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Bhopal Gas Leak: US Firm That Took Over Union Carbide Has Court Date Today
Nearly 39 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy that killed thousands and affected many more, a representative of the US-based company that took over Union Carbide in 2001 is set to appear in a Madhya Pradesh court today.
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32 Years On, Toxic Waste Still Present In Union Carbide Factory: Activists
Survivors of 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy today staged a protest in front of the now-defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal on the 32nd anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster.
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32 Years After Bhopal Tragedy, Indian Rapper Targets Chemical Giant Dow
A rapper is targeting Dow Chemical with rhymes - demanding the US company pay more in victims' compensation and environmental damages stemming from a horrific chemical gas leak that killed thousands of people and sickened countless others.
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Barack Obama Urged to Raise Bhopal Gas Tragedy With PM Narendra Modi During India Trip
A leading world rights body has requested US President Barack Obama to take up the case of the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy with the Indian government during his visit to New Delhi as the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations.
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Bhopal gas tragedy: Cabinet accepts Group of Ministers' (GoM) report
The Union Cabinet has accepted the report of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas disaster, a day ahead than originally planned. The report recommended enhanced compensation to the victims under a Rs 1,500 crore package.It also recommended pursuing liability issue with Dow Chemicals and Rs 300 crore for clean-up of the site and pursuing t...
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Bhopal: Group of Ministers will finalise recommendations on Monday
A group of nine ministers, headed by P Chidambaram, got to work on Friday with a complex agenda: to right the many wrongs that have followed the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984.Chidambaram said the Group of Ministers (GoM), who include Law Minister Veerappa Moily and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, will work through the weekend and finalize it...
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Bhopal gas tragedy: Centre arranged Anderson's release, says ex-US diplomat
A former Deputy Chief of Mission of the US embassy in New Delhi in 1984 has told NDTV that Warren Anderson's release from house arrest in Bhopal and his flight to Delhi was arranged by the Ministry of External Affairs. In an exclusive interview, Gordon Streeb said the US did not want any action to be taken against Anderson and that the then Foreign...
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India had assured Anderson's safe passage: Former US diplomat
A former US diplomat, who was the deputy chief of mission of the US embassy in New Delhi at the time of Bhopal gas tragedy, has said the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson came to India following the gas leak only after getting assurance of "safe passage" from the Indian government.Now a visiting professor of economics at Emory University in ...
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More than 25 years later, Bhopal still drinking poisoned water
Bhopal gas tragedy killed 20,000 people and scarred many for life. More than 25 year after the disaster, countless victims are still suffering due to neglect and callousness of authorities. Forget compensation, they don't even have access to clean drinking water. Here's a report on the state of the victims who are forced to drink toxic water, riski...
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I'm not Arjun Singh's spokesperson, says his son
Congress MLA Ajay Singh said in Bhopal on Monday that he was not the "official spokesperson" for his father Arjun Singh who was the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister when Bhopal Gas tragedy occurred in December 1984."I am Arjun Singh's son and I greatly admire and respect my father," Ajay told PTI.He said he would not like to comment on the silence bei...
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PM intervenes in Bhopal, gives ministers 10 days to report
As the political war cries over the verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy become sharper, the Prime Minister has intervened, asking the nine-member Group of Ministers (GoM) set up last week to meet immediately. (Bhopal gas tragedy: Verdict and after)The GoM, headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram, will meet for the first time on Friday, the 18th. It ha...
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Bhopal tragedy: Dow not liable for Bhopal?
Who should be made to pay for cleaning up the abandoned Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal - the epicenter of the world's worst industrial disaster? 20,000 people have died since a gas leak in 1984 poisoned an entire city, and many more continue to be affected by tons of toxic waste still at the site. In 2005, the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertili...
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Bhopal tragedy: 'Rash and negligent' recounts CBI Officer
Monday's verdict and sentence in the Bhopal Gas tragedy has driven home the unfettered complicity that betrayed the 20,000 people killed in the world's biggest industrial disaster. Activists who've spent years in different courts fighting for justice are finally being joined by Indians everywhere who want to know why they were sold short- for...
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Arjun Singh disturbed by allegations, claims local media
For the first time since the Bhopal verdict came out earlier this week, Arjun Singh, the then Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister who is believed to have helped key accused Warren Anderson to leave the country, seems to have spoken out.(See Pics: Who is Warren Anderson)The editor of a Bhopal newspaper claims Singh told him he is perturbed over reports ab...
