Bhopal Gas Disaster

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding large scale felling of toddy yielding palm trees in Bihar, 05/06/2025

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 …

Call to fly out Anderson came from CM office

Entire Op Was Hush-Hush, Says Then Aviation Director Bhopal: A day after Moti Singh, the collector of Bhopal when the deadly gas leak took place, revealed that Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson was released on orders from then state chief secretary Brahmaswaroop, then aviation director of MP government R …

Members of GoM on Bhopal pleaded Dow case in UPA-I

New Delhi: The uproar over the Bhopal gas-leak judgment has put the role of several UPA ministers and functionaries, including those in the newly reconstituted group of ministers (GoM), under scrutiny yet again. While the UPA might have decided to set up the GoM as a facesaver in the midst …

Anderson blame game begins: Its Cong vs Cong

Diggy Unwittingly Drags In Rajiv New Delhi: The dramatic release of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson hours after his arrest has roiled Congress, sparking a factional war which threatens to claim former PM Rajiv Gandhi as its collateral victim. AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday stunned party circles …

Digvijay Singh again: US pressure freed Anderson

Political Bureau New Delhi: Under attack from the Opposition BJP for freeing former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson within hours of his arrest in December 1984 for the Bhopal gas leak disaster, the ruling Congress took a direct hit on Thursday from its own when party general secretary Digvijay Singh …

Bhopal GoM to consider Dow proposal

Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: The reconstituted Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy headed by Home Minister P. Chidambaram has been given a vastly expanded mandate, which includes remediation measures at the site of the 1984 disaster. Internal memos and letters suggest that this inclusion of

Dont bow to US, get Anderson back: BJP, Left to Centre

CORNERED over its role in the fleeing of Warren Anderson, Congress on Thursday came under heavy shelling from the Opposition. BJP and the Left said the then Congress government at the Centre came under

Need to review IPC after the Bhopal case verdict

Arun Bothra and Komal Jain The judge could only punish the guilty as per the law book. Just because people are angry and the media is getting hysteric he could not invent new sections of the law. In fact maximum punishment for the offence under Section 304B is two years …

Kick ass for Bhopal

United States President Barack Obama says he needs to know whose ass he should kick in the case of the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He wants those responsible to pay for the damage — to the people and the environment. The victims of the Bhopal gas …

US pressure may have been a factor: Digvijay Singh

As the role of past and present Congress governments comes under intense scrutiny for effectively helping Warren Anderson and America's Union Carbide get away in the Bhopal gas leak case, senior party leader Digvijaya Singh has said that American pressure could have been a factor in how the disaster was …

A tissue of lies

The inhabitants of the city of Bhopal became victim of the world

Ex-CJI's defence of '96 order causes stir

BHOPAL NGOs working for the cause of the gas victims here have reacted sharply to the former Chief Justice of India A.H. Ahmadi's widely reported statement that it was a "correct decision" of the Supreme Court bench headed by him in 1996 which converted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) …

State plane flew Anderson out of Bhopal: Ex District Collector

Bhopal, June 09 In a sensational claim, the district collector of Bhopal at the time of the gas tragedy claimed Wednesday that the state government had actively helped Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson to escape law. Detailing the sequence of events on December 7, 1984

MP govt sets up panel to look into judgment

LALIT SHASTR BHOPAL Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed shock and concern at the udgment pronounced by the Bhopal chief judicial magis rate in the criminal case inked with the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster. He ha raised the question whethe he sentence of two years i …

Chidambaram to chair reconstituted GoM on Bhopal

P Chidambaram Union home minister P Chidambaram will head a reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) to look at relief and rehabilitation measures arising out of the Bhopal gas disaster that killed 15,000 people in one night in 1984. Earlier, Arjun Singh was heading the panel, as he was the state …

Told to give quick bail for Anderson: MP official

More details tumbled out today in the Bhopal gas tragedy case of how former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson got bail immediately after his arrest. However, the then CBI chief rejected claims that the agency was asked not to pursue his extradition. On top of a former CBI official

Cong joins chorus on Bhopal, GoM reconstituted

14/S/O/ New Delhi: With growing criticism of the verdict on the Bhopal gas leak disaster, the government on Wednesday reconstituted a group of ministers (GoM) to go into a range of issues relating to the December 1984 incident. Home minister P Chidambaram will head the reconstituted panel which was earlier …

Caught in court

The verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy has caused considerable outrage. It seems to provide little recompense to the victims, and little assurance to the public at large that the legal system is up to protecting us from the risks that make us all vulnerable. Perhaps there will be learning …

The perils of limited liability

The long-delayed and farcical verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy case should make us all think twice about the pending Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Bill, which seeks to limit the maximum compensation that a company setting up a nuclear power plant in India has to pay in case of …

GoM on Bhopal case reconstituted

New Delhi: The Centre, under fire from the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy for the way the legal case has panned out over the last 26 years, on Wednesday announced the reconstitution of a Group of Ministers (GoM) to go into the relief and rehabilitation measures for those affected …

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