide pay meagre …
Cancer cases in the State capital that saw world's worst industrial disasters have more than tripled among men and more than doubled among women between 1988 and 2007. A 19-year-long study, conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ACMR), has found that overall, cancer in men in all sites …
The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Union Carbide Corporation, Dow Chemicals and others on a Centre's plea seeking increase in compensation to the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore. A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia also …
Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) released the following statement in response to the filing of the curative petition by the Union of India in relation to the 1989 legal settlement concerning the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. The Indian Supreme Court’s decision today to hear the government’s petition is not a ruling …
The Supreme Court on Thursday decided to hear in open court two curative petitions filed by the CBI and the Centre in connection with the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy seeking restoration of the stringent charge of culpable homicide against the accused and enhancement of compensation for the victims. The petition …
The Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC) has pocketed over Rs 1 crore by allowing pharma companies to conduct clinical trials of drugs on its patients
