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 …

Keshub Mahindra convicted in Bhopal case

Judgment comes 26 years after the gas leak tragedy, all eight convicts get bail. Keshub MahindraTwenty-six years after the world's worst industrial disaster that killed an estimated 25,000 people, a Bhopal court today convicted eight former top managers of Union Carbide India (UCIL), from whose factory deadly gas had leaked …

M&M chairman may have to quit

Arijit Barman & Swaraj Baggonkar / Mumbai June 8, 2010, 0:17 IST Keshub MahindraShould Keshub Mahindra step down as the chairman of Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M;) following his conviction in the Bhopal gas tragedy case? Will he vacate his seat on the boards of HDFC, Bombay Dyeing and a host …

Bhopal: A Chronology

It was the night between December 2 and 3 in 1984. It was a night when graveyards in Old Bhopal ran short of space and cloth merchants threw open their shops at midnight, freely donating any length of cloth to cover the endless corpses that were to be cremated or …

Union Carbide denies role in gas leak case

Says its officials were not involved in Bhopal plant operations The US-based Union Carbide Corporation, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical International, has said the company and its officials were not part of the case in which a local Indian court today convicted its former Indian arm

Warren Anderson and the Bhopal Gas Tragedy

He knew about an audit of Bhopal plant, which identified 30 hazards Warren Anderson was the chairman and chief executive of Union Carbide Corporation, once one of the largest chemical polymer companies in the United States. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1921 to Swedish immigrant parents. At …

Bhopal's ongoing tragedy

Higher courts will take their own time to deliver justice Even though 25 years have already elapsed after the Bhopal gas tragedy, which claimed over 10,000 lives and left around five lakh affected, yesterday

Anderson: The man who got away

Nearing 90, the CEO of Union Carbide at the time of the disaster lives the life of a recluse in a multi-million dollar home in NY

SC shot down move to slap tough charges

New Delhi: It will be unkind to blame the trial court for handing out mild punishments to the Bhopal gas leak accused whose collective negligence caused an industrial catastrophe. For, the court

Keshub Mahindra, 6 others get 2-year jail for Bhopal tragedy

Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: A court here on Monday convicted all the seven accused, including the former chairman of Union Carbide, Keshub Mahindra, in the Bhopal gas tragedy case and awarded them a maximum of two years' imprisonment. They were released on bail later in the evening. The verdict came …

Black day for us, says survivor

NEW DELHI: Activists and survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have slammed Monday's verdict in the case against eight former Union Carbide India executives as

Justice not done in this case, says Tulsi

BHOPAL: Disappointed with the court verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, activists, who have been fighting for justice for the families of victims, on Monday said the eight persons have been convicted on

Bhopal verdict will impact Nuclear Liability Bill: Moily

Smita Gupta New Delhi: The long-delayed verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy case will have an impact on the pending Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Bill, Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said here on Monday evening.

Fateful moments of the tragedy

Bhopal: In the apocalyptic moments on the wintry night of December 2-3, 1984, people simply started dying in the most hideous ways after a toxic gas leak. Some vomited uncontrollably, went into convulsions and fell dead. Others choked to death, drowning in their own body fluids after the Union Carbide's …

19 judges presided over trial

Bhopal: The trial in the Bhopal gas tragedy case saw 19 judges presiding over it after the charge sheet was filed in December 1987. The CBI filed the charge sheet in Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) A Sisodia's court on December 1, 1987 here. CJM R.C. Mishra heard the case of …

Bhopal gas disaster victims used to getting rough deal

New Delhi: Victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have, it seems, become used to injustice. On Monday, seven influential officers of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) were convicted by a court with a mere two-year sentence for causing the world

People living around Carbide's plant drink contaminated water

The Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984 has damaged the environment so much that over 50,000 people are still drinking underground water affected by the industrial waste dumped around the now defunct Union Carbide Factory. "More than 50,000 people living in 25 localities around the Union Carbide Factory drink underground water …

Bhopal verdict: Survivors furious, want death penalty

Emotions ran high among relatives and survivors of the victims of the world's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal as they demanded capital punishment after eight senior officials of the Union Carbide were convicted today only of death due to criminal negligence. "It is black day for Bhopal gas victims," was …

Bhopal gas disaster case: Keshub Mahindra, 7 others convicted

26 years after the world's worst industrial disaster that had left over 15,000 people dead, a local court on Monday convicted all the eight accused including former Union Carbide chairman Keshub Mahindra in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari pronounced the verdict in a packed …

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