With hardly a week left for the Supreme Court to commence hearing on the CBI

A day after a Delhi court accepted the CBI request seeking extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) chairman Warren Anderson

CBI's seeking extradition of 90-year-old former Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation Warren Anderson in connection with Bhopal Gas tragedy case may have come too late, according to leading lawyers.
Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan said "the agency (CBI) was sleeping" over the years.

He, however, described the Delhi court's order allowing CBI to seek Anderson's extradition as "an exceptional"

A high-powered committee today asked the Madhya Pradesh government to release compensation to those victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy who are yet to receive any money from the government.

The group of ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas disaster, chaired by home minister P Chidambaram, also gave its in-principle approval for construction of a memorial at the disaster site if no toxic materia

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Agency wants former Union Carbide chairman for his criminal culpability in the 1984 Bhopal gas leakage tragedy

The CBI on Tuesday moved a Delhi court to obtain a Letter Rogatory to the US authorities for the extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson to stand trial for his criminal culpability in the 1984 Bhopal gas leakage tragedy.

Expressing concern over ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan in the aftermath of earthquake and tsunami, five organisations -- fighting for rights of Bhopal Gas Tragedy victims -- today demanded immediate suspension of the work on Jaitpur plant in Maharashtra.

New Delhi: The CBI is ready with documents to seek extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson from the US for his trial in the Bhopal gas leak case which led to the death of thousands in 1984.

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Effects Of Poison Cloud Pose Threat To Generations
The spectre of lethal radioactive fallout from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima in Japan continued to haunt the country as ripples of panic spread to distant shores.

Fifty workers and technicians quarantined inside the power station complex were fighting a deadly battle to cool the three functional reactors even as cooling pools w

The Supreme Court (SC) decided on Monday to revisit its 21-year-old judgment that allowed Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) to escape by paying a mere Rs750-crore compensation to hundreds of victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy, one of the world's most ghastly industrial disasters, of 1984.
The decision comes on curative petitions filed by the Centre questioning the compensation and mellowing of the c

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