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 …
The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday the petition filed by the Centre seeking enhancement of compensation from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore for the victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, in which more than 5000 people were killed due to leakage of poisonous gas from Union Carbide …
A large number of Bhopal gas tragedy victims today held a demonstration in the national capital demanding adequate compensation, rehabilitation, medical care and punishment to the guilty. The dharna, organised by Bhopal Gas Pidit Sangharsh Sahyog Samiti (BGPSSS) and CITU, was addressed by CPI(M) Parliamentary Group leader Basudeb Acharia and …
When B R Lall, the IPS officer who had headed the CBI probe into the Bhopal gas leak, alleged that the External Affairs Ministry (MEA) had pressured the agency not to pursue the extradition of Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson, he drew not only an indignant response but also mockery …
Bhopal: Gas Tragedy, Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Babulal Gaur today visited claim courts at old district court in Shahjehanabad locality and talked to the gas claimants about the arrangements for distribution of compensation. In charge Registrar Bharat Bhushan Shrivastava informed that a sum of Rs 39 crore 82 lakh against …
Bhopal: A chilling incident of fraud with a victim of the Bhopal gas tragedy has come to light and activists insist that is proof of what they have always maintained
Volunteer organisation Zahreeli Gas Kand Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal, fighting for the rights of the gas victims for the last 26 years, is planning to send around 30,000 to 35,000 memorandums to the Prime Minister, in which the demand would be made that the compensation amount must be hiked after assuming …
Bhopal: The fresh compensation of `740 crores sanctioned by the Centre will be disbursed among the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy-hit persons here from December 19, a senior Madhya Pradesh government official said on Friday.
The US-based Dow Chemical Company has protested the filing of a curative petition by the government to the Supreme Court in the Bhopal gas tragedy case last week. It has termed the government action
Far away from the heat and dust of Bhopal, two federal class action lawsuits are under way here in New York City. The Bhopal cases filed in the US have had a circuitous history, not unlike in India. The cases, Sahu vs Union Carbide et al, are civil cases filed …
Government today moved the Supreme Court seeking enhancement of compensation from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy in which more than 5000 people were killed due to leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide factory. The filing of curative …
Bhopal Gas Tragedy & Rehabilitation Minster Babulal Gaur met Chidambaram, Chairman of the Group of Ministers set up for the gas affected by the Central Government in New Delhi today and submitted a memorandum. It has been stated in the memorandum that only 8 per cent of the gas affected …
J. Venkatesan Justice ELUSIVE: Survivors of the December 1984 gas tragedy taking out a rally in front of the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal on Friday. New Delhi: Coinciding with the anniversary of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, the Centre on Friday filed a curative petition seeking enhancement of …
J. Venkatesan Hazardous wastes lying on Bhopal factory premises New Delhi: In its curative petition seeking enhancement of compensation to gas tragedy victims, filed in the Supreme Court on Friday, the Centre said that after the trial court in Bhopal pronounced its verdict in the criminal case against the accused …
IN JUNE this year, responding to the public outcry over the weak judgements handed out by a Bhopal sessions court, the Indian government had unveiled a new relief package for the survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy. With the 26th anniversary of the disaster around the corner, M Rajshekhar of …
On the government decision not to pursue Bhopal gas victims’ case in the New York court It is ill-considered and neither in the interest of the victims nor of India. It benefits Dow Chemical Company (Union Carbide is now a subsidiary of Dow) that has asserted it is not subject …
India will pay an extra 713 million rupees ($15.8 million) in compensation to the victims of the world's worst industrial accident that killed thousands in 1984, the government said in a statement late on Thursday. India says about 3,500 people died when a Union Carbide plant in the central Indian …
