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 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 …
New Delhi, 14 Nov: The external affairs ministry does not know who was its minister in December, 1984 when Bhopal Gas tragedy accused Warren Anderson, the then Union carbide chief, left the country after securing bail. In a strange reply, the ministry has said the question who held the charge …
Their campaign started gaining momentum a few days before obama's arrival. On Nov 3, the survivors organized a press conference here to announce their plan of demonstrating in New Delhi Nov 8. They demonstrated near the now-shut Union Carbide India factory on Nov 6, the day Obama arrived in Mumbai. …
The victims of Bhopal disaster and activists have slammed the government’s decision, to not intervene in the case against Union Carbide corporation in a New York court. Noted social activist and lawyer Gopal Krishna has written this letter to Maneka Gandhi, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Government Assurances, …
This Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) report of twenty years of data from 1988 to 2007 compares the magnitude and patterns of cancer between areas affected by the methyl isocyanate (MIC) leak and the unaffected areas of Bhopal. This report of twenty years of data from 1988 to 2007 …
The Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) factory at Bhopal, abandoned after the world’s worst industrial disaster that took place on December 3, 1984, is still heavily contaminated with a range of persistent pollutants. From this study it can be concluded that even after 25 years the residents of the area …
Indian Communist Party says that the decision taken for not putting Bhopal gas tragedy Case is wrong and betraying with gas affected people. Shailendra Shaily, district secretary of Indian Communist Party said that the statement given by Virappa Moily the central law minister for giving the clarification that Indian courts …
Following the advice of Attorney General (AG) of India, the Centre has decided against pursuing the case of Bhopal Gas Tragedy compensation in the US courts, observing that it would not be in the interest of the country or victims.
Soon after the Bhopal gas disaster in December 1984, efforts were made to suppress research reports to dilute the magnitude of the incident, claims a doctor who was posted as a child specialist at a state-run hospital here when the tragedy occurred. In his latest book, '25 years of Gas …
Hundreds of women widowed by the Bhopal gas tragedy protested here on Thursday, demanding adequate pension and enhanced compensation. The members of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi Sangharsh Morcha led the rally of the widows and shouted slogans, demanding a raise in pension from the State Government. "It's …
In its curative petition in the apex court, the govt will argue how the actual aftermath of the gas tragedy far exceeds the $470m compensation agreed to in 1989. How will the 10-year time window for claims in a nuclear incident hold up against this? Nitin Sethi | TNN The …
LALIT SHASTR BHOPA The Supreme Court has issued notices to the respondent Union ministry of chemicals and fertilisers and welfare commissioner, Bhopal, in a petition filed earlier in March 2010 by Bhopal NGOs regarding the death and injury claims arising out of the Bhopal gas disaster. The same petition was …
NEW DELHI: The Madhya Pradesh government has asked the Centre to review why compensation paid and other facilities made available to citizens of 36 wards of Bhopal following the gas tragedy should not be extended to the other 20 wards of the state capital. The state also asked that clean-up …
Too Many Cases Pending in India, AG Tells GoM Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: The attorney general has recommended to the Union government not to pursue the Bhopal gas tragedy case in US courts while several cases remain pending in various Indian courts. The attorney general gave the advice …
Contrary to the claims made by Union Carbide Corporation — now The Dow Chemical Company — that the methyl isocyanate (MIC) which killed thousands of people in Bhopal in December, 1984, following a leak in its pesticide unit, was not highly poisonous, a report released by the Indian Council of …
Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have submitted a memorandum to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in wake of the Group of Ministers meet being held in New Delhi. The 24-page memorandum seeks to clear facts and figures relating to the tragedy. An important fact brought to light in the …
