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 …
John Elliott I was there in Bhopal on December 7, 1984, when Warren Anderson, then-chairman of Union Carbide, was whisked away from the stricken city to New Delhi and back to the US a few days after a lethal gas leak at his company
Sukalp Sharma One key component of industrial safety is industrial waste management, conspicuous largely by its absence in India. That 26 years after the world
Kiran Yadav Despite the Bhopal gas tragedy, India seems to have learnt few lessons. Since 1984, major incidences of chemical disasters in India include a fire in an oil well in Andhra Pradesh (2003); a vapour cloud explosion in the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited Refinery, Vishakhapatnam (1997); and an explosion …
The chronicle of Bhopal in the courts is of a case doomed to failure. In step after step from that fateful night of 2 December 1984 onwards, the government, legal luminaries and, even on occasion, the Supreme Court of India failed the victims of Bhopal, and one could even say …
Hit by the raging Bhopal gas tragedy controversy, the government on Friday began exploring options, including a special compensation package worth Rs 982 crores, for the victims. The compensation package worked out by the Planning Commission is part of comprehensive demands placed before the Centre by successive state governments. The …
The Union government is examining increased compensation to the families of Bhopal gas victims to address the public anger in the wake of a recent court verdict. The government
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI:Hours before the Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram met on Friday, the Planning Commission is understood to have released Rs.982 crore to the Madhya Pradesh government for rehabilitation of the Bhopal gas tragedy victims. There was no official word on the …
Smita Gupta and J. Venkatesan NEW DELHI:The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, which met on Friday, will work through the weekend and submit its report to the Cabinet on Monday, ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 10-day deadline. The mood at the meeting, sources said, was
J. Venkatesan NEW DELHI: The Union Law Ministry has suggested that the Group of Ministers looking into the Bhopal gas tragedy set up a special commission to address the issues of the victims and their children over the next 30 years. The commission should be entrusted with medical care, research …
The judgment pertaining to the Bhopal gas tragedy has led to much discussion throughout the country. People have expressed displeasure at the verdict announced and social activists are holding protests demanding review of the judgment, in order to provide higher compensation to the victims. The residents of the city have …
Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad The government has to maintain a balance between the amount of com- pensation and the tariff to be borne by power con- sumers. Clause 8 of the bill compels the operator to main- tain insurance or set aside financial security of Rs 500 crores so that …
This is the right time to ask the govt to rethink the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill Days after President Barack Obama lashed out at British Petroleum (BP) saying he would not let it
Milind Ghatwai Bhopal: Seven organisations representing gas tragedy victims came together on one platform on Thursday to say that they expected the group of ministers (GoM) to address issues of justice and opportunities for a life of dignity for survivors.
Twenty five years later, ground zero of the Bhopal gas disaster is still a ghastly minefield for residents. They are still being harmed by the land they live in and the water they drink, writes M Rajshekhar MUHAMMAD Khan, a former Union Carbide employee, is confronted with the tragedy every …
Mahim Pratap Singh BHOPAL: Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have written to Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily requesting him to place some of their demands requiring urgent attention before the reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM). Among these are the setting up of the promised Empowered Commission on Bhopal …
Smita Gupta NEW DELHI: The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, which was asked by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to report back to the Cabinet by June 24, will meet on Friday and again on Saturday with the object of wrapping up its work as expeditiously as possible, government …
More than two decades after the Bhopal gas tragedy, there is a renewed sense of hope that the government's empowered Group of Ministers (GoM) will look afresh at various issues which have been lying buried all these years. The issue of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson's extradition is expected …
New Delhi: Only three years ago, the Centre seemed disinclined to increase payouts for Bhopal gas tragedy victims after applications filed by two NGOs alleged that the estimate used to create the settlement fund was based on a conservative figure, and compensation paid to the kin was woefully inadequate. These …
Seeking to zero down on the right healing touch to rectify the political damage from the 26-year-old Bhopal gas tragedy, the Group of Ministers (GoM) set up by the PM will look afresh at remediation measures as well as the complexities of giving additional compensation to victims. This also raises …
