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 …
Concerned official circles in Madhya Pradesh are now in the action mode and have started defining the strategy to “leave behind the grim legacy of Union Carbide gas disaster of 1984 and carve out a future and build Bhopal as a global environment city” as emphasised by Prime Minister’s advisor …
German company GIZ, which has offered to airlift the highly-dangerous toxic waste from Union Carbide’s Bhopal plant for disposal in Germany, has raised “doubts” about the logistic support facilities at Bhopal airport for handling of such sophisticated cargo to avoid any environment problem. The Centre, which though had decided to …
Five non-government organisations representing victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster on Monday described the latest decision taken at the meeting of Group of Ministers to send 350 tonnes of hazardous waste from the abandoned Union Carbide pesticide plant to Germany for safe disposal was a vindication of their long-standing …
MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed gratitude to Advisor to Prime Minister and chairman of National Innovation Council Sam Pitroda for his State visit and has urged him to become mentor of ambitious projects for establishment of a Knowledge City near Ujjain and development of Bhopal as a …
A German firm selected to remove toxic waste from the Bhopal gas leak site has said it would require over 4,000 special containers approved by the United Nations as well as trained experts for the job. Besides this, it would identify and train workers for packing of 346 tonnes of …
Union home minister P Chidambaram, who is heading a Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal gas disaster, said here on Tuesday the group will meet on June 8 decide on the remediation of 390 metric tonnes of toxic waste lying in closed entity of Union Carbide India Limited (now represented …
During their one-day Bhopal visit today, Union Home Minister Shri P. Chidambaram and Group of Ministers members Union Law & Justice Minister Shri Salman Khurshid and Union Minister of State for Personnel Affairs, Public Grievances Redressal and Pension Shri Narayan Sami took stock of the arrangements at Bhopal Memorial Hospital …
Union home minister P. Chidambaram said on Tuesday that the toxic waste lying at the abandoned Union Carbide pesticide plant in the state capital has not been disposed of till now since three state governments refused to allow the disposal of hundreds of tonnes of hazardous waste in their territory. …
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, who is heading a Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas tragedy, is unaware of the facts regarding extradition of then CEO of Union Carbide Corporation Warren Anderson. To a query in this regard, Chidambaram said Anderson is now about 90 and suffering from various …
Alleging that the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas tragedy had failed to keep the promises made to victims, victim organizations urged GoM chairperson and Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram to present correct figures of death and injury to provide adequate compensation, and also to treat environmental remediation …
Leaders of five organisations of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster on Monday faxed a memorandum to Home Minister P Chidambaram a day ahead of his visit to Bhopal. The organisations said that they were shocked and hurt to find that Chidambaram’s itinerary does not include any meeting with the …
The Supreme Court has pulled up the Centre for not being serious about cleaning up the toxic waste lying around for the past 28 years at the defunct Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. At a special hearing by the Court's Vacation Bench on Monday, the Judges asked if the Government's …
The apex court on Monday pulled up the Centre for not being serious on disposal of toxic waste lying in the defunct Union Carbide India Ltd plant, now represented by DOW Chemical Company, in Bhopal for the last 28 years and asked it to take a final decision on it …
Unhappy with the continuing inaction on the issue of disposal of 350 tonnes of toxic waste lying in the defunct Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) plant for the last 28 years, the SC on Monday pulled up the Centre, directing it to place before it the decision taken by the …
A German development aid organisation said on Thursday it was in talks with the Indian government to dispose of 350 tonnes of toxic waste from the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. “We are in discussions with the Indian government,” a spokesman for the government-run Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) said, adding …
Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Shri Babulal Gaur called on Union Urban Development Minister Shri Kamalnath here today and handed over to him an action plan chalked out for Narmada River’s conservation by the State Urban Administration & Development Department. He demanded funds to the tune of Rs. …
The representatives of five organisations of Bhopal gas survivors have urged the Group of Ministers on Bhopal to take a long term view while dealing with the issue of hazardous waste and toxic contamination. The GOM will meet on May 21 to discuss issue of disposal of 350MT of toxic …
The Group of Ministers on Bhopal Gas Tragedy has decided to dispose of in Germany the toxic waste lying on the Union Carbide premises. Madhya Pradesh’s Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Babulal Gaur, who attended the GoM meeting in Delhi on Monday, said the Union Environment and Forests Ministry …
The representatives of five Bhopal gas survivor organisations on Sunday urged the Group of Ministers on Bhopal to take a long term view in dealing with the issue of hazardous waste and toxic contamination linked with the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. The demand raised by the Bhopal gas survivors acquires …
Concerned about the serious threat posed by huge toxic material left in Union Carbide’s Bhopal plant after the 1984 gas tragedy, the Supreme Court on Thursday summoned top officials of the Union and MP government to suggest measures for its early disposal. A bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and S.J. …
