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 …
Sudhir Singh Sept. 13: Quite apart from confounding his party colleagues by describing Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah as the "Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh" (or holy trinity) of Indian politics, a more important announcement made by Union MoS for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh during his visit to the state capital on …
Overwhelming evidence shows that hazardous work, working conditions, and environment fail to maintain homeostasis results in death or severe disability. Up to the 1980s, governments did not pay major attention to occupational health in developing countries, including India. The Bhopal Gas Tragedy, in 1984, was the turning point in the …
SATINATH SARANGI, 55, had planned to stay for a week. Decades later, he is still fighting on behalf of those affected by the gas tragedy HOW DOES a nation come to make swine flu the most talked about disease while 900 people die of TB everyday? Is the number of …
BHOPAL: A decision on an important matter concerning the dispute between Eveready Ltd. and the Madhya Pradesh Government over the property of Union Carbide India Limited was put off by the Chief Judicial Magistrate here on Wednesday. The hearing in a contempt case filed by Eveready against the State was …
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (not their real names) are the frontmen for the Yes Men. They got together to set up parody websites such as www.gwbush.com and graduated to huge anti-corporate, culture-jamming stunts targeting giants such as ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical. Their latest film, The Yes Men Fix the …
New York: Union Carbide is defending its former CEO Warren Anderson, now wanted for arrest in India, saying managers could not have foreseen a gas leak at the company
Man Dies After Facility Built On SC Directive Refuses Treatment Bhopal: Mushtaq Ahmed was 20 when the gas tragedy struck this city on the midnight of December 2, 1984. Over the years, he developed a cardiac problem and both his kidneys were damaged. On September 24, 2008, he complained of …
US lawmakers have asked Dow Chemical to clean up the soil and underground water contaminated by the deadly gas leak at Union Carbide plant at Bhopal but the US firm disowned the liabilities saying that it never owned or operated the disgraced plant site. As many as 27 lawmakers have …
This is the letter by the Congress of United States, Washington to Chairman & CEO of Dow Chemical Company, Michigan, requesting that Dow ensures that a representative appear in the ongoing legal cases in India regarding Bhopal, that Dow meets the demands of the survivors for medical and economic rehabilitation, …
Letter to Dow Chemical Company from Congress of the United States to immediately take steps towards remediation and redress of the chemical disaster in Bhopal, India.
A four-member delegation including two members of the survivors' family of the worst industrial gas tragedy in Bhopal conducted a successful campaign of United States to exert pressure over Dow Chemicals Company that refused to obey Indian courts and Indian government. ''We had a successful meeting with the US State …
Chemicals producers and governments agreed on Friday to step up efforts to push for greater safety in chemicals from lead in paint to microscopic substances. But non-governmental organisations (NGOs) said unless the industry and governments come up with more money, agreed targets for cleaning up chemicals by 2020 were unlikely …
During the night of 2-3 December 1984, a leak of some 40 tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas mixed with unknown other gasses from a chemical plant owned and operated by Union Carbide (India) Limited, a partly-owned subsidiary of the US-based Union Carbide Corporation, caused one of the highest-casualty industrial …
Gireesh Chandra Prasad NEW DELHI CLEANING up the Bhopal gas tragedy site has led to a new inter-state dispute with Gujarat moving the Supreme Court against a Madhya Pradesh court order that a part of toxic waste from Bhopal can be disposed of in a Gujarat facility. The move follows …
New Delhi: Centre wants it to be incinerated at Ankleshwar, Gujarat says already a huge backlog A case between the Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh governments pending before the Supreme Court over disposal of nearly 350 metric tonnes of toxic waste lying at the now defunct Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) …
ICMR To Look Into Effects After 25,000 Fall Prey To Gas Leak-Related Ailments Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Indian scientists are all set to take a relook at one of the country
Deadline for disposing UCIL waste THE Madhya Pradesh High Court on December 16 issued fresh directions to dispose the toxic waste lying at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. The waste is to be incinerated at the waste treatment site in Ankleshwar industrial area of Gujarat. The court directed the …
By Our Staff Reporter Bhopal, Jan 21: Madhya Pradesh Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Babulal Gaur today urged the Centre to sanction the proposed Rs 985.75 crore for social, economical and medical rehabilitation for Bhopal gas tragedy victims. Gaur, who met the Union Human Resources Development Minister and the …
