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 …

Exposing Dow

In October activists of the International Campaign for Justice for Bhopal issued an advertisement in the brochures of the India Chem exhibition. But the advert was issued in the name of Clean Chemistry Council, a fictitious European public relations firm, offering consultancy to corporations for improving their public image. The …

Writ Petition No. 2802/2004 titled Alok Pratap Singh versus Union of India and Others

The present application for intervention arises from Writ Petition No.2802/2004 titled Alok Pratap Singh versus UOI and Ors pending before the Hon'ble Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur wherein vide order-dated 23.06.2005 the Applicant was invited to intervene in the said Writ Petition by the Hon'ble High Court, in order …

Dump Dow, Bhopal kids tell NGO

Zubeda Hamid |Chennai We appeal to you not associate with a company that has still not provided justice to the thousands affected in Bhopal A group of children from Bhopal, suffering from disablities caused gas leak from Union Carbide in 1984, have appealed to a private trust here to disassociate …

Stop! Take a deep breath

Latha Jishnu / New Delhi December 06, 2008, 0:21 IST India's worst terrorist attack occurred not in Mumbai last month, but in Bhopal 24 years ago - and it's the kind of carnage that goes unheeded. What determines the gravity and enormity of an outrage? Is it the number of …

Fictitious body stings Dow

Activists of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal played a prank at the chemical export exhibition India Chem to expose the dealings of Dow Chemicals. The activists issued an advertisement in the brochures of the exhibition in the name of Clean Chemistry Council, a fictitious European public relations firm, …

US court reinstates Bhopal gas case

BY LALIT K. JHA NEW YORK The lawsuit was filed in 2004 by a group of people who live in the vicin- ity of the pesticide plant in Bhopal A New York court has reinstated a case filed against Union Carbide by residents of Bhopal who claim to have suffered …

Acute oral toxicity studies of samples of Stored Toxic Wastes at the former UCIL Plant Site at Bhopal in rats

This study was conducted to assess the safety with special reference to the acute toxicity, if any of siz samples (Excavated waste, Lime sludge, Naphthol tar (nor Napthol tar), Reactor residue, Semi processed pesticide and Sevin tar) collected from `Stored Toxic Wastes at the former UCIL Plant Site at Bhopal'. …

Dow in the dumps?

Dow Chemicals may run into trouble with its Indian investments. On August 8, Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizer Ram Vilas Paswan met some of the victims of the Bhopal gas leak disaster at their protest site in New Delhi and promised them action against the company. An empowered committee …

Limited victory

The survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy secure from the government promises to implement part of their demands. Akash Kushwaha, a seven-year-old boy who suffers from malformed eyes owing to contaminated groundwater, at a press conference held to highlight the plight of the gas victims, in New Delhi on April …

DRDE claims on toxicity of UC factory

This study was conducted to assess the safety with special reference to acute toxicity, if any of six samples (Excavated waste, Lime sludge, Naphthol tar (or Naphthol tar), Reactor residue, Semi processed pesticide and Sevin tar) collected from `Stored Toxic Wastes at the former UCIL plant site at Bhopal'. All …

Statement made by the Hon'ble Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers and Steel on 8th August 2008 at Jantar Mantar New Delhi

The Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted to oversee the matters related to the Bhopal Gas Leak, in its meeting held on 11th June, 2008, had taken certain important decisions. Based on these decisions, the following action has been/ is being taken by the Government.

De-recognise BJP, Jamuna Devi tells EC

Party in the dock for accepting donation from Dow Chemical BHOPAL: The Leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, Jamuna Devi, has written to the Election Commission asking that Bharatiya Janata Party be de-recognised because it had accepted donation from Dow Chemical International Private Limited, the Indian subsidiary of …

Outrageous, Carbide is not yet brought to book, say U.S. Congressmen

Aarti Dhar Their letter to Prime Minister is the latest in global support for gas victims NEW DELHI: Sixteen U.S. Congresspersons, led by Frank Pallone Jr, have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing support to Bhopal gas victims, and urged him to bring America-based Dow Chemical and Union Carbide …

Shareholders, too, complain against Dow

eight shareholders and an institutional investor of Dow Chemicals have complained against the company. In a letter to the us Securities and Exchange Commission, they wrote that action should be taken against the company because it had not informed them of its liabilities related to the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. …

Bhopal gas victims begin hunger strike

NEW DELHI: Nine activists, including survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster and victims of water contamination, began a hunger strike here on Tuesday. The activists said the statement by Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan on the setting up of an empowered commission for rehabilitation …

Bhopal gas survivors to expose Kamal Nath

Accuse the Union Minister of helping Union Carbide Accused of favouring Dow Chemicals and Union Carbide "He has joined hands with the killer of Bhopal' Two organisations of Bhopal gas disaster survivors on Tuesday announced their decision to launch a public awareness campaign to "expose' Union Commerce and Industries Minister …

Commission for gas victims: Transparency in working must (Editorial)

Central government has agreed to establish a Commission having special rights for Bhopal gas victims. Proposed commission would consider over different aspects of rehabilitation with consent of government of MP. It is a big achievement for the gas victims who had been staging dharna at Jantar Mantar in national capital …

Primary skin irritation test of samples of stored toxic wastes at the former UCIL plant site at Bhopal in rabbits

This study was conducted to assess the safety with special reference to the primary skin irritation, if any, of six samples (Excavated waste, Lime sludge, Naphthol tar (nor Naptho tar), Reactor residues, Semi processed pesticide and Sevin tar) collected from `Stored Toxic Wastes at the former UCIL Plant site at …

Time to bury the Bhopal tragedy ghost?

India has moved from tongas to metro rail and typewriters to laptops between December 1984 and June 2008. But the unfinished tasks related to the Bhopal gas disaster of 1984 continue to remain like a blot on industry as well as the state and central governments. The Prime Minister's Office …

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