BHEL organized a mass plantation programme at Padmanabham Nagar here on Sunday. Around 2,000 saplings are to be planted in the area out of which 500 were planted on Sunday.

Parallels in spend on cleaning up of Ganga, Yamuna and 10 lakes of Bhopal and their conservation, in many ways, are too striking to ignore.

Upper Lake is dying a slow and painful death because of mindless dumping of solid waste from half a dozen wards of Bhopal into the Upper Lake.

Reacting to developments taking place in US court regarding new 'evidence' on carbide plant, the non-government organizations working for the welfare of Bhopal gas tragedy victims have expressed ho

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Union Carbide Corp (UCC) have released new evidence to show its "direct role in designing and building the pesticide plant in Bhopal" where the 1984 gas disaster killed thousands.

Union Carbide, now a Dow Chemical subsidiary, refuses to clean up the site claiming that its former Indian subsidiary bears sole responsibility for the now shuttered plant in Bhopal.

Local activists in Pithampur, have expressed serious concern over state government's move to incinerate toxic waste from Union Carbide factory, Bhopal at the Pithampur-based TSDF facility of Ramky

Madhya Pradesh government has on Monday agreed to conduct trial run to dispose toxic wastes dumped at Union Carbide factory premises, Bhopal at the TSDF facility operated by Ramky Enviro Engineers

Pharmaceutical companies Quintiles and Sanofi have failed to follow norms while conducting clinical trials of their new drugs on Bhopal gas leak survivors, the health ministry informed the Supreme Court.

During hearings on alleged flouting of norms by pharmaceutical majors in conducting clinical trials on humans, the court had ordered the health ministry not to proceed with the clinical trials of 157 new drugs/formulations till a stricter regime was put in place.

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Mohd. Mubeen Vs Anees Ahmed & Others dated 06/12/2013 regarding deforestation of private land, bearing Khasra No. 13 & 72, Raqba 6.529 hectares and
3.560 hectare respectively in the limits of Gram Chandanpura, Patwari, Halka No. 40, R.I. Mandal, Ratibarh, Tahsil Huzoor, District Bhopal.

Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/judgment/33_2013(App)(CZ)_6Dec2013_final_order.pdf

Just days before the 29th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster of 1984, news came last Friday that no hearing took place at the Supreme Court on a curative petition filed by the central governmen

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