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 …
PRODIPTO GHOSH| DISTINGUISHED FELLOW, TERI It should be independent of government & private interest REGULATORY AGENCIES TYPICALLY ASSUME responsibility for public policy objectives that cannot be realised without such intervention, owing to market failure, or relate to concerns that are outside the domain of markets. Environmental regulation has attributes of …
Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS SECOND generation victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy are in town to urge Anna University to return the Rs 5 lakh sponsorship obtained from Dow Chemicals, the company that presently owns the Union Carbide factory that caused the gas disaster in 1984. "Accepting Dow's sponsorship will …
The victims are yet to be adequately compensated or given proper medical help; their water sources are yet to be decontaminated. At Arif Nagar slum, a toxic waste yard next to the boundary wall of the factory. The accident polluted the soil and groundwater in the neighbourhood to dangerous levels. …
A MAN ARRIVES for a memorial service for the 1984 gas disaster victims on the 25th anniversary of the world's worst industrial accident, near the old Union Carbide factory in Bhopal on December 3. THE 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster has justifiably attracted considerable attention not only to …
It is 25 years of the Bhopal gas disaster—the night when chemicals spewed out of the Union Carbide factory to kill and maim thousands over generations. The question is if we have learnt from the disaster—learnt how to handle chemical accidents; to dispose of industrial toxic waste; to manage crucial …
The lead counsel for the victims of toxic contamination here against Union Carbide in an American court, on Thursday said that time was ripe for the Centre to take legal action to hold Carbide accountable for proper environmental remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater.
25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal reveals this latest study by Centre for Science & Environment. This study based on CSE's Pollution Monitoring Laboratory tests found that water and soil in & around the Union Carbide factory are loaded with pesticides. To know more …
Our ruling elites consider the lives and livelihoods of the poor expendable in the pursuit of development, says VIDYADHAR GADGIL Eight days ago, India marked a sombre remembrance
Even after 25 years, Union Carbide refuses to accept responsibility or show any remorse Sunil Jain / New Delhi December 7, 2009, 0:29 IST Worthies such as Ratan Tata who have been lobbying the government to go easy on Union Carbide Corporation (http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/5_27.pdf) would do well to read Carbide
Govt unmoved as tonnes of deadly poisons continue to seep into the soil and water near the closed Union Carbide factory in Bhopal Bhopal: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh recently visited the killer Bhopal Union Carbide factory. Holding up a fistful of mud from the premises, he said, look here, I …
Bhopal: Angry survivors joined protests to mark the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster on Thursday, demanding that those responsible be brought to book. Protesters marched to the Union Carbide pesticide plant where on December 3, 1984 lethal methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leaked from the factory killing over 15,000 …
The government's behaviour compounds the scandal Was Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh right when, holding the toxic waste at the Union Carbide/Dow Chemicals
