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 …
After the Supreme Court’s nod to the authorities on April 4 to go ahead with a test incineration of the toxic waste of Bhopal’s abandoned Union Carbide factory at Pithampur near Indore, there is new twist to the toxic waste disposal issue as Union minister for rural development, drinking water …
More than two years ago his gesture of holding a piece of waste lying on the defunct Union Carbide plant — and declaring “I am still alive. I am not coughing” — had angered activists because the then Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh seemed to accuse them of milking the tragedy. …
Bhopal: The Centre had barred the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) from publishing the Bhopal gas tragedy-related research work for nine years, information under the RTI Act has revealed. It was not immediately clear why the ban was imposed. Some Union petroleum and chemicals ministry documents, including minutes of …
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Central Pollution Control Board to file a comprehensive affidavit on the “character and content” of reported contamination of ground water in Bhopal's Arifnagar area due to the 1985 Union Carbide gas tragedy. A Bench of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice J. Chelameshwar also …
A group of NGOs today strongly opposed the state government's fresh proposal of disposing of nearly 350 tons of toxic waste lying in the defunct Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in the Pithampur industrial area near here. “The facility of treatment, storage and disposal at Pithampur is not even equipped …
The Environment Ministry has got an approval from the Supreme Court to direct the Madhya Pradesh government to allow a test incineration of the toxic waste of Union Carbide factory that led to the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984. The Supreme Court last week upheld the decision of a high-level …
A 10-year-study in Bhopal has found that every second person who was exposed to the gas leak 28 years ago has abnormal lung function. The study carried out by researchers at Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre and published in the February issue of the Indian Journal of Medical Research …
Following strong protests by the Maharashtra government, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has directed that hazardous waste at Bhopal's Union Carbide chemical plant, now owned by Dow Chemicals, will be incinerated at a facility at Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh. Replying to a calling attention motion in the Assembly …
The Bhopal activist who was “snooped on” by Dow talks first-hand. This spying and snooping has a long history. When a big corporate like Dow Chemicals resorts to snooping on private citizens, in this case on those agitating for compensation following one of the worst tragedies of our times, it …
Says this will uphold the noble ideals of Olympic Movement The Union Sports Ministry has written to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), urging it to cancel the sponsorship of Dow Chemical for the London Olympics. In a letter, dated February 24, to IOC president Jacques Rogge, the Ministry's joint secretary …
The Indian Olympic Association’s repeated pleas to have Dow hemicals removed as a sponsor of the London Olympics may have fallen on deaf ears but now the Indian government has intervened with a new request. In a letter to International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, the sports ministry has asked …
Madhya Pradesh Government on Wednesday extended the tenure of the Union Carbide Toxic Gas Leak Probe Commission by an year, sources said. The term of the committee, headed by Justice SL Kocchar, was to get over on February 25, they said. The decision in this regard was taken by the …
The British government was on Tuesday accused of being part of a “conspiracy of silence” over Dow Chemical's controversial sponsorship of the London Olympics as MPs, cutting across party lines, called for the multi-million pound deal to be scrapped because of the company's links with the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. …
Dow Chemical Co hoped an Olympic sponsorship would boost its global cache, but the company's link to a gas leak tragedy 28 years ago threatens to curb some of the benefits from the $100 million advertising deal. As many as 25,000 residents of Bhopal, India, died in the aftermath of …
Five organisations of the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal on Sunday burnt an effigy of Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympics Committee to protest the apex body’s recent declaration that Dow Chemical could not be held responsible for the lingering liabilities in Bhopal. “An assessment …
The American company, Dow Chemicals, should not be sponsoring the Olympics, said the Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Ms Jayanthi Natarajan. Speaking to a group of media persons on the sidelines of Business Ethics Conference — Beacon 2012, organised by Loyola Institute of Business Administration here on Friday, she …
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has appreciated Indian Olympic Association's (IOA) concern for the victims of 1984 Bhopal Tragedy but maintained that Dow Chemicals had no ownership stakes in Union Carbide till 2000. IOC also said that its relationship with Dow Chemicals is well over 30 years and "we were …
NEW DELHI: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has appreciated Indian Olympic Association's (IOA) concern for the victims of 1984 Bhopal Tragedy but maintained that Dow Chemicals had no ownership stakes in Union Carbide till 2000. IOC also said that its relationship with Dow Chemicals is well over 30 years and …
