Warren Anderson

Bailable warrants have been issued against the then an administration officials and a police officer who were accused of helping Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson escape from India after the 1984 gas tragedy. Then district Collector Moti Singh and retired Superintendent of Police Swaraj Puri had failed to appear in the court despit...

Behind a chain-link fence and under heavy security, workers on Monday returned to their offices at the San Bernardino campus where 14 people died last month in a massacre.

Rebutting Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, who referenced "Momma" in a fierce attack on him in Parliament, Rahul Gandhi today threw back a "Beta" remark.

Union Minister Sushma Swaraj's fiery defense in Parliament on the Lalit Modi controversy in Parliament today included a litany of counter-allegations.

On a cold December night of 1984, Bhopal was struck by one of the worst industrial disasters when 40 tonnes of poisonous Methyl Isocynate (MIC) gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory, killing over 1700 and affecting more than 5 lakh people. Thirty years later, its effects are still visible in the children and grandchildren of those who survived.

In a setback to 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, a US court has held that neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or pollution-related claims at the firm's former chemical plant in Bhopal.

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...

Against a background of black, the pages tell the story of the world's worst industrial disaster - in Bhopal on Dec 2-3 night, 1984. The photographs, of the deaths, the sufferers, and the killer factory, have photo captions highlighted in red. This is part of NCERT's new Social Sciences book for Class 8 for the new academic session.The Social Scien...

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...

26 years after the Bhopal Gas tragedy, the Government today admitted that Bhopal was a man-made tragedy, and the way it was dealt with was "most unsatisfactory".  Replying to the debate in Rajya Sabha today, Home Minister P Chidambaram described the response to Bhopal as a "collective failure". "What happened in Bhopal was a man made tragedy. ...

The CBI has recently sent additional evidence against Warren Anderson, former CEO of Union Carbide, to the Ministry of External Affairs in connection with his extradition proceedings in Bhopal case.    "The CBI has been consistently pursuing the matter of extradition of Warren Anderson since 1993," Minister of State for Personnel Pri...

The mystery about who facilitated the escape of Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson's from the country after the Bhopal gas tragedy, may never be solved.The then Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh has said in the past that Anderson was allowed to leave Bhopal to prevent a law and order situation in the city, but it was assumed that the order...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that his government will try to ensure that the US takes a "more favourable attitude" towards the extradition of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson to stand trial in India in the Bhopal gas leak case. (In Pics: Who is Warren Anderson)Singh told journalists accompanying him on his way back h...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continues to step up its pressure on the Congress on the Bhopal gas tragedy.Today had fresh cannon fodder with Arjun Singh, the then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, telling the Hindustan Times that he didn't let Warren Anderson go. (Watch)This, the BJP believes, endorses its argument that Warren Anderson's release...

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...

Bailable warrants have been issued against the then an administration officials and a police officer who were accused of helping Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson escape from India after the 1984 gas tragedy. Then district Collector Moti Singh and retired Superintendent of Police Swaraj Puri had failed to appear in the court despit...

Behind a chain-link fence and under heavy security, workers on Monday returned to their offices at the San Bernardino campus where 14 people died last month in a massacre.

Rebutting Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, who referenced "Momma" in a fierce attack on him in Parliament, Rahul Gandhi today threw back a "Beta" remark.

Union Minister Sushma Swaraj's fiery defense in Parliament on the Lalit Modi controversy in Parliament today included a litany of counter-allegations.

On a cold December night of 1984, Bhopal was struck by one of the worst industrial disasters when 40 tonnes of poisonous Methyl Isocynate (MIC) gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory, killing over 1700 and affecting more than 5 lakh people. Thirty years later, its effects are still visible in the children and grandchildren of those who survived.

In a setback to 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, a US court has held that neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or pollution-related claims at the firm's former chemical plant in Bhopal.

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...

Against a background of black, the pages tell the story of the world's worst industrial disaster - in Bhopal on Dec 2-3 night, 1984. The photographs, of the deaths, the sufferers, and the killer factory, have photo captions highlighted in red. This is part of NCERT's new Social Sciences book for Class 8 for the new academic session.The Social Scien...

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...

26 years after the Bhopal Gas tragedy, the Government today admitted that Bhopal was a man-made tragedy, and the way it was dealt with was "most unsatisfactory".  Replying to the debate in Rajya Sabha today, Home Minister P Chidambaram described the response to Bhopal as a "collective failure". "What happened in Bhopal was a man made tragedy. ...

The CBI has recently sent additional evidence against Warren Anderson, former CEO of Union Carbide, to the Ministry of External Affairs in connection with his extradition proceedings in Bhopal case.    "The CBI has been consistently pursuing the matter of extradition of Warren Anderson since 1993," Minister of State for Personnel Pri...

The mystery about who facilitated the escape of Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson's from the country after the Bhopal gas tragedy, may never be solved.The then Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh has said in the past that Anderson was allowed to leave Bhopal to prevent a law and order situation in the city, but it was assumed that the order...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that his government will try to ensure that the US takes a "more favourable attitude" towards the extradition of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson to stand trial in India in the Bhopal gas leak case. (In Pics: Who is Warren Anderson)Singh told journalists accompanying him on his way back h...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continues to step up its pressure on the Congress on the Bhopal gas tragedy.Today had fresh cannon fodder with Arjun Singh, the then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, telling the Hindustan Times that he didn't let Warren Anderson go. (Watch)This, the BJP believes, endorses its argument that Warren Anderson's release...

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...