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High Court grants 6 weeks to MP govt to act on Union Carbide waste disposal as per safety normsThe Madhya Pradesh High Court gave six weeks to the state government for the safe disposal of Union Carbide factory waste. It directed the ...
Delay in hazardous waste disposal abuse of right to health of Bhopal gas tragedy survivors: NHRC chiefAddressing a Human Rights Day event here hosted by the National Human Rights Commission, he said that one outfall of globalisation is the c...
32 yrs on, toxic waste still lying in Union Carbide factory: ActivistsGas leakage from Union Carbide, which made pesticides, on the night of December 2-3, 1984, left more than 3,000 people dead and many more i...
Protests mark Bhopal Gas tragedy's 31st anniversaryHeads of various NGOs working for survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster charged the state and central governments with protect...
NGOs want PM Narendra Modi to visit Bhopal gas disaster site, discuss vexed issuesModi is expected to arrive in the city to inaugurate the three-day-long Vishwa Hindi Sammelan (World Hindi Conference) to be held from Sept...
Bhopal gas tragedy: NGOs cry foul over 'secret' waste disposalNGOs have raised health concerns over alleged 'secret' transfer of toxic waste for disposal from the factory to Pithampur in MP's Dhar dist...
- UNEP to evaluate UCIL cleanup, compensation
After a nod from union government, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) would undertake evaluation of the spread of toxic waste in a...
NGOs want Narendra Modi to discuss Bhopal gas tragedy issue with Barack ObamaModi should raise the issue of Bhopal gas disaster with the US President Barack Obama during the ongoing three-day visit, said NGOs working...
Bhopal gas tragedy: No accurate data on deaths 30 years on, alleges NGOThough unofficial estimates claimed that the death toll had exceeded the 25,000 mark, official figure stands at 5,295 for whom the govt had...
It's time to fix the future: No more BhopalsIt's time to set this right.If government doesn't know the real victim, it must provide health care to all.
Bring Union Carbide, Dow Chemical to book in India: Bhopal gas victims to PM ModiDrawing attention of PM towards various demands, organisations highlighted issue of civil, criminal and environmental liabilities of two co...
- Bhopal gas tragedy: CSE for strict corporate liability regime
Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which organised a public meeting to commemorate the tragedy, stressed on the need to ...
Bhopal gas tragedy: Toxic waste disposal still awaitedHC asked for the waste to be incinerated at Pithampur, and in a prelude 25-30 metric tonnes should be disposed on an experimental basis.
Non-utilisation of Rs 4 crore for disposing Carbide waste: AuditAn MoU was also signed among Ministry of Environment and Forests, MPPCB and Madhya Pradesh Waste Management Project for the purpose.
Bhopal tragedy: Decision to summon Dow Chemicals a big step, says AmnestyAmnesty International Dow Chemicals demanded that the company must acknowledge its responsibility towards the survivors of the 1984 industr...
- Disputes in transporting Bhopal waste to be settled in India
Proceedings arising out of any dispute while transporting toxic waste from Bhopal gas disaster site to Germany will take place in India.
- Gujarat moves SC over Bhopal waste disposal order
Cleaning up the Bhopal gas tragedy site has led to a new inter-state dispute between Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat with the latter moving the ...