After 20 years, Bhopal still drinking poison
People around Bhopal remain at risk of poisoning by toxic waste contained in drinking water, 20 years after the gas tragedy which killed nearly 4,000 people and left lakhs disabled, a report claimed.
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The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010
Bill to provide for civil liability for nuclear damage, appointment of claims commissioner, establishment of nuclear damage claims commission and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
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Choice of weapons
"TO BE or not to be": one is immediately struck by the stark bipolarity suggested by the title. The show, presented by Max Mueller Bhavan and the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature, is about the
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SOUTH AFRICA
An us7owned vanadi'u'm mine in Vametco in tfie North West province seems to be doing a repeat of the Bhopal gas tragedy. Inhabitants of the villages of Mothutlung which has a population of
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No compensation for gas victims
The disbursement of compensation among Bhopal's gas tragedy victims has come to a standstill following a strike called by about 900 employees of more than 56 gas victims' welfare courts since 5
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SC to adjudicate on new trust for hospital
The Supreme Court will pass orders on a Government proposal to appoint former Chief Justice of India A M Ahmadi to head a new trust to oversee the building of a hospital at Bhopal for the gas leak
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Gas leak: about 200 still suffering
About 200 persons are still suffering the after effects of inhaling a toxic gas that leaked last evening from a hitherto unidentified factory in Mandideep area. After being provided first aid at
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People's risk
Community based risk assessment and abatement is a must in the age of expanding business opportunities
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The chemistry of living death
THE world's biggest industrial disaster has been rendered today its most trivial. Criminal corporate culpability and governmental concern for its poorest of the poor are the 2 elements missing in Bhopal a full decade aft methyl isocyanate leaked fro
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The most comprehensive film on Bhopal
The Supreme Court ruled recently, in reference to Beyond Genocide, a film on the Bhopal gas disaster, that Doordarshan cannot curtail the Constitutional right to freedom of expression
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The Bhopal disaster and its aftermath: a review
On December 3 1984, more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, immediately killing at least 3,800 people and causing significant morbidity and premature death for many thousands more. The company involved in what became the worst industrial accident in history immediately tried to dissociate itself from legal responsibility.
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Bhopal Hospital Project in final stages
The work on the ambitious Bhopal Hospital Project along with several dispensaries being set up in areas affected by the Union Carbide gas disaster in December 1984 by the Bhopal Hospital Trust with
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A ray of hope from U.S.
The US based Dow Chemical Company has agreed to propose concrete programmes for long term relief and rehabilitation of the gas disaster victims in Bhopal, according to Satinath Sarangi of the Bhopal
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Grim lessons of Bhopal
Tardy compensation, inadequate and inappropriate medical treatment and absence of economic rehabilitation to the debilitated survivors characterised the post gas leak scenario in Bhopal. A study by
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MP's first auto gas station opened
The LPG is now available for the vehicle drivers of the State. The first auto gas pump has been set up by the Indian Oil Corporation in the Sawantika Petrol Statioon at Security Lines,
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Bhopal plant disaster situation summary
During the night of 2-3 December 1984, a leak of some 40 tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas mixed with unknown other gasses from a chemical plant owned and operated by Union Carbide (India) Limited, a partly-owned subsidiary of the US-based Union Carbide Corporation, caused one of the highest-casualty industrial accidents of the 20th century.
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Defence scientists set to clean up Bhopal's killer plant
Toxic wastes, lying in the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal closed after the gas tragedy killed 10000 people in 1984, may now be cleaned up by defence scientists. Methyl isocynate gas had leaded out on
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A city still gasping for breath
Eighteen years after the Union Carbide gas disaster, Bhopal continues to gasp for breath as the authorities have apparently paid only a lip service when it comes to providing clean and healthy
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Dow refuses Bhopal Carbide unit liability
Dow Chemical, the owner of Union Carbide factory in Bhopal from which toxic gas leaked killing thousands of people in 1984, has said it does not have any liability for the tragedy.The company also
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Probe into chlorine leak at BHEL
The Madhya Pradesh government has ordered an inquiry into Monday night's chlorine leakage at the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd's water treatment plant here. The Commissioner of Bhopal Municipal Corporation