1984 Bhopal Gas survivors to knock on PM’s door on 28th anniversary
Bhopal, November 20: (Pervez Bari): The survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, world’s worst industrial catastrophe, led by the NGOs, (non-government organisations), working for their welfare would...
View ArticleActivists, victims of Bhopal Gas Tragedy vow to knock PMO on its 28th...
Tweet Bhopal, Nov.19 (ANI): Activists and victims of the December 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, have vowed to knock on the doors of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to seek adequate compensation on the...
View ArticleBhopal victims hold own Olympics to protest Dow
Bhopal: Hundreds of survivors of the deadly 1984 Bhopal gas leak held a "Special Olympics" on Thursday with children suffering birth defects in an effort to shame Olympic sponsor Dow Chemical Co. on...
View ArticleBhopal Gas tragedy: Centre taking steps to remove Carbide factory toxic...
Tweet Bhopal, June 5 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, who is heading the Group of Ministers (GoM) looking into the Bhopal Gas tragedy, on Tuesday said the Central Government is taking all...
View ArticleMinisterial panel orders laboratory testing of Bhopal gas tragedy toxic waste
Tweet New Delhi, Oct.23 (ANI): A ministerial panel has ordered laboratory testing of toxic waste arising out of the December 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy before deciding upon the place for its safe...
View ArticleBhopal gas victims remembered & survivors sympathised
December 03: (Pervez Bari): Bhopal, the state capital of the central state of Madhya Pradesh, which was the scene of world’s worst industrial disaster in December 1984, remembered its victims and...
View ArticleBhopal backlash gathers pace
Tragedy … victims of the Bhopal gas leak demonstrate outside a court in Bhopal, India, in 2010. Today, people are still calling for justice. Photo: Reuters As a ''worldwide partner'' - the...
View ArticleBhopal gas tragedy: US court absolves Union Carbide of liability
Tweet NEW YORK: In a setback to 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, a US court has held that neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or...
View ArticleIndia: Court decision requires Dow Chemical to respond to Bhopal gas tragedy...
(Source: Amnesty International) US chemical giant The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) must acknowledge its responsibility towards survivors of the devastating Bhopal industrial disaster, Amnesty...
View ArticleUS court absolves Union Carbide of liability in Bhopal tragedy
In a setback to 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, a US court has held that neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or pollution-related...
View ArticleChidambaram meets Bhopal gas tragedy victims
Tweet Bhopal, June 5 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, who is heading the Group of Ministers (GoM) looking into the Bhopal Gas tragedy, met both victims and activists here today. Law and...
View ArticleBhopal toxic waste to be disposed of in Germany
NEW DELHI -- The Indian government confirmed Friday a plan for Germany to incinerate toxic waste from a chemical plant in Bhopal, the site of the world's worst industrial disaster. The 350 tons of...
View ArticleBhopal Gas tragedy victims still await justice even after three decades
Tweet Bhopal, Dec.2 (ANI): Leaders of five organisations representing survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have called on the United States Government to acknowledge and express regret for financing,...
View ArticleUnion Carbide, Anderson cleared of liability for Bhopal tragedy
A District Court judge in New York sided with Union Carbide Company (UCC) and its erstwhile CEO Warren Anderson in denying that they faced any direct liability towards the victims of the 1984 Bhopal...
View ArticleBhopal gas leak toxic waste to be disposed off in Germany
Tweet New Delhi, June 9 (ANI): A Group of Ministers (GoM) on Friday gave its approval to the Madhya Pradesh Government to dispose of 350 metric tonnes of Union Carbide toxic waste in Germany. According...
View ArticleBhopal tragedy: US court absolves Union Carbide of liability
New York: In a setback to 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, a US court has held that neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or...
View ArticleActivists angry as plant off PC’s list
Leaders representing a number of organisations devoted to the cause of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster on Monday expressed shock and unhappiness over the fact that Union home minister P....
View ArticleBhopal's toxic legacy torments survivors
Thousands died in the industrial accident - still considered one of the world's worst - in Bhopal, India in December, 1984. Yet toxic waste remains at the former Union Carbide pesticide plant were the...
View ArticleBhopal's toxic legacy
Thousands died in the industrial accident - still considered one of the world's worst - in Bhopal, India in December, 1984. Yet toxic waste remains at the former Union Carbide pesticide plant were the...
View Article29 years later, Bhopal gas victims still wait for justice
Tweet New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) It was on the night of Dec 2-3, 1984, that a toxic gas leak from the Union Carbide Corporation's pesticide plant in the Madhya Pradesh capital killed and maimed thousands...
View ArticleSC directs clearing of Bhopal toxic waste
Gas tragedy is forgotten as victims were poor, it says The Supreme Court on Monday noted that the waste at Union Carbide’s Bhopal plant has not been cleared even after 28 years of the tragedy and...
View ArticleGreen groups in Germany say 'no' to Bhopal waste
Development experts and environmentalists in Germany are at odds over a plan to dispose of toxic waste from Bhopal, even though the move is highly welcome in India. The toxic chemicals in question...
View ArticleIrked Bhopal gas victims launch campaign to opt NOTA button in MP Vidhan...
November 13: (Pervez Bari): Irked by near total neglect the leaders of the five NGOs (non-government organizations) working for the welfare of survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst...
View ArticleU.S District Court lets off Union Carbide, Anderson in Bhopal gas tragedy
Tweet New Delhi, June 29 (ANI): In a major jolt to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, a U.S District Court in Manhattan held neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman and chief executive...
View ArticleUS contradicts Dow on gas disaster deaths: Leaked cables
BHOPAL: Contradicting Dow Chemical Company's (Dow) stated position and its opposition for higher compensation for gas victims, the leaked US government cables admits methyl isocyanate (MIC) poisonous...
View ArticleUnion Carbide not liable for claims in Bhopal tragedy: US court
In a setback to the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy, a US court has held that neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or...
View ArticleThe power of stories
On a cold December night in 1984, 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanide leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide factory into the homes of sleeping Bhopalis. Gas filled people’s lungs and over 8,000 choked to...
View ArticleNGOs on Bhopal gas victims to try to meet PM on Dec 3
The organisations representing the survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy said on Monday that they would "knock on the doors of Prime Minister" on December 3 pleading for increased compensation to the...
View ArticleBhopal Survivors’ NGOs to hold 'Bhopal Special Olympics' on July 26
Bhopal, July 24: (Pervez Bari): Bhopal: Five NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) working for the welfare of the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster, the world’s worst industrial...
View ArticleIndia enlists German help to dispose of Bhopal waste
The Indian government has decided a German agency will dispose of toxic waste that leaked from a Union Carbide plant in central India almost 30 years ago. At least 15,000 have died as a result of the...
View ArticleBhopal gas tragedy victims protest outside CM’s residence
A group of survivors of the 2004 Bhopal gas tragedy and people living in the areas near the abandoned Union Carbide factory held a protest outside the residence of the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister...
View ArticleBhopal gas disaster victims chain themselves to Chouhan's house
Survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster, neighbourhood residents of the abandoned Union Carbide factory and their supporters, locked themselves to the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan’s residence...
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