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 Madhya Pradesh government today admitted in the Assembly today that the main convict Warren Anderson, the then Chairman of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) in the Bhopal gas tragedy case could have been granted bail in a court rather than from police station where the bail was granted. This …
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Centre to take over the management of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust running super-speciality treatment centres for the 1984 gas victims. The apex court also accepted the resignation of former Chief Justice A M Ahmadi as the chairman of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital …
Maneesh Chhibber New Delhi: The Centre has asked attorney general Goolam E Vahanvati to file a curative petition in the Supreme Court in the Bhopal gas leak case, asking it to set aside the 1996 judgment of a Bench headed by then Chief Justice of India AM Ahmadi, which had …
The Union Government has asked Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati to file a curative petition in the Supreme Court in the Bhopal gas leak case, asking it to set aside the 1996 judgment of a Bench headed by then chief justice of India A M Ahmadi, which had ordered the …
The licence permit raj has morphed into a system which is just as crippling A V Rajwade / New Delhi July 19, 2010, 0:44 IST The recent debate over the freedom of financial regulators from netas and babus needs to be looked at in the context of the remarkable immunity …
Prime ministers don’t usually get asked whether they have had their eyes removed. But then, exceptional circumstances call for extreme measures. In a recent postcard campaign featuring a bloodied skull, the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) and its supporters put that question to Manmohan Singh. Why else, they …
New Delhi: As it prepares to move a Bhopal sessions court to fasten stringent charges under Section 304-II IPC on those held responsible for the Bhopal gas leak case, CBI is recognizing that it may have restricted leeway against the most prominent of those convicted for the disaster, Keshub Mahindra. …
The role that our scientists and engineers played, on the spot, during the catastrophic period has not been duly brought out Much has been written about the recent judgment in the Bhopal gas tragedy. But the role that our scientists and engineers played, on the spot, during the catastrophic period …
Luck plays in strange ways. I was reaching for my scooter when the telephone rang in my office-cum-residence in Bhopal. I opened the gate, unlocked the door downstairs, ran up the steps to the first floor and opened the door to my apartment. Normally the caller would have given up, …
Has Bhopal taught the nation how to ensure industrial safety? Following the Bhopal accident, several pieces of legislation came into force, the prime one being the Environment Protection Act (EPA), 1986. In 1987 a new chapter was added to the Factories Act, 1948, in the aftermath of Bhopal and the …
The group of ministers (GoM) has not made it clear whether Dow Chemicals, the company that acquired UCC in 2001, is to be held liable for the threat to public safety as a result of the toxic waste the pesticide factory dumped on its premises. It has only said the …
There is 1.1 million tonnes of highly contaminated soil at the plant site, according to an estimate by the National Environment Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur. It needs to be treated and safely disposed of. The report said up to two metres of soil will need to be …
The Bhopal question has one more angle: why was there so much public and media outrage over this 25-year-old issue? Why did the national media focus on this story, which till now had been consigned to the backrooms where only noisy environmental activists live? Many things, I believe, have contributed …
The Bhopal gas tragedy was the worst industrial disaster in human history. Twenty-five thousand people died, 500,000 were injured, and the injustice done to the victims of Bhopal over the past 25 years will go down as the worst case of jurisprudence ever. The gas leak in Bhopal in December …
Sankar Ray Manufacture of MIC became risky as, being a little lighter than water but twice as heavy as air, once the compound escapes into the atmosphere it remains close to the ground to do its deadly work. Exactly that happened in December 1984 together with instant damage to eyes …
Facing protests over a plan to incinerate toxic waste of Union Carbide plant in Bhopal at a disposal unit at Pithampur, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has assured villagers that a study will be conducted and locals taken into confidence before a final view is taken. Local residents, mainly those from …
Facing protests over a plan to incinerate toxic waste of Union Carbide plant in Bhopal at a disposal unit at Pithampur, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has assured villagers that a study will be conducted and locals taken into confidence before a final view is taken. Local residents, mainly those from …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on his way back from the recent G-20 summit in Toronto, righteously declared his desire to push for a “more favourable” US attitude to extradite former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson. But as his government begins to push for it, which past Congress and BJP governments …