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Bhopal Gas Leak: US Firm That Took Over Union Carbide Has Court Date Today
Nearly 39 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy that killed thousands and affected many more, a representative of the US-based company that took over Union Carbide in 2001 is set to appear in a Madhya Pradesh court today.
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32 Years On, Toxic Waste Still Present In Union Carbide Factory: Activists
Survivors of 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy today staged a protest in front of the now-defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal on the 32nd anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster.
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32 Years After Bhopal Tragedy, Indian Rapper Targets Chemical Giant Dow
A rapper is targeting Dow Chemical with rhymes - demanding the US company pay more in victims' compensation and environmental damages stemming from a horrific chemical gas leak that killed thousands of people and sickened countless others.
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Barack Obama Urged to Raise Bhopal Gas Tragedy With PM Narendra Modi During India Trip
A leading world rights body has requested US President Barack Obama to take up the case of the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy with the Indian government during his visit to New Delhi as the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations.
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Bhopal gas tragedy: Cabinet accepts Group of Ministers' (GoM) report
The Union Cabinet has accepted the report of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas disaster, a day ahead than originally planned. The report recommended enhanced compensation to the victims under a Rs 1,500 crore package.It also recommended pursuing liability issue with Dow Chemicals and Rs 300 crore for clean-up of the site and pursuing t...
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Bhopal: Group of Ministers will finalise recommendations on Monday
A group of nine ministers, headed by P Chidambaram, got to work on Friday with a complex agenda: to right the many wrongs that have followed the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984.Chidambaram said the Group of Ministers (GoM), who include Law Minister Veerappa Moily and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, will work through the weekend and finalize it...
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Bhopal gas tragedy: Centre arranged Anderson's release, says ex-US diplomat
A former Deputy Chief of Mission of the US embassy in New Delhi in 1984 has told NDTV that Warren Anderson's release from house arrest in Bhopal and his flight to Delhi was arranged by the Ministry of External Affairs. In an exclusive interview, Gordon Streeb said the US did not want any action to be taken against Anderson and that the then Foreign...
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India had assured Anderson's safe passage: Former US diplomat
A former US diplomat, who was the deputy chief of mission of the US embassy in New Delhi at the time of Bhopal gas tragedy, has said the then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson came to India following the gas leak only after getting assurance of "safe passage" from the Indian government.Now a visiting professor of economics at Emory University in ...
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More than 25 years later, Bhopal still drinking poisoned water
Bhopal gas tragedy killed 20,000 people and scarred many for life. More than 25 year after the disaster, countless victims are still suffering due to neglect and callousness of authorities. Forget compensation, they don't even have access to clean drinking water. Here's a report on the state of the victims who are forced to drink toxic water, riski...
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I'm not Arjun Singh's spokesperson, says his son
Congress MLA Ajay Singh said in Bhopal on Monday that he was not the "official spokesperson" for his father Arjun Singh who was the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister when Bhopal Gas tragedy occurred in December 1984."I am Arjun Singh's son and I greatly admire and respect my father," Ajay told PTI.He said he would not like to comment on the silence bei...
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PM intervenes in Bhopal, gives ministers 10 days to report
As the political war cries over the verdict in the Bhopal gas tragedy become sharper, the Prime Minister has intervened, asking the nine-member Group of Ministers (GoM) set up last week to meet immediately. (Bhopal gas tragedy: Verdict and after)The GoM, headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram, will meet for the first time on Friday, the 18th. It ha...
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Bhopal tragedy: Dow not liable for Bhopal?
Who should be made to pay for cleaning up the abandoned Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal - the epicenter of the world's worst industrial disaster? 20,000 people have died since a gas leak in 1984 poisoned an entire city, and many more continue to be affected by tons of toxic waste still at the site. In 2005, the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertili...
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Bhopal tragedy: 'Rash and negligent' recounts CBI Officer
Monday's verdict and sentence in the Bhopal Gas tragedy has driven home the unfettered complicity that betrayed the 20,000 people killed in the world's biggest industrial disaster. Activists who've spent years in different courts fighting for justice are finally being joined by Indians everywhere who want to know why they were sold short- for...
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Arjun Singh disturbed by allegations, claims local media
For the first time since the Bhopal verdict came out earlier this week, Arjun Singh, the then Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister who is believed to have helped key accused Warren Anderson to leave the country, seems to have spoken out.(See Pics: Who is Warren Anderson)The editor of a Bhopal newspaper claims Singh told him he is perturbed over reports ab...
