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It has been 26 long years since one of the world's worst industrial disasters struck Bhopal. However, even today, most of the victims await justice even as the main accused of the tragedy, Warren Anderson, walks free. Renu was one-year-old when the Union Carbide tragedy struck and the poisonous methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas engulfed her colony, ...

Over 500 survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and victims of the resultant water contamination staged a torchlight march on Thursday to mark the 26th anniversary of one of the world's worst industrial disaster on Friday.They walked from Bhopal Talkies to the Union Carbide India's abandoned pesticide factory which spewed tonnes of poisonous meth...

Days after the Union Carbide disaster, Bimla Devi, fled Bhopal with her husband. She had come to the city as a new bride. She couldn't return to Bhopal when the surveys were being done simply because she didn't know. Her husband was ailing as well and couldn't travel. She returned after eight long years but she couldn't establish that she was a gas...

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.

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...

This afternoon, nine senior ministers meet to draft the agenda for the government on different dimensions of the Bhopal gas tragedy. The Group of Minister (GoM), headed by P Chidambaram, have been asked by the Prime Minister to report to the cabinet within ten days.The to-do list is a complex one for the GoM. The contentious getaway of Warren Ander...

Hours before nine ministers come together to discuss the government's agenda for Bhopal, the Planning Commission has sanctioned 982 crores  for the Madhya Pradesh government.The money will reportedly be assigned to Health and Environment issues in the state.The fund will have to be approved by the Group of Ministers (GoM) who meet for the firs...

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...

"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...

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday ruled out any meeting with officials of DowChemicals, the new owners of Union Carbide Corp, during his visit to the US next week."If I go there at all, I would be addressing the (US-India) CEOs meeting and also have some bilateral meetings with Treasury officials. I do not know of any other meeting. I ...

The Group of Ministers on Bhopal is likely to take a fresh look at the compensation given to the victims of the gas tragedy, sources tell NDTV. The money could come from budgetary support.

The United States has said it would "carefully evaluate" any request from India to bring to justice Warren Anderson, the former CEO of Union Carbide, who is wanted in a case related to the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy that killed several thousands of people.US State Department spokesperson PJ Crowley told reporters that the US would carefully evaluate a...

The trial court in the Bhopal gas tragedy case had issued an arrest warrant against former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson last year but the CBI had failed to give any written response to it, according to court sources.They said the warrant, the second against Anderson, was issued by Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari on July 2, 2009 but th...

The polemics are, as expected, getting more acrimonious and political. After the nano-punishment handed out on Monday in court in the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister today slammed Arjun Singh who was the Congress Chief Minister of the state in 1984 when a gas leak from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal poisoned an entire city....

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...

It has been 26 long years since one of the world's worst industrial disasters struck Bhopal. However, even today, most of the victims await justice even as the main accused of the tragedy, Warren Anderson, walks free. Renu was one-year-old when the Union Carbide tragedy struck and the poisonous methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas engulfed her colony, ...

Over 500 survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and victims of the resultant water contamination staged a torchlight march on Thursday to mark the 26th anniversary of one of the world's worst industrial disaster on Friday.They walked from Bhopal Talkies to the Union Carbide India's abandoned pesticide factory which spewed tonnes of poisonous meth...

Days after the Union Carbide disaster, Bimla Devi, fled Bhopal with her husband. She had come to the city as a new bride. She couldn't return to Bhopal when the surveys were being done simply because she didn't know. Her husband was ailing as well and couldn't travel. She returned after eight long years but she couldn't establish that she was a gas...

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.

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...

This afternoon, nine senior ministers meet to draft the agenda for the government on different dimensions of the Bhopal gas tragedy. The Group of Minister (GoM), headed by P Chidambaram, have been asked by the Prime Minister to report to the cabinet within ten days.The to-do list is a complex one for the GoM. The contentious getaway of Warren Ander...

Hours before nine ministers come together to discuss the government's agenda for Bhopal, the Planning Commission has sanctioned 982 crores  for the Madhya Pradesh government.The money will reportedly be assigned to Health and Environment issues in the state.The fund will have to be approved by the Group of Ministers (GoM) who meet for the firs...

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...

"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...

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday ruled out any meeting with officials of DowChemicals, the new owners of Union Carbide Corp, during his visit to the US next week."If I go there at all, I would be addressing the (US-India) CEOs meeting and also have some bilateral meetings with Treasury officials. I do not know of any other meeting. I ...

The Group of Ministers on Bhopal is likely to take a fresh look at the compensation given to the victims of the gas tragedy, sources tell NDTV. The money could come from budgetary support.

The United States has said it would "carefully evaluate" any request from India to bring to justice Warren Anderson, the former CEO of Union Carbide, who is wanted in a case related to the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy that killed several thousands of people.US State Department spokesperson PJ Crowley told reporters that the US would carefully evaluate a...

The trial court in the Bhopal gas tragedy case had issued an arrest warrant against former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson last year but the CBI had failed to give any written response to it, according to court sources.They said the warrant, the second against Anderson, was issued by Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari on July 2, 2009 but th...

The polemics are, as expected, getting more acrimonious and political. After the nano-punishment handed out on Monday in court in the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister today slammed Arjun Singh who was the Congress Chief Minister of the state in 1984 when a gas leak from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal poisoned an entire city....

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...