Bhopal: Bhopal gas tragedy survivors on Thursday marched with a jhadu (broom) at the opening ceremony of the ‘Bhopal Special Olympics’ organised to protest Dow Chemicals sponsorship of the London O

A two-day training programme for trainers got underway here today on prevention of anaemia among children to save them from malnutrition and importance of Vitamin A and zinc for them.

Five organisations of the survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster have planned to jointly organise ‘Bhopal Special Olympics’ on July 26, a day ahead of the London Olympics, in protest against the spon

Abandoned Carbide factory continues to leach toxic chemicals into groundwater

Even as the world prepares to witness the London Olympics starting Friday, victims and survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have decided to pre-empt the organisers by holding a “Bhopal Special Olympics” here on Thursday. Five survivor organisations, led by the Bhopal Group for Information and Action (BGIA), will jointly organise the event on Thursday to oppose sponsorship of the Olympic Games by Dow Chemical — the current owner of Union Carbide Corporation — which “continues to evade civil, criminal and environmental liabilities of Bhopal inherited from Union Carbide.”

Bhopal: Thousands of acres of slum land in four major cities of Madhya Pradesh may go into the hands of private builders, if the proposal mooted by the housing and environment department under the

Forest Minister Shri Sartaj Singh planted saplings on Bhagirath hillock at village Hansalpur in Mhow tahsil of the district today at a programme organised by the Forest Department.

Bhopal: Patients in the state will soon get the facility of treatment through tele-medicine facility. Virology lab and gamma cameras will also be installed soon at Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal.

New Delhi: Mounting deaths due to alleged unauthorized clinical trials of drugs on humans took centre stage in the Supreme Court on Monday, which pulled up the Centre and the Madhya Pradesh governm

Central Pollution Control Board accused of failure to keep the June 4 deadline

Environmentalists have accused the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of failure to keep the June 4 deadline for filing a report on groundwater contamination caused by Dow Chemical Company’s Union Carbide Corporation plant in Bhopal, despite its assurances and the need for compliance with the Supreme Court Orders dated March 28 and April 19, 2012.(In one of the world’s industrial catastrophes, thousands of people died and were injured following the leak of toxic methyl isocyanate at the UCIL pesticide plant on the night of December 2-3, 1984.)

The Supreme Court today expressed concern over alleged illegal clinical trial of drugs in the country, saying its "unfortunate" that humans were being treated as "guinea pigs".