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 …
A large numbers of subjects were exposed to the aerosol of methyl isocyanate (MIC) during Bhopal gas disaster and lung was one of the most commonly affected organs. The aim of the present study was to analyze retrospectively the lung function abnormalities among the surviving MIC exposed population (gas victims) …
A demand has been raised with the Union Government to provide Rs 10 lakh compensation each to the kin of 15,342 persons who died in Bhopal gas tragedy. Representatives of gas victims will be taken to Delhi to meet the Prime Minister. This information was given at a quarterly review …
‘Games organisers toeing company line' There were fresh calls on Thursday for an independent inquiry into Dow Chemical's controversial sponsorship of the London Olympics after Meredith Alexander, a leading environmentalist, resigned from the Games' ethics committee — the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 — protesting against Dow's links with …
The proposal to bring 346 tonnes of hazardous waste from the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster site to a disposal facility in Taloja outside Mumbai has been opposed by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). If implemented, the agency feels, it will set a precedent and Mumbai will become a dumping …
Rahul Wadke The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has asked Mumbai Waste Management Ltd, a hazardous waste management company with a facility near Mumbai, to incinerate 10 tonnes of toxic waste from the Union Carbide's Bhopal plant. The company is keen to dispose of the waste, provided the pollution control …
Bhopal : Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has urged the Centre to constitute a special committee for assessing the quantum of soil and water pollution around the Union Carbide premises here. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chouhan urged the Centre to assess the quantum of …
Bhopal : Survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy will go on indefinite dharna from Tuesday demanding that actual figures of those killed and injured be presented before the Supreme Court when the curative petition comes up for hearing. Non-government organisations (NGOs) fighting for the tragedy survivors allege despite assurances by the …
Leaders of the five Bhopal gas survivors’ organisations who had organised the ‘Rail Roko’ protest on December 3, 2011 had a meeting with Commissioner, Bhopal and Gas Relief, here on Monday. A total of 45 questions have been raised to the Department of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation and …
Kushabhau Thakre gas relief hospital and Maa Karma Devi day-care unit dispensaries will be converted into hospitals by providing various facilities. Five-bedded single wards will be constructed in both the gas relief and rehabilitation department governed dispensaries in which doctors and nurses will be available24 hours. The renovation work would …
In the wake of Nagpur-based DRDO lab refusing to conduct tests on samples of toxic waste lying at the defunct Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday directed the Centre to get it tested in any lab in the country and submit report to the …
NEW DELHI, 12 DEC: The Supreme Court today issued notices to the governments at the Centre and in Madhya Pradesh on the petition filed by an NGO seeking directions to implement the recommendation of the Sixth Pay Commission for the doctors and employees of hospitals set up for the treatment …
Behind the massive mobilisation on the railway tracks of Bhopal on the 27th anniversary of the gas tragedy were a training video and a seven-step instruction manual. For more than a month before the disaster’s anniversary, activists of five organisations working for the survivors had moved from one slum to …
Bhopal: A candle rally was organised by specially-abled children under the aegis of Chingari Rehabilitation Centre to pay condolence to victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy. The rally was taken out from the centre to D.I.G. Bungalow Square. The motto of this candle march was to remember the pain and …
Sensing an opportunity in Saturday’s violence that marked the 27th anniversary of the gas tragedy, the BJP government has revived an old demand for compensation to residents of new Bhopal whose claims were never considered. Even the activists working for the survivors never second the demand for compensation to 20 …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that compensation in death category should also be given to those who died of partial effect in Bhopal gas tragedy. Rest of 20 wards of Bhopal should also be declared as gas-affected. CM in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on June …
New Delhi: US-based multinational Dow Chemicals has declined to share its wholly owned subsidiary Union Carbide Corporation’s alleged past residuary liability towards compensating 1984 Bhopal tragedy victims. It refused to submit to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of India, which is dealing with the Centre’s plea for an additional …
With Dow Chemical being a London Olympics sponsor, an unapologetic Union Carbide prospers On the eve of the 26th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster, survivors of the Bhopal Gas tragedy protested in the Madhya Pradesh capital by setting on fire effigies of Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London …
On the 27th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy on Saturday, victims and survivors, still waiting for relief, will register their protest by launching an indefinite rail roko andolan (stop trains). “On December 3, please don't travel by train. Change your reservations now. We are sorry to cause you inconvenience …
Thousands of survivors of the world's worst industrial accident blocked trains through a central Indian city on Saturday to demand more compensation for the 1984 disaster. A survivor of the 1984 disaster shouts slogans during a demonstration Friday in front of the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India. The protest …
Bhopal : Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangthan, an organisation representing victims of Bhopal gas tragedy threatened of holding a dharna at the residence of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouuhan on the 27th anniversary of the disaster on December 2-3. Organisation’s convener Jabbar said a memorandum was submitted to Chouhan …
