Bhopal: A chilling incident of fraud with a victim of the Bhopal gas tragedy has come to light and activists insist that is proof of what they have always maintained

Volunteer organisation Zahreeli Gas Kand Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal, fighting for the rights of the gas victims for the last 26 years, is planning to send around 30,000 to 35,000 memorandums to the Prime Minister, in which the demand would be made that the compensation amount must be hiked after assuming the numbers of victims as 5.21 lakh.

Morcha convener Alok Pratap Singh claims that the Governm

The Bhopal gas disaster is still weighing heavily on Dow Chemical

Bhopal: The fresh compensation of `740 crores sanctioned by the Centre will be disbursed among the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy-hit persons here from December 19, a senior Madhya Pradesh government official said on Friday.

The US-based Dow Chemical Company has protested the filing of a curative petition by the government to the Supreme Court in the Bhopal gas tragedy case last week.

It has termed the government action

Far away from the heat and dust of Bhopal, two federal class action lawsuits are under way here in New York City.

The Bhopal cases filed in the US have had a circuitous history, not unlike in India.

The cases, Sahu vs Union Carbide et al, are civil cases filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

THE Centre has moved a curative petition in the Supreme Court seeking revision of its 1989 judgement on the world

Government today moved the Supreme Court seeking enhancement of compensation from Rs 750 crore to Rs 7,700 crore for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy in which more than 5000 people were killed due to leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide factory.

Bhopal Gas Tragedy & Rehabilitation Minster Babulal Gaur met Chidambaram, Chairman of the Group of Ministers set up for the gas affected by the Central Government in New Delhi today and submitted a memorandum.

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