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40 Years After Bhopal Tragedy, Disposal Of Toxic Waste Poses Cancer Threat
Forty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, its toxic waste cocktail is brewing afresh. About 350 metric tons of hazardous waste from the Union Carbide factory is set to be disposed of at the Treatment Storage Disposal Facility in Pithampur, Indore.
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Group of Ministers meets Bhopal gas tragedy victims and activists
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, chairperson of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, Salman Khurshid and V Narayanasamy met the Bhopal gas victims and activists today, after the Supreme Court asked it to take a decision on the disposal of toxic waste after the tragedy in 1984 which left thousands dead.
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Violence in Bhopal on gas disaster anniversary
Observance of the 27th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster took a violent turn today with a number of people, including two senior district officials, injured in stone pelting, while protesters indulged in arson in Bhopal, police said.
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Bhopal Tragedy: Delhi court allows CBI to extradite Anderson
A Delhi court on Wednesday allowed the CBI to seek extradition of Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson, an accused in the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, from the United States."Considering the entire facts in its holistic perspective and sentiments of the disaster-hit people, I deem it appropriate and in the interest of justice that he...
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Dow chief skips Indo-US CEO Forum meet
The Group of Ministers on Bhopal have said that they do consider Dow Chemicals, the owner of Union Carbide, liable for the Bhopal clean up and now, Dow chief Andrew Liveris is skipping the India-US CEO forum that begins today in Washington.Dow spokesperson told agencies that Liveris was not attending the meeting because of his prior engagement. The...
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Bhopal tragedy: Doctors duped survivors
About Rs 400 crore has been claimed to have been spent in providing free healthcare to those affected by Bhopal gas leak. But, NDTV's Mohuya Chaudhri finds that patients are being duped with placebos.
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Onus of Bhopal clean-up on state government: Panel sources
After spending two days huddled in meetings over legal and health aspects of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Group of Ministers (GoM) met again on Sunday, for the fourth time, discussing the environmental damage caused by the gas leakage.After the meeting, Head of the GoM, P Chidambaram said that remedial and contamination issues were discussed and tha...
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Bhopal victims: Medical negligence by apathetic govts
On the night of December 3, 1984, Jageshwar Soni was 12-years-old when the Union Carbide pesticide factory began spewing toxic fumes into the air. Dangerous amounts of water had entered a tank of methyl isocynate (MIC). The chemical reaction tore into the lungs of Bhopal within minutes.Jageshwar was lucky- a plant worker rushed him to the pla...
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Warren Anderson getaway: Passing the political buck
Was Warren Anderson guaranteed that no action would be taken against him when he visited Bhopal days after the city's gas tragedy? As multiple reports suggest that was the case, politicians and bureaucrats are offering conflicting versions of exactly who made this offer - one that has compromised justice, and has recently become a political albatro...
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BJP attacks Congress for promising safe passage to Anderson
"Why is Arjun Singh silent?" asked the BJP on Thursday as it slammed the Congress over Warren Anderson's exit from India after the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984.Anderson was the CEO of Union Carbide Corporation when a gas leak at its Bhopal plant poisoned the city on the night of December 3 that year. (In Pics: Who is Warren Anderson)The BJP's Ravi S...
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Anderson promised safe passage before going to India: Former US diplomat
A former US diplomat, who was the deputy chief of mission at the New Delhi embassy, said then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson came to India following the Bhopal gas tragedy only after getting assurance of "safe passage" from the Indian government.Now a visiting professor of economics at Emory University in the US, Gordon Streeb was the charge d...
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GoM on Bhopal gas tragedy to meet on Friday
The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas tragedy will meet on Friday, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the panel to submit its report to the Cabinet in 10 days."The GoM will meet on the afternoon of June 18," Chidambaram told reporters after his briefing on a meeting of...
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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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40 Years After Bhopal Tragedy, Disposal Of Toxic Waste Poses Cancer Threat
Forty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, its toxic waste cocktail is brewing afresh. About 350 metric tons of hazardous waste from the Union Carbide factory is set to be disposed of at the Treatment Storage Disposal Facility in Pithampur, Indore.
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Group of Ministers meets Bhopal gas tragedy victims and activists
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, chairperson of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal, Salman Khurshid and V Narayanasamy met the Bhopal gas victims and activists today, after the Supreme Court asked it to take a decision on the disposal of toxic waste after the tragedy in 1984 which left thousands dead.
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Violence in Bhopal on gas disaster anniversary
Observance of the 27th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster took a violent turn today with a number of people, including two senior district officials, injured in stone pelting, while protesters indulged in arson in Bhopal, police said.
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Bhopal Tragedy: Delhi court allows CBI to extradite Anderson
A Delhi court on Wednesday allowed the CBI to seek extradition of Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson, an accused in the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, from the United States."Considering the entire facts in its holistic perspective and sentiments of the disaster-hit people, I deem it appropriate and in the interest of justice that he...
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Dow chief skips Indo-US CEO Forum meet
The Group of Ministers on Bhopal have said that they do consider Dow Chemicals, the owner of Union Carbide, liable for the Bhopal clean up and now, Dow chief Andrew Liveris is skipping the India-US CEO forum that begins today in Washington.Dow spokesperson told agencies that Liveris was not attending the meeting because of his prior engagement. The...
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Bhopal tragedy: Doctors duped survivors
About Rs 400 crore has been claimed to have been spent in providing free healthcare to those affected by Bhopal gas leak. But, NDTV's Mohuya Chaudhri finds that patients are being duped with placebos.
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Onus of Bhopal clean-up on state government: Panel sources
After spending two days huddled in meetings over legal and health aspects of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Group of Ministers (GoM) met again on Sunday, for the fourth time, discussing the environmental damage caused by the gas leakage.After the meeting, Head of the GoM, P Chidambaram said that remedial and contamination issues were discussed and tha...
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Bhopal victims: Medical negligence by apathetic govts
On the night of December 3, 1984, Jageshwar Soni was 12-years-old when the Union Carbide pesticide factory began spewing toxic fumes into the air. Dangerous amounts of water had entered a tank of methyl isocynate (MIC). The chemical reaction tore into the lungs of Bhopal within minutes.Jageshwar was lucky- a plant worker rushed him to the pla...
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Warren Anderson getaway: Passing the political buck
Was Warren Anderson guaranteed that no action would be taken against him when he visited Bhopal days after the city's gas tragedy? As multiple reports suggest that was the case, politicians and bureaucrats are offering conflicting versions of exactly who made this offer - one that has compromised justice, and has recently become a political albatro...
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BJP attacks Congress for promising safe passage to Anderson
"Why is Arjun Singh silent?" asked the BJP on Thursday as it slammed the Congress over Warren Anderson's exit from India after the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984.Anderson was the CEO of Union Carbide Corporation when a gas leak at its Bhopal plant poisoned the city on the night of December 3 that year. (In Pics: Who is Warren Anderson)The BJP's Ravi S...
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Anderson promised safe passage before going to India: Former US diplomat
A former US diplomat, who was the deputy chief of mission at the New Delhi embassy, said then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson came to India following the Bhopal gas tragedy only after getting assurance of "safe passage" from the Indian government.Now a visiting professor of economics at Emory University in the US, Gordon Streeb was the charge d...
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GoM on Bhopal gas tragedy to meet on Friday
The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas tragedy will meet on Friday, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the panel to submit its report to the Cabinet in 10 days."The GoM will meet on the afternoon of June 18," Chidambaram told reporters after his briefing on a meeting of...
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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...
