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 …
S. Viswanathan With a former Chairman of Union Carbide India Limited, Keshub Mahindra, and seven others convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment by a trial court, the 26-year-old Bhopal tragedy case has reached a new stage. The long wait for the families of thousands of victims who were either …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Activists and groups representing victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak are asking if the government is letting the Dow Chemical off the hook by deciding to pay for the clean-up of the contaminated site. While they welcome the recommendation of the Group of Ministers (GoM) …
NEW DELHI: The Centre is likely to foot the bill for remediation, or cleaning up, of the contaminated site of the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. This is expected to be among the recommendations of the group of ministers (GoM), which are to be finalized and handed over to Prime …
The Group of Ministers (GOM), appointed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the Bhopal gas tragedy, has looked into the health-related problems that people suffered due to the sudden leakage of tonnes of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) from the storage tank at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal on the night …
The Centre seems to have forgotten the findings of a high-level technical committee it had formed immediately after the Bhopal gas tragedy, which had slammed the Union Carbide Corporation saying it was
Deliberating on remediation measures, the Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday considered a number of clean-up options, including building a memorial and burying part of the toxic waste at the disaster site in Bhopal where the Union Carbide factory is located. Chidambaram told reporters …
Ministerial Panel May Put Onus Of Cleaning Up Plant Site On MP Govt With Financial Help From Centre THE group of ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas tragedy, which met for the fourth time on Sunday, discussed remedial and environment issues. The ministerial panel feels that the Madhya Pradesh government …
Smita Gupta New Delhi: Environmentalists and activists who have been tracking the Bhopal gas tragedy case say the current ownership of the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) plant should make no material difference to the case against Dow Chemicals. On Saturday, the Group of Ministers was concerned that the ambiguity …
Sukalp Sharma One key component of industrial safety is industrial waste management, conspicuous largely by its absence in India. That 26 years after the world
The chronicle of Bhopal in the courts is of a case doomed to failure. In step after step from that fateful night of 2 December 1984 onwards, the government, legal luminaries and, even on occasion, the Supreme Court of India failed the victims of Bhopal, and one could even say …
Hit by the raging Bhopal gas tragedy controversy, the government on Friday began exploring options, including a special compensation package worth Rs 982 crores, for the victims. The compensation package worked out by the Planning Commission is part of comprehensive demands placed before the Centre by successive state governments. The …
Bhopal, June 18: Sheeshon Ka Mahal, a documentary film based on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, commissioned by the Madhya Pradesh government, may never see the light of day as its original print has been lost, official sources said on Friday. The print of the documentary made by filmmaker Muzaffar …
NEW DELHI: Residents of 13 localities around the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal first bore the brunt of the gas leak in 1984 and are now suffering contamination of ground water by hazardous waste from the plant. "We will soon move the Supreme Court to revive the 15-year-old matter in …
New Delhi: The Centre has decided to explore the feasibility of securing the extradition of former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson, besides hiking the compensation for the Bhopal gas victims who look poised to get an additional package of Rs 982.75 crore. The decisions to secure the custody and enhance …
The Union government is examining increased compensation to the families of Bhopal gas victims to address the public anger in the wake of a recent court verdict. The government
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI:Hours before the Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram met on Friday, the Planning Commission is understood to have released Rs.982 crore to the Madhya Pradesh government for rehabilitation of the Bhopal gas tragedy victims. There was no official word on the …
Smita Gupta and J. Venkatesan NEW DELHI:The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, which met on Friday, will work through the weekend and submit its report to the Cabinet on Monday, ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 10-day deadline. The mood at the meeting, sources said, was
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The office of the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister has no Public Information Officer (PIO) to receive applications filed under the Right to Information Act. An RTI application seeking details on who assisted (the then chief of Union Carbide) Warren Anderson, the main accused in the 1984 …
Sriram Panchu The government should arrange for a current calculation of compensation requirements, provide the balance funds, and ensure speedy disbursement. The verdict in the Bhopal gas leak criminal case convicted officers of Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) for rash and negligent acts causing death, and imposed the maximum penalty …
Members of the reconstituted Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas leak disaster today favoured enhanced compensation as one of the key ingredients of a healing touch package but agreed to take it up along with all other issues in back-to-back meetings over the weekend before finalising its report on …
